2025 service prices:

New Patient Intake: $130

Follow Up Treatments:

• Chief Practitioners $130 / $110 for clinic members
• Resident Practitioners $110 / $90 for clinic members

Wellness / Massage: $110 / $90 for clinic members

• Chinese Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture

  For a complete listing of our acupuncture services, click here. For more information about herbal medicine click here.

  • • New Patient Intake: in a first consultation we gather information, outline a treatment plan & prescribe a herbal formula to begin observing changes in the body. Clients who book this service should expect to follow up with the same practitioner for a series of treatments every few weeks until notable improvements are achieved. Booking sequential visits ahead of time is highly recommended to ensure practitioner availability and ensure continuity of care.
    • 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.

  Wellness / Massage Treatments

  Our wellness services combine excellent hand skill you expect with a massage with Chinese medicine theory to yield a longer lasting impact compared to standard bodywork & massage. Please click here for a complete listing of our wellness services.

  Herbal Pharmacy

  Our pharmacy is the largest authentic herbal pharmacy in the Southeast! We stock only lab tested and organic herbs, and do sell herbs to the public. Stop in to see our incredible herbal pharmacy rarely found outside of a China town!

  Clinic Membership

  The Alternative Clinic is a 501c3 not for profit organization, founded in 1989 as the Association for Traditional Studies (ATS) (www.traditionalstudies.org).  Our mission is to practice and teach the traditional medicine we learned from our teachers in China, to influence public perception in the west, and raise the level of skill in our colleagues.

  We offer treatments in one of the most professional offices in town, with parking, a well paid  front desk and pharmacy staff to assist you in any questions or formula refills.  Our practitioners are world renowned experts, yet we believe that effective medicine should be affordable to all.  While the majority of acupuncturists maximize revenue by running multiple treatment rooms concurrently,  we do not believe that tapping in needles to let a patient rest to elevator music represents the traditional Chinese medicine we learned for 30 years in China. Thus, our aim is to prove Chinese medicine’s efficacy, but do so in the highest level clinic at the most accessible prices.  If we passed on operating costs to our patients, our services would be out of reach for most in our community.

  Thus, we rely on raising over $100,000 each year to subsidize treatment prices, pay our staff well above living wage, run a first rate clinic and be dedicated to each client one at a time, for optimal results.

  Clinic membership shows grassroots support for our work, allows us to offer pro-bono care to those in need as well as active fire and police personnel.

  Members receive discounts on every treatment, as both a thank you for your support as well as encouragement to make wellness care a frequent part of your self-care regime.  We are doing all we can to make medical care effective and affordable. Thank you for helping us help others.  Other Questions? Click here for more patient information.