2025 Service Prices:

New Patient Intake: $130

Follow Up with Chief Practitioner: $130 ($110 for clinic members)

Follow Up with Resident Practitioner: $110 ($90 for clinic members)

Wellness / Massage Treatments: $110 ($90 for clinic members) always tip free

Chinese Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture

New Patient Intake: in a first consultation we perform a thorough intake and prescribe an herbal formula to begin working on the condition. First visits are diagnostic focused and do not typically allow time for acupuncture or physical treatment.

Follow Up Treatment:  follow up visits quantify changes, modify formulas, and perform acupuncture & bodywork as time permits. Booking sequential visits ahead of time is highly recommended to ensure practitioner availability and ensure continuity of care.

Sliding Scale Appointments: as part of our mission to keep medical care accessible to all,  we offer 10 sliding scale appointments for Chinese medicine treatments each week. These ‘Community Clinic’ appointments are bookable online.

For more information on acupuncture services, click here. For more information about herbal medicine click here.

Wellness / Massage Treatments

Done by our Chinese medicine practitioners, our wellness services were designed to offer a more lasting effect on the body and mind compared to standard massage. Please click here for a complete listing of our wellness services.

Herbal Pharmacy

Our pharmacy is one of the largest herbal pharmacies in the Southeast! We stock lab tested and organic herbs, and do sell herbs to the public. Stop in to see our incredible selection rarely found outside of Chinatown!

2025 Clinic Membership:

Members receive a $20 discount on every service all year long!

As  501c3 non-profit organization, we rely on grants and community support to keep prices low and offer affordable care to all in our community.  Become a member to show grassroots support for our work, and receive discounts on every service all year!

• Individual Membership: $150 for the calendar year

You receive $20 discount on every treatment all year long

• Household Membership: $200 for the calendar year

Entire household receives a $20 discount on every treatment 

• Benefactor Membership:

You & your extended family receive a $20 discount on all treatments & you generously sponsor 5 probono treatments to a patient in need

The Alternative Clinic is a 501c3 not for profit organization, founded in 1992 as the Association for Traditional Studies (www.traditionalstudies.org).  Our mission is to practice and teach the traditional medicine we learned in China to influence public perception in the west and raise the level of skill in our field.

We believe in achieving reliable and repeatable results, and teaching others how to do the same.  If we can prove the efficacy of Chinese medicine across a broad range of patient demographics and illness severities, we believe alternative medicine will be accepted as a coequal branch of medicine, and included in mainstream insurance plans.

Our practitioners are world renowned experts with a commitment to effective and affordable care.  Our services would be out of reach for many in our community if we passed on our full cost of operations to patients.  We thus rely on raising over $100,000 each year to run a first rate clinic with excellent staff dedicated to each client one at a time.

Clinic membership shows grassroots support for our work and allows us to offer sliding scale and pro-bono care to those in need.  Members receive discounts on every treatment all calendar year, as a thank you for your support as well as encouragement to make wellness central to your self-care regime.  We are doing all we can to make high level medical care affordable, and effective. Questions? Talk to our front desk staff, and thank you for helping us help others!