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Martin Herbkersman, D.Ac.* practices acupuncture at the Palmetto
Acupuncture Clinic in Columbia, South Carolina. He is an Acupuncturist(SC),
a Doctor of Acupuncture(RI), Licensed Acupuncturist(Ca) and
is Board Certified in
Chinese Herbal Medicine. He earned a Master's degree (MTOM)
from one of the finest acupuncture schools in the country,
Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in
Santa Monica, California. This comprehensive four year program
included rigorous academic studies in both traditional oriental
medicine and Bio-medicine. Martin Herbkersman completed over
a thousand hours of clinical study which included inpatient
hospital training at Daniel Freeman Hospital in Marina Del
Ray, California. In his hospital work, he spent a six month
rotation in an integrated medical setting working with Medical
Doctors and Nurses treating a wide variety of illnesses in
the transitional rehabilitation, addiction, and psychiatric
wards. His work in the Community Clinic was just as rewarding
and busy, treating hundreds of patients with conditions from
the acute common cold to the most serious stages of cancer.
As he completed his clinic and hospital work he and his wife
Scarlett, and their three children, decided to rejoin their
families in South Carolina, bringing with them this amazing
system of medicine. He and his wife have since added a fourth
child to their family. Currently he treats patients full-time
in his clinic on Bull Street and he is working with Dr.
Whitman-Elia, a fertility specialist, to enhance the efficacy
of conventional fertility treatments to improve the chances
of clinical pregnancies.
 Martin
Herbkersman has over five years of clinical experience and
is National Board Certified (NCCAOM)
in Acupuncture, Herbology and Oriental Medicine. He is currently
one of the very few practitioners in South Carolina to be
National Board Certified in Oriental Medicine which requires
additional training and a comprehensive knowledge of Biomedicine
and herbal medicine, as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine.
He has been working diligently for a new law governing the
practice of acupuncture in South Carolina and his work has
paid off. This new law legally defines and increases public
accessibility to acupuncture, and protects the people of South
Carolina from unqualified practitioners by requiring National
Certification in acupuncture and high minimum standards of
education. He
is currently the chairman of the South Carolina Acupuncture
Advisory Committee to the Board of Medical Examiners.
He is also the Vice President for State Affairs fo the AAOM
(the American Association of Oriental Medicine). He holds
licenses in California, Rhode Island, and South Carolina.
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