Marc Mastrandrea, LAc

Marc Mastrandrea grew up in many areas in the Eastern United States. From a young age he sailed the eastern seaboard and lived aboard a boat in the Florida straights and Caribbean. Constantly interested in eastern philosophy and martial arts he would go on to pursue a degree in biology from the university of Connecticut followed by graduating from the Swedish Institute where he studied Chinese Medicine.

He opened and ran Po Chi Lam Clinic which was a high volume clinic which employed multiple physicians of Chinese Medicine and treated all patients who came through it’s doors regardless of their medical issues. In 2016 Marc closed the doors to Po Chi Lam and moved to Beijing to study Chinese language and culture, more Chinese Medicine and Bagua Zhang with Xu Shi Xi. In 2019 after studying with Xu Laoshi since 2013, Marc became the final disciple of Xu Shi Xi for his lineage of Yin Style Bagua Zhang. In late 2019 Marc worked at 國醫堂 Guo Yi Tang hospital in Beijing. It was then he and colleagues began hearing rumors of a new pneumonia surfacing in Wuhan.

After watching the slow and quiet events occurring in China with other colleagues in the hospital Marc went to Taiwan for Chinese New Years to visit family. It was at that time the events in China exploded. Not being able to return he stayed in taiwan for a month watching the measures Taiwan took. He decided to return to the US to lend help where he was able to.

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