Center For Integrated Medicine

07/17/2025

07/16/2025

Notice to new or potential patients. The clinic had posted an updated price list over a year ago. This list of prices and new services (2 pages) can also be found on the front counter. Please do not refer to prices on our website for it is at least 15 years old. We are still in mist of updating the website. You will find more information on our Instagram as well. Call clinic for more information.

07/13/2025

Natural medicine Foot bath for toe fungus. Also great for burning and itching foot aka Athletes foot. Purchase at clinic while supplies last. Center for Integrated Medicine, Jade Garden Pharmacy

07/11/2025

Summer Delight Dessert. Purchase at Center for Integrated Medicine. This mung bean dessert cools heat and clear heat toxins. Popular in food stands throughout Asia. Dessert can be served chilled with fruit or ice cream.

07/04/2025

Center for Integrated Medicine, Visalia. It is not too late to introduce one of our volunteer, Priscilla. Most of you have probably seen her at the clinic since February at the clinic. After her AA degree from Antelope Valley College, she worked in the perfume fragrance industry for 16 years. Her interest is in nutrition and diet. Most of the time she will be dispensing your herb prescriptions with the use of a Chinese scale. All natural medicine prescriptions are check/ approve by Dr. Kwong before she bags them for the patient.

07/01/2025

Center for Integrated Medicine wants to welcome Redwood high school student volunteer, Eric S. C. Chen. 15 years old Eric already took college courses (AP courses) and past with all A's. He wants to become a doctor and plans to pursue a career in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Originally from Beijing, China. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English (Mastered the English language in just a few years). He came to this country 2019 and lived in Florida prior to his move to California. Eric enjoys hiking and tennis. You will see him Weds. morning and a few afternoons a week to help Dr. Kwong with the inventory and dispensing of herbal/ nutritional medicine as well as clinic organization and general clean up.

07/01/2025

Please welcome our new intern Rebeca to the Center for Integrated Medicine. She decided to change her career path from therapist/ social work to a career in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to become a doctor of TCM/Acupuncture. She completed her Bachelors at Calif. State Univ. Fresno in social work and a Masters at Texas State Univ. San Marcos in social work/ therapist. Rebeca is fluent is Spanish and is excited to learn from Dr. Kwong a health system that is holistic and natural. Her particular interest lies in the use of TCM in chronic and terminal illnesses. More information of internships can be found on website. www.allholisticmed.org under 'Education".

06/22/2025

In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), the physiology/ anatomy is a holistic one. Physicians like myself assess each patient as a functioning whole, no part of the body works in isolation and even the emotions are connected to your TCM organ systems........Dr. Kwong. Center for Integrated Medicine.

06/20/2025

Postpartum recovery and lactation with Traditional Chinese Medicine. As a TCM physician, I find that the postpartum period is often overlooked and under-supported for many of my patients. In the West, there is much focus in the treatment of pregnancy and preparation for labor. Unlike the Chinese culture, there is a lack of acknowledgement of the needs of postpartum recovery to balance the body to prevent depression, fatigue, hormone changes, immunity deficiency, increase lactation, prevention of post-surgery (C-section) complications, and stress of adjusting to newborn infant care. "Zuo Ye Zi" means the last postpartum day of the traditional 30-day confinement period. In Chinese, this is literally called "sitting the month," as new mothers are pretty much expected to just sit around in pajamas for a month to recover from childbirth. I highly recommend a regimen of acupuncture (manual only), as well as Chinese postpartum nutritional soups/ nutrition and herbs from your acupuncturist Chinese physician like myself.....Dr. Kwong.

06/11/2025

One Ming Dynasty physician dedicated 27 years of his life to a single monumental task. 🌿

This was Li Shizhen, born in 1518 AD, a man driven to bring order to the vast world of Chinese medicine.

He embarked on compiling his great work, the *Compendium of Materia Medica*, also known by its Chinese title *Bencao Gangmu*, in the 1550s.

Imagine the sheer dedication this required: extensive travel, careful study, and meticulously documenting 1,892 different medicinal substances, including plants, animals, and minerals.

His work was incredibly detailed, featuring over 1,100 illustrations and cataloging more than 11,000 prescriptions. What an undertaking. 📖

Li Shizhen's primary motivation was to correct inaccuracies he found in existing medical texts and to provide a more systematic and comprehensive resource for fellow practitioners.

After completing the first draft of the *Compendium* in 1578, Li Shizhen sadly passed away in 1593, before he could witness the publication of his life's work.

The *Compendium of Materia Medica* was finally published posthumously in Nanjing in 1596, a testament to his incredible perseverance and vision.

While a monumental achievement for its era, it is important to remember that some entries inevitably reflected the scientific understanding of the 16th century. For instance, an understanding of mercury's toxicity was not then what it is today.

Despite such limitations, Li Shizhen's *Compendium* became a foundational text in traditional Chinese medicine, profoundly influencing medical practices in China and neighboring countries for centuries to come.

Sources: Historical Ming Dynasty Records, Academic Reviews of Traditional Chinese Medicine

06/10/2025

Natural Medicine history. Huang Di aka Yellow Emperor is considered the "Father of Chinese Medicine doctors". From his ancient Chinese medical text, Nei Jing (the Inner Classics) which is the first book ever written on internal medicine thousands of years ago, it describe the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine as preventative medicine. Huang Di / Yellow Emperor wrote this book consisted of 80 plus chapters is still use today as a textbook for medical students studying natural medicine.

06/03/2025

Suffering from frequent occurrence of Kidney stones? TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is a big help treating the entire body as a whole functioning unit. Stones lodged in the ureters or kidneys can be helped with this natural and holistic medical system with the use of acupuncture, herbal medicine and TCM nutritional therapy. Board certified TCM physician with over 35 years experience. Call Center for Integrated Medicine in Visalia.