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Fen Xie is a licensed practitioner of Acupuncture and Herbology in New York and New Jersey and medical doctor from China. A member of the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, she is a Diplomate in both Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology. Fen Xie is a current board member of the United Alliance of New York State Licensed Acupuncturists, and her work in the multi-disciplinary consultative domain of comprehensive disability analysis has earned her certification as a Senior Disability Analyst and Diplomate.

Internationally, Fen Xie has earned the titles of Honorary Professor (2009-2012) and Guest Professor (2015-2018) from the Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. For her contributions to the international propagation of Chinese medicine, she was honorably elected as the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies’ Vice Chairperson of the 1st Board of Specialty Committee of Health Management (2014-2018) and the Executive Council Member of the 3rd Board of Specialty Committee of Orthopedics and Traumatology (2015-2019).

Biography:
Fen Xie grew up immersed in the art and science of healing. Her formal medical training in Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine began in her twenties, but her inculcation into China’s time-honored wisdom of natural healing developed much earlier, when she was a young girl growing up in the Chinese seaport of Quanzhou, where lush mountains to the south and the vibrant sea to the east yielded an abundance of curative herbs and minerals that attracted the country’s most eminent medical practitioners.

Fen Xie’s earliest memories are of harvesting Chinese medicinal herbs and grinding shells into mineral tinctures–practices that had been handed down by her ancestors, who migrated from the mountains, bringing with them centuries-old wisdom about herbal medicine. Her grandfather, internationally esteemed for developing a formula to heal plague victims, headed the region’s branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine. From him, she learned to apply such discoveries as using watermelon to detoxify the body and ginger to burn away viruses.

At the age of ten, Fen Xie moved into the dormitory of the People’s Hospital of Quanzhou, where her mother worked as a medical evaluator. Here, Fen Xie witnessed medical miracles by doctors passionate in developing non-invasive solutions for surgical cases. With awe, she watched a child recover from having swallowed nails by drinking a solution made of magnet powder and honey. The powder attracted the nails, while the honey allowed the nails to slip painlessly through the digestive tract.

Growing up at the People’s Hospital of Quanzhou, Fen Xie felt awed by the capacity of doctors to alleviate trauma. Families who arrived in acute distress left the hospital calm. Fen Xie soon found in these doctors mentors who taught her the wisdom and honor of their profession. By the time Fen Xie began her formal, five-year medical training, she understood that above all else a doctor’s virtue came in “treating all patients as family.”

Fen Xie was so inspired by her early mentors that following her degree she returned to the People’s Hospital of Quanzhou to specialize in acupuncture under the tutelage of China’s most renowned needling specialists. From them, she learned that the artistry of acupuncture is acquired as much through experience as education. Like a violinist learning the feel of her instrument, Fen Xie has spent years listening to the nuanced music of the body.

Fen Xie has spent the past thirty years in the United States healing patients through acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. She returns to Quanzhou and other regions of China at least once each year to harvest herbs, research acupuncture techniques, and pass along the wisdom that was passed down to her. She takes great pride in mentoring a new generation of aspiring practitioners who share her philosophy of compassionate care.

Illness obscures light but healing transmits it. For Fen Xie, healing is as much heart as it is mind. Her life long journey as a doctor has always been about gathering tools to spread light throughout the lives of her patients.