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Monday 10am - 5pm Tuesday 10am - 5pm Wednesday 10am - 5pm Thursday 10am - 5pm Friday 10am - 5pm

Lum Acupuncture

An integrative wellness clinic in Brentwood LA specializing in mental health via acupuncture, herbs, and energy healing.

Our telemedicine program, the ZenBelly Reset, balances the microbiome for mental health, digestion, metabolism, hormones, & immunity. Concierge upon request
Wheelchair accessible
Parking garage with elevator

02/25/2026

Things I treated in clinic last week.

Not just pain.
Not just hormones.
Not just digestion.

Self-limiting beliefs.
Negative self-talk.
Knee pain.
TMJ.
Scoliosis.
Neck pain.
Mold toxicity.
Parasites.
Weight gain + bloating.
Irregular + painful me**es.
Amenorrhea.
Insomnia.

Healing is never one-dimensional.

Your nervous system, gut, hormones, and emotional body are always talking to each other. When we listen to all of it, things finally start to shift.

If something on this list sounds familiar, you’re not broken. Your body is communicating.

Follow for more on how stress and emotions affect digestion and healing.

02/17/2026

The Year of the Horse amplifies your baseline.

If your baseline is wired and depleted, this year will amplify it.
If your baseline is regulated, this year will expand you.

This is a Fire year.
When momentum meets intensity, life accelerates.

Regulation determines whether you expand or exhaust yourself.

Here are 3 non-negotiables for the year ahead:
1. Protect sleep like it is medicine.
In Chinese medicine, sleep restores Yin. Yin anchors Fire.
When Yin is depleted, Fire rises. That can look like light sleep, irritability, and a racing mind.

Target a consistent bedtime, a dark cool room, and no scrolling in bed.
Chronic sleep disruption increases stress hormones and inflammation. PMID: 25456805
2. Stabilize blood sugar daily.
Digestion is your source of steady energy. When it is unstable, emotions become unstable.

Aim for 25 to 35 grams of protein per meal.
Eat a warm breakfast to support digestion.
Add 1 to 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar in water 5 to 10 minutes before higher carbohydrate meals.

Protein reduces glucose spikes. PMID: 29063107
Acetic acid improves post-meal glucose response. PMID: 26693746

Stable digestion supports emotional stability.
3. Reduce daily stimulation.
Fire years amplify intensity. Excess caffeine, alcohol, and constant screen exposure keep the system activated.

Keep caffeine before noon.
Limit alcohol.
Build in one device-free hour daily.

Alcohol fragments REM sleep and elevates nighttime heart rate. PMID: 33202236

This year is not about luck.
It is about regulation.

When your body is stable, momentum becomes expansion instead of burnout.

If this kind of grounded Chinese medicine insight is helpful, follow for more.

01/29/2026

Just dropped a new beat 🔊
Turn the sound on.

What you’re hearing is flash cupping.

A rhythmic on-and-off technique that creates movement rather than holding.

Flash cupping is different from stationary cups.

Stationary cupping stays in one place to draw deeply into the tissue.

Flash cupping is dynamic. It pulses, releases, and re-engages.

Clinically, this approach is often used to:
• wake up sluggish or guarded tissue
• move qi and blood without overloading the system
• support neuromuscular release when the body needs circulation, not pressure
• work with areas that are sensitive, dense, or already inflamed

Cupping isn’t one technique.

It’s a language.

And the body responds differently depending on how you speak to it.

If you like seeing how Chinese medicine is applied in real time, follow for more.

01/21/2026

Honored to be ranked a top-rated acupuncturist in Brentwood.

Grateful for the patients who trust me with their care, the teachers who shaped my clinical lens, and the medicine that continues to prove its depth when practiced with precision.

Beyond formal training, I’ve spent years in continued study, workshops, and exploration across healing traditions to bring what is most effective into the treatment room.

This work is never about ranking.
It is a constant refinement.
Listening closely.
Choosing what truly serves the patient in front of me.

01/13/2026

Digestive symptoms aren’t random.

In Chinese Medicine, they follow patterns based on the Five Elements. Your elemental pattern affects how the body processes stress, emotion, and nourishment.

