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Medicine Buddha Healing Center

"We do House-Calls" - Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic and Chinese
Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture
 www.Ayurveda-Berkeley.com - Acupuncturists and Ayurveda in Santa Clara, San Jose, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin County, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Walnut Creek, Concord, Berkeley, Oakland, Santa Rosa, and Mendocino Communities

Consultations are held at our Downtown Berkeley clinic at 2210 McKinley Avenue, #4, (1 block west of Martin Luther King at Allston Way) Berkeley, 94703 - a 6 minute, 3 block walk from the Downtown Berkeley Shattuck BART (Allston Avenue Stairs Exit) station

Mailing Address: 2210 McKinley Avenue, #4, c/o Ksitigarbha Buddhist Monastery, Berkeley, California 94703 / TDC  USA

Director: Ven. Losang Jinpa (formerly Michael Reid Kreuzer), D.Ayur, M.A.H., Ph.D Buddhist Ayurveda   (1) 510-292-6696  Call to Book Appointment
www.Ayurveda-Berkeley.com     Please CALL US, no e-mail available.

Health Consultations: Indian and Tibetan Ayurvedic Medicine
plus Traditional Chinese Medicine Herbology, Acupuncture and Massage

If you have a health problem and want an alternative solution, or if you are healthy and want to know your body/mind type and how to maintain your ultimate health, an Ayurvedic - Chinese Medicine Consultation will provide the knowledge you seek. 

A practitioner will read your pulse and assess your life patterns from an Ayurvedic Chinese long-term perspective and recommend a diet, daily routine and individualized herbal formula to achieve your optimum health and energy level.

Tibetan and East Indian Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine are traditionally used to increase energy and mobility, improve digestion and elimination, remove depression, decrease pain, and restore the balance of the internal systems, the mind, emotions, and consciousness.  After the initial two consultations (typically two weeks apart), follow-ups are generally every 30 days until balance is restored.

Ask about the time-honored Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic and Chinese Medicine approach to arthritis, sciatica, neck and shoulder pain, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, cancer, depression, anger, insomnia, allergies, colds, flu, cough, asthma, constipation, chronic diarrhea, high blood pressure and cholesterol, ulcers, skin disorders, low libido, impotence, weight loss, diabetes, gynecological disorders, menopause, pregnancy.

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Your Initial Consultation: What to Expect?

What can you expect during your first consultation with a practitioner at the Medicine Buddha Healing Center or during a “house-call” to your home or office?  The initial consult is approximately 90 minutes and involves a thorough interview of your medical history, family history, present conditions or concerns, current medications or herbs, and detailed questioning system-by-system.  In following the teachings of Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine, the purpose of this detailed and extensive interview process is to become acquainted with you and develop a rapport.  Ayurvedic and Chinese pulse and tongue assessment are the two primary methods used to confirm findings from the interview process.  Then your constitution and present elemental, doshic (vata, pitta, or kapha) imbalance will be determined in order to accurately make an Ayurvedic therapeutic recommendation.  All these findings will be discussed with you in as much detail as time allows.

This may be followed by a selection of acupressure (marma chikitsa therapy) and foot-hand-ear reflexology points that will be massaged gently and painlessly using Indo-Tibetan aromatherapy essential oils or other Ayurvedic herbal oils.  Additional therapies that might also be offered by a practitioner or may referred out to a Doctor of Oriental Medicine or other provider, depending on their relevance include: Indian pancha karma purification / cleansing massage therapy, acupressure, Chinese tui na massage, Tibetan massage, or other massage, moxibustion (herbal incense therapy), cupping, gwa sha (gentle back scraping), skin care and facial treatments, acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, qigong (energy work), Indian Vedic Jyotish or Chinese astrology, Ayurvedic vastu shastra (feng shui), counseling, aroma therapy, sound therapy (mantra) or Ayurvedic color therapy (chromotherapy).

After the healing session is over there will be discussion of herbal remedies that might be appropriate for your present imbalance.  These suggestions will greatly enhance the effectiveness of the therapies, but it is your choice whether to follow these suggestions or not.  There will also be advice given on dietary and lifestyle considerations that are relevant to you from an Ayurvedic or Chinese Medicine perspective, as well as applicable meditation techniques, pranayama (breath-work), yoga asanas (poses), Tai Qi and other exercises.   You will receive a variety of printed handouts on the qualities of vata, pitta, or kapha, constitutional diet, digestion, toxins and cleansing, healthy lifestyle, exercise, meditation, yoga, and a handout explaining your customized herbal formula.

