Meet Dr. Jennifer Taylor MENDA TCM
Ixchel-Balam is home to a new practice: Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine with Dr. Jennifer Taylor Menda, founder of The Five Element Method.
She came to this medicine as a patient first. A cancer researcher managing physiology labs, with published work in oncology and cell physiology, she carried migraines, digestive issues, and eczema that nothing in her training could touch. What she found in an acupuncture clinic changed what she understood healing to be, and she left the lab for it.
Offerings
At Ixchel-Balam, she treats reproductive health, the perimenopausal transition, sleep, digestion, pain, allergies, and trauma recovery, using acupuncture, herbal medicine, moxibustion, gua sha, cupping, cosmetic acupuncture, Qi Gong, and more. One belief holds the whole practice together: we are whole, we are connected, and the body knows how to heal when it is given the right conditions.
She is currently on our grounds Monday through Thursday mornings, with weekend appointments by request, and welcomes Black Women and women of color at every stage, from those still years away from any of this to those already well into the change.
Book a session or a free consult at 5emethod.as.me.
Expertise
She holds a Doctor of Acupuncture and a Master of Acupuncture from Maryland University of Integrative Health, with graduate training in biology and physiological sciences behind that, seven years in clinical practice, and nineteen years teaching anatomy and physiology at the university level. She founded AcuHerb Community Circle, an integrative acupuncture and wellness clinic in Maryland, before relocating to Mérida with her family this year.