ANDRE SHIH
TCM & ACUPUNCTURE

A 26 year-old girl had a flu and was experiencing some fever and chills. She was extremely weak and tired. She described that she didn't...

Female patient, in her early 30s, had experiencing blister development on her fingers during season change. The blisters were very itchy...

Female patient in her mid-50s, suffered from rapid weight loss, hair loss, hot flashes, and 8-9 loose bowel movements a day with...

A male patient, let's call him J, between 45 and 50 year old who came in looking for relief of the side effects from chemotherapy. J had...

A patient came in a month ago for her constant headache/migrain on her left side. Pain scale was at 4 out of 10 but became 6 out of 10...

I was in a car accident on my way to meet my wife for lunch on new year's eve. Snow started just shortly before noon in Burnaby, and it...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is such a wonderful medicine. Sometimes when I focus on treating one thing, another issue just...

A female patient, 50 years old, has been dealing with severe back pain her whole life. From time to time her back would freeze up. Only...

Male patient, early 40s, works as a carpenter. His job is mostly installing wood floor. So he is always bending over or on his four...

TCM was very well developed more than 2000 years ago. People who have studied the classics of TCM understand that TCM books written in...

Female patient, 40 year old, has been taking care of her two young boys while working a full time job. The stress has been causing her...

Recently, I've been watching acupuncture videos on YouTube and found videos of Dr. Richard Tan demonstrating his acupuncture technique...

A year ago, our family went out with a few friends for dinner to celebrate Father's Day. It was a small cozy restaurant that we often...

A female patient in her early 50s came to the school clinic while I was doing an internship for the herbalist program. It was a hot day...

Last time we discussed why smooth menstruation is so important in women’s health. So what is considered a smooth menstruation in TCM’s...

It was recorded in more than 2000 years ago in a TCM classic, Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine), that women...

This happened a while back when I just started acupuncture school. There was a lady in her 40s in my office. She had been limping around...