Are Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine Safe?
Only high quality, single use, stainless steel needles sterilized with ethylene oxide gas are used. The needles are not coated with silicon and are safely disposed of after treatment. People often ask me, Are Chinese herbs safe? My response is that most formulas and herbs have been used on human beings for thousands of years and there is a written history of contraindications based on experience. We are fortunate that Chinese medicine is one of the few surviving traditional medicines with written texts still in existence. Compare this to the more recent use of pharmaceutical drugs which are tested on animals in laboratories or on humans (not children) for relatively short periods of time. Like any product, some herbs are better quality than others. I use herbs processed with the highest standards for good manufacturing.
