Health is a manifestation of your environmental influences, your diet, your physical shape and emotions. Illness can result from an imbalance of these factors. It is one way that our bodies communicate with us, alerting us to situations that may need correcting. Because health is always changing due to the stresses we encounter, it is normal to “lose it” every now and then in order to regain it in a better way. The true aim of medical help should be to identify the stresses of the patient’s life and work together with the patient to help him or her achieve greater health and happiness.

Leang Eap, N.D. is a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. She is a member of the AANP (American Association of Naturopathic Medicine) and of the NCANP (North Carolina Association of Naturopathic Medicine). She is a licensed physician in Washington State. While naturopathic physicians are licensed in other states, no such provision currently exists in the Carolinas. Therefore, in North Carolina, Dr. Eap is not functioning as a medical physician, she does not profess to be a medical physician, and she does not diagnose or treat diseases. She  is a wellness provider using a holistic approach where the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical aspects of patients are recognized to be interrelated for optimum health. She practices healing arts that rely on the body’s inherent healing capacity and utilizes a wide range of therapeutic systems to work with the body to assist healing.

Dr. Eap provides complementary medicine services using Naturopathic Medicine and Clinical Kinesiology. She offers preventative medicine and also works with patients with acute and chronic conditions to optimize their health in both the physical level as well as in the emotional level.

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Normally, when we are sick and seek medical help, most practitioners use a doctor-driven system, meaning the doctors are the ones who dictate the course of treatment.  The therapies used in this system are of a trial-and-error nature.  There is a typical “cook book” approach to a problem.  If you had a history of migraine headaches a practitioner would treat patients with the symptoms the same way.

Dr. Eap, however, treats the person rather than the disease; therefore she does not use a “cook book recipe” for the patient’s complaints.  The treatment for each patient is tailored to the patient’s needs.  In addition to the standard healing methods learned by most naturopaths, Dr. Eap utilizes Aromatherapy, Polarity, Cranial Therapy, Flower Essences, and the effects of environmental influences such as Feng Shui.  With the use of Clinical Kinesiology, Dr. Eap lets the patient’s body dictate the course of treatment and chooses the most appropriate healing modalities. The responsibility of health is therefore returned back to the patient.

We are each born with certain strengths and weaknesses.  From a Naturopathic point of view, we are born with a particular “constitution”, that is, a genetic predisposition towards certain illnesses or weak areas in the body.  When the body is stressed by a lifestyle, poor diet, major traumas or injuries (old and new), toxins, negative emotions etc., we may develop conditions based on our constitutional weaknesses.  Therefore, two people exposed to similar stresses may react differently; one may have a runny nose while the other suffers from headaches.

There is no one definite cause for illnesses; it is the result of imbalance in one or several levels including the physical, nutritional and emotional levels.  These conditions change from person to person.

Therefore, during the first visit (1 1/2 hour), Dr. Eap takes all information pertaining to your complaints such as nature of the complaints, medical history, family history, diet, lifestyle, past and present stressful incidents such as divorce, death of loved ones, etc.  Any of these factors can have a profound affect on the patient’s health, so she takes extra time to record her patient’s in-depth history to look for the key clues that could be contributing to her patient’s problem.  After assessing the case, she makes recommendations on diet, lifestyle and exercise; she also helps the patient by using specific treatments and modalities.

Each treatment is unique and tailored to the patient.  The treatment could be on all levels (physical, nutritional, energetic and emotional).  For example, there could be 10 people with a history of migraine headaches that are all treated differently.  One may need more nutrition, another may have to have a change in their lifestyle, someone else may need acupressure, etc…  Through the use of muscle resistance testing, the patient’s body guides Dr. Eap to the healing modalities needed such as acupressure, massage, manipulation, homeopathy, herbs, and other modalities.  Dr. Eap does not have protocols for diseases because she treats the patient’s health and not the disease.  If needed, Dr. Eap will refer the patient to medical doctors and other specific practitioners.

During the follow-up visits (45 minutes to 1 hour), Dr. Eap spends at least 5 to 10 minutes to assess the change in the complaints and then continues to treat the patient for the rest of the visit.   Typically, the next therapy is as different as looking into the next piece of the puzzle of the patient’s health because as Dr. Eap treats one problem, the other problems that have been hidden now on surface; it’s like peeling layers of an onion.

Dr. Eap recognizes the trust that must exist between doctors and patients if true healing and learning is to take place. She considers it as a privilege to work with each individual.  Dr. Eap’s use of Clinical Kinesiology provides the opportunity for the patient’s body to communicate exactly what it needs through changes in muscle strength.  This allows for your treatment to be directed by your body combined with your history, and results from your medical diagnostic tests all help Dr. Eap expand your treatment possibilities to its fullest.

