From my experience, my accupunturist would not even consider accupunture until you did the 'chi' diet for several months which was to eliminate all 'hot and 'cold' energy foods, these are extremes of yin and yang.

the diet suggested foods in the neutral, warm and cool since they are 'middle' foods. the theory is if there is no good chi cause of bad diet, accuputure is useless. its like turning on a faucet and no water flows. Even though there is always chi in the body, it needs to circulate good chi.

the same goes for her herbal formulas. if you do the herbs and not the diet, then your just wasting her time.