1. What’s the difference between Yuyuantang Clinic and other medical institutions?

    Yuyuantang is a specialized clinic of TCM, where doctors prepare optimal treatment solutions for you according to your personal physical conditions, adopt the appointment system, and provide single room for independent treatment.

  2. What’s the property of the clinic?

    It is a clinic of TCM recognized by the country. It receives medical insurance and issues special invoice for medical treatment.

  3. Does Yuyuantang charge high?

    The clinic adopts international medical management pattern. Most of its doctors have overseas medical work experience. It boasts fist class environment, service, and diagnosis and treatment etc. various charges are worthy. See price list for specific price for diagnosis and treatment.(Click to see the price list)

  4. How many periods of treatment are needed for common diseases in general?

    Due to the difference of individual physical conditions, the time for treatment varies. It takes about a week to cure acute diseases, and 1-3 months for chronic diseases. For regulation and physical condition improvement, periodical treatment is required.

  5. What methods are used for treatment in Yuyuantang?

    The characteristic therapies adopted by the clinic include moxibustion, physique structure analysis and regulation, meridian adjustment and massage, psychological analysis, visit for learning by observation, medicated bath, treatment with oral Chinese medicine, acupuncture, cupping, scrape therapy, ear aperture, and meridian-pricking and bloodletting therapy. (Click the underlined parts for details and pictures)

  6. Generally speaking, what diseases are fit for treatment with acupuncture and Chinese traditional medicine?

    Adaptive disease:

    • Diseases with obvious self-consciousness, but hard to be diagnosed explicitly.
    • Symptoms caused by cold factors, insomnia, constipation, easiness to suffer fatigue, indigestion, obesity, and other situations with bad physical conditions.
    • Such allergic diseases as eczema and dermatitis, pollen-allergy disease, and asthma.
    • Pain diseases such as headache, neck and shoulder pain, lumbago, knee pain, hurts from exercises.
    • Inordinate catamenia, dysmenorrheal, sterility, chronic inflammatory disease, chronic colpitis, disease of endometriosis uterine, uterine myoma, menopause syndromes, and galactophore diseases.
    • Rheumatoid arthritis, nephritis, and other diseases which bear great side effects in case of treatment with western medicine.
    • Hypertension, high blood fat, diabetes, gout and other chronic diseases with poor effect in case of treatment with western medicine.
    • Other difficult and complicated diseases.

    Other diseases can be treated and regulated with TCM. Call or visit the clinic for more information.

  7. How are acupuncture instruments sterilized?

    All the acupuncture instruments used in the clinic are one-off trocars. They are discarded after use, so they are safe. No repeated use after sterilization is allowed. Please set your heart at rest!

  8. Is a decoction of medicinal ingredients used for all diseases?

    Treatment with TCM falls into pharmacotherapy and non-pharmacotherapy in general. For pharmacotherapy, the medicines used include not only decoction of medicinal ingredients to be taken orally, but troches, medicated granules, pills, and medicine for external use. For non-pharmacotherapy, there are such therapies as acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, and scrape therapy, and they have good effect on treatment.

  9. Is decoction of medicinal ingredients available for patients? Is delivery of a decoction charged?

    We can decoct medicinal ingredients for patients, and we charge patients. We provide decoction delivery for free. (Only in Beijing)

  10. Will botchy marks be left upon cupping?

    There will be marks temporarily, but they will disappear naturally after a week or so.

  11. What’s the difference between medical massage and general massage for health protection?

    Medical massage has the effect on improving personal physical conditions by regulating personal internal energy distribution. It is one of the therapies of TCM, and one of the age-old physiotherapies of mankind. And traumatology massage is the primary conservative therapy for bone-injury diseases. Massage for health protection, however, is one of the health care methods to massage by hand to relax muscles, relive fatigue, and promote health, mainly for health protection and disease prevention.

    The two vary in techniques and efficacies.

  12. What’s the significance of the identification of the type of physical conditions on disease treatment?

    Our clinic conducts test of physical conditions by means of diagnostic techniques of TCM and meridian test to identify the type of individual physical conditions and current diseases. The results of the test not only help doctors to understand the physical conditions of patients, but facilitate them to determine the cause and source of disease and provide individualized treatment and health solutions.

  13. Is it necessary to seek diagnosis and treatment even without self-consciousness symptoms?

    TCM upholds the thought of prevention before the occurrence of diseases. Even if there are no special self-consciousness symptoms, people should have an understanding of their physical conditions through periodical health examination by TCM so as to prevent diseases.

  14. Is there any language barrier to the communication between doctors and patients?

    Many of our doctors have overseas working experience, and they can communicate with patients in English or Japanese effectively. Meanwhile, the clinic is equipped with professional medical interpreters.

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