Dr. Eap works with patients to improve their overall health. People who come see Dr. Eap have a wide range of complaints, which have been caused by extremely diverse sets of stress. These patients may have acute and chronic physical symptoms of:

  • Allergies / Hay Fever
  • Anxiety, Heart Palpitations
  • Arthritis
  • Cancer
  • Carpel Tunnel Syndrome
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Fertility problems / recurrent miscarriages
  • Food Hypersensitivities
  • Gastro-Intestinal conditions (Bloating, Crohn’s disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Gastritis, Constipation, Diarrhea, etc.)
  • Headaches / migraines
  • Hemorrhoids
  • High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol
  • Hormonal problems (Thyroid conditions, adrenal exhaustion)
  • Infections
  • Injuries and trauma
  • Pain (neck, shoulder, back, extremities)
  • Respiratory problems: cold, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc..
  • Skin conditions / rashes / eczema / psoriasis
  • Urinary tract infections / cystitis
  • Women health / menstrual cramps / irregular menses / menopause
  • Genetic problems (XXY syndrome, Down Syndrome)
  • Idiopathic or unknown problems such as “not be able to drink water”

Many of Dr. Eap’s patients have suffered from emotional conditions such as grief, depression, “broken heart”, frustration, resentment, anger, “road rage”, fear, anxiety, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, and negative familial patterns.

Dr. Eap treats all symptoms and specializes in:

  • Stress Healthcare
  • Trauma Recovery
  • Adolescence Health including Athletic and Academic Performance

There is no simple answer to the question of health; each person is different. As we go through life, each of us accumulates layers of stress in our body.  These layers can be thought of as the layers of an onion; at the center is your core or constitution, and the layers surrounding the core are your body’s response to emotional and physical trauma, poor diet, toxins, stress, etc.  Dr. Eap’s treatments have several goals:

  • The first is to “peel off” some of the layers which compromise your health.
  • The second goal is to help strengthen your immune system so that you are less likely to become ill and can recover from illnesses quickly.
  • The third goal is to help you discover ways to promote your own health.  This may include changes in your lifestyle and diet, as well as learning better ways to recognize and deal with the stresses you encounter.

This is a process, and while many people experience immediate relief from their symptoms, some patients will have to “peel off several layers” before their body begins to feel better.  Therefore, the number and frequency of the visits depend on the patient’s constitution, the number, severity, and duration of the complaints, the compliance of the patient, the will of the patient, and other factors determine each person’s needs and outcome. This healing process requires the patient to actively participate in his or her own journey toward better health.

It varies from one patient to another based on the constitution of the patient, the severity and duration of the problems as well as the compliance of the patient with the treatment program.  Some patients just need to know how to change the diet and lifestyle; others may simply need a $3.00 single dose of homeopathic remedy.  There are even others who need several hundred dollars of herbal formulas and supplements for several months or years.  Everything is dependent on how deep the problem is and is the health of the patient.

Dr. Eap balances the acupuncture meridian system by performing Laser Acupuncture and/or Acupressure on specific points to alleviate the patient’s problems.  The laser and the gentle rubbing is usually painless and extremely effective.  She also uses Chinese Medicine which utilizes techniques like Herbology to help balance the Acupuncture system.

I came to see Dr Eap for two purposes. The first was to co-ordinate care for two long-term medical conditions; the second was to see if she could help me deal with grief I continue to have over the passing of my Mom. I was also grieving the death of our pet.

For the first issue, Dr Eap suggested certain supplements that will build my health to a better level, so as to compliment the medical course I am following. I feel much better, and will continue with these supplements.

As to the second purpose, we met twice to deal with my grief. I am so very happy to report that our sessions worked wonders for me. I feel lighter, like a great weight has been lifted from my heart. I feel connected to those I had thought lost to me.

I am so glad I met with her for the help with the grief. It changed my life for the better.

-Ann B. Matthews, NC

Dr. Eap is a healer in the truest sense of the word.  She not only has her Naturopathic degree from one of the most esteemed programs in the country, she also lived and studied with ancient healers and monks in Asia.  She is a true holistic practitioner– mind, body, spirit.  This is an experience unlike any other…

She uses kinesiology to test the body for weaknesses.  She then prescribes any array of herbal supplements, and other unconventional treatments.  Sometimes it feels a little voo-doo-ish, but conventional doctors are just “practicing” medicine and dispensing potent drugs with known side effects… both seem scary to me, but the natural approach seems less so.  And, honestly, I showed up barely able to function from tiredness and fatigue, beaten up from medical procedures and under the care of an oncologist (for a noncancerous condition).  She really restored my energy.

