OriLife Acupuncture (610)822-0988
/ (215)695-3288
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Dr. Weiying Zhang, OMD, L.Ac
Media Office: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday (free parking) Philadelphia Office: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (street parking or Bus 40,57) Fees: $75 ($95 initial) (cash/check/credit/HSA/FSA) Flexible spending dollars accepted and some Insurance accepted New Patient: free 15-min in-office consultation |
OriLife Acupuncture is a traditional medical acupuncture clinic aiming to improve patient long-term well-being by combining modern diagnoses with ancient medical treasure.
The Traditional Chinese Medicine focuses on the total wellness of the body. Based on a simple yet powerful principle of balancing Ying and Yang, acupuncture has been testified through countless use to be effective in treating many kinds of illnesses and with minimal side effects. Over a series of treatments, acupuncture gradually but fundamentally improves patients' underline health.
With education from the US and China, and with post-graduate training in many different clinic settings, Dr. Zhang is experienced in selecting an unique set of effective points, from nearly 360 known acupuncture points. Patients under care experience delightful slight numbness at the worked acupuncture points, indicating that acupuncture points are correctly selected, needles are precisely inserted, and acupuncture stimulation is turned on. Feeling nothing means that needles do not penetrate skin at all and patients only get placebo effects. Feeling pain means that selection of acupuncture points is not optimal or needle tips end up at wrong locations. This technique is critical to the entire success of acupuncture treatment; Dr. Zhang is a master of this technique.
Acupuncture is suitable to treat acute and chronic conditions, for kids, adults, and seniors. Patients who are currently not taking any/many chemical drugs or who never had any surgery in the past are more likely to feel positive acupuncture treatment effects. If patients already developed chronic conditions, acupuncture can help those patients to slow, stop, or reverse disease progression. Because chronic illnesses develop through a long and slow process, effects of acupuncture on chronic conditions may take several treatments to be felt. Nevertheless, Dr. Zhang designs personalized acupuncture plans to treat many conditions with high successful rate of the highlighted ones:
Acupuncture is NOT helpful for those conditions: depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, cancer, stroke.
Other than treating illness, acupuncture is effective in disease prevention. Today, with high deductible health insurance, many of our patients, surprisingly, seek acupuncture treatment early with out-of-pocket deductible money to treat not-emergent medical conditions to avoid invasive procedures or unwanted side effects from expensive surgery or chemical drugs. Often and regular acupuncture treatments helps patients maintain high quality health and spirit.
The Traditional Chinese Medicine focuses on the total wellness of the body. Based on a simple yet powerful principle of balancing Ying and Yang, acupuncture has been testified through countless use to be effective in treating many kinds of illnesses and with minimal side effects. Over a series of treatments, acupuncture gradually but fundamentally improves patients' underline health.
With education from the US and China, and with post-graduate training in many different clinic settings, Dr. Zhang is experienced in selecting an unique set of effective points, from nearly 360 known acupuncture points. Patients under care experience delightful slight numbness at the worked acupuncture points, indicating that acupuncture points are correctly selected, needles are precisely inserted, and acupuncture stimulation is turned on. Feeling nothing means that needles do not penetrate skin at all and patients only get placebo effects. Feeling pain means that selection of acupuncture points is not optimal or needle tips end up at wrong locations. This technique is critical to the entire success of acupuncture treatment; Dr. Zhang is a master of this technique.
Acupuncture is suitable to treat acute and chronic conditions, for kids, adults, and seniors. Patients who are currently not taking any/many chemical drugs or who never had any surgery in the past are more likely to feel positive acupuncture treatment effects. If patients already developed chronic conditions, acupuncture can help those patients to slow, stop, or reverse disease progression. Because chronic illnesses develop through a long and slow process, effects of acupuncture on chronic conditions may take several treatments to be felt. Nevertheless, Dr. Zhang designs personalized acupuncture plans to treat many conditions with high successful rate of the highlighted ones:
- Pain: sciatica pain, sciatica nerve pain, spinal cord pain, low back pain, joint or muscle pain, back and shoulder tension, sciatic nerve pain. Reduced pain at each treatment.
- Weight loss: after a series of treatment, patients experience healthy weight reduction.
- Arthritis
- Migraine and headache of all kinds
- Allergy: seasonal and year-round
- Sinus
- Fatigue, acute, chronic, or without known reasons
- Insomnia (poor sleep)
- Functional disorders of organs
- Stomach: poor digestion, poor appetite, acid reflux
- Liver: pain or enlargement
- Lung: difficulties of breath, cough
- Heart: weakness, fatigue, arrhythmia
- Intestines: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, constipation, poor nutrition absorption
- Over Active Bladder
- Constipation or poor bowel movement
- Women's Health: menstrual cramps, menopausal syndrome
Acupuncture is NOT helpful for those conditions: depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, cancer, stroke.
Other than treating illness, acupuncture is effective in disease prevention. Today, with high deductible health insurance, many of our patients, surprisingly, seek acupuncture treatment early with out-of-pocket deductible money to treat not-emergent medical conditions to avoid invasive procedures or unwanted side effects from expensive surgery or chemical drugs. Often and regular acupuncture treatments helps patients maintain high quality health and spirit.
