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'Hopeful' Dana believed in holistic remedy

..."She was very hopeful at that point that she would survive," director Muffie Meyer recalled.

"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 was the last she is known to have completed before her March 6 death, and it was a fitting one: The New Medicine, which debuted in the US last week looks at how mainstream doctors are embracing treatment of the whole patient - not just symptoms of a disease.

Reeve's appearance after her death unintentionally underscores one of the central points of the documentary: Holistic medicine is a tool for fighting illness - not a cure-all.

"Part of the challenge is we get patients all the time that are really looking for a magic cure," said Dr Tracy Gaudet, an obstetrician- gynaecologist who heads the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine in Durham.

"We're not in the business of magic cures; we're in the business of good medicine." The centre uses any available technique - from alternative to mainstream - that might improve a patient's experienc...