Case Study TN-102 Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for Trigeminal Neuralgia A female patient, 48 years, has been suffering from Trigeminal Neuralgia for the last 8 weeks. It started with a sudden facial pain on the left side of her face, the extreme pain described as intensity 10/10. It is anelectric like shooting and sharp [...]

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for Repeated Mouth ulceration (Oral Lichen Planus) (treatment in progress) Case Study MU-101 A female patient, 56 years old, suffering from chronic mouth ulceration for the past 15 years. She was diagnosed with“erosive oral lichen planus” in 1995. The symptoms got worse in past year. She started to have ulceration [...]

Name of Herb: Ren Shen ( Ginseng) Main Use: Boosting Qi (Vital Energy) Availability: Chinese Medicine Clinic, Chinese Herbal Store Description: Strongly tonify primary Qi, enhance digesting, stop diarrhea, tonify lung, stop asthma, generate fluid, stop thirst, it is commonly used for low energy or fatigue, chronic diarrhea or indigestion, chronic cough or asthma, or [...]

Name of Herb: Huang Qi (Astragalus) Main Use: Boosting Immune System Availability: By prescription only Description: Tonify Qi, consolidate body surface,and promote urination.It is commonly used for patients has fatigue, frequently catching cold, profuse spontaneous sweating or edema.  Modern research has showed that Huang Qi(Astragalus)  is thatnumber one herb that has strong effect on boosting [...]

Pain management is one of the outstanding advantages of acupuncture. Using acupuncture to manage the pain has been practiced for thousands of years. Clinically it has been proven that acupuncture can effectively relieve low back pain, migraine headaches, knee pain, wrist pain and many more. How: Because acupuncture has been used for pain relieve for [...]

Why choose acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for insomnia / sleep disorder? If you are bothered from insomnia / sleep disorder for a period of time and have taken sleeping pills to help your sleep, you may already know that sleeping pills can only bring you a fake, unnatural sleep in a short time, you [...]

Digestive disorders including symptoms of stomach ache, heart burn, abdominal bloating, poor digestion, nausea, diarrhea, and constipation and so on, diagnosis can be gastritis, stomach ulcer, enteritis, Crohn’s disease, colitis, or irritable bowel syndrome. Most of this disease are chronic and easy recurrence. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can benefit patients with digestive disorders in [...]

Do you suffer from fertility issues? Increasing fertility using acupuncture is a natural way for women to get pregnant. Combining Chinese herbs and acupuncture is an effective way to regulate the hormone level and increase ovarian function, normalize women’s cycle to release more eggs. This increase in eggs help your chances to conceive. How: Acupuncture [...]

Eye Infection: Patient, female, is suffering from occasional sharp pain in her eyes, Ophthalmologist checked her eyes, she was diagnosed as cornea infection, also, her eye lids are red, and slightly swelling, she was using antibiotic drops over two months, but her eye infection does not seem getting better, she still having red eyes, with [...]

Since this is a newly launched website, I thought I would start with a brief introduction about myself and my acupuncture clinic in Calgary. I earned my Bachelor’s Degree in TCM and Western Medicine in 1983 from the Hunan University of TCM, China. I did further study at Tianjin University of TCM, China culminating in 1987 [...]