Acupuncture Clinic in Atlanta, GA

Dr. Yu Kang first began healing studies with her parents, well-known doctors of Oriental Medicine in her hometown Zibo - a mid-sized city in northern China. At 15, she was accepted by Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine as one of the youngest students in the medical school's history. After eight years of training in western and oriental medicine, she graduated with a doctorate degree in Oriental Medicine. Yu then went to the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1994 to be further trained in acupuncture and herbal medicine under the most influential doctors of Oriental Medicine in China. Before she arrived in the United States, Yu was a neurologist in Xiyuan Hospital in Beijing. Yu’s extensive training also includes a master’s degree in Nutrition from Pennsylvania State University and a one-year dietetic internship at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. Yu is a licensed acupuncturist, a registered dietitian, and a certified herbalist from the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).

For the past eighteen years, Yu has been offering nutritional consultations, individualized herbal prescriptions, functional exercise and acupuncture for patients of all ages in the metro Atlanta area. She specializes in women’s health, i.e., fibroids, menstrual irregularities, incontinence, endometriosis and menopausesymptoms; pain management, i.e., fibromyalgia, migraine, osteoarthritis, and sciatica; chronic disease management, i.e., obesity, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, gastritis, anxiety and adult attention deficit disorder