Our Doctors

Dr. Aliceia Carin DSOM, LAc

Dr. Thanh Nguyen, DSOM, LAc

Our team of doctors expertise in acupuncture encompasses diverse traditions including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean styles, as well as specialized techniques such as five-element, warm needle, fire needle, flying needle, 7-star needle, pricking methods, auricular, scalp, micro-needling, facial and cosmetic acupuncture. Moreover, our doctors are experts in adjunctive therapies such as moxibustion, cupping, and guasha. Central to their diagnostic approach are traditional East-Asian methods including tongue and pulse assessment, along with Japanese abdominal palpation.

With a comprehensive understanding of classical Chinese herbal medicine, our doctors are adept at prescribing both internal and external remedies tailored to an individual’s ailments. Notably, since March 2020, they have achieved a remarkable 100% success rate in treating COVID and Long-haul COVID symptoms utilizing herbal formulas and other modalities. Both doctor’s have extensive diet and lifestyle training that they share as well. Often a German made biofeedback machine is utilized in sessions.

East Asian medicine aims to support each person’s unique and innate ability to heal and be healthy. By working on strengthening the body and removing obstacles to health this medicine is thought to prevent disease before it takes hold and help an individual heal when they are already sick.

Empirical Medicine doctors believe that everyone deserves to benefit from this vast and effective medicine which has been meticulously passed down in the east for millennia. Together we are stronger; old and new, east and west, alternative and conventional. The time has come to work together for the benefit of every patient.