TCM Effectiveness

We are informed in the use of both ancient and modern methods:

As modern TCM physicians, we have backgrounds in both eastern and western medical disciplines, and understand the terminologies and underlying concepts of both western and eastern medical thought and practice.

As native-born speakers and readers of the Chinese language, we have direct access to Chinese research regarding acupuncture and herbal treatments for a wide range of both common and rare ailments. We access authoritative medical websites and media in both English and Chinese to develop our professional expertise on an ongoing basis, which helps us to deliver the best possible clinical benefits from our treatment plans.

Your own understanding of TCM is a key element to successful treatment:

We provide you with case studies and explain your ailments in TCM language, discussing and devising treatment plans with you and applying the best of our knowledge to a carefully calibrated course of appropriate treatment.

Highly personalized individual treatment, when possible, can speed up the fertility process:

We design acupuncture and herbal formulas specifically for your personal case, often with more or less subtle differentiations even for patients who present with the same western diagnosis. That is because the identical western diagnosis (essentially of symptomatology) need not point to identical causation or origin of the pathology. Thus with problems of fertility, too, we seek and treat the underlying causes and address issues that may not be immediately manifest.

For example, in the case of two patients who came in with the same diagnosis of unexplained infertility with serious clotting in the menstrual periods. One patient was overweight and suffering from hypothyroidism, with unpleasant headaches. According to our diagnosis, her infertility was caused by “phlegm dampness”, which means that the body had accumulated much extra fat and phlegm dampness that obstructed the free flow of Qi and of blood and the fertile energy. We regulated her menstrual period and got rid of the rice-like foamy clots in her menstrual blood, eliminated her cramps, and used herbal formulae to clear the phlegm-dampness. Subsequently, the patient’s headaches disappeared, she lost weight, and then got pregnant naturally, without any surgical intervention or the use of fertility medications commonly prescribed for fertility patients.

The other case involved blood stagnation. This patient had suffered ever since her first period from menstrual cramping. The blood clots had thus been a regular part of her life for many years. Her PMS quickly responded to our treatment and, as the PMS disappeared, so did (after two full cycles) the blood clotting. The patient was able to conceive and experience a natural pregnancy.