Tranquility Base Acupuncture

06/24/2025

☀️🔥 Feeling the summer heat? Cool down the TCM way with these 5 heat-busting foods! 🥵➡️😌

1. 🍊🍋🍓 **Citrus fruits** – Refreshing, zesty, and their astringent properties help to clear heat. Add a few slices to your water or make a lemonade!

2. 🍉 **Watermelon** – Nature’s popsicle! Hydrating and great for clearing internal heat. Tip: save the white rind and put a few slices in your water for enhanced cooling hydration.

3. 🌿 **Peppermint** – Chill your body *and* your vibes. Brew it as tea, add to water, or add to salads! (Keep in mind that spearmint is different, as it has a slightly warming property)

4. 🌽 **Corn** – Sweet, juicy, and gently diuretic—great for draining summer damp-heat. Corn silk husk tea is also a cooling beverage that aids digestion and clears dampness.

5. 🌱 **Mung beans** – Detox and de-stress with mung beans. Enjoy as a cold dessert soup, a smoothie, boba, or shaved ice topper. Cooling AND delicious.

Eat smart, stay cool 😎🌿

05/23/2025

Feeling sluggish, stressed, or stuck in your weight loss journey? Cupping therapy isn’t just a trend — it’s a time-tested technique that supports detoxification, boosts circulation, and helps the body release built-up tension and toxins.

Whether you’re looking to de-stress, slim down, or simply feel lighter from the inside out — cupping can help realign your body and mind.

**Now booking in NYC** — feel the difference after just one session.

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04/24/2025

Spring into Wellness with

Exciting New Products!

With the arrival of Spring (FINALLY), it's the perfect time to rejuvenate your wellness routine! Check out our newly stocked items, including popular favorites and fresh additions to help you Spring into wellness!

Featuring:

JaxKelly Candles - Restocked a few favorites, plus a couple of new scents that you’re sure to love! Made with clean ingredients and 100% American soy wax, these hand-poured candles are perfect for turning ordinary moments into meaningful rituals.

Lumidrops by YINA - These natural berry-flavored gummies feature TCM beauty herbs and adaptogens, vitamin C, lycopene, biotin, and free-range grass-fed bovine collagen to help strengthen hair, improve skin elasticity, and promote energy. They're bouncy, delicious, and not too sweet ;)

How to Save on Your Next Visit

Buy 3 or more retail products, save 15% - This includes supplements, skincare products, liniments, and everything that's for sale on the retail shelves.

Refer a friend! As a token of gratitude, when your referral books and completes their first session, you receive a 15% discount off the total bill of your next visit, including products on the retail shelves. Treatment packages are excluded.

Book a cosmetic treatment - Save 15% off all retail products on the day of your visit. When you buy a package, the retail discount applies for every visit, bringing you even more savings.

Custom herbal formulas are excluded from discounts as they are individually tailored and require specialized preparation. They are already priced as affordably as possible. Due to upcoming import tariffs, herb costs may rise, but I’ll do my best to keep prices low.

Cosmetic treatment options are designed just for you! Whether you're interested in facial rejuvenation, jowl lift and sculpting, neck rejuvenation, hair restoration, or the abdominal protocol for weight loss, each treatment is tailored to your unique needs.

Online Booking

Our new website is live and better than ever! With more information, easier navigation, and a seamless online booking experience, it's never been simpler to explore all that Tranquility Base Acupuncture has to offer. We invite you to visit our site and check it out!

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04/17/2025

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01/29/2025

Happy Year of the Yin Wood Snake 🐍🧧✨🏮! The Snake symbolizes introspection, growth, and renewal as we “shed our skin.” It invites us to be open to new opportunities and expand our horizons, whether it be in our careers, emotions, intellect, personal relationships, etc.

There are many ways to celebrate the Lunar New Year 🧧, but one tradition I’ve been practicing these past few years is to write down my wishes, stick them in a Chinese red envelope 🧧, and place it in a lucky corner of my apartment.

You can try it too! Here’s how:

• Write down 9 wishes - they can be intentions, goals, things you would like to improve, blessings for a loved one 💝.
• Why 9? It’s a lucky number in Chinese culture, representing longevity.
• Put your wishes in a red envelope 🧧 and place it in a lucky area of the house (use a BaGua map for reference). Some examples: the southeast corner is the area of wealth and prosperity; the center of your home is the area of health; the northeast corner is for knowledge and self-cultivation; the northwest’s corner is for travel.

Here are some lucky foods to attract positive vibes for the Year of the Snake 🐍:
• Dumplings 🥟 represent wealth, since they’re shaped like money purses 👛.
• Sesame seeds represent prosperity and abundance (here I made black sesame chocolate chip cookies 🍪, a fusion of East and West). In TCM black sesame seeds also support Essence, fertility, and vitality.
• Tangerines 🍊 represent wealth, as they resemble gold
• Fish 🐟 represents wealth and abundance
• Long noodles 🍜 represent longevity

✨Wishing you and your loved ones good health, good fortune, and abundance this coming year of the Snake 🐍

01/08/2025

✨And her hair continued to grow in thicker, healthier, darker, shinier, and her skin and scalp more moisturized.✨

12/23/2024

Every day can be a good hair day 💁‍♀️

Before and after a series of hair restoration treatments. Individual results may vary, as you can see with these 2 different examples.

