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If
Hippocrates met the Yellow Emperor, medicine as we know it, would never
be the same. Imagine: a blending of classical
medical traditions and wisdom from the East and West. The best of
both worlds, courtesy of physicians and healers from centuries past.
In
many ways this scenario is not a fantasy, but a growing reality
-- a way of life and death. In China, Japan, Australia, the Soviet
Union and Europe, doctors and nurses and other health
practitioners have used for years a potent combination of Eastern
and Western medical practices. Recently, medical and
psychological models based on Eastern medicine have flourished in
America, Canada and Europe. Many experts believe the day is near
when a physician's technical and biomedical expertise, and
an acupuncturist's needles and herbal remedies, will complement each
other widely in clinics and hospitals around the world. It is
time for the integration of Eastern and Western Medicine.
The
East West Academy of Healing Arts in San Francisco is a step toward
that new day, with a dynamic and pragmatic concept of health care
and healing. The East West Academy is a non-profit corporation founded
in 1973 by Dr. Effie Poy Yew Chow. Dr. Chow is an international
health practitioner, acupuncturist, a U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services advisor and a public health and psychiatric
nurse with a Masters in Behavioral Sciences and a Ph.D. in Higher
Education
East West Academy offers a range of services:
- Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation for private clients
- Stress Management
- Corporate health, & and motivational programs
- Consultation & educational seminars
- Group training in the Chow system
- Intercultural medical & health services exchanges
East
West Academy has treated many satisfied clients from all walks of
life: business people, athletes, physicians, educators,
homemakers, engineers, accountants, ballet dancers, opera singers,
journalists, artists, secretaries, longshoremen, architects,
attorneys, chemists, nurses and many more. Most of Dr. Chow's
clients are referred to East West Academy by Western health care
professionals. And she often directs her clients to Western
physicians and medical facilities.
Over
the past three decades, Dr. Chow has trained and spoken worldwide
to more than 450,000 people. She has given seminars, lectures
and motivational and training sessions to more than 350
corporations, hospitals, public agencies, educational
institutions and professional agencies: Prudential Insurance, the
American Public Health Assn., Westinghouse, Levi Strauss, Planned
Parenthood, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Walter Reed Army Medical
Center (D.C.), Columbia Lutheran Home (Seattle), the UC San
Francisco School of Medicine, Georgetown University,
Southern California (Kaiser) Permanente, the Chinese Hospital
(San Francisco), the University of British Columbia, the
Institute for Managerial and Professional Women (Portland, OR)
and many others.
As
health costs rise and medical care at times becomes impersonal
East West Academy offers consumers and institutions a
cost-effective, humane option in health promotion and
treatment. An option that complements and works closely with
Western approaches to find a common meeting ground, a practical
dimension, for a new concept of health care and healing.
"The
East began with the human instrument," notes Dr. Chow, "and
with modernization is turning to the medical sciences. The West
began with the medical sciences, and is turning to the human
instrument. Perhaps the East and West will meet midway, so the
best of their concepts can be synthesized to better serve
humanity."
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