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
» Homeopathy Documentary By BBC
Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine first defined by Samuel Hahnemann in the 18th century. Homeopathic practitioners contend that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of the illness.
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» Study: Acupuncture Eases Low Back Pain
Title: Study: Acupuncture Eases Low Back Pain
Category: Health News
Created: 9/25/2007
Last Editorial Review: 9/25/2007
» Music as Medicine
Title: Music as Medicine
Category: Health News
Created: 3/23/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 3/24/2008
» OTC Homeopathic Remedy Malaria Officinalis 30c Withdrawn
Homeopathic medicine should not be promoted for the prevention of malaria.
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» Eastern Remedies: Alternative Treatment For US Healthcare System
Americans who are looking for alternatives to the labyrinth that is US healthcare system need look no longer.
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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