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1385 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709
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1385 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709 (map) - (510) 848-4372
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Acupuncture & Acupressure
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Shen Clinic • Berkeley, CA • $45-80 per hour
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Since 1987, we have been providing herbal medicine, acupressure massage and gentle acupuncture. Treatments are performed in private rooms by well experienced acupuncturists.
We are one of the largest Chinese herbal dispensaries in the USA. We can fill your doctor's herbal prescriptions at a fair cost. All herbs are at hand as powdered concentrates or in whole. We ship everywhere.
We provide reasonable prices and easy neighborhood parking.
Question and answer
Q. Describe the most common types of jobs you do for your clients.
A. For acupuncture: low back pain, neck and arm pain, pain of any kind, stress, depression.
For herbs: fertility issues, digestive complaints, fatigue, stress, insomnia, depression
Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A. Once again the answer is in my book, A Patient's Guide to Chinese Medicine, published by Baytree Publications in Point Richmond California. You can find it on Amazon.
Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?
A. In Chinese medicine everything is negotiable between doctor and patient. It would be considered immoral to refuse treatment because the patient truly cannot afford the fee.
Q. What important information should buyers have thought through before seeking you out?
A. Once again, read my book, A Patient's Guide to Chinese Medicine, published by Baytree Publications in Point Richmond California. Besides Amazon, you can find it on my website drshen.com.
Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?
A. Because I've been practicing for over 25 years, and practice makes perfect.
Q. What do you like most about your job?
A. Helping people get well. Having a job with freedom and responsibility.
I love the fact that Chinese medicine also allows me to practice philosophy as well as medicine. Also, that herbs and acupuncture are amazing.
Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A. Q: How did you get in to doing this?
A: Read my book, A Patient's Guide to Chinese Medicine. My story is in chapter 1.
Q. Do you have a favorite story from your work?
A. Several years ago a patient brought in her boyfriend, a well known player for the Oakland Raiders. They came together every week the Raiders where at home. Once he came with a reporter who did a story in a popular sports magazine. One day he came with his wife. That was the last time he came.
Q. What do you wish customers knew about you or your profession?
A. The answer is in my book, A Patient's Guide to Chinese Medicine, published by Baytree Publications in Point Richmond California.
Q. How did you decide to get in your line of work?
A. The answer is Chapter one in my book, A Patient's Guide to Chinese Medicine, published by Baytree Publications in Point Richmond California.
Q. Do you do any sort of continuing education to stay up on the latest developments in your field?
A. Continuing education is required for California acupuncturists.
