Joshuah Sunggon Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea to a family of Christian parents and five siblings. He obtained his B.S. from Sung Kyunkwan University and his M.S. in Acupuncture at South Baylor University. In 1986 he came to the US to study biochemistry at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Dr. Kim is a Licensed Acupuncturist. He has been practicing Korean Constitutional Medicine/Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture in the United States for over 25 years. Dr. Kim uses Acupuncture and Herbology to treat patients for a variety of conditions. In addition to his private practice, he teaches Tai Chi and Qi Gong. Here is Dr. Kim’s description of one aspect of his practice: “I do mostly what they call here in America, “Five Element Acupuncture” or in Korea, it’s called “Constitutional Medicine”. We divide human beings into four major and distinctive groups, and those four groups have different constitutions and different energetic qualities, which eventually result in many differences in one's personality, body shape, eating habits, and digestive and elimination, as well as zang-fu organ patterns. My job as an acupuncturist is to acknowledge the four major constitutions of my patient i.e., metal, earth, water, and wood, and which constitution the patient falls into. This allows me to understand their chronic symptoms so that I can try to balance the patient’s inherent imbalances. For acute diseases or disorders, I also focus on treating the symptoms by supporting their own healing ability(immune system/homeostatic function) and by enhancing circulation on blocked and/or congested meridians where healing energy flows. One very rare example, burning is a disorder characterized by very severe damage with the heat on the surface level of the body, but if you just treat the skin level with cooling medicine, the heat invades down to deeper levels of one's body. With acupuncture, I treat burn patients, not only at the skin level, but also their constitutional imbalance(s), and enhance their Water meridian which allows the body to cool itself off. The benefit of this simple treatment is that the patient experiences much less pain and heals more quickly with less overall scaring.”
He speaks fluent English and Korean with practical Espanol. In addition to practicing acupuncture at his Holy Hill Acupuncture Clinic in Mesa Arizona, Dr. Kim also served as Clinic Supervisor at PIHMA (Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture). He teaches acupuncture and Tai Chi classes and volunteers as a Christian missionary to the Hopi Reservation and Guadalupe(Pascua Yaqui Tribe).
Dr. Kim is married with two daughters; his motto is “Live for Others:”.
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