Today, African American women experience disparate rates of heart disease, diabetes, and some forms of cancer. Many have become frustrated with what modern medicine has to offer. Integrative medicine provides an opportunity for African American women to become empowered, resilient, and partner with health care providers to improve their health. In 2002, about 62 percent of American adults including 40 percent of women used some sort of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), everything from prayer to deep breathing to chiropractic, yoga, massage and nutritional approaches. Even if you take prayer out of the picture, one out of three people in the United States still used some form of CAM. And most paid for it themselves, since much is not covered by insurance. By the late 1990s, Americans were spending an estimated $270 billion a year out of pocket for CAM therapies, about as much as they spent on conventional medical approaches. The use of CAM appears to cross not only gender, but also age, racial and ethnic boundaries. An AARP telephone survey of more than 1,500 adults ages 50 and older conducted in late 2006 found that nearly two out of three reported using some form of CAM. If you include prayer in the definition of CAM, about 60 percent of Asians and Latinos, and 71 percent of African Americans use CAM. Integrative medicine the use of both conventional and CAM approaches means using the best of both, conventional established medical practices and traditional complementary and alternative modalities. This chapter provides relevant material for a qualitative study to examine the experience of African American women with integrative medicine and its influence upon their health status. This is particularly important since it will provide valuable insight into their values, lifestyles and health beliefs, all of which are important in providing quality health care.