Fayetteville, GA
Acupuncture and Chinese medicine for people who want to be in charge of their own health.
Most people come to us discouraged, and some are close to giving up hope.
Labs say you're fine, but you know something isn't.
You've been given a diagnosis and a plan to manage it, but no end point.
Either way, the usual answer is to keep coming back for treatment. That's maintenance, and it can freeze a problem in place for years. Here you're a participant, not just a patient.
How this medicine thinks
Maintenance and repair is how you keep a machine running. This medicine works from the root pattern outward, because roots nourish branches. Treat the body like a garden and let it grow: that is our definition of healing.
We modeled the clinic and the treatment process after our teacher's clinic in northern Japan.
Two lineages, each a chain of teachers who trained the next in person. In acupuncture, David trained in the Iwashina lineage of Classical Acupuncture, the Dr. Bear Method. Herbal medicine comes from the Han-dynasty classics, through Arnaud Versluys, who founded ICEAM.
After his degree and certification in herbal medicine, David took up the classical method as postgraduate study, including almost fifteen years calibrating his pulse diagnosis to the lineage holder. We make our own concentrated extracts, built as faithfully as we can to the original methods and dosages.
At Red Earth, we've given more than 30,000 treatments.
L.Ac., Dipl. AHM, FICEAM
My acupuncture teacher, Master Anryu Iwashina, lost his sight at twenty-two and practiced for more than forty years by touch. He taught the same way, by explanation and through touch. I treat the way he taught me, and I'm with you the whole time.
At the end of a treatment you'll probably hear me say "well done." I mean it. The work is yours.
What treatment is like
Most of the needling rests on the skin rather than entering it. We stay in the room with you, and the time on the table is yours.
Diagnosis by pulse and abdomen, rechecked after every technique, through the entire visit.
Care is aimed at an end point: graduation.
Custom formulas, prepared in our own dispensary.
The path
Bring your questions. In about fifteen minutes you'll know whether this is the right place for you, and so will we.
You're treated from the first visit, not just assessed. How you respond over the first two shows us whether we can help and what it will take. Often you'll see it as soon as we do.
Your plan is set by how you respond, so we don't sell treatment packages. Too much treatment gets in the way of you becoming independent. Too little leaves you on your own before you're ready.
Care works like learning to ride a bike: once the training wheels come off, the visits move farther apart.
Graduation: the goals we set together are met, and you've come back on your own from being knocked off course enough times to trust it.
We succeed when you don't need us anymore.
Graduates often choose to come in at the turn of a season, when something comes up, or because they find it worth their while.
Patients
I started seeing David regularly when I was in pretty good health overall. … They tell me they’re afraid of the needles, but I let them know that he does contact needling, so they don’t have to worry.
You leave with confidence: you know what to do the next time something knocks you off course. You're always welcome back. The free consult is a conversation about fit, with no sales pitch. If this isn't the right place for you, we'll say so and suggest where to go instead.
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