I credit Dr. Eap for restoring my health back to a place of wellness.

–It is expensive and not covered by insurance–
–I eventually had to stop going, the supplements were getting to be too many for me to keep up with–
–I will definitely go again, when my pocketbook and time can manage it–

Bee C.

I have see dramatic shifts in my overall wellness from seeing Dr. Eap.  She is the only medical practitioner that I see, and haven’t not seen a western medicine doctor in many years.  Her ability to communicate with my body, and translate the messages my body are sending myself and her is amazing.  I would highly recommend her to anyone seeking physical, mental or spiritual change in their life.  She has been the greatest gift in my journey!

Colton S.

I have never met a doctor that is more thorough at healing than Dr. Eap. I have been a patient of hers for 17 years and even though I moved to Portland, OR over 12 years ago, I still continue to schedule visits with her twice a year in Charlotte. She identifies the root cause of symptoms and heals on all levels, including physicial and emotional. I started seeing Dr. Eap because I was suffering from gastrointestinal issues and anxiety, which were deeply affecting my quality of life. After countless doctors that diagnosed IBS and depression, prescribing drugs that never made me feel better, I felt that there must be a better way. I really don’t know what my life would be like now if I hadn’t found Dr. Eap. She was the answer to bringing me back to health. The symptoms were gone and the prescription drugs were gone forever.

Since that time, I have seen her for a variety of physical and emotional ailments. After 9/11, I became terrified to fly. (This from a person who lived overseas for 5 years as a young adult, loved to travel, and once had almost applied for a airline stewardess job.) I was living in Portland at the time and tried desperately to find someone to help me. I had a fear so great that I would get terrible anxiety symptoms weeks before trips and would cry from the time we left home until the plane landed at my destination. I saw traditional Western doctors, who prescribed more drugs as well as naturopaths and other alternative healers. Everyone seemed baffled and nothing made me feel better. I decided to see Dr. Eap when I was visiting family in Charlotte and she managed to competely erase my fears. For my return flight, I kept waiting to feel the dread and fear, but it never came. Ever since then, I am able to fly easily and at peace.

For a long time, I only saw her when I was quite ill and really needed help. However, for the past few years, I’ve maintain a schedule of regular visits and feel that I am in the best health ever. I highly recommed Dr. Eap to everyone.

Beth S.

I met Dr. Eap in 1996, shortly after she came to Charlotte, N C.

She has brought under control the asthma and allergies that had been a part of my life since the age of three years. At one time I had taken allergy shots twice per week. By 1996, the shots were no longer effective. Now I seldom have problems with allergies.

When the medical doctor told me in 1999, that I was going deaf in one ear and would soon need a hearing aid. I discussed it with Dr. Eap. She put me on a medication that I took for one year. I still take it whenever my ear hurts. I have never returned to the ENT doctor for any additional help. I do not need a hearing aide.

Most recently, I attended one of Dr. Eap’s group sessions on weight loss and total detoxification of the entire body. It is a 3 week regimen that requires taking some cleansing pills and drinking a protein shake several times a day. The routine was not difficult. During the past year, I dieted most days but not rigorously. I lost from 195 to 160 lbs. during the year. I am a senior citizen but I am on no medications that are prescribed by a medical doctor. Each year I have the mandatory office visit with the medical doctor who checks heart, blood and cholesterol levels. All my reports are good and he knows that I visit Dr. Eap.

Many of my old ailments have been brought under control. They cannot all be listed here.

I thank Dr. Eap for moving to Charlotte and helping me to live a healthier and happier life.

D. M., Fort Mill, SC

I am a cancer survivor of (7) years. I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and went to conventional doctors. I received conventional treatment – chemotherapy, radiation, pills etc and I also endured a stem cell transplant. While this helped fight the cancer it was also toxic and I did not feel very well. I suffered from severe fatigue and my body was not at peace. I sought out other means of keeping healthy.

I met Dr. Leang Kim Eap who is a doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. I learned with the help of Dr. Eap alternative methods of taking care of myself. I learned extensively about nutrition, botanicals, acupressure, homeopathy and aromatherapy.

The treatments and knowledge has given me comfort physically, spiritually and emotionally. I have more energy, flexibility and endurance even my golf game has improved. I don’t have aches, pains and fatigue like I did before and most importantly my cancer is in remission. I feel the healthiest I have ever been and I thank Dr. Eap for all of the knowledge, support and continued alternative methods and treatments that have made my quality of life incredible.

