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‘‘She was buying Christmas presents for her son that day and really had a tremendous amount of energy.

She seemed wonderful and very, very grounded and strong." In her introduction to the first segment of The New Medicine, Reeve tells viewers: ‘‘Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being.

For years, my husband and I lived on — and because of — hope.

Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on." The project, the last she is thought to have completed before her death March 6, seems fitting: The program, to make its debut tonight, explores how mainstream doctors are embracing treatment of the whole patient — not just symptoms of a disease.

Her appearance after her death unintentionally underscores one of the central points of the documentary: Holistic medicine represents a tool, not a cure-all, in the fight against illness.

‘‘Part of the challenge is we get patients all the time who are really looking for a magic cure," said Tracy Gaudet, an obstetriciangynecologist who heads the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine in Durham, N.C.

‘‘We’re not in the business of magic cures; we’re in the business of good medicine." The center uses any available technique — from alternative to mainstream — t...

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