Dr. Ashley Heintz

06/08/2024

My Instagram was hacked.

03/01/2023

Buckle the heck up for a wild ride back through ancient history to the time of the Wu Shamans.

“My goal is to restore women to cultural memory, to restore awareness of the full range of female experience and contributions, power and oppressions, all that have been omitted and edited out from textbooks and mass media. I use images to teach realities that are rarely if ever shown, to remedy the induced amnesia about women, on a global scale.” ~ Historian Max Dashu

If you just must know more about the Wu hit me up.

02/15/2023

01/16/2023

The difficult patient

Who comes in hysterical, already angry at you because you represent every doctor she has already seen that was useless to her.

Talks in circles, red faced and teary-eyed, already frustrated by the dismissiveness she is sure is coming.

My body tightens in protest of the patient who is not overwhelmed with anticipatory joy and reverence for the opportunity to get repeatedly punctured by me. I force my body to soften as I begin the intake process.

After one intake process, not even the treatment, just the intake, the patient is gracious, indebted, butter in my hands.

A thorough Traditional Chinese Medical intake process requires so much intel about who a patient is and what they’re going through that it is impossible for the patient to feel unheard or unseen. To even choose the first acupuncture point requires an amount of intimacy that is seemingly unfelt within many types of medicine.

And this alone could be the catalyst for healing. Did the creators of this medicine know this?

and shame on me for the times I am less thorough with my easy patients.

Nine years into private practice and I am in awe of this medicine over and over again.

Another love letter to Chinese medicine.

and if you read this whole thing then I owe you a love letter too. 😘

10/26/2022

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10/18/2022

I have to re-share this testimonial from one of my fiercest patients.

In my experience there’s a group of people that go hard against big Pharma that get scrutinized and eyes rolled at them.

But if you have been told over and over again that whatever ails you is incurable, and you’ll be dependent on medication for the rest of your life, and then you find that none of that was true and a few dietary and lifestyle changes are the cure, wouldn’t you want to scream it from the mountaintop? Wouldn’t you want to lead others to the truth?

The word quackery gets thrown around so much in the face of people that are curing diseases that Western medicine says are incurable. In my opinion a negative prognosis is witchcraft.

10/04/2022

It’s only October 4th but I couldn’t wait to post my favorite meme of all time. I wish I knew the original creator.

09/09/2022

When an Acupuncturist checks your pulse they are not checking beats per minute. This picture shows what is felt at a superficial level, the energetic and acute health of each organ. Then you press a little harder and you feel what’s going on at what we call the blood level and then a little harder to feel what’s going on at the organ level.

If a woman is pregnant you can feel two pulses.

09/05/2022

Reposting an old bo***ir photoshoot.

08/18/2022

08/16/2022

This review is bussin. Thank you to the kind patient who wrote it and for the Gen-Z Kodawari employees that taught me the adjective bussin.

08/03/2022

I was nominated for Best of the Bay again and this is me shamelessly trying to get your vote.

There is a link in the comments, thank you so much in advance.

This was way harder than doing a headstand on a paddle board. My plan was to then have the table go up and down while in a headstand. Maybe if I win.



Wondering if people on a waiting list to see me are like “this B can’t see me for 2 weeks but has time to film herself doing headstands.”

07/13/2022

An interview I did today with on PTSD.

My dad has just let me know that the military recently dropped the D (disorder) to hopefully remove the negative stigma. So this is a short interview about PTS.

As more people realize that most people fall on the spectrum of some type of PTS I imagine any negative stigma about a diagnosis will continue to decrease.

Chinese Medicine, the work of Dr. Sarno and books like “The Body Keeps the Score” are all just examples that our body is a physical manifestation of our emotional experiences.



is just the most glamorous

05/11/2022

Things people have said while getting acupuncture.

-I feel high
-I think I’m tripping
-I feel that needle you just put in my ankle, but I feel it in my shoulder.
-why am I crying?
- my limbs feel so light
-my limbs feel so heavy
-my whole body is buzzing

And one of my personal favorites was when I left the room, came back in and the patient on the table said that when I was gone an old medicine woman came in and healed her. This would be ideal for me if I could get back up from ghost doctors all the time.

Strong reactions don’t happen every time, and I’m honestly not sure what solicits the stronger responses, if it’s the protocol or the patients themselves. Something I have noticed over the years is that people have stronger responses during a full moon. 🌕

04/25/2022

Lost of taste and smell, or a change in taste after Covid is due to a loss of gray matter in the brain.

This patient got 60% improvement in taste after one acupuncture session.

I’m curious in doing activities proven to increase the totality of gray matter would eventually restore taste and smell.

Some easy proven ways to do that is brushing your teeth with the opposite hand or learning a few new words in a different language a day.

The points I used:
Du 20, LI 2,4,10,11,19, bitong, yintang, GB 8, LU 7, 9 HT 7, ST 36, LV 3, KD 2, SP 3,10. Mirrored nose points on knee. Mirrored tongue points along medial foot along spleen channel. Ashi points around GB8.

01/10/2022

Mucinex helps with fertility, possibly particularly with PCOS patients. For the love of God someone try it and tell me.

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01/08/2022

Just for fun. In Chinese Medicine 5 Element Theory each person is born with a dominant organ/element type. Your type describes your dominant personality traits and what illnesses your more likely to experience when unhealthy.

What do you think yours is?

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