Ayurveda & Integrative Medicine
Compassionate Mental Health
Portland, OR
Genuinely Integrative Medicine, Truly Individualized Care
The Buddha’s Medicine is an Ayurvedic integrative medicine practice that aims to restore health and quality of living to people from all walks of life. By blending Eastern healing approaches with modern Western scientific foundations, we treat both present health conditions and the subtle imbalances underneath them.
Dr. Matt Van Auken, MD, MPH, a family medicine-trained & triple board-certified physician, uses this comprehensive style of care-giving to produce fully personalized and sustainable healing solutions tailor-made for you. Dr. Matt believes in bringing together the best of modern scientific evidence and nature-based healing traditions.
As a multi-state licensed physician through the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, Dr. Matt offers both in-person and telemedicine visits to patients across multiple states, making Ayurvedic, integrative, and lifestyle medicine more accessible than ever.
"I came to Matt when I was really feeling out of balance and anxious. Matt not only heard me, but he taught me how to heal myself. I was able to get personalized recommendations that really changed my relationship with my body and my health."
— J.S., patient of The Buddha’s Medicine
Medicine Specialties
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Ayurveda may well be the original lifestyle and integrative medicine discipline. Originating in India thousands of years ago, Ayurveda is a medical tradition rich in wholesome approaches to health and daily living. In fact, the very term “Ayurveda” is derived from words for life and living (ayuh) and illumined wisdom, scientific knowledge, and self-study (veda).
Dr. Matt has been a student of Ayurveda since 2009. He has studied extensively with Vaidya Vasudha Gupta of American Ayurveda.
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Integrative medicine blends evidence-based mind/body, hands-on, supplemental, and herbal therapies into a modern allopathic framework.
Dr. Matt is board-certified by the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABOIM) in integrative medicine.
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At the heart of lifestyle medicine is the understanding that elements of many western lifestyles contribute to or drive chronic illness. Lifestyle care is all about making personalized, workable, step-wise changes to daily habits to stabilize and improve those chronic conditions.
Dr. Matt is board-certified by the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM) in lifestyle medicine.
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Dr. Matt blends Counterstrain and Ayurvedic marma chikitsa therapies into a comprehensive hands-on style of treatment.
Counterstrain is an osteopathic technique that uses reflex diagnostics to find the sources of pain in the body. Tender points, segmental motion assessments, and traditional range of motion exam maneuvers are used to pinpoint affected tissues down to the system and structure. Gentle repositioning and targeted tissue glide are then used to release the tissues from strain, thus treating pain at its root.
Marma chikitsa is an Ayurvedic technique that utilizes established pressure points to treat pain and various types of dysfunction. Heat and topical essential oils may be utilized as pressure points are released.
Dr. Matt has received extensive training in Counterstrain Therapy through The Jones Institute.
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The scope of practice for our plant-based patients at The Buddha’s Medicine is rather complete; there is virtually nothing that we cannot treat with a plant-based approach that might be treated otherwise. Learn More
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Clinical hypnosis promotes a natural, evidence-based approach to mind-body healing that harnesses the innate power of the subconscious mind. As a licensed healthcare provider and clinical hypnotherapist trained through the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), I integrate this powerful modality into my practice alongside Ayurvedic, lifestyle, and integrative medicine to bring a comprehensive care experience to you. Learn More
We’re local to Portland, Oregon and Telehealth is available Nation-wide!
Dr. Matt’s quaint home office is situated in the heart of SE Portland on beautiful Laurelhurst Park.
See us there, at your own Portland metro area home, or via Telehealth!
3310 SE Oak St,
Portland, OR 97214
free resources
Guide:
Marma Therapy
for Anxiety
recipe:
oat kitchari
audio:
guided Yoga Nidra
featured courses
The Essentials of Ayurvedic Daily Living: Dinacharya
Ayurvedic Self-Care:
Viral Infections
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