As President Barack Obama tries to reshape the U.S. health-care system into one that is based on prevention rather than on reaction to disease, Shadidi Beatrice Chase Kinsey, D. Ac., sees a valuable role for acupuncture.
"Acupuncture works on the premise of balancing the body's energy," says Dr. Kinsey, co-founder and executive director of P.E.A.C.E. Health Center in the Bedford- Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, N.Y. "When there is an imbalance in the body's energy, certain manifestations and disharmonies occur such as respiratory, digestive and circulatory disorders." These disorders, she says, show up as breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and obesity, all of which plague the Black community.
In 1992, Kinsey became the first African-American to be licensed by New York State to practice acupuncture
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