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| Digital ExclusiveAmelie de Mahy, LAc
Amelie de Mahy is an American acupuncturist, who spent the last two years studying Chinese medicine in Taipei, Taiwan. She recently returned from India, where she did medical work with the Tibetan religious community of Northern India. She is a graduate of the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin.