Eastern Vs Western Medicine

You’re probably used to visiting your primary care doctor, but have you thought about getting acupuncture treatment? Traditional Chinese medicine is a part of Eastern medicine, and can be a great supplement, not replacement, to Western medicine. Many reputable hospitals like Memorial Sloan Kettering and the Mayo Clinic offer integrative healthcare. Eastern medicine is gentler […]

Pain Management

Acupuncture aids the activity of the body’s pain killing chemicals, relaxes tight muscles, decreases inflammation, and releases endorphins. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) philosophy believes pain is due to stagnation or blockage. The stagnation could be qi stagnation, blood stasis, food accumulation, water retention, or any other blockages. Pain can happen at almost any part of […]

Meet Zhenbo Li

Zhenbo Li, PhD (China) and LAc, has more than 30 years of university level teaching and clinical experience in both the U.S. and China. Dr. Li holds acupuncture licenses from Oregon and Washington. She is an herbalist certificated by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture Oriental Medicine. Her experience in clinical practice has spanned 25 […]

Acupuncture

Chinese medicine maintains that there should be free and uninterrupted flow of Qi (vital energy) through the meridians of a healthy body. The flow of Qi moves throughout the body in a rhythmical order and forms an endless cycle. Where there is disease, the flow is blocked. The impact is not only on the affected […]

Chronic Pain

One of the tenets of Chinese medicine is that pain arises from stagnation of qi (body’s vital energy), blood stasis, food accumulation, water retention, or any other substantial blockages such as stones and worms. Because of the potential causes, pain can happen at almost any part of the body and have a wide variety of […]