Looking to ancient Chinese ways for answers and cures

July 25, 2007 By Deborah Wheeler

As more diseases are identified, the challenge is on to find cures for each. Usually, the search begins and ends in medical research laboratories.

However, more people are turning to alternative methods of treatment for illness through the centuries old method of Chinese herbs and acupuncture.

Many swear by the method, such as Santa Rosa Beach residents Woodie and Dot Long.

The Longs have been regular visitors to the Tortoise Medical Clinic in Miramar Beach since 1994. Dr. Kenneth Suh is the current doctor at the clinic and has been there since October 2006.

In 1994, Woodie was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in his eyes and was losing his eyesight. He began drinking herbal teas and taking acupuncture treatments and responded immediately.

Within two weeks, he was free of the disease, he said.

Dot Long concurs with her husband. She visits the clinic about once a week.

“It’s good stuff,” she said.

Laurie Beck, owner of Pilates by the Sea at Shops of Grayton, backs up the Long’s testimony.

Last year, she experienced what she calls a “hiccup” in her life. The hiccup in Beck’s life was non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

She opted to try to heal her body and started acupuncture treatments on May 19, 2006 at the Tortoise Clinic. She had never had acupuncture before, but the doctor at the clinic told her that if she listened and followed his program, he could rid her body of the disease.

She began drinking 30 ounces of herbal liquid daily along with energy healing, walking and breath work.

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