HEALER OF THE MONTH: David Foster, Acupuncturist and Herbalist

I am a Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist, originally from New York, and earned my Master’s degree from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 2013. My training included four years of education in the principles of Chinese Medicine as well as Tui-Na massage, cupping and nutrition. I completed my externship at Housing Works LGBT Center in Greenwich Village and practiced in Los Angeles from 2013-2016. Presently I see patients on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and in The Bronx, and am a fellow of advanced clinical practice under Dr. Frank Butler at Evolve Health and Wellness.

Chinese Medicine has helped me with my own issues with anxiety, insomnia and Gout disease, and I honestly have no idea where I’d be without it. I subscribe heavily to the principles of holistic healing, which hold that a) the body is a system of interrelated parts, b) diet/lifestyle is at least half of every condition and c) there is no 1:1 correlation between symptoms and prescription of treatment. Everyone is a unique individual and should be treated as such. I believe a healer’s job is as much to educate as it is to restore, and through the intelligent efforts of patient and practitioner almost anything is possible.