Orilife acupuncture is an authentic Chinese medicine clinic located in the Great Philadelphia area, with one clinic in the center city of Philly and one clinic in Swarthmore.
Dr. Weiying Zhang is a licensed acupuncturist and board-certified herbalist in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. She earned her medical doctor degree in China in 1990. In mid 1990s, Dr. Zhang came to the states. She continued a 4-year rigorous additional education at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York City in Oriental Medicine as well as in Western Medicine. She is one of a few interns selected to practice acupuncture at the NYU Hospital,
Dr. Zhang's other experiences include acupuncture apprenticeship in a teaching hospital in China where she treated patients for internal diseases, allergy, muscle/joint pain, paralysis and other neurological disorders. Dr. Zhang also practiced Chinese herbal medicine at a traditional Chinese medicine hospital in China under a prominent Chinese physician.
The Chinese Medicine, acupuncture and herbs, has one strikingly simple yet very effective principle which western medicine is lacking - considering all systems in a patient all at once and through acupuncture points and herbs, using Ying Yang to regulate relative functions among those systems to achieve optimal health. With that principle, Chinese medicine doctors are capable of treating all kinds of diseases. Dr. Zhang is particularly experienced in treating