ACHEM
The Association for Comprehensive Health Equity & Medicine unites healers who understand that medicine's future lies in honoring its diverse roots. As part of the Comprehensive Health Equity Movement (CHEM)®, we're creating space where ancestral wisdom guides innovation and community wellbeing shapes practice.
Where Healing Traditions Transform Modern Medicine
Our Evolution: From Advocacy to Action
ACHEM has long championed health equity and national plant medicine reform through:.
  • Groundbreaking conferences centering healing justice
  • Policy influence for stigmatized plant medicines
  • Convening diverse thought leaders
  • Elevating equitable healthcare conversations
Now we're transforming this expertise into something unprecedented: a medical association where ancestral wisdom doesn't complement modern practice — it leads it.
Traditional Wisdom
Ancestral healing practices form our foundation.
Integration
Building bridges between healing traditions and modern approaches.
New Paradigm
Creating healthcare where tradition leads innovation.
We're gathering healers who know that our communities have always held powerful medicine. Together, we're building curriculum, setting new standards, and creating the professional home that healing-centered practitioners deserve.
This isn't integration. This is medicine returning to its roots while reaching toward its highest potential.
Reimagining What a Medical Association Can Be
Most medical associations center Western medicine and treat other healing traditions as 'alternative.' We're flipping that model entirely.
Traditional Associations
Western medicine dominates as primary
"Alternative" practices are "complementary"
Individual achievement valued over collective wellness
Credentialing flows from institutions downward
Academic knowledge prioritized over lived experience
ACHEM's Approach
Ubuntu centers our collective healing
Ancestral wisdom forms our foundation
Clinical medicine serves as one tool among many
Community wellness drives standards
Traditional knowledge guides innovation, not vice versa
We're not adding diversity to existing structures — we're building new foundations guided by the CHEM Pillars of Health Equity®, where comprehensive wellbeing is the only measure that matters.
Be Part of Something Revolutionary
Be Part of the Transformation
We're Creating:
A model medical association that centers traditional healing
Curriculum where indigenous wisdom and clinical knowledge strengthen each other
Professional development rooted in cultural traditions
A community where all healing modalities are valued equally
We Need:
Healers ready to shape new standards of practice
Wisdom keepers willing to guide our foundation
Practitioners who see patients as whole beings in community context
Leaders who measure success by collective wellness
This is your invitation to help build the association healing professionals have always deserved.
Our Focus Areas
Building on years of advocacy and education, we're now creating the infrastructure for lasting transformation:
Community Development
Gathering healers across all traditions - herbalists, energy workers, indigenous practitioners, and clinically-trained professionals who value holistic approaches
Curriculum Creation
Co-developing educational frameworks that position traditional healing as primary, with western medicine as complementary support
Cultural Preservation
Documenting and protecting traditional healing knowledge while creating ethical frameworks for practice
Professional Standards
Establishing new models for credentialing that honor diverse healing traditions
Ecosystem Integration
Advancing green medicine through movement-wide initiatives like Soil to Solution (healing land heals people) and Green P.A.S.T.U.R.E.S. (regenerative approaches across all industries, including healthcare). Our members pioneer sustainable healing practices that honor both people and planet — because the health of our communities and the health of our environment are inseparable.
The Wisdom We've Always Known
Our Communities Hold:
  • Understanding that no one heals alone
  • Generations of plant medicine mastery
  • Energy healing practices that predate modern diagnostics
  • Spiritual frameworks for wholeness
  • Healing approaches that strengthen the collective
  • Wisdom to address root causes, not just symptoms
We Envision Healthcare Where:
Plant Medicine
Plant medicine guides pharmaceutical approaches
Energy Healing
Energy assessment guides diagnostic protocols
Spiritual Wellness
Spiritual wellness is central to treatment plans
Community Healing
Community healing shapes clinical practice
Ancestral Knowledge
Ancestral knowledge sparks innovation
Interconnected Care
Each person's wellness strengthens the whole
Our healers understand that true medicine extends beyond the clinic — from the soil that grows our food to the policies that shape access to care. This comprehensive approach aligns with the CHEM ecosystem's ASTEAMM® framework, recognizing that all dimensions of community life both shape and are shaped by our healthcare practices. This reciprocity is healing in action.
The Transformative Power of Traditional Healing
Traditional healing sees the whole person - spirit, mind, body, and community. It addresses not just symptoms but the conditions that create illness. When we center this wisdom, healthcare finally fulfills its promise: healing that transforms.
Multiple Ways to Engage
As a member, you're a part of a revolutionary movement to transform healthcare by centering traditional wisdom and health equity as the optimal outcome of our efforts.
Traditional Healers
Bring your wisdom to shape our standards and curriculum
Clinical Practitioners
Bridge worlds by grounding your practice in ancestral wisdom
Students
Train in medicine that honors all paths to healing
Everyone
Join a movement redefining what healthcare can be
ACHEM Membership
Choose your level of participation in transforming healthcare:
Student
$29.99/year - Building your foundation in healing-centered practice
Retired
$149.99/year - Continuing your journey of service and wisdom-sharing
Professional
$249.99/year - Full participation in shaping our profession's future
Lifetime
$2,500 - Permanent commitment to transformative medicine
Your Voice Shapes Our Future
Co-create our organizational structure and governance
Develop a growing body of curricula that transforms medical education
Build networks with healers across traditions
Establish new standards for integrated practice
Access early resources and community support
Shape policy that protects traditional healing
Connect with the CHEM ecosystem
All memberships include access to our member network on the virtual CHEM Global Campus, educational resources, networking opportunities, and the power of collective advocacy.
Ready to Transform Healing?
We're actively building our foundation and need healers who understand this moment of possibility. Whether you practice plant medicine, clinical medicine, energy healing, or any tradition that serves wholeness — if you believe healthcare must be rooted in ancestral and community wisdom, you belong here.
Currently Gathering:
Founding members to shape our vision
Curriculum developers and educators
Traditional knowledge keepers
Practitioners ready for true integration
Together, We Rise
Health Equity is the assuredness of access to full health and wellbeing. Join us in creating a future where health equity is assured for all people.
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