Wood types often experience digestive tension during stress or frustration, showing up as cramping, tightness, or irregular digestion.
Earth types tend toward bloating, heaviness, fatigue, or brain fog after meals.
Water types may notice loose stools, urgency, low appetite, or exhaustion, especially during fear or prolonged stress.
Fire types often experience reactivity, inflammation, sensitivity, or burning sensations when emotions run high.
Metal types may struggle with constipation, dryness, or bloating, particularly during grief or periods of rigidity.

These are patterns, not labels.

And this is why the same diet can help one person and worsen symptoms for another. You need to follow your pattern, not someone else’s protocol.

If you’ve felt confused by conflicting advice, I created a free Element Quiz so you can start understanding your elemental pattern and digestion can start to make sense again.

Link in bio to take the quiz.

01/09/2026

Digestive symptoms are not random.

In Chinese Medicine, digestion follows patterns based on how the body processes stress, emotion, and nourishment. These patterns are described through the Five Elements.

This is why the same foods can feel supportive for one person and aggravating for another. Nervous systems and digestive systems are responding differently.

When you understand your elemental pattern, you can start to see:
• why your gut flares the way it does
• how stress shows up in your digestion
• what kind of regulation your system actually needs

I created a free Element Quiz as a starting point for awareness, not diagnosis.

If you’ve felt confused by conflicting gut or nervous system advice, this may help things click.

Take the quiz via the link in bio.

01/08/2026

Your gut isn’t just digesting what you eat.

It’s digesting what you live.

In Chinese Medicine, the Spleen and Stomach don’t just process food.

They process experience.

This is why stress, grief, overthinking, and emotional overwhelm often show up as bloating, loose stools, constipation, or fatigue.

Modern science now confirms this through the gut–brain axis.
The gut has its own nervous system and responds to emotional stress long after the mind has moved on.

So if your digestion flares during stressful periods,
it’s not random. And it’s not a willpower issue.

It’s your body asking for regulation, not restriction.

What helps:
• disengaging from what keeps your nervous system activated
• limiting constant exposure to the news
• protecting your peace as a form of regulation
• using your breath during confrontation to come back to baseline
• decompressing in nature, or even a 10-minute walk

Movement supports blood flow.
Breath recirculates.
The mind recalibrates.

Small, consistent choices change how the body processes stress.

Save this for your next flare.

01/05/2026

If changing your diet hasn’t resolved your digestive symptoms, this isn’t a failure.

Digestion depends on nervous system state.
When the body is stressed, overwhelmed, or emotionally strained, stomach acid and digestive enzymes do not activate efficiently.

The body shifts resources toward survival, not assimilation.

Chinese Medicine has always treated digestion as a reflection of rhythm, emotional state, and internal regulation.

Modern research now confirms this through the gut–brain axis.

Before adding more supplements or restriction, start by asking a simpler question: Does my body feel safe enough to digest?

Try this tonight:
• Sit down when you eat
• Avoid screens during meals
• Eat in a calm emotional state
• Sip fluids 30 minutes before meals or 1 hour after
• Take a few slow breaths before the first bite

Sometimes the most powerful intervention is the simplest one.

Save this for your next flare.
More on this in my recent posts.

01/01/2026

“The soft overcomes the hard.”
- Lao Tzu

This is the principle behind real healing.

Support the system gently, and change becomes sustainable.

When the body feels supported rather than pushed, it reorganizes itself. This is how lasting change happens.

📸 Overlooking Los Angeles on an early morning hike

12/29/2025

Stone Medicine is one of the oldest therapeutic practices in Chinese medicine.

Before acupuncture needles existed, stones were used as primary tools for healing. Through weight, warmth, pressure, and subtle vibration, Stone Medicine communicates with deeper layers of the body, including the bones, marrow, Jing, and nervous system.

I incorporate Stone Medicine into clinical treatments to support grounding and regulation, especially for patients who are depleted, overwhelmed, or living in a state of chronic stress. This approach was shared with me through the teachings of Master Jeffrey Yuen, an ordained Daoist priest and 88th-generation lineage holder of the Jade Purity tradition.

Ancient medicine can look unfamiliar through a modern lens, but its effectiveness has endured for a reason.

Save this if you want to gain a deeper understanding of ancient medicine.

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Los Angeles, CA
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