12/17/2024

A natural that lasts

12/12/2024

✨ Discover the beauty of Cosmetic Acupuncture! ✨

Looking for a natural way to rejuvenate your skin for the new year? Here’s why cosmetic acupuncture is a great alternative to Botox:
🌟 Reduces fine lines & wrinkles without toxins
🌟 Boosts collagen production for long-term results
🌟 Improves skin tone & texture, with no numbness or plastic-like sensation
🌟 Promotes natural healing, leaving you glowing and refreshed

Say goodbye to injections, and hello to holistic radiance! 🌿💆‍♀️ 🎉

12/12/2024

✨ Want a natural glow up for the holidays?? 🎄Discover the beauty of Cosmetic Acupuncture! ✨

Here’s why cosmetic acupuncture is a great alternative to Botox:
🌟 Reduces fine lines & wrinkles without toxins
🌟 Boosts collagen production for long-term results
🌟 Improves skin tone & texture with no downtime
🌟 Promotes natural healing, leaving you glowing and refreshed

Say goodbye to injections, and hello to holistic radiance! 🌿💆‍♀️

Special pricing on cosmetic packages available for sale only until 12/31! DM for link.

11/25/2024

Holiday Sales

Make holiday shopping easier! From now until December 31st, enjoy 20% off all retail products. This includes skincare products, candles, and supplements. Customized herbs not included.

2025 Treatment Packages

On Sale Now!

Treatment packages are an excellent option for those with high deductible insurance plans or limited acupuncture coverage. This is a limited-time offer that allows you to invest in your well-being as we move into 2025.

Details:

Holiday Wellness Package: $1,400 for 10 wellness follow-up treatments - that's $200 in savings! Expires May 31, 2025. Can be shared amongst members of your household, limited to 1 package per household.

Holiday Cosmetic Package: $900 for 4 Cosmetic Treatment sessions (facial, neck, weight loss, hair restoration) - that's $200 in savings, plus free gifts with the corresponding treatments! You can mix it up or use the same treatment for all 4. Must be completed within 5 weeks, before May 31, 2025. Cannot be shared. Limited to 1 package per person.

Sale ends December 31, 2024

A friendly reminder...

To ensure I can continue providing the highest quality of care amidst rising overhead costs, I’ll be introducing small changes in the current fee structure. I truly appreciate your understanding and ongoing support! Starting January 1, 2025, the following changes are:

Follow-up visits $160

Cosmetic Treatments (no fee change) $275
- Enjoy a 15% discount off all skincare products with every cosmetic treatment booked. This includes supplements.
- Take home a free face mask at every Facial/Neck Rejuvenation session (https://www.tranquilityacu.com/cosmetic-acupuncture)
- Enjoy a free bottle of body oil at your first Abdominal/Weight Loss (https://www.tranquilityacu.com/weight-loss-support) session
- Hair Restoration (https://www.tranquilityacu.com/healthyhair) treatments will be categorized as Cosmetic Treatments
- Receive a free Guasha comb at your first Hair Restoration Session (starting 2025). As always, you receive a free Mermaid Hair treatment spray or refill at every session.

Additional Services (no change) $50 for 15 minutes
- Cupping, Guasha
- Now adding Manual Therapy: Acupressure and TuiNa

Visit my website for the full fee schedule, services, etc.

Use It or Lose It

As we wrap up the year, I wanted to send a friendly reminder to use your FSA funds before they expire! Most plans will end at the close of the year, so be sure to check your specific plan for details and make the most of your benefits. We look forward to seeing you at your next appointment!

Happy Holidays!
Prisca

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11/15/2024

Thou shall not take biotin alone. I think it’s one of the most over-sold supplements for hair, and if you’re not combining it with the right diet, and addressing the root cause, you’re literally flushing your money down the drain.

This is the time of year where I start to see more patients coming in for hair restoration treatments. Autumn 🍂 is the season where people who tend to be more blood deficient (myself included 🙋🏻‍♀️) tend to experience skin and hair dryness, kind of like the leaves falling duringthis season!

Here are just 5 foods you can eat for health hair, according to TCM. The list is much longer, and I include these in take-home guides:

1) Goji berries: tonify Qi and Blood, nourishes Essence, also high in fiber and antioxidants!

2) Sesame seeds: nourish Yin and Blood, keeps hair vibrant. Black sesame especially nourishes Essence (stopping grey hair).

3) Eggs 🍳: nourish Yin and Blood, high in protein, iron, and biotin. Organic and pasture-raised eggs have more nutritional value.

4) Beets: my No. 1 plant-based Blood tonifyjng food, beets support digestive regularity by supporting Spleen Qi. (Honorable mention: avocados. Thought not traditionally Chinese, they’re excellent source of good fats and nourish Yin)

5) Beans 🫘 : dark beans such as kidney beans and adzuki nourish blood and Kidney Yin.

There is so much more. I love talking about food therapy with my patients!