Balanced Health & Beauty

Mission:  As ironic as it sounds, my goal is preventative medicine.  If I have it my way, I would like everyone to stay well, live well and never be sick, for this is the basic philosophy of Oriental Medicine.

黃帝內經素問::::: 四氣調神大論篇第二

是 故 聖 人 不 治 己 病 ， 治 未 病 不 治 己 亂 、 治 未 亂 ，此 之 謂 也 。 夫 病 已 成 而 後 藥 之 ， 亂 己 成 而 後 治 之 ， 譬 猶渴 而 穿 井 ， 鬥 而 鑄 錐 ， 不 亦 晚 乎 ？         

Chapter Two of  Nei Jing Su Wen (Inner Classic, Simple Questions ) :::  "Therefore the superior physician does not treat already diseased, but helps before development of disease and not waits to treat symptoms…..  When already diseased needing medication, already sick then treats the person would be like digging well after feeling thirsty … won’t that be too late?"

Kim Toi Owens, L.Ac., (吴金钗) was born in Malaysia of Chinese origin where she completed her high school education. She earned her B.S. from National University of Singapore , major in Computer Science and Mathematics.  Kim Toi continued to live and work in Singapore until she came to US in 1992 to further her graduate studies.  She was also in England on a fully paid academic scholarship by Singapore government for her Master Degree in Artificial Intelligence.  Her area of specialty was in computer application systems development.  She also taught computer related courses at college level.
Kim Toi is an avid reader of science and technology journals, anything related to psychology, hypnotherapy, philosophy, linguistics, health & medicine or plants and gardening. Her other hobbies include gardening, origami and intellectual conversation.  To live what she preaches to her patients:  she walks daily for exercise, and cooks most of her meals comprising of a wide variety of vegetables and a moderate amount of meat and seafood. 
As a child, Kim Toi was raised with Chinese herbal medicine because her father was an herbalist.  She used to lock herself up in a room to muse over pages with pictures of ancient looking men studying acupuncture points and read books about different plants and Chinese herbs.  Kim Toi also learned a lesson then that has remained with her to this day.  She remembers the awful taste of a bowl of Chinese medicinal concoction that she had to take.  Today, when she recommends Chinese herbs to her patients, she thinks back to those episodes and she always conveys her condolence to patients needing such.  As the Chinese saying goes   良药苦口利于病   “beneficial medicine that cures is bitter to taste”. 

Kim Toi obtained her Master of Oriental Medicine (MaOM) from the Academy of Oriental Medicine in Austin(AOMA) and certification as Diplomate in Oriental Medicine, National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine -- Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM).   She practices Oriental medicine as a Texas State licensed acupuncturist(L.Ac.)  

Kim Toi was also trained as a Master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming(NLP) and Diamond Mind (Jose Silva meditation)

In addition to conventional Oriental Medicine, she also provides microcurrent, light and color therapy, MeiRen Cosmetic acupuncture, and energy light (facial) rejuvenation using Acutron.