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Acupuncture and Chinese medicine service treating PMS and other menstrual concerns, menopause, infertility, digestive issues, chronic pain, headaches, anxiety, depression, insomnia, addictions, beauty and anti-aging, weight loss and general maintenance.

25/08/2025

Cosmetic benefits of press needles

🔹 What Press Needles Are
• Tiny needles (usually 0.3–1.5 mm) affixed with medical tape, designed to be worn for hours or even a couple of days.

• They provide continuous, gentle stimulation to an acupoint, unlike regular acupuncture needles that are inserted for 20–30 minutes.

🔹 Cosmetic Benefits
• Stimulate collagen and elastin production → support skin elasticity and firmness.

• Improve local blood circulation and lymphatic drainage → reduce puffiness, brighten complexion.

• Regulate facial muscle tone → soften fine lines caused by tension (e.g. forehead, between brows).

🔹 Common Facial Acupoints for Press Needles
(Always individualized based on pattern differentiation, but typical choices include:)
• Yintang 印堂 – between brows, calming, reduces stress lines.
• Taiyang 太阳 – temple area, for headaches, eye strain, and cosmetic lifting.
• ST2 (Sibai 四白) – below the eye, for puffiness, dark circles.
• LI20 (Yingxiang 迎香) – beside the nostrils, opens sinuses, improves skin tone.
• ST4–ST6 (Dicang–Jiache 地仓–颊车) – along jawline, for sagging, TMJ, facial contour.
• LI4 (Hegu 合谷, on hand) – often paired for overall facial circulation and skin health.

Or make it easy: on smile lines and eye bags area, wear over night to sleep if you feel comfortable. Proven results!

🔹 Guidelines
• Retention time: Usually 4–8 hours, sometimes up to 24 hours.
• Frequency: 2–3 times per week in cosmetic protocols.
• Skin prep: Clean and dry area to prevent irritation.
• Cautions: Avoid during skin infection, active acne breakout, or if prone to keloids/allergic skin reactions.

✨ A key difference from cosmetic acupuncture with filiform needles: press needles give subtle, prolonged stimulation rather than stronger qi mobilization and micro-trauma. They’re great for sensitive patients or maintenance between sessions.

21/07/2025

I visited renowned masters in the fields of traditional Chinese medicine, Taoist healing, Zhuyou therapy, wellness cultivation, and spiritual practice. The experience was truly enriching, with wisdom gained beyond measure.

12/07/2025

✈️ Traveling as an acupuncturist means packing more than just clothes — it’s a full wellness kit! Here’s what’s in my carry-on for a smooth, balanced trip:

🌿 Vitamin B2 – Keeps mouth sores away (especially when eating out).
🌿 TCM herbs – My go-to for preventing cold invasion + adjusting to jet lag.
🌿 Massage sticks – Face + body tools for long flight self-care.
🌿 Comb – Hitting my 500 daily strokes, even in the air!
🌿 Gua Sha board + oil – In case of tight neck or back.
🌿 Acupuncture pouch – Needles, alcohol pads, lancets. Always ready.
🌿 Self-heating moxa patch – Instant warmth for neck or belly discomfort.
🌰 Chestnuts – Sweet, grounding carbs.
👁️ Steaming eye patch – Instant relief for tired, dry eyes.
🌀 Massage roller – Keep that leg circulation moving mid-flight.
🫚 Ginger candy – For nausea, detox, and digestion.
🍬 Hawthorn candy – Helps food move along!
🥚 Homemade tea egg – A comforting backup if airplane meals fall short.
🥜 Nuts mix – Walnut, cashew, pine nuts = brain food + snacks.

Travel light, but travel wise. 🌏💼✨

10/07/2025

🌿 What is Moxa?
Moxa (艾灸 ài jiǔ) is a Traditional Chinese Medicine practice that uses the warmth of burning mugwort to stimulate acupuncture points, promote circulation, and strengthen Yang Qi.

