IRV MARCUS  Oriental Medicine Physician.

Innovating Asian Medicine Into Mainstream West Michigan

Formerly a staff acupuncturist at the Peter M. Wege Institute for Health and Learning at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Irv brings 16+ years of Chinese Medicine experience to International Wellness Partners. Trained in San Francisco, a graduate of Meiji College of Oriental Medicine and Nationally Board Certified by the NCCAOM.

Irv strongly believes in patient education and personal involvement in ones’ own health care. Taking herbal medicine allows patients to be intimately involved in their daily care. By integrating Chinese Medicine into a patients’ healthcare spectrum a person can customize a plan based on their individual health needs.

In addition to Chinese Herbal Medicine, Irv also provides an array of modalities of Chinese Medicine that include acupuncture, Korean hand therapy, Chinese dietary therapy, and Qi Gong .

When patients come to realize that healing comes from within, it gives them great pleasure in the knowledge that they can learn to heal themselves.

Irv can be reached at 616.634.2714 or email. He welcomes your questions and looks forward to being a part of your personal health care team.

Ancient Chinese proverb: FOOD IS MEDICINE

For many millennium humans have forged for and eaten herbs. Herbal Medicine is still the number one type of medicine in the world today. Traditional Chinese Medicine has been in continuous documented use for more than two thousand years, there is anecdotal and archeological evidence of its use for as many as 5 – 7000 years. For thousands of years, humans have eaten pretty much the same foods, and herbs were a main stay of the human diet.

In America and the west, in the last 50+ years our civilization, culture and especially our DIETS’ have under gone revolutionary changes particularly  to  our  eating, food production and health care systems. Not totally for the betterment of the individual or society.

Americans in general are very sick. Our health care system has developed into a sick care system. With all our technological advances and fast paced lifestyle, our diet is perhaps the most unhealthy of all civilizations in recorded history,  the missing ingredient in our modern diet and the key to improved health  are HERBS. (Medicinal Whole food from the earth)

Herbs prescribed according to Chinese Medicine work to improve and strengthen both the symptoms and the root cause of the issues being addressed. By naturally restoring the body’s health and function a person can avoid the need to supplement or replace nutrients because the body functions have been brought into balance naturally.

With centuries of experience traditional Chinese herbal medicine can vastly, over time, improve one’s health, quality of life, and help us prevent disease, manage and cope with our modern ever changing lifestyles.

Chinese Herbal Medicine is truly ancient wisdom and knowledge that shows us how to heal using, whole foods from the earth, in a way to maintain and restore our health naturally.