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The superior virtue is like water;

It stays in the inferior place without contending.

The great virtue carries things with it;

The Dao follows natural self-being.

Professor Heming Zhu, Ph.D., C.M.D., Dipl.OM, Lic. Ac.

Dr. Zhu is a ranked and appointed Professor of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine & Integrative Health Sciences at Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH).

Dr. Zhu is an acupuncturist, teacher, and scientist in the fields of acupuncture and oriental medicine. He has practiced, taught, and researched modern conventional medicine and traditional Chinese medicine for four decades.

Dr. Zhu received a PhD in Anatomy and Neuroscience and an MD in China. Before coming to the USA, he taught anatomy and neuroscience in medical schools and practiced neurology. He worked as a scientist with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and received an NIH Award for Research Excellence.

Dr. Zhu also holds the international certificate of Chinese Medicine Doctor (CMD) from the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS). He received a Master of Acupuncture from Tai Sophia Institute, Laurel, Maryland. He is a national board-certified Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist (Dipl. O.M.) (NCCAOM).

As the 25th-generation inheritor of the Zhu family lineage of Chinese medicine, Dr. Zhu apprenticed with his grandfather, Zhu Qingyu, focusing on Zhu Danxi’s Nourishing Yin School. He is also the fifth-generation practitioner of Cheng’s Acupuncture and Moxibustion (CAM, lineage of Cheng Xinnong 程莘农 院士, Academician of China Academy of Sciences).

Dr. Zhu has published over 30 research articles and is the author of the book Surface Anatomy of Acupuncture. He is honored to be an editor in Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Cheng Xinnong, the 4th edition, 2019) and an expert reviewer of the World Health Organization International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Chinese Medicine (WHO, 2022). He has taught Chinese and Western medicine at Maryland University of Integrative Health for 15 years. 

Dr. Zhu aspires to be a Ming Yi 明醫 /wise doctor (one with much clearly understood knowledge.) One of his strengths is to comprehend all of the patients’ reports and demands presented to him and to explain to them what is going on, what has happened, what may occur, how the treatment would work, how one may respond, and how to understand the unknown and boundaries in languages of biomedicine and TCM. As an experienced and understanding practitioner, he heartfully listens to the patients and patiently communicates with them from the perspectives of Western and Eastern medicines. He believes that a patient is not just a piece of tissue or an organ, or an insurance code. One is an individual and deserves personalized care.

Dr. Zhu is happy to chat with the patients at the bedside, which helps dissolve any questions and puzzles they may have. In doing so, their mind and spirit are prepared for and aligned with the treatment principles and plans. As a result, one’s body, mind, and spirit can be treated as a whole person.

Dr. Zhu loves garden work and has developed his private gardens. He likes sharing the gardens and flowers with his patients and friends. He published a garden book with a patient who loves Nature and healing. See the page Publication.