Bernadette Yu is an Ontario Registered Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner, Acupuncturist and certified holistic nutritionist. After a successful career in Information Technology, Bernadette’s ongoing interest in health, healing and Chinese medicine led her to study Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and holistic nutrition. Following achieving her qualifications as a TCM practitioner and Acupuncturist, Bernadette works in her own practice in Mississauga. She has also lectured in Chinese Herbal Medicine for a number of years at the Toronto School of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
In her private practice, Bernadette uses TCM diagnosis and her understanding in western medicine to identify underlying imbalances, following which she prepares unique individual treatment plans for each of her patients. These plans may include a combination of acupuncture treatments, cupping, tuina massage, scrapping, herbal medicine, dietary and nutritional therapy.
Having also graduated as a certified holistic nutritionist, Bernadette has an abiding interest in Chinese Medical healing using dietary remedies and incorporates this with her knowledge of western holistic nutrition to assist her patients.
Bernadette combines her experience and knowledge of TCM, acupuncture, herbs and nutrition, both Chinese and western, with a keen interest in research. Her medical research interests and her knowledge gained from clinical studies have led her to work with patients suffering ailments such as cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, liver disorders, celiac disease, chronic degenerative disorders and other illnesses to alleviate their conditions.
This Ganoderma (Ling Zhi) 灵芝 and Salvia root (Dan Shen) 丹参 Tea Recipe was designed and created for heart conditions, atherosclerosis or high cholesterol problems due to phlegm-blood stasis complex (a Chinese Medicine Syndrome Differentiation Pattern). Recent research studies have confirmed the effectiveness of these ingredients in: lowering blood pressure, … Continue reading →
Bernadette will be presenting a free class on Herbal Therapy for Digestion Issues and Problems at the Goodness Me location in Mississauga (the Goodness Me supermarket at Bristol and Mavis – 720 Bristol Road South) on Saturday January 17, 2015 from 1pm to 2.30pm. To Register, click here – or just … Continue reading →
In a previous post I wrote about the history of the Chinese Medicated Diet in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In this post, I’m going to write very briefly about Traditional Chinese Medicine and eye health, then cover five different Chinese Medicated Diet Recipes for Eye Health. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, although all … Continue reading →
Eating and Eating Practices for your Health in TCM Thousands of years ago, the Chinese people were already practicing specific principles of eating and eating practices as set out by the Traditional Chinese Medical Doctors of those ancient times. These principles and practices began to be recorded in chinese medical texts dating to more than 3,000 years … Continue reading →
Expectant mothers often ask if Acupuncture during Pregnancy is safe, and if so, who should they use as an Acupuncturist given that many different types of healthcare practitioners offer acupuncture treatments. The short answer is that acupuncture during pregnancy IS safe and there are very minimal risks to receiving acupuncture … Continue reading →
There are wide ranging factors that can make conception difficult to achieve and as a result, more and more couples are undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Despite the many advances in IVF techniques over recent years, each IVF treatment cycle is expensive, lengthy and stressful and successful conception often remains difficult to … Continue reading →
