Santa Cruz Family Acupuncture

29/08/2025

This exciting Year of the Snake is bringing even more transformation and change. Stay tuned as we move into a GORGEOUS NEW CLINIC and a brand new chapter! 🧡💛❤️

27/07/2025

Some of us live in a hyper-flexible, hyper-sensitive bodies.

My son and I likely have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) with histamine intolerance, allergies (including anaphylaxis), digestive challenges, and nervous system dysregulation. It’s complex—but we’ve found tools that help us thrive.

Chinese medicine has been a lifeline. Through acupuncture, herbs, nourishing foods, and movement practices like qi gong, we’ve found a rhythm that supports our bodies and spirits.

What helps us:
• Eating fresh, low-histamine meals
• Taking DAO enzymes before meals
• Using herbs like nettle, lemon balm, and Suan Zao Ren Tang
• Regulating our nervous systems daily with NSDR and breathwork
• Strengthening gently (no overstretching!)
• Using acupuncture to calm the immune system, improve sleep, and support digestion

Chinese medicine sees the whole picture. It recognizes how connective tissue, digestion, emotions, and immunity are all connected. It doesn’t treat just symptoms—it supports the body’s ability to restore balance.

💛For anyone living in a sensitive, bendy, allergic body—you’re not alone. You’re not broken. You’re wired differently, and there are gentle medicines that can meet you where you are.💛

08/07/2025

Santa Cruz Family Acupuncture serving our beloved community for over 15 years! Honored to be voted BEST ACUPUNCTURIST 2022,2023,2024 and 2025

30/06/2025

We have just passed the Summer Solstice and find ourselves in the heart of summer, finally enjoying gloriously beautiful, sun filled days. According to the philosophies of Chinese Medicine, this is the time of the Fire element, and of the Heart. The energetics of the season are expressed not only in nature, but in us as well, as we are a part of the natural world. Do you feel this summer energy moving through you? ❤️

26/06/2025

Feeling blessed and grateful to be firmly rooted in this gorgeous community, practicing an ancient and beautiful medicine, doing my very best to restore health, harmony and happiness in the world around me. If you need help feeling your best, please reach out. ♥️🙏🏽

31/05/2025

Hello there! Let me introduce myself. ☺️I am Spring Smith, an award winning California Board licensed acupuncturist, herbalist and a nationally certified Diplomate of Oriental Medicine with fifteen years in private practice, specializing in treating pain, injury, and internal medicine. I am the owner of Santa Cruz Family Acupuncture, where I provide acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to treat a wide range of health concerns for women, men and children. As a dual acupuncturist and herbalist, I have extensive training in the world’s most sophisticated medical herbal system, bringing this knowledge to my treatments, offering herbal consultations and nutritional guidance to increase the efficacy and positive outcome for each patient. Santa Cruz Family Acupuncture patients range from babies and children to professional athletes and great-grandparents. As an acupuncturist and primary care provider, I utilize the exceptional tools of Chinese medicine to provide effective and life changing treatments to each patient. ♥️ 😃

29/05/2025

🧡Facial Rejuvenation🧡 Nourishing beauty from within.
The beauty of my facial acupuncture treatments is that they include a full-body acupuncture treatment with a strong emphasis on the facial points. Tiny needles are used to stimulate blood flow, encourage lymphatic drainage, enhance the production of collagen, and promote tissue regeneration. These treatments boost overall health and well-being while nourishing and fortifying the skin from the inside out. Gentle Gua Sha and cupping are included in facial treatments to massage the facial muscles, smoothing out fine lines and bringing a gorgeous glow to the skin. I only offer Acupuncture Facials to already established patients, to insure that these treatments are a perfect fit for the patient. If you’d like to inquire about Acupuncture Facials or become a new patient of Santa Cruz Family Acupuncture, an award winning practice in beautiful Santa Cruz, California, please inquire via text (831) 331-6901 or visit our website www.santacruzfamilyacupuncture.com

28/05/2025

When I reflect upon the blessings of my life one of the things I am most grateful for is having found Acupuncture and Chinese medicine. ♥️

22/05/2025

Within Traditional Chinese medicine the Springtime is related to the liver and gallbladder and Spring is an excellent time for a gentle detox or cleanse. Some basic daily practices might include beginning the day with warm lemon water, focusing on deep hydration with supportive detoxifying herbs like dandelion or burdock. Starting your day with a sauna, and or dry brushing. Eating light and fresh, with the season. Wishing you a happy, healthy and inspired Spring! 🌸🌿

19/05/2025

Dearest Santa Cruz,
Thank you for the love. The feeling is mutual. ♥️

07/05/2025

Wrapping up another beautiful day in the clinic. It’s truly a joy to help people feel better—body, mind, and spirit. Grateful for this work and the amazing humans I get to support every day. 🙏🏽

07/02/2025