✨ In China, many families use it at home for seasonal support and chronic conditions.

Here are 4 key tips for safe and effective use at home:

1️⃣ Avoid Wind – After moxa, pores remain open. Protect yourself from cold drafts and air conditioning. Cover up!
2️⃣ Hydrate – Drink warm water afterward to help flush toxins and support Qi flow.
3️⃣ Don’t Overdo It – 2–3 sessions a week is enough. Let your body absorb the benefits.
4️⃣ Best Points to Start:
🔸 Navel (CV8/神阙 shén què) – 15 minutes to warm the center
🔸 ST36 (足三里 zú sān lǐ) – 5 minutes to boost immunity and digestion

🔥 I personally love the traditional 悬灸 (xuán jiǔ) method – holding the moxa stick near the skin for gentle warmth without contact.

🧘‍♀️ Focus your mind during the session. Moxa works best when body and spirit are in sync.

note：
1. People with high fever, constipation, or internal heat are not suitable for moxibustion.
2. Moxibustion should not be performed when extremely hungry or overly full; it is best done one hour after a meal.
3. Women during menstruation or pregnancy should avoid moxibustion on the lower back or sacral area.
4. Individuals with severe heart or lung dysfunction, or excessive visceral hyperactivity, should use moxibustion with caution.
5. Moxibustion is not recommended for children under three years old.

29/06/2025

More than just for hemorrhoids!
This traditional Chinese ointment — Mayinglong Musk Hemorrhoids Ointment — is well-known for treating hemorrhoids, but did you know it has many other healing benefits?

🔹 Multi-Purpose Uses:

🌿 Hemorrhoids & A**l Fissures – Soothes pain, swelling, and promotes healing.

🌿 Post-Surgery Wounds – Speeds up recovery after a**l or peria**l procedures.

🌿 Peria**l Eczema & Itching – Reduces inflammation and discomfort.

🌿 Minor Boils or Pimples and acne – Helps reduce redness and swelling (spot treatment).

🌿 Mosquito Bites – Relieves itching and irritation naturally.

🌿 Mild Ge***al Discomfort – Can be used with caution for external itching or dampness.

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✨ Key Herbs:
• Musk: Pain relief & blood circulation
• Bezoar: Detoxifying
• Pearl & Amber: Tissue regeneration
• Calamine & Borneol: Cooling, anti-itch

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Available on amazon.

📎 Always do a patch test first. For external use only. Consult a doctor for off-label use.
📍 Ancient wisdom, modern healing 🌿

#马应龙 #痔疮膏 #中医

25/06/2025

It’s the hardest to treat your own spouse.
Too much familiarity… not always enough trust. 😅 So I preach whenever I get the chance.

Yesterday, he started feeling off—fatigue, body aches, yellow phlegm. I suspected a wind-heat invasion or flu, probably from overdoing it at the gym and then air conditioning was too cold. I made him ginger + purple basil tea. It helped a little…

By evening, he had a low-grade fever (99.4°F), felt more fatigue, achy, restless, more yellow phlegm, even a bit of chest discomfort. I told him confidently:
“I can knock this fever out in one night.”

Desperate enough, he took the herbs I prepared.
This morning? Temperature back to 97.4°F. He feels almost 100%. Booked his pickleball game for tomorrow and even sent me a thank-you text. 🙌

I’m so grateful to know this medicine—to give my family and patients fast, effective relief when they need it.

Now fingers crossed he’ll actually let me treat him next time without resistance. 😏❤️

13/06/2025

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08/06/2025

🌧️ Why Does Arthritis Flare Up in Rainy Weather?

Lately, some of my patients have been experiencing arthritis discomfort — and it’s no surprise. This year’s zodiac energy is 太阴湿土 (Tai Yin Damp Earth), bringing extra dampness to our environment.

In Chinese Medicine, arthritis is called 风湿 (Fēng Shī) — Wind and Dampness. It’s not just physical; it’s energetic. These invisible forces (wind, cold, and damp) affect the body deeply, yet many American lifestyles lack protection from them.

👉 Ever notice your arthritis improves when you visit warmer or drier places like Florida or Colorado? That’s because your body is no longer echoing the damp external environment.

👷‍♂️ We often see arthritis in fishermen, farmers, contractors, and even people working in cold, air-conditioned surgical rooms — all environments full of wind and dampness.

And as we age, our body’s yang energy (warming, activating force) weakens, making us even more susceptible.

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🌿 How to Change Your Internal Micro-Environment:

1. Eat Spicy Foods 🌶️
I grew up in a humid region, and we naturally ate spicy food to prevent arthritis.
One of my friends moved to my hometown and avoided spicy food — ten years later, she developed arthritis so sensitive that even a light breeze triggered pain.

➡️ In this weather, I always cook with Sichuan peppercorn or Sichuan chili oil.

2. Foot Soaks 👣
Use Sichuan peppercorns in warm water to soak your feet — a traditional remedy to expel cold and damp from the body.

3. Heat Therapy 🔥
Use a heat lamp, infrared therapy, or moxibustion to warm the joints and dispel dampness.

4. Protect Your Body 🧤🧣
Wear long sleeves and pants, avoid cold water on your hands, and wear mittens when reaching into the freezer.
Postpartum women need extra protection, as their bodies are wide open and vulnerable after delivery.

5. Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs 🪡🌿
These can speed up relief, restore balance, and strengthen your body’s ability to resist environmental changes.

💡 TCM Belief:

When your body is strong, the environment has less power over you.
Take care of your internal climate, and you won’t echo the storms outside.

01/06/2025

🌸 Breast Tenderness Before Your Period? You’re Not Alone.

Do you experience breast pain, irritability, chest tightness, or shortness of breath a week before your period? You’re not imagining it — the root cause may be hidden in your emotions.

💭 In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this is often due to Liver Qi Stagnation, a pattern caused by long-term emotional stress such as anxiety and depression. Just like a twisted water hose blocks flow, stagnant Liver Qi blocks the breast meridians — leading to breast distension, pain radiating to the ribs, delayed menstruation, and clots.

🧠 Western medicine calls it “Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)”, but TCM looks deeper: over 60% of premenstrual breast pain cases are closely related to emotional stress disrupting the Liver’s function of free flow.

💥 What’s more concerning? The vicious cycle of “emotion ↔︎ body”:
• Emotional tension causes physical discomfort.
• Discomfort increases emotional stress.
• And the loop continues…

🧧 How TCM Helps:
TCM treats based on the nature and timing of pain:
• Excess type (Shi): Pain before the period, breasts feel swollen and tender to touch. Treatment focuses on soothing Liver Qi and unblocking meridians. Begin treatment before menstruation.
• Deficiency type (Xu): Pain occurs after menstruation, with soft, lump-free breasts. Focus on nourishing Liver and Kidney, best treated between cycles.

🌿 Healing starts with harmonizing the body and mind — not just relieving symptoms.

✨ Want relief that treats the root, not just the surface? Let TCM support your cycle.

29/05/2025

Medicine in the Kitchen – Perilla & Ginger: The Perfect Pair for Qi Movement and Dispelling Cold, Easy to Make!

My husband went to a party during the holiday and felt weak and nauseous the next morning, unable to get out of bed. No fever, negative for COVID. I made a warm tea using perilla and ginger from the kitchen.

Perilla (purple basil) disperses cold, clears Lung Qi, and regulates the Middle Jiao Qi. It has multiple functions: releasing the exterior, dispelling cold, regulating Qi, easing the stomach, relieving cough, and calming asthma. I dry and store it myself.

Ginger is a household staple. In TCM, it’s known as the holy medicine for vomiting. It’s very effective for symptoms like Spleen and Stomach deficiency cold and epigastric pain due to cold.

My husband couldn’t stop praising this tea — he felt much better after drinking it. His appetite returned by evening, he had a light dinner, and even asked for another cup. By today, he’s fully recovered.

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Ingredients:
• 10g perilla leaves
• 3 slices of fresh ginger
• Brown sugar or honey to taste

Instructions:
Wash the perilla leaves and ginger. Add enough water to a pot, toss in the ingredients, bring to a boil on high heat, then simmer for 5-10 minutes. Add brown sugar or honey to taste.

Benefits:
• Releases the Exterior & Dispels Cold

Both perilla and ginger warm the middle and expel cold. This tea is especially useful after exposure to cold air (like in air-conditioned rooms) or eating too many cold foods in summer.

• Moves and Regulates Qi
Perilla helps regulate the Spleen and Stomach, easing nausea and vomiting, promoting smoother Qi flow and greater comfort.

• Reduces Greasiness & Bloating
Summer greasy foods can cause discomfort; this tea reduces bloating, aids digestion, and lightens the burden on the digestive system.

• Boosts Immunity
The nutrients in perilla and ginger help strengthen immunity and improve resistance.

23/05/2025

✨ Success Story! ✨
A 32-week pregnant patient came in with a breech baby. We did just one moxibustion treatment on BL67 (Zhiyin point), and at her next ultrasound—baby had turned head down! 🙌
Swipe to see the confirmation.

Zhiyin (BL67) is a point on the Bladder Meridian, located on the outside corner of the little toe, just 0.1 cun (about the width of a grain of rice) from the edge of the toenail. Gently stimulating this point—especially through moxibustion—can help balance the body’s energy, support the Kidney meridian, and improve the flow of blood and Qi to the uterus. This helps boost Yang energy, smooth the flow of fetal energy, and encourage the baby to naturally turn into the correct position for birth.

Modern research has also shown that moxibustion at Zhiyin can activate the body’s hormonal system, especially the adrenal glands. This can increase the activity of the uterus and make the baby move more, which may help the baby turn on its own into a head-down position.

The best time to try turning the baby using this method is usually between 30 and 32 weeks of pregnancy (about 7 to 8 months along). At this stage, the baby is developed enough to turn, and the mother’s body is usually in good shape to respond well to treatment. However, during this time, it’s important for moms to rest well, stay calm, and avoid stress or overexertion to get the best results.

Overall, moxibustion on the Zhiyin point is a gentle, safe, and low-cost method to help correct a breech baby’s position. It’s a beautiful example of how Traditional Chinese Medicine and modern science can work together to offer expecting mothers more natural choices.

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23/05/2025

✨ Success Story! ✨
A 32-week pregnant patient came in with a breech baby. We did just one moxibustion treatment on BL67 (Zhiyin point), and at her next ultrasound—baby had turned head down! 🙌
Swipe to see the confirmation on the scan ➡️

Zhiyin (BL67) is a point on the Bladder Meridian, located on the outside corner of the little toe, just 0.1 cun (about the width of a grain of rice) from the edge of the toenail. Gently stimulating this point—especially through moxibustion—can help balance the body’s energy, support the Kidney meridian, and improve the flow of blood and Qi to the uterus. This helps boost Yang energy, smooth the flow of fetal energy, and encourage the baby to naturally turn into the correct position for birth.

Modern research has also shown that moxibustion at Zhiyin can activate the body’s hormonal system, especially the adrenal glands. This can increase the activity of the uterus and make the baby move more, which may help the baby turn on its own into a head-down position.

The best time to try turning the baby using this method is usually between 30 and 32 weeks of pregnancy (about 7 to 8 months along). At this stage, the baby is developed enough to turn, and the mother’s body is usually in good shape to respond well to treatment. However, during this time, it’s important for moms to rest well, stay calm, and avoid stress or overexertion to get the best results.

Overall, moxibustion on the Zhiyin point is a gentle, safe, and low-cost method to help correct a breech baby’s position. It’s a beautiful example of how Traditional Chinese Medicine and modern science can work together to offer expecting mothers more natural choices.

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