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When Huisheng Xie, DVM, first arrived in the United States in 1994, he intended to further explore the "high tech" side of veterinary medicine, microbiology in particular. Eager to expand his horizons and further his own higher education, Dr. Xie became a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida.
A third generation practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, Dr. Xie watched his grandfather and father treat their human patients with both herbal
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medicines and acupuncture. When Dr. Xie was just a boy of eight years old, the death of his much-loved dog Shan-Shan ("mountain") was instrumental in changing his future. Heartbroken for weeks after the passing of his four-legged companion, Dr. Xie decided to pursue veterinary medicine when he entered college, rather than enter medical school to become an acupuncture physician.
He obtained his DVM in China in 1983, then obtained his Master Degree in Veterinary Acupuncture from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Beijing Agricultural University in 1988. Dr. Xie was awarded an acupuncture training diploma from the Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1992, and the following year received a diploma in the Advanced Acupuncture Continuing Education Program at the National Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, also in Beijing. In 1998, Dr. Xie obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Florida, studying neurophysiology and acupuncture as pain relief in horses.
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During his Ph.D. studies at UF, Dr. Xie was asked to consult on a 13-year old Thoroughbred gelding which had been brought to the UF Veterinary Hospital. The gelding had been suffering from chronic diarrhea for about 12 days and conventional Western medicine had not been able to control his worsening condition. Dr. Xie was asked to treat him, and did so using both Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture. Within two days, the gelding was markedly improved and within five days, he had completely recovered. Following this episode, word spread quickly about Dr. Xie's knowledge and extensive background in TCVM and other owners requested that he treat their horses. |
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In April 1999, he became the first University of Florida clinical faculty member devoted to Alternative Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Xie is the first clinician of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine to ever be hired by a university in the United States.
The word "alternative" is one Dr. Xie personally tends to avoid. He much prefers the term "complementary," since TCVM distinctly complements Western medicine. "Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine may initially be quite foreign to Western-trained minds," admits Dr. Xie. "To some, it may seem that the principles of TCVM and Western Veterinary Medicine (WVM) are separated by a great abyss. Bridging that gap is largely an individual mental process, but readers of this brochure have already made the first steps towards understanding because you have shown an interest and willingness to accept new ideas."
Dr. Xie firmly believes that TCVM and WVM are not mutually exclusive medical systems. He teaches that the best medicine is integrated medicine - Western medicine integrated with traditional Chinese medicine.
"Each has aspects that place them on the opposite ends of the spectrum," he notes, "but there is a large area of overlap between them. In general, Western medicine believes in control, while traditional Chinese medicine believes in balance; WVM is more mechanistic, while TCVM is more energetic. Western medical practitioners are very familiar with analyzing a disease process to discover its specific, fundamental, physical cause, whether this be an infectious agent, an enzymatic defect, or a toxic insult. By fully understanding the functions of the physical body, all the way down to a cellular and molecular level, one can target the abnormality and better control the disease process.
"On the other hand," Dr. Xie adds, "TCVM practitioners recognize disease as an imbalance in the body. They understand that the body is an integrated, energetic structure, and that disturbance of energy flow creates disease in the whole organism. When a disease pattern is identified, one can restore balance and health by helping the body regulate itself."
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