William Hall, Rock Hill, SC

I was skeptical of Feng Shui until I met Dr. Eap. We were getting ready to sell our house, and she was recommended to me. It wasn’t until I sat down with her and started talking about all the things going on in my life, fertility issues, marriage issues, money issues, that I realized they all started when we bought the house several years prior. She walked me through the house and was able to physically show me where the weaknesses were in the house and how they affected me emotionally and physically. A huge revelation was the fact that we had two different staircases. To quote Dr Eap, “Two staircases, two different ideas.” And it was so true as my husband used one staircase and I the other. She was also able to identify a waterline running under our bed that was the partially to blame for the fertility problems. After Dr Eap was Feng Shuing through our house, the relationship with my husband improved and our ability to hold onto money increased tremendously. I even had her Feng Shui my office at Wachovia Brokerage where I was Sr Vice President,and our sailboat which we currently live on in the Caribbean! I will never buy another house again without consulting Dr Eap. I am forever grateful to her and her abilities, plus, I really like, and admire her as a person! Thank you so much Dr Eap for all you have done for my family!

Carla BeDell, Caribbean Islands

I have enjoyed my job at a small company for nearly four years. Better put, I had been enjoying what I was doing within the company. However, I frequently felt irritable and mentally drained at the end of each day. Relations with co-workers put a lot of strain on me.

Within an hour after the Feng Shui consultation with Dr. Eap, the transformation of my personal office space had begun. Several re-arrangements were made, most subtle, but with great results. Other fixes have been implemented over the past few weeks, with more enhancements gradually to follow.

The difference is amazing! I feel very thankful for my office and my current position. My improved work environment means I feel better and have more energy at the end of the day to enjoy other things in life. Dr. Eap and Linh, you have changed my life for the better.

Lisa M., Charlotte, N

In spring of 2000 I engaged Leang & Linh to help me conduct a Feng Shui analysis of my residential property, house & .3 acre lot in the Eastover section of Charlotte.

What these two sisters found was truly fascinating! Inside the living space, there were a total of 10 significant energy situations that were cleared and resolved by variations of Feng Shui remedies, as well as special prayers and cleansing practices. There were also 5 significant underground water and fault conditions in the land that needed attention and resolve. I applied all of their recommendations with lots of curiosity and wonder.

Soon after this experience, I began a marvelous new adventure into the most delightful relationship of my life! I began a new consulting project serving the most exciting new business client of my career in Brazil in September 2000. On my second trip there in November of 2000, I met a Brazilian woman who was a friend of my client! She is the perfect match for my own life journey. We married in São Paulo in November 2001, and this is where I now reside. Prior to the beginning of this new adventure & this series of events, I had not traveled farther south than Grand Bahamas, nor even imagined living in another country!

I have been on an intense spiritual journey into consciousness, and have become accustomed to receiving much new insight prior to the Feng Shui consulting. During a period of 3 years immediately prior, I had been taking kinesiology & emotional health counsel from Dr. Eap. In her Feng Shui workshop I attended, Leang in her wisdom makes it very clear that it is the whole life practice that is important when looking for help using Feng Shui.

Within the context of this time of change, I also resolved a significant set of old beliefs & practices that had kept my financial affairs very complicated for a long time. I now live a relatively simple life compared to my old aggressive consumerism of the past. I am certain that the clearing of old energies and becoming aware of new options was really important in helping me to realize these new ways to be superior to my previous patterns of a kind of “poverty consciousness.” I am beginning to see & enjoy the financial fruits of this new orientation, and am truly grateful.

The Feng Shui remedies and art that I collected as a result of learning from Leang & Linh’s counsel also helped me to produce a most tranquil and beautiful environment within my home, which was the most profound “nest” of my physical living to that time. I am certain that the help from these two sisters was a significant contribution to my well-being and transition into the most delightful new life in Brazil. I highly recommend them in this regard.

John B. Duncan, São Paulo, Brasil

Our family was referred to Dr Eap by a successful Chiropractic Physician who highly recommended her ability to properly feng shui our home. Dr Eap has an extensive knowledge of the art of feng shui and has studied from some of the best teachers world-wide. We are still amazed at the difference it has made in our lives! We saw immediate significant improvements in our child’s behavior and overall comfort in our home. We also continue to notice on-going benefits. We have had an increase in abundance of our cash flow, our home-based business, bonuses, friendships, relationships, career, health, etc… We are very thankful for all of the benefits we have received. We appreciate Dr Eap very much and highly recommend her to others.

HD, Charlotte, NC