In 1970 she came to Taiwan as director of the women's and children's center at Veterans General Hospital. There she was treated by the hospital's resident acupuncturist Huang Min-te for a bad shoulder that had troubled her for years, an experience which encouraged her to take up research into acupuncture.
一九七○年，她來台擔任榮民總醫院婦幼中心主任，被當時榮總附設的針灸科研究委員黃民德一針治癒了纏身多年的痼疾「五十肩」，促使她決定從研究針灸下手。