With the great fortune to meet Andrew Nugent-Head while in graduate school, JulieAnn benefited from hospital internships in Beijing during the summers of 20. Quickly realizing she needed a mentor and guide, JulieAnn enrolled in formal studies and completed a master’s degree in Oriental medicine in the United States. In 1996, watching two family members become drastically ill, she began to read about herbal medicine, and immersed herself in the study of herbology. JulieAnn was an elementary school teacher, with a curiosity and passion for natural remedies. Andrew is a renowned Chinese medical practitioner, teacher and martial artist. Continuing that work through the Alternative Clinic, Andrew and wife JulieAnn aim to practice and teach the clarity and efficacy of the medicine they learned from the last great scholars with their colleagues. Being the documentarian and “last disciple” of great doctors also lead to an incredible clarity and medical skill that Andrew continues to share with practitioners around the world.
Through three decades of working with and documenting the last old doctors, Andrew’s work resulted in one of the largest online libraries of Chinese medicine material available in English. Andrew thus founded the Association for Traditional Studies (ATS) to find and document traditional practitioners who were born and in practice prior to the changes of 1949 to ensure their wisdom was preserved for future generations. He found that communism had nearly extinguished traditional thought and culture, classic books had been edited and revised, and few traditional practitioners were still alive and willing to teach. As his previous experience seemed much more traditional, he sought out traditional practitioners to learn outside of the university channels. In 1989, Andrew entered the Chinese university system, and discovered the philosophy of the old doctors was being replaced by western medicine concepts. Andrew’s life path immediately changed, and he decided to stay in China to study Chinese medicine. However, a car accident and broken foot led him to discover the incredible healing powers of Chinese medicine Andrew’s broken foot was healed from herbal treatment in such a short time that he was hiking in the Himalayas just weeks later. Andrew arrived in Taiwan in 1986 to study Chinese, expecting his life to take him toward working with languages and the United Nations.
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We aim to teach the public how effective and tangible Chinese medicine can be, we hope each client learns to be discerning in health care, and we aim to teach our colleagues how to truly understand and apply what they learned in school for repeatable and consistent results.Īndrew Nugent-Head, Practitioner of Oriental Medicine, MSOM, LAcĪndrew Nugent-Head comes from a multilingual family of English, Russian and French heritage. Our clinic aims to prove there is a difference when an experienced hand applies the tools and concepts of Chinese medicine with common sense and clarity whether for wellness or serious conditions. It must do more help than har, and must be taught in real life clinical situations for it to be understood and applied deftly. The true practice of medicine in any field deals with life and death situations. It is not an esoteric practice of tapping in needles and letting a patient rest while they listen to Enya. The truth is, Chinese medicine is not hard to learn, and is not hard to practice. Thus, Chinese medicine has a reputation that it takes a long time, patients do not get better and neither practitioner or patient really knows what to expect from treatments.
It is a sad state of affairs that Chinese medicine schools are for profit organizations, churning out doctorate level students excited to practice medicine without the real skillset to do so safely and effectively. This would never happen in China, where every student is required to complete years of mentorship under an advanced level practitioner. Today in the west, most practitioners of Chinese medicine open a practice right out of school, without residency under a skilled and experienced clinician. In China, old doctors are revered because it is only through a lifetime of practice that one gains wisdom and experience.
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