Traditional Chinese Medicine — Holistic Healing in Manhattan

The Art of Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine is a 3,000-year-old clinical system built on careful observation of how bodies actually behave — what foods slow digestion, which weather patterns trigger which pains, why some people sleep heavily and wake exhausted while others sleep lightly and feel fine. TCM organizes those observations into patterns (a hot pattern, a cold pattern, a damp pattern, a yin-deficient pattern) rather than into named diseases the way Western medicine does. The same Western diagnosis — say, insomnia — can correspond to four or five different TCM patterns, and each pattern is treated differently.

That sounds abstract, but in practice it's quite specific. When you sit down with us we ask about sleep onset versus 3 AM wake-ups, about whether your cold hands warm up after a meal, about cycle length and where in the cycle headaches land, about whether stress sits in your chest or your gut. Tongue and pulse confirm what the conversation suggested. From that we build a treatment plan — which might be acupuncture alone, acupuncture plus a custom herbal formula, or a session that layers cupping or tui na on top.

Our practice brings the core TCM modalities under one Midtown Manhattan roof: acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, cupping, gua sha, moxibustion, tui na, and ear seeds. We are not a single-modality acupuncture chain — Dr. Shang and Dr. Yu are trained to write herbal formulas, place fire cups, and do meridian-based bodywork in the same visit when that's what your pattern asks for. Located at 408 West 57th Street near Columbus Circle, between Hell's Kitchen and Lincoln Square, we serve patients walking in from Midtown West, the Upper West Side, the Theater District, Columbus Circle offices, and Lincoln Center.

We work alongside Western care, not in opposition to it. If you're being followed for a chronic condition by a primary care doctor, oncologist, endocrinologist, or REI, we coordinate rather than compete. Many patients come to us because their Western workup ruled out the scary stuff but still left them with daily symptoms — fatigue, bloating, pain that imaging doesn't explain. That is exactly where TCM does its best work.

Benefits

• · Treats the whole person — symptom plus underlying pattern
• · Pairs modalities (acupuncture + herbs + cupping) for compounding effect
• · Works alongside Western care — no need to stop existing treatment
• · Custom plan rather than a fixed protocol
• · Same practitioners across visits — continuity of diagnosis
• · Bilingual care — English / 中文

Our TCM Practitioners

Dr. Xaoling Shang (DCAM, MSPT, MSTOM, L.Ac.) brings 15+ years of clinical TCM, with deep training in cosmetic acupuncture (Mei Zen), women's health and fertility support, and chronic pain management. Dr. Yu Qi (MSTOM, L.Ac.) brings 7+ years of acupuncture and 10+ years of medical bodywork, focusing on acute and chronic musculoskeletal cases — sciatica, frozen shoulder, migraine, facial paralysis. Both write herbal formulas from scratch rather than handing out a stock blend.

All NY State licensed, NCCAOM-certified, fluent in English and Mandarin (中英双语). The same practitioner sees you across the course of treatment — there's no handoff to a junior between visits. Single-use sterile needles, GMP-sourced herbs from US suppliers (Mayway, KPC, Treasure of the East) with certificates of analysis, and an honest read of when TCM is and isn't the right tool.

We're an easy walk from Columbus Circle (A/B/C/D/1), Lincoln Square, the Theater District and Hell's Kitchen, with a quiet treatment suite on West 57th Street. Mon-Fri 9-7, Sat 9-5, Sun closed.

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