About Bernadette

Bernadette Yu is an Ontario Registered Acupuncturist & Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner. She provides Acupuncture Treatment, Chinese Herbal Medicine Consultation and prescriptions, Nutritional Counselling and Bioenergetic testing services in a medical clinic in Mississauga, Ontario. As well as working in her own practice, Bernadette has taught Chinese Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture at the Toronto School Of Traditional Chinese Medicine for a number of years. She has also worked as a volunteer in a palliative care hospice providing pain alleviation treatment for out-patients and residents suffering severe pain and various ailments. Being diagnosed with infertility at a younger age and later becoming a mother, Bernadette has been helping couples to overcome infertility issues through both Chinese medical modalities and Dietary / Nutritional therapy. Bernadette is also the course creator of her "Conception Success Fast Track Program". Bernadette enjoys outdoor activities, and in the Summer, when she's not working, you may find her exploring various hiking trails, camping in provincial parks, kayaking in the rivers and swimming in the lakes with her children. At home, Bernadette enjoys cooking and playing board games with her kids.

Can Parsley help prevent or treat Alzheimer’s disease?

Can Parsley help prevent or treat Alzheimer’s disease?

Are you experiencing short term memory loss and worried that this is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease? Do you know that the current Alzheimer’s drug treatment protocol focuses on treating the symptoms rather than addressing the root cause? That is, the drugs that your doctors prescribe to treat Alzheimer’s … Continue reading

Having some Capers everyday, may help your abdominal pain go away!

Have some capers everyday may help your abdominal pain go away

Do you know that capers, the tiny little flower buds that many Mediterranean cuisines call for, are not only a great condiment but are extremely good for your gut? They may also be a good remedy during times when the food that you have ingested creates pain in your bowel due to an allergic/inflammatory reaction. Continue reading

Cancer? Eat walnuts every day, help cancer shrink and decay

Have some walnuts every day; make the cancer shrink and decay?! Article written by Bernadette Yu, R.TCMP, R.HN

Eat walnuts every day; help cancer shrink and decay?! Did you know that walnuts contain super nutrients which can suppress 13 types of cancer! – Article written by Bernadette Yu. R.TCMP, R.HN Continue reading

Can Goji berry kill cervical cancer?

Can Goji berry kill cervical cancer

Used in Chinese Medicine for 5,000 years, Goji berries are now being studied and investigated for the next generation of chemotherapeutic drugs Continue reading

Barley and Vegetable Soup

Barley Vegetable and mixed bean Soup

Barley in China is an ancient crop. According to research, as early as the mid-Neolithic, the ancient Qiang people (living in Qinghai) began planting barley in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. This dates the history of barley cultivation in China back more than 5,000 years. Dating back 2000 … Continue reading

Chinese Medicated Diet Recipes for Eye Health

Chinese Medicated Diet Recipes for Eye Health

In a previous post I wrote about the history of the Chinese Medicated Diet in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In this post, I’m going to write very briefly about Traditional Chinese Medicine and eye health, then cover five different Chinese Medicated Diet Recipes for Eye Health. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, although all … Continue reading

Eating and Eating Practices for your health in TCM

Eating and Eating Practices for your Health in TCM Thousands of years ago, the Chinese people were already practicing specific principles of eating and following eating practices as set out by the Traditional Chinese Medical Doctors of those ancient times. These principles and practices began to be recorded in chinese medical texts dating to more than 3,000 … Continue reading

Acupuncture during Pregnancy

Acupuncture during pregnancy

Expectant mothers often ask if Acupuncture during Pregnancy is safe, and if so, who should they use as an Acupuncturist given that many different types of healthcare practitioners offer acupuncture treatments. The short answer is that acupuncture during pregnancy IS safe and there are very minimal risks to receiving acupuncture … Continue reading

Acupuncture and Fertility

There are wide ranging factors that can make conception difficult to achieve and as a result, more and more couples are undergoing  in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Despite the many advances in IVF techniques over recent years, each IVF treatment cycle is expensive, lengthy and stressful and successful conception often remains difficult to … Continue reading