Dr. Huyen Thai

Huyen Thai grew up in Vietnam, where acupuncture has been practiced and integrated with Western Medicine. She attended Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture (PIHMA). She is licensed in Acupuncture (MSAC) and Oriental medicine (MSOM). She strongly believes that acupuncture is an element necessary in the health care system in the US to bring people to a better quality of life. As an Acupuncturist and Herbalist, Huyen has great success in treating acute and chronic pain, neurological disorders, and improving women’s health. She is continuously inspired by the remarkable effects on her patients. She is happy to join Pathways Acupuncture and contribute to the health care services of the community.

Benefits: Acupuncture has been practiced for thousands of years and we cannot deny the benefits of it. According to the WHO, acupuncture has these effects:

• Pain relief
• Correction of functional disorders of the body
• Correction of functions in some physical pathologies

One advantage of acupuncture is that it does not introduce foreign substances into the body, therefore, it is possible to cure the disease without side effects. The human body is an incredible structure and the mechanism of how acupuncture works is based on the body's self-healing reaction, which is continuous activities using the available elements within itself to repair damages caused by many subjective or objective factors. For various reasons, this natural mechanism is blocked or stalled. Acupuncture works according to neurological and endocrine mechanisms. When the needle is inserted into the acupuncture point, it creates a new stimulus, the brain will emit a reflex in response to that stimulus, this reflex will overwhelm the previous reflex (reduce pain); or secrete a transmitter that mediates the regulation of previous disorders, if the stimulus reaches the right intensity and lasts at the right amount of time.

Services: acupuncture, herbs, electrical stimulation, cupping, guasha, tuina, facial rejuvenation

Conditions that can be treated and improved:

• Acute and chronic pain in the musculoskeletal
• Neurological: insomnia, stress, anxiety, depression, migraine, headaches, balance, neuropathy, post stroke,…
• Women health: menstrual cycle, infertility, postpartum
• Digestion: bloating, constipation, diarrhea, IBS
• Allergy