Wellness Acupuncture and Herbs

09/02/2025

I hope everyone had a fabulous Labor Day weekend. I’m finishing off the final hours with a wonderful non-alcoholic botanical cocktail that I found at Sprouts.

Not only does it have a delightful bittersweet taste, but the herbalist in me loves that it contains several Chinese Medicinal herbs like gentian (Long Dan Cao) to benefit the liver, galangal (Gao Liang Jian) to benefit the stomach, and Angelica (Dang Gui) to benefit the blood.

It’s actually a good digestive aid.

09/01/2025

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08/29/2025

If you’re ready to address the root cause of your pain without surgery or long-term medications, Wellness Acupuncture and Herbs offers acupuncture, herbal medicine, microcurrent, ozone, and scalar energy therapy to help you heal inside and out. 🌸

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08/24/2025

I’m a big fan of Human Garage and came across a video for a morning routine that I really like. Try it for yourself.

These 3 basic Fascial Maneuvers can help reduce 70-80% of the stress in the body, it can be done once or twice a day. If done for 28 days most issues will be...

08/09/2025

I have the most thoughtful, generous patients. This beautiful gift of handmade soaps comes from a wonderful patient who has been a longtime supporter of my clinic. The gift actually comes from a small business based in Soquel that uses only natural ingredients and fragrances.

I love when good people share good things from the small businesses they love.

08/06/2025

Do you ever run out of energy and wish you could just plug yourself into an outlet to get charged back up like an electric car?

Or do you have to be really cautious about what you eat because certain foods leave you bloated and in pain?

Join me Dr. Tronica Vanzant, Acupuncturist and Herbalist, and my esteemed colleague Ricky Trigalo, Functional Medicine PA on September 10th at 9:00pm as we discuss key factors behind some of these common health challenges:

• Digestive problems
• Fatigue, esp. feeling tired after eating
• Anxiety, mood swings
• Chronic inflammation
• Low immune function

Use the link below to register for the event. Even if you can’t attend our live online session, register anyway so you can receive a recording of the session to get all the juicy details about topics you may never have heard of before.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gut-feeling-gut-health-with-acupuncture-functional-medicine-tickets-1549830457619

07/19/2025

Wow! Today I noticed one of the plants in the clinic has a flower. I didn’t even know this plant had flowers. I repotted it recently and was hoping it would do better in a bigger pot. Apparently it is happy with the new pot.

07/12/2025

There’s a lot of traumatic stuff going on lately. Fires in Southern California, floods in Texas and New Mexico. Even if you're not personally involved, many of us have friends and family who are, or like a patient of mine who experienced the devastating North Carolina floods last year, events like this can retrigger trauma and disrupt the nervous system.

I have a wonderful treatment that tones the Vagus nerve and calms down the entire nervous system.

Another protocol I like is used by Acupuncturists without borders when they go in to help victims deal with the emotional impact of natural disasters.

Both treatments take only a few minutes and people come away with a much-needed sense of grounded calmness.

If you or someone you know is triggered by recent events and having difficulty coping emotionally, call the clinic for an appointment. I'd love to help them regulate their nervous system and regain their sense of peace.
📍 1836 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, CA 95125
📞 669-240-5575
🌐 https://www.wellnessacuandherbs.com

07/07/2025

It’s summer, the kids are out of school, and suddenly your calendar is full of barbeques, bike rides, pickle ball, and wait, you still actually have to go to work too.

Summertime can be stressful with all of its demands. If you’re feeling stressed or anxious by an overpacked schedule, time with extended family and friends, or maybe not so friendly in laws, there are some wonderful points in the ears that help with stress and unresolved emotions.

Patients have told me their resilience and outlook on life changes with these treatments.

If you’re feeling edgy, irritated, anxious, or even overwhelmed, come in for a free consultation. I’d love to help you find peace and joy in life again.

📍 1836 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, CA 95125
📞 669-240-5575
🌐 https://www.wellnessacuandherbs.com

07/03/2025

How an Herbalist Makes Coffee

Start with fresh ground, mold-free coffee. I used Bulletproof.

Add fresh ground Bai Dou Kou (cardamom), fresh ground Rou Dou Kou (nutmeg), Gan Jiang (ground ginger), and Rou Gui (cinnamon bark powder) to the drip coffee maker.

Add fresh raw cream, local honey and savor every delicious sip.

This is a modified version of what Philz calls a ginger snap.

As much as I enjoy this little treat, let me also caution anyone, like myself, who has experienced adrenal fatigue that, coffee, or any stimulant for that matter (including chocolate, green and black teas, some meds for congestion and ADHD, and even g@nj@ for some of us unlucky souls who are revved up rather than slowed down by this popular drug), you should not make this part of your daily routine.

Why you ask?

Because stimulants, just like stress, increase cortisol which over time can disrupt your Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis which leads to things like heart palpitations, poor sleep, anxiety, an inability to deal with stress or stimulation, poor vision, fatigue and exhaustion.

As somone who has been down the path of adrenal fatigue, and learned treatments and herbs to help bring back my own vitality, I am happy to help fellow sufferers.

06/17/2025

After a couple of weeks walking in these old school, flatter shoes, I’m happy to report that my feet, ankles, and tibialis anterior (the shin muscle) are all much happier and pain free. I don’t think I even realized how tight the muscles on the front of my lower leg were until they stopped being flexed for the majority of the day.

06/04/2025

Hello my San Jose friends. Today I want to talk about something that hit home for me personally during this past week: Adrenal Fatigue.

I’ve heard it described as being bone tired where the fatigue penetrates to the core of your being. Or wired and tired where you’re exhausted, but there’s something inside that won’t let you relax because it feels like you’ve had 5 cups of coffee.

In addition to the motivation-draining fatigue, you can also experience brain fog, memory problems, and low back pain, to name a few symptoms. And the worst part is all these problems get worse when you add in a dose of stress.

Let’s face it, sometimes life throws us a curveball, and sometimes it throws us several curveballs all at once.

That’s what happened to me recently…

A bathroom in my clinic was being remodeled and while I did my best to maintain a peaceful, serene, zen-like environment for my patients, there was periodic banging, hammering, drilling and the high-pitched whirr of a power saw going on just down the hall.

Ugh. It felt like fingernails screeching on a chalkboard at times.

When the new flooring was installed, there was that horrible sweet chemical smell of epoxy that filled the buidling. A brief encounter wasn’t too bad, but being subjected to this for a couple of days made me dizzy and gave me a headache.

While these two sensory insults had an impact on me, I was still navigating the week pretty well, but then came the emotional hit. My 18-year-old son was moving away to another state and while I'm so proud of him for moving on to the next stage of his life, I'm also a single mom and it’s been just the 2 of us for a number of years, so I was heart-broken that he was leaving.

So life threw me a few curveballs: noise, chemical smells, and the emotional hit of my son heading off to another state. I felt overwhelmed. My adrenals were not up to the challenge and my energy, brain, and nervous system struggled.

I missed meetings, I had horrible brain fog, things didn’t get done on time, I felt wired and tired and on the verge of tears some days. It sucked.

I felt like I was trying to run underwater. Everything was heavy, difficult, and draining. The brain fog was horrible. If I was interrupted in the middle of writing chart notes or instructions for a patient, I totally lost track of what I was doing or what I wanted to say. I also noticed my eyesight getting worse after 30 min or so of working at a computer screen. All of these things were not normal for me.

The good thing is I recognized what was going on and took steps to improve my situation.

If you know someone who gets overwhelmed when life throws them one too many curveballs, or their fatigue grips them to the core, send them my way. These are my people. I’ve been there and I know how debilitating it can be.

I also know ways to restore your energy, your vitality, and help you get your life back.

If you struggle with adrenal fatigue, set up a free consultation and we can discuss ways you can get to a better level of health.

Schedule a free consultation to learn more.

📍 1836 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, CA 95125
📞 669-240-5575
🌐 https://www.wellnessacuandherbs.com