The clinic of Michael and Lesley Tierra, located in downtown Santa Cruz, between Cedar and Locust Streets.

Clinic Overview

The clinic was first opened in 1978 in Santa Cruz, California by Dr. Michael Tierra and was one of the first herbal and acupuncture clinics in the area. Integrating a holistic approach with dietary, herbal, acupuncture and lifestyle guidance, it has literally helped thousands of people both locally and from throughout the world in regaining their most prized possession, their health. Since 1987 Lesley Tierra, Michael's beloved wife, became co-practitioner and brings her own healing approach that has contributed greatly to the success of the clinic. The East West Clinic is unique in its integration of many traditional natural healing systems including Western phyto-therapeutic, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and East Indian Ayurvedic Medicine along with innovative contemporary healing methods. It is not uncommon that we are able to help those individuals for whom conventional medicine has no acceptable answers. Above all, people turn to us because the methods we use are safe, without side effects, and highly efficacious.

It is our belief that patients should first seek out the safest and most non-invasive approach to healing before resorting to more dangerous methods that often only mask the outer symptoms without addressing the underlying cause. We at the East West clinic treat both the symptoms and the underlying case of disease.

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