Alternate Route for Ailments
By Danielle Mohlman
Ancient remedies such as acupuncture and herbs provide the foundation for the Yeh Center of Natural Medicine, which offers an alternative to modern medicine.
“When I came to America 28 years ago, I found that there are not many places for natural medicine,” said Dr. Timothy Yeh, president and founder of the Upland center.
A native of China, Timothy Yeh earned both his M.D. and doctorate of natural medicine in his home country. He has been practicing both natural medicine and modern medicine for 49 years.
“If we know the structure of our body, and we know the balance of our body with natural medicine, many diseases can be avoided,” said Yeh, who also pointed out that most health-insurance policies cover acupuncture.
The cost of treatment at the Yeh center varies based on the disease, but Yeh said he has been told some of his treatments cost less than his patients’ copay for modern medicine.
“Business is steadily going on,” he said. “People need treatments no matter what the economy is.”
Yeh said the even in these poor economic times, the beauty division of the Yeh center is doing well.
“People are looking for another job, they are interviewing and they want to look good,” Yeh said.
At the Yeh center, patients are treated using five types of natural medicine: acupuncture, herbal, nutrition, food and lifestyle.
Nutrition medicine focuses on the chemistry of food while food medicine combines food’s chemistry, physics and biology.
Lifestyle medicine has to do with a person’s living conditions, work conditions, interactions with other people, sleeping conditions and normal sexual activity.
“We honor natural medicine as a medicine of life, of health,” Yeh said.
The center offers seminars about natural medicine from noon to 1 p.m. every Saturday. Seminars are $30 per session, though free for current patients.
“Our seminars are always packed,” Yeh said. “People love to understand how to take good care of themselves with natural medicine.”
Yeh and his wife Pearl, who holds a doctorate in Chinese medicine, lead the seminars. The classes show patients various aspects of natural medicine such as which foods should be eaten in the summer and not in the winter.
The Yehs share a philosophy that they put into practice at the center.
“She and I believe beauty and health comes from inside out,” Yeh said.
The center treats auto immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease, women’s hormonal diseases such as menopause and irregular menstrual cycles and viral diseases such as allergies and pneumonia.
Word-of-mouth is the most effective marketing tool for the center, Yeh said. Patients travel from several states and countries to visit it.
“We are very proud of being here, serving people all over the world,” Yeh said. “These people need natural medicine.”
While the Yeh center caters to patients from all walks of life, the center is most popular among women in their 50s.
Yeh said he appreciates it when patients who do not respond well to modern medicine visit his center.
“I always say, ‘This is the time for them to change,”‘ he said. “We treat the causes. We don’t treat the symptoms.”
Yeh Center of Natural Medicine
195 N. Second Ave., Upland
(909) 946-6444
www.yehcenter.com
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