Forms
You will need to complete four forms before your first visit. Click here to downloaded the forms in PDF format. Please bring all relevant test results, such as allergy tests or prior diagnostic results, with you for your first appointment.

Exercise is a vital aspect to ones health and can be a lot of fun. Often the right teacher makes all the difference. The following links are resources to excellent professional fitness teachers that I might recommend for you.

Yoga
Deborah Saliby
510-527-9266
www.envisionings.com

Medical Qi Gong
Willow Lune
933 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
www.seaofqi.org

Tai Chi
Lenzie Williams
510-655-0218
www.taichiberkeley.com

The following links are herb dispensaries that sell raw and patented herbs. Even though I have a dispensary at my office, I might recommend one of these fine retail stores for raw herbs or for some product I don’t have in stock.

Shen Nong Herbs
1600 Shattuck Ave (at Cedar)
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-849-0290
Hours: M-F 10am-6pm Sat 10am-2pm
Note: Orders filled from prescription only

Draline Tong Herbs
1002 Webster St.
Oakland
510-465-6544

Acupuncture has been well documented and implemented for successful narcotic detoxification and withdrawal. For those who need free drop-in detox clinics the following links might be of help.

New Leaf
30 Pearl St. (off Market near Valencia and Guerrero)
415.626.7000
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Saturdays, 9:00-11:00 a.m.

Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic
558 Clayton St. at Haight
415.487.5632
Mondays, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Acupuncture Recovery Treatment Services (ARTS)
415.281.9646
Call for locations and times

These are links to low cost or no cost medical and acupuncture care.

Charlotte Maxwell Clinic
5961 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA 94609
Free services for women with cancer - Please call for details
510/601-7660

AIMC (Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley)
2550 Shattuck Ave (at Blake)
Berkeley, CA 94704
510/666-8234

Community Acupuncture Works
Ninah K. Hofmann, L.Ac.
2889 24th St. (between Florida and Bryant)
San Francisco 94110
415.861.0104
www.caworks.org

Dr. Sandor Hites is the dentist I most often recommend because of his holistic perspective.

Sandor Hites, D.D.S.
2240 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
510-845-6494

If you would like to find a LabCorp site near you for blood tests go to www.labcorp.com

Teleosis is an organization whose goal is to promote sustainable ecological medicine. They provide Green Pharmacy services, where people can return unused drugs for proper disposal. For sites near you check out www.teleosis.org

www.traffic.org is a website that has the Convention in International Trade of Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) list. Here you can see which herbs are threatened and are in need of conserving.

Peggy Schafer is a farmer in Petaluma who specializes in organic Chinese herbs. She along with Sean Fannin developed Fu Tian Herbs. www.chinesemedicinalherbfarm.com

Gancao.net DSHEA Tutorial
DSHEA is the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act and is the reason for that disclaimer found on dietary supplements that says "This product is not intended to..." In some cases, this law applies to Chinese herbs too. Here's more: http://gancao.net/DSHEA/


This is site that is trying to bring information concerning alternative medicine and modalities to more people. www.rvita.com