MISSION STATEMENT
Oʻahu Holistic Medicine exists to help people feel and live better by aligning the body, home, and land. We combine acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, herbal and physical therapies, movement and lifestyle care with feng shui‑informed real estate consulting and medicinal garden design, while honoring Hawaiian and other ancestral healing traditions. We are dedicated to conserving and accurately transmitting the teachings of East Asian medicine—acupuncture, Qigong, manual therapies, and holistic garden‑based herbalism—alongside congruent holistic world heritage healing and cultivation traditions. Our goal is to create healthier people, healthier spaces, and healthier ecosystems across Oʻahu and beyond.
OUR APPROACH IS NOT ANTI-MODERN MEDICINE
Traditional East Asian medicine, other ancestral medicines, modern medicine, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. They’re tools, frameworks, methods, sciences, procedures with their own inherent limitations.
The question is not “which medical system is best?” but more along the lines of “which system is the right system for a given situation?” or “in which order should I see my acupuncturist, PCP, or other practitioner for best results?”
There are plenty of reasons to be mistrustful of the medical system. We want to salvage what’s left of that trust and rebuild it - after all, we’re patients too!
This practice is predicated on honesty, transparency, persistence, taking time and due diligence, and getting clear, not at-all subtle relief from pain and suffering in as few moves as possible. I acknowledge that patients deserve answers, and respect that those answers take time to explain, and those explanations need a little bit of education to digest.
We are committed to that process, to create educated, clear-headed patients, who can make informed decisions about their health. We can explain clearly, how they derive benefit from their treatments, so they can educate their friends and families, and let them know there are other options out there than the mainstream.
Many practices focus less time on explaining, and more time treating - which isn’t wrong, but it’s not the approach we’ve chosen. We realize some people want to be in and out, and not go deep, and that’s understandable - we’re just focusing on honing a deeper approach, with a smaller group of people, before we try to present our approach more broadly to the world.