Acupuncture for Fertility, Pregnancy, Women’s Health and Wellness in Oakland, CA

The Hangzhou Edit. Products a TCM practitioner actually brought home from Hangzhou, China.

I went to Hangzhou, China for ten days of clinical training and came home with a suitcase full of TCM products you need to know about.

Plant-based feminine hygiene with probiotic technology that has not made it to the US yet. Herbal beverage powders that tonify Kidney and Spleen qi and support digestion.
A thirteen herb foot soak that reads like a clinical formula. Moxibustion and pain patches that deliver transdermal TCM. Yina reflexology socks that map the entire body onto your foot. And three bag charms that smell exactly like the herbs they represent.
The medicine lives in the food, the herbs, the patches, the foot soaks, and the charms you hang on your bag. You just need someone to point it out.

Have you seen any of these products before? And would you like me to find US-available substitutes for any of them? Drop a comment and let me know.

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The TCM Costco Edit. A practitioner's guide to your next run.🏃‍♀️