Unless you tell us otherwise, Jinpa may have one of his apprentice assistants present during the consultation in order to assist him in mixing up your herbal formula.  Please let us know is this is OK with you.

 

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What to expect on a follow-up visit:

Follow-up consultations will be one hour in length. These are similar to the initial consultation, but will not involve such a explicit interview as in the beginning.  A follow-up visit is typically one month after the initial visit.

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25% of the proceeds of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center and its Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and Vipashina Buddha College are donated to benefit the kindred spiritual healing non-profit religious services (Seva) organizations -- for the list click here.

 

 

Disclaimer

Although information presented by the Medicine Buddha Healing Center (www.Ayurveda-Berkeley.com) and its partners and employees is based on traditional Indian Ayurvedic and Tibetan Medicine and Chinese Medicine principles practiced for thousands of years, it should not be taken or construed as standard medical diagnosis or treatment.  For any medical condition, always consult with a qualified primary care physician.   Neither Ven. Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, Ph.D nor nor any other of our practitioners, partners, volunteers, employees or authors shall be held responsible in any way for problems encountered by the use of the products, substance, procedures and therapies mentioned in information presented on Ayurveda-Berkeley.com or by our partners. Nothing whatsoever here is intended to diagnose, mitigate, prescribe, treat, cure or prevent any disease or illness or symptoms as defined by the FDA and the State of California except where allowed as a constitutionally protected religious practice. We declare that nothing whatsoever here is intended to augment a particular therapy or drug action that is intended to diagnose, mitigate, treat, cure, or prevent a disease or class of diseases, illnesses, or symptoms, nor do we treat, prevent, or mitigate adverse events associated with a therapy for a disease, if the adverse events constitute diseases except where allowed as a religious practice. We declare with respect to all of our respective products sold or offered to the public that “The evidence in support of this claim is inconclusive and this statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.  This product or service is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease...” except where allowed as a religious practice  You should read carefully all product packaging and their associated website descriptions. We hereby declare and claim the right to constitutionally protected free speech (including but not limited to commercial and religious free speech).  Viewing this page signals your agreement to the terms listed in this disclaimer .  The links on this page will let you leave this Ayurveda-Berkeley.com site.  The linked sites and others are NOT under our control, and we are not responsible for the availability or information content of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such site.  We are providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the us of the site.   We declare, all rights reserved without prejudice. 

 

 

 

 

For more information on Pancha Karma, Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, and other healing therapeutic services and classes offered in Ayurvedic Medicine, please CALL US (no e-mail available):

Medicine Buddha Healing Center
 in Berkeley, California (click here for location of consultations)
(1) 510-292-6696   Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, M.A.H., Ph.D
Sheng-Wei Lan, L.Ac., MS.TCM, D.Ayur, M.A.H., Ph.D

www.Ayurveda-Berkeley.com

 

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We are a Buddhist Ayurveda church school,
as proven by our duly and ceremonially notarized founding Articles of Association and Organization
and are hence not under any government jurisdiction whatsoever.

"The religious Association (Church), that is to say the Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple / Ksitigarbha Buddhist Monastery is in no way under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, the California State Medical Board, or the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, or any other government organization, agency, or agent (federal, state or local).  Any attempt by any government or private agent or agency to regulate our above described religious educational practices and spiritual practices is in violation of our now declared First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendment Constitutional rights.  Notice is hereby given to any person(s) who, acting under the color of the law, intentionally interferes with the free exercise of the rights retained by our Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple and its Pastoral Counselors, faculty, students, congregation, and members under the First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendments, as enumerated in these Articles of Association and Organization and in our Pastoral Counselor’s Declaration of First Amendment Constitutional Rights (Section C2.14) and Pastoral Counselor’s Declaration of First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendment Constitutional Rights (Section C2.15), that they may be in violation of the Pastoral Counselor’s civil and constitutional rights, Title 42, U.S.C. 1983 et seq. and Title 18, Section 241.  We hereby declare, all rights reserved without prejudice."

Last updated: March 20, 2008