Holism is one of the philosophical ideas regard body as an organic whole, which is the external environment.
By “organic whole” we mean entirety and unity. TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) attaches great importance to the unity of the human body itself and its relationship with nature, and holds that the human body itself is an organic whole and has very close and inseparable relations with the external natural surroundings. The concept of emphasizing the unity within the body and the unified relations between the body and the outside world is know as that of an organic whole.