Welcome to San Diego Acupuncture
Select Health Group is a full service acupuncture clinic serving residents of downtown San Diego, the East Village, South Park, Hillcrest, Cortez Hill, Bankers Hill and nearby areas. Our acupuncture specialists have many years of experience in utilizing acupuncture to treat a wide variety illnesses and disease and have helped many people to maintain good health. We invite you to read more About Us and view profiles of our acupuncturists.
Featured Acupuncture Articles
In an effort to aide persons who are interested in acupuncture treatment as a method for maintaining health, our staff has put together a compendium of articles related to acupuncture. We hope you find these articles useful. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns, or would like more information on the services we offer or on acupuncture in general.
Latest Acupuncture & Health News
» US court halts funding of stem cell research
A US court on Monday ordered a temporary halt to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, which President Barack Obama had authorized, saying it involved the destruction of human embryos.
» Mouse virus link to chronic fatigue is studied
A U.S. government study has uncovered a family of mouse viruses in some people with chronic fatigue syndrome, raising still more questions about whether an infection may play a role in the complicated illness.
» Acupuncture May Help Ease Hot Flashes
Title: Acupuncture May Help Ease Hot Flashes
Category: Health News
Created: 12/31/2009 8:25:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 12/31/2009 8:25:21 AM
» White House makes health reform case to doctors
President Barack Obama's administration asked U.S. doctors Monday to get on board with health reform legislation passed in March, saying those who embrace change will prosper.
» Bangladesh top court bans 'toxic' ships
Bangladesh's Supreme Court has reimposed strict environmental controls on the country's ship-breaking yards, a lawyer said Monday, in a verdict likely to trigger protests from the sector.
Food For Thought
A collection of quotes related to acupuncture.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
-Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)
"Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities."
-John R. Lee, M.D.
While acupuncture represents a legacy of concepts that predate Western civilization, as a contemporary health care system it also represents a synthesis of continuously evolving scientific and technological developments which provides us with new tools to meet current clinical challenges.
Dennis Tucker, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Nevada City, California
"When health is absent Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot become manifest, Strength cannot be exerted, Wealth is useless and Reason is powerless."
-Herophilies, 300 B.C.
"The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself."
-John Knowles, Former President of the Rockefeller Foundation
"Don't ask the doctor, ask the patient."
-Yiddish proverb
"I think that if we had more acupuncture and less AZT [an AIDS medication], we would see a qualitative improvement in these patients' health."
William Michael Cargile, B.S., D.C., F.I.A.C.A.
"Even in acute abdominal problems, acupuncture can be used before surgery to arrest the condition before it progresses further."
Maoshing Ni, D.O.M., Ph.D., L.Ac.
Vice-President of Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Monica, California
"There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain."
David Eisenberg, M.D.
Clinical Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School