our story

Utah Valley Acupuncture was established June 1 of 2022 with the mission of bringing deep healing to the Utah Valley. We specialize in treating chronic complex conditions where Western medicine has fallen short. This includes chronic infertility, chronic hormonal and OBGYN issues including endometriosis and PCOS, chronic digestive issues, chronic autoimmune conditions, chronic mental health disorders, neurological conditions, metabolic disorders, vestibular disorders, chronic migraines, and more.

This clinic is the culmination of Seth Shamon’s 12 years in the field of Chinese medicine. During that time, he has been lucky to treat over 17,000 patients for a wide variety of health conditions. He has also been blessed to study with some of the best living teachers of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, including Dr. Feng Shi-Lun, Dr. Huang Huang, Sharon Weizenbaum, Dr. Richard Tan, Dr. Anthony Lombardi, Jeffrey Yuen, Dr. Evan Rabinowitz, and Dr. Kerri Westhauser. He was especially blessed to spend a year in 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan under the tutelage of Dr. Lee Chen-Yu, a master of Chinese medicine and a bonafide western medical doctor who treated the most difficult cases that no other doctor could treat. Seth saw him dissolve malignant inoperable brain tumors with Chinese herbal medicine, for example.

At Utah Valley Acupuncture we pride ourselves on (1) exceptional results, (2) emphasizing the deeper roots of disease which are often (not always) emotional or spiritual, and (3) honoring the tradition and lineage of Chinese medicine as best we can (while also strategically integrating modern techniques as appropriate). We pride ourselves in being able to connect the dots between seemingly disparate symptoms and systems to cut to the core of your dis-ease (your body’s lack of harmony on the physical, mental, emotional, and/or spiritual level). You need not be diagnosed with an official western medical condition; however, many of our patients have multiple diagnoses that they have accumulated. These can be helpful to an extent, but what we are more interested in is getting to the deeper root of all of these conditions.

We do this from a Chinese medicine perspective (these days the term East Asian medicine is standard but we use the term Chinese medicine intentionally because the medicine originated in China and the particular styles that our practitioner Seth is trained in is Chinese as opposed to Japanese or Vietnamese etc styles which are also worthy in their own right). This is a system of medicine using primarily acupuncture and herbs that has been practiced and refined and evolved over the past 2000+ years.

There is a ton of research into the efficacy of particular acupuncture protocols for particular conditions, or particular herbal formulas for specific diseases. We reference some of these in our about acupuncture section. That can be helpful as a starting place for the beginner or the skeptic. But for us, the best results come from when we set the protocols and the diagnoses to the side and dig into what is off for you. In Chinese there is a saying 同病異治,異病同治 (“Tong Bing Yi Zhi, Yi Bing Tong Zhi") — same illness; different treatment; different illness; same treatment. What this means is, we can have five people who come in with the same western medicine disease label, let’s say “PCOS” Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Based on their particular pattern and situation, they will likely walk out the door with five different treatments (herbal medicine and acupuncture, in addition to lifestyle and dietary guidelines)! We sometimes cling to the labels because we are searching for answers; but they’re not always the most helpful.

What the phrase 同病異治,異病同治 is also saying is that one particular treatment, be it an acupuncture protocol or an herbal formula, is capable of treating a wide variety of diseases. Because it treats a particular pattern, or sets of patterns, rather than a certain symptom or disease. For example, I have prescribed the traditional herbal formula Dang Gui Shao Yao San for such disparate conditions as PCOS, endometriosis, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, edema, frequent UTIs, infertility, and the list goes on (often multiple diagnoses in the same person).