Dr. Van Nguyen: Holistic Medicine ‘Practice Makes Perfect’
For Dr. Van Nguyen, M.D., opening her family and alternative medicine practice in Pacific Palisades last November 5 represented the culmination of a lifelong journey that began in Vietnam.
When she opened Holistic Medical Clinic in the U.S. Bank building on Sunset, Nguyen had arrived at a place in life where she could expertly apply both conventional Western medicine and alternative methods to treating a broad range of ailments.
‘My practice is rooted in three parts: body, emotion and spirit,’ Nguyen says. ‘The body manifests symptoms because it is stressed by physical factors (germs, food allergies, nutrition), psychological factors, or spiritual factors. This is why it’s important to treat all three. And the magic of alternative medicine is that I can get all three parts to de-stress by using seven healing techniques.’
Call it a case of ‘practice makes perfect.’ Everything came together for Nguyen while she worked at a San Francisco-area general medical practice, after she received her degrees from UC Davis and the University of San Francisco.
