Acupuncture & Holistic Medical Center RI

Acupuncture & Holistic Medical Center RI

We are proud to offer more than three decades of extensive clinical experience and authentic, high quality Chinese acupuncture service.  

Dr. Liu graduated in 1986 from Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) and majoring of acupuncture for a five-year course, and an internship at First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM in China. He entered Tianjin TCM Hospital as a resident for many years and finished the chief of resident. Dr. Liu applied with acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine for diagnosis and treatment various disease. He also worked on clinical practice teaching for foreign student from Germany, United Kingdom and Australia in China. Dr. Liu entered the Medical University in Japan to pursue his Ph.D. degree and was granted Japanese government scholarship awards. As a doctoral candidate, he conducted challenging projects on the effects of acupuncture analgesia for pain inhibitory pathway in Chinese Medicine meridian theory with West Modern Medicine. His study finding was published in the peer-reviewed journal of Neuroscience Research (2000). This study finding is contributed to the treatment of headache, migraine, odontalgia and facial pain for clinical application, basic and clinical research to widely cited by Pain, Headache, Brain Research and American Journal of Chinese Medicine in United States. It is also cited by European Journal of Pain and Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. In United States, Dr. Liu continued to research on neurodegenerative diseases and endocrinological disease; alcohol neurotoxicity for alcoholism; anti-cancer drugs on tumor treatment for preclinical experimental therapeutics; blood stem cells biology on oncology and transplantation; nutrition on bone development as well as Chinese Herbs for osteoarthritis. Dr. Liu has much more knowledge and experience in Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine and academy research. He has excellent reputation for treatment and heal the patients and available to communicate with triple languages with Chinese mandarin, English and Japanese. Dr. Liu has published on various topics studies for his over the years research such as acupuncture analgesia, cancer, brain sciences, neuroendocrine, stem cell, and pathology. Dr. Liu also holds one of the most cited publications on the suppressive effects of acupuncture with animal model for acupuncture analgesia mechanism studied in western medicine.  Please click to view the publication on Neuroscience Research.  Dr. Liu as a acupuncturist scientist effects to apply acupuncture and Chinese Medicine becoming more and more popular and served more and more people in the United States. Dr. Liu is a NCCAOM certified (National Certification) and licensed acupuncturist in Rhode Island.