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 Our Durham practice is rooted in the holistic view and methods of Chinese medicine, alongside a thorough understanding of Western biomedicine. We refer to and employ the philosophy, diagnosis, treatment, and methodology that arose out of observing the nature of human health for thousands of years. As such, we treat the whole person, in many ways we practice one of the world's original holistic care, that neither affirms nor negates Western medical diagnoses. We invite patients to take a different view based on their experience of our dietary, herbal, acupuncture and manual therapy methods.

 

Licensed Acupuncturists complete three to four year-long professional master's degrees in primary Chinese medical care, concurrent with training in Western medical standard care practices.  In these programs contemporary Chinese medicine professionals are encouraged to work together with western medical providers ensure the safety and efficacy of both systems, but that doesn't mean we consider our medicine to be somehow inferior to or less than. Chinese medicine is simple and logically cohesive and that's its strength. 

 

Tara Bianca Rado, LAc is trained in Chinese herbal medicine and we carry and primarily prescribe Evergreen Herbs proprietary and classical Chinese formulas that are cleanly sourced and GMP certified in their safety. Whether through adding herbs in, or discussing nutrition, we will discover ways that your diet and eating habits are and aren't working for you.  We support you to getting more connected to eating in a way that is linked with the seasons and with your own constitution, and tend towards "flexitarian" in terms of diet recommendations, but they are almost always are based on centering whole, local, seasonal and heritage foods. We find that healing doesn't happen if diet isn't appropriate. 

 

Tara's training also includes vitalist European and indigenous herbal medicine, herbal healing modalities that are female-centered and rooted in treating family and community. She work primarily with customized Chinese herbal formulas and pills and easy to take, locally grown herbal medicine such as decoctions, tinctures to find what is right for you. At our clinic we carry some locally made tinctures and herb blends because it's important to support local business people and also to connect as much as possible to the plants grown and medicine made right here in the North Carolina.

 
 

                     

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