I was literally shedding pounds with the severity of my morning sickness during my pregnancy, my mom who has been an intermittent patient of Dr. Bei's over the years (he tells you not to come back if you're better--in his words: "Do the herbs taste good?" No... "Do you like getting pricked with needles?" No... "Then why do you want to come back now that you feel fine?") dragged me to see him. One session of acupuncture and a week's course of herbs stopped my morning sickness in its tracks.
I ended up seeing him throughout my pregnancy, and he helped some strange symptoms that western medicine doesn't really have any remedies for--nose bleeds, sudden fright, etc. Kept away the morning sickness even though it was always lurking, prevented swelling in my feet and hands, kept my mood stable (everyone was all, "You're the calmest pregnant lady we've ever seen.")
He's very caring, even calling and keeping updates, giving tips on taking care of myself, when I went into labor.
The BEST thing he did was when I caught the flu in my 6th month, coughing up green mucous, not sleeping because I couldn't stop coughing, and the doctors refused to prescribe me antibiotics (even though I was literally coughing up cottage cheese chunks of green whatever was in my lungs), I went to see him and he relieved the coughing almost immediately, and I fell asleep for the first time in 3 days on his table for that glorious one and a half hours (he let me stay on for 45 minutes more without charging me because he knew how much I needed the sleep). Everything else cleared up in a few days with the herbs he prescribed. I literally thought I was going to be coughing up the green chunks for the rest of my life and was never going to sleep again.
Not only that, even though he doesn't make house calls, when my grandmother was dying and she asked to see him, he came to her house immediately and reassured her and calmed her down, even though we all knew nothing could be done for her. For that, my family is forever grateful. read more