Looking for qualified Chinese medicine practitioners in Perth or Geraldton? At Nature’s Chinese Medicine, you’ll find AHPRA-registered practitioners with over 60 years of combined clinical experience across two clinics — one in Belmont (Perth) and one in Geraldton. Each clinic is led by its own Principal Practitioner. Both Dr Fu Fu Yang and Dr Valen Yang hold registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) under the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia — the national standard for safe, qualified Chinese medicine practice.
Dr Fu Fu Yang — Founder & Geraldton Principal
Dr Fu Fu Yang has practised Chinese medicine for over 40 years and founded Nature’s Chinese Medicine in Perth in 1999 — now serving as the Principal Practitioner at our Geraldton clinic. He holds a Bachelor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a Bachelor of Science in Medical Imaging from Curtin University. Over four decades of clinical work he has developed deep expertise in two specialised acupuncture systems — Master Tung’s Acupuncture and the Dr Tan Balance Method — approaches that set our clinics apart from most other Chinese medicine practices in Perth and Western Australia.
His clinical focus covers the full scope of Chinese medicine, with particular strength in musculoskeletal pain, women’s health, mental health, and complex chronic conditions. His Medical Imaging degree from Curtin University gives him an anatomically precise understanding of the body that most practitioners simply don’t have — allowing him to pinpoint treatment locations with exceptional accuracy. He is also a devoted student of Master Ni Hai Xia, whose classical-formula tradition forms the foundation of his clinical philosophy.
Based at our Geraldton clinic, Dr Fu Fu Yang serves patients across the Mid West region. So if you’re in Geraldton or the surrounding areas, you can access the same quality of care we offer in Perth.
- Registration: Chinese Medicine Board of Australia (AHPRA/CMBA)
- Practising: 40+ years of clinical practice in Chinese medicine
- Clinic: Geraldton, WA — founded Nature’s Chinese Medicine in 1999
- Specialisation: Master Tung’s Acupuncture, Dr Tan Balance Method, Six Meridian Framework (classical Chinese medicine)
- Diagnostic Approach: Four-dimensional physical analysis — heart engine assessment, fluid pathway mapping, pressure evaluation, and abdominal palpation
- Education: Bachelor of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Additional Background: Bachelor of Science in Medical Imaging, Curtin University — anatomical-precision training applied to point location for Master Tung’s distal technique
- Classical Lineage: Student of Master Ni Hai Xia — classical-formula tradition refined over nearly 2,000 years of clinical use
- Tai Chi: 35+ years teaching, directly applied to rehabilitation and circulation restoration
- Languages: Mandarin Chinese, English
Medically reviewed by Dr Fu Fu Yang (Chinese Medicine), CMBA Registered Practitioner. Last reviewed: March 2026.
Dr Valen Yang — Belmont Principal
- Registration: AHPRA-registered Chinese Medicine Doctor under the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia (CMBA), maintaining continuous registration with annual CPD in classical formula medicine, acupuncture safety, and clean-needle technique as required for CMBA Registered Practitioner status.
- Practising: 23+ years of clinical practice in Chinese medicine (since 2003)
- Education: Bachelor of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Specialisation: Master Tung’s Acupuncture and Dr Tan’s Balance Method, selected by pattern presentation rather than protocol — each consultation begins with a pulse and channel-palpation assessment, with point selection adjusted at every visit based on how the body’s regulatory response has shifted since the last treatment.
- Diagnostic Approach: Six health gold standards framework — appetite, sleep, bowel rhythm, energy stability, sweating pattern, and temperature regulation — recorded at intake and reviewed each visit so patients can track their own recovery against objective markers rather than relying on symptom relief alone.
- Clinical Focus: Musculoskeletal pain, sports injuries, sleep and stress patterns, and digestive complaints — with particular interest in cases where conventional pathways have plateaued, where assessment focuses on identifying which regulatory function (circulation, fluid metabolism, or stress-response capacity) is under-performing and limiting recovery.
- Herbal Medicine: TGA-compliant high-quality herbal extracts prescribed only when a patient’s pattern calls for systemic support beyond what needling can address; every prescription is matched to the classical-formula tradition’s pattern logic, reviewed against the six gold standards every two weeks, and adjusted or discontinued based on documented change.
- Patient Education: Most patients leave the first consultation with a clear written summary of which regulatory mechanism is involved, what to track week by week, and which daily-life factors — sleep timing, cold-food intake, stress load — are reinforcing or undermining the body’s own correction process.
- Chi Gong Practice: 25 years of daily Chi Gong practice in the internal cultivation tradition; trained breath and intention work is integrated with needle technique so that point stimulation produces a distinct propagated sensation along the channel rather than only local pricking — a hallmark of classical acupuncture lineage transmission.
- Languages: Mandarin and English — clinical consultations, written treatment summaries, and herbal medicine instructions are delivered in either language, supporting Perth’s Mandarin-speaking community as well as English-speaking patients across the eastern suburbs and broader metro area.
Medically reviewed by Dr Valen Yang (Chinese Medicine), CMBA Registered Practitioner. Last reviewed: March 2026.
Why Choose AHPRA-Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioners?
Australia made AHPRA registration mandatory for Chinese medicine practitioners in 2012. But why does it matter? Choosing an AHPRA-registered practitioner means you’re seeing someone who holds an approved degree qualification, follows national standards for safe practice, takes part in continuing professional development, and is held accountable to a professional code of conduct by the board.
So before you start treatment with any practitioner, always check that they’re AHPRA-registered. It’s the simplest way to protect your health and safety.