Muki Ramsey, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

Zen Medicinals is south Scottsdale’s premier acupuncture clinic and holistic medicine center.  We are conveniently located at historic Papago Plaza, on the southwest corner of Scottsdale Rd and McDowell, with easy access to residents from Tempe, Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Mesa, Arizona. Our clinic provides acupuncture, herbal medicine, holistic healing, and nutritional counseling to people of all walks of life and with all manner of health issues. Our acupuncturist is Mukhtar Ramsey, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM), M.S.O.M., (affectionately known as “Muki”), and he offers a unique and personal approach to healing that has had a profoundly positive effect on the lives of his patients. You can also read more about Muki, his credentials, and his own remarkable journey to health and well-being on his Bio Page.

Finally, Someone Who Will Listen

Your primary care physician is stuck between a rock and hard place. The administrative costs of insurance companies and medicare are so high (and payouts so low) that they have to see twenty patients a day just to break even. As a result, they really can’t afford to spend more than ten minutes talking with a patient; often it’s much less. (Sometimes, you never really talk to the doctor at all!) This leaves many patients feeling frustrated– doesn’t your health deserve more than just a few minutes of discussion? What about alternative options, such as lifestyle changes, traditional medicine, or natural supplements? Again, very few physicians have the time to study these alternatives, let alone explain them to you. That’s where Zen Medicinals comes in. Muki is an expert at acupuncture, natural remedies, and holistic healing. He always sets aside a full hour during your initial visit just to hear what you have to say, ask you questions, and make sure that all of your health concerns have been addressed. Follow-ups always include a twenty minute discussion, so that the conversation and coaching can continue as needed. If you like, Muki will even take time to discuss his findings with your doctor to give them a holistic perspective on your health, so that they can understand your condition in a new way. This is what Zen Medicinals is all about– bridging the gap between conventional and traditional medicine. The result is a happier, healthier you.

Safe, Natural, And Effective

At Zen Medicinals, we use only safe treatment methods such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, and nutriceuticals to resolve health problems at their source, not just address symptoms of the disorder. Acupuncture is part of an ancient treatment system that is used by more people than any other natural medicine in the world, and there’s a reason for that– it works! That’s why the World Health Association (WHO) states that acupuncture has been “proved through controlled trials to be an effective treatment” for the following symptoms or conditions:

• A | Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy | Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
• B | Biliary colic
• D | Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke) | Dysentery, acute bacillary | Dysmenorrhoea, primary
• E | Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
• F | Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
• H | Headache | Hypertension, essential | Hypotension, primary
• I | Induction of labour
• K | Knee pain
• L | Leukopenia | Low back pain
• M | Malposition of fetus, correction of | Morning sickness
• N | Nausea and vomiting | Neck pain
• P | Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction) | Periarthritis of shoulder | Postoperative pain
• R | Renal colic | Rheumatoid arthritis
• S | Sciatica | Sprain | Stroke
• T | Tennis elbow

In addition, the WHO states that acupuncture has been shown to have a therapeutic effect on the following conditions or symptoms:

• A | Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm) | Acne vulgaris | Alcohol dependence and detoxification
• B | Bell’s palsy | Bronchial asthma
• C | Cancer pain | Cardiac neurosis | Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation | Cholelithiasis | Competition stress syndrome | Craniocerebral injury, closed
• D | Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
• E | Earache | Epidemic haemorrhagic fever | Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease) | Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
• F | Facial spasm | Female infertility | Female urethral syndrome | Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
• G | Gastrokinetic disturbance | Gouty arthritis
• H | Hepatitis B virus carrier status | Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3) | Hyperlipaemia | Hypo-ovarianism
• I | Insomnia
• L | Labour pain | Lactation, deficiency
• M | Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic | Ménière disease
• N | Neuralgia, post-herpetic | Neurodermatitis
• O | Obesity | Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence | Osteoarthritis
• P | Pain due to endoscopic examination | Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans | Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome) | Postextubation in children | Postoperative convalescence | Premenstrual syndrome | Prostatitis, chronic | Pruritus
• R | Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome | Raynaud syndrome, primary | Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection | Reflex sympathetic dystrophyl | Retention of urine, traumatic
• S | Schizophrenia | Sialism, drug-induced | Sjögren syndrome | Sore throat (including tonsillitis) | Spine pain, acute | Stiff neck
• T | Temporomandibular joint dysfunction | Tietze syndrome | Tobacco dependence | Tourette syndrome
• U | Ulcerative colitis, chronic | Urolithiasis
• V | Vascular dementia
• W | Whooping cough (pertussis)

But you don’t have to take the WHO’s word for it. Check out what Muki’s patients from Scottsdale, Tempe, and Mesa are saying about how acupuncture has profoundly improved their lives at our Testimonials page.