Integrative Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Care
We’ve been providing results-driven, affordable preventative and restorative care to the Tucson community for over 20 years. Our clinic combines traditional Chinese medicine with a modern, patient-centered approach to help you return to balance and wellness.
Clinic Information
If you are familiar with our clinic or are prepared to book your new or return appointment, please click below.
Acupuncture $40
Your body is powerful and naturally filled with the ability to engage a process for healing dis-ease and imbalance. Acupuncture encourages your body’s healing processes to engage and ‘points the way’.
Acupuncture, as a proven, accepted healing technique, seeks to invite the return of balance to your system through the insertion of hair-thin needles into specific, documented, studied-for-thousands-of-years points on your body, to clear/open the pathways within you where your energy (lifeforce) should be passing through meridians and channels as a continuous flow. Your lifeforce’s stagnation, or flow, will directly effect the state of your body and mind.
If you are a New Patient, your very first appointment with us will be $50.00.
Asian Medical Bodywork $40
We can do so much with our hands. We don’t have to use needles.
Our bodywork (tuina) is medicinal and tempered in the foundations of Chinese medicine and its theories of flow and balance. Bodywork is often employed for helping with chronic pain states, musculoskeletal conditions, and stress-related disorders. It is well suited for neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, sciatica, sports injuries, joint pains – this list could go on for a long long long time.
Because tuina can improve and restore the flow of your lifeforce, treatments will often impact your body as a whole. Because when the flow of energy in your body is opened up or improved, your body will work to balance naturally.
Headaches, constipation, premenstrual symptoms, and even emotional problems may be effectively addressed with tuina. Post-treatment experiences may include feelings of sleepiness or euphoria as energy spreads and soothes into areas of your body.
If you are a New Patient, your very first appointment with us will be $50.00.
Herbal Consult $25
Hundreds of Chinese herbs are used in countless combinations to concoct medicinal formulas in Chinese medicine.
Chinese herbal medicine has passed through a centuries-long filter: an erosion of signs, symptoms, formulas, and results to arrive at the highly refined and documented practice of Chinese herbology today. In our clinic, we stock hundreds of herbal varietals to completely customize a formula, and/or tailor classic formulas for individual needs – and we carry many traditional Chinese patent formulas in pill form. Our raw herbs find their way into teas, foods, poultices, salves, ointments … you name it.
Chinese herbs seek the cause, the “root” as well as its symptoms, the “branches”. Herbal prescriptions are generally given as a complimentary aspect of a treatment plan.
In Chinese medicine we want a treatment approach to address both issues (root and branch), predictably if possible. To treat both, a single formula will often not suffice. You might need to return for a second formula. Your treatment plan may also require time spent with acupuncture and/or tuina. Many times an issue will not present itself fully. Most discomforts are layered. Dis-ease is constructed in intricate patterns and layers before symptoms arrive on the surface (the body). To alleviate dis-ease, we need the same patience we used in layering dis-ease to bring it back to its foundation of health. Realized or not, we do set our bodies and emotions into positions which incubate discomfort; accepting this fact is a large piece in the puzzle of recovering the power in our own personal health care.
For custom formulas, we use the absolute best US grown herbs we can source. A bit on that here: Herbal Standards.
If you are interested in engaging in an herbal consult, be sure to ask about pricing with any formula prescription.
If you are a New Patient, your very first appointment with us will be $50.00.
Auricular Acupuncture $25
WOW!
Almost all the systems of your body can be mapped to, and treated on, your ear. That’s what this is. We treat your ear and impact your health. It’s wild, and wildly popular.
Auriculotherapy (treatment focused on the ear) is a common treatment-type in traditional Chinese medicine. You can engage it to treat and EVEN PREVENT common conditions as deep and societally prevalent as chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia, nausea, addiction and substance abuse, gynecological concerns, and digestive disorders or discomfort.
We use ear seeds and sometimes tiny needles.
Take it from Dr. Nguyen, “The ear seed is like an acupuncture needle [but it’s totally not] that you use to stimulate a channel to help the patient’s condition without needing to puncture the skin.”
If you are a New Patient, your very first appointment with us will be $50.00.
Licensed Practitioner Clinic - timing varies
The school’s clinic is opening more hours to the public and supporting skilled graduates as they advance the medicine and complete their licensure. Ask about our professional clinic as we invite graduates, and local professionals into our space to further enhance the school’s educational setting, fill out clinic hours, and meet our community’s needs for appointment scheduling.
If you do not see a student appointment option for the hours you need, ASK ABOUT THE PRO CLINIC
Our Care is Restorative.
It is about returning you to balance.
You have a responsibility to be an active participant in your care and wellness. We invite you to be.
Our Care is Restorative.
It is about returning you to balance.
You have a responsibility to be an active participant in your care and wellness. We invite you to be.
We consider ourselves your first line of defense through the provision of PREVENTATIVE CARE.
Preventative care means we move you, through treatment and shared understanding, into wellness and away from states of imbalance that can lead to the development of chronic conditions and disease.
We consider ourselves your first line of defense through the provision of PREVENTATIVE CARE.
Preventative care means we move you, through treatment and shared understanding, into wellness and away from states of imbalance that can lead to the development of chronic conditions and disease.
Treatment Model
Our care should be one of your first stops. Our model of medicine seeks the root cause of your discomfort by addressing imbalances in your body, and your lifestyle. We work with you to correct and adjust those. By seeing us and becoming aware of imbalances, you are able to grow in your personal awareness.
Our techniques address imbalances in your body (and being) in effort to release and open pathways for your energy (lifeforce) to flow, and to invite healing and vitality into your experience. Stagnant flow in your energy doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with you. It is a natural by-product of life and can be the result of injury, stress, trauma, emotional strain, lifestyle habits, or any combination of these (they usually come as a combination).
Between treatments and lifestyle adjustments (this requires you to be a participant in your care), we utilize time honored techniques to invigorate balance in your life and to eliminate or adjust progress toward poor states of health. We want you healthy and balanced. From our perspective, when your lifestyle achieves balance, your potential to require more invasive care is lessened. This is our goal and it is what our care model is intended for.
We want to work with you and ideally PREVENT you from courting chronic or advanced forms of illness.
Working with us is a process. If you are experiencing an emergency, you should contact an appropriate emergency service or call 911.
Treatment Methods
We offer treatments from Students who are well trained and working under the Supervision of licensed Acupunturists. The student-interns in our programs are pursuing masters-level nationally accredited medical degree educations.
We also offer diret treatment from working proffesionals in our Pro Clinic.
In a given appointment we may utilize a combination of techniques, or focus on one.
Techniques might include but are not limited to:
Tuina (Chinese Medical Massage)
Acupuncture
E-STEM Acupuncture
Auricular therapy
Moxibustion
Liniments
Guasha (scraping)
Cupping
Lifestyle assessment and counseling including foods/nutrition, movement/exercise, approaches to breathing, energy movement exercises
Herbal prescriptions or products including cough suppressants, teas, ointments, pills, medicinal ‘patches’ and so on
And now with Naturopathic inclusion:
Nutrition Consults
Herbs (East & West)
Homeopathy
Trigger Point Release
Vitamin Boosts
Labs
Food Allergy Testing
Pharmaceuticals
What We Can Treat
The different conditions we can treat would be a very long list. As a quick reference, some common health issues we address are:
Chronic pain
Gastrointestinal disorders, such as food allergies, peptic ulcer, chronic diarrhea, gastrointestinal weakness, constipation, anorexia, and gastritis
Urogenital disorders, including stress incontinence, urinary tract infections, and sexual dysfunction
Gynecological disorders, such as irregular, heavy or painful menstruation, infertility in women and men, and premenstrual syndrome (PMS)
Respiratory disorders, such as emphysema, sinusitis, asthma, allergies, and bronchitis
Disorders of the bones, muscles, joints and nervous system, such as arthritis, migraine headaches, neuralgia, insomnia, dizziness and low back, neck and shoulder pain
Circulatory disorders, such as hypertension, angina pectoris, arteriosclerosis and anemia
Emotional and psychological disorders, including depression and anxiety
Addictions, such as alcohol, nicotine and drugs
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders
Supportive therapy, for other chronic and painful debilitating disorders
Adapted from the National Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance, “Introduction to Acupuncture,” Olalla, Washington, 1997.
Clinic Hours & Location
Our Clinic schedule is subject to seasonal changes based on the availability of shifts surrounding the availabilty orour Supervisors, (trained, licensed Chinese medicine practitioners), and Clinic Interns’ didactic schedules.
Clinic Hours
MON ~ 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
TUES ~ 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
WED ~ 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
THU ~ 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
FRI ~ 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Community Clinic
THURSDAYS ~ 4:00 PM – 7:15 PM
$10 Walk-in Treatments
Limited Capacity – Anticipate Lines
Last Walk-in at 7:15 PM
Professional Clinic
Please Inquire
Varied Days and Times
ASAOM’s school and clinic are jointly locate at:
2856 E Fort Lowell Rd. Tucson, AZ, 85716
Clinic scheduling and availability is subject to change Each Term
Pro Clinic is available during break periods between each fifteen (15) week term at the college. During the breaks Student Clinics are not Available.
The clinic will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Christmas Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, and the 4th of July.
If you are exploring Chinese medicine as an aspect of your care needs – we encourage you to make an appointment with us and allow us to show you what even just one treatment can do. If you have questions about what might be involved, follow the FAQ link below.
We look forward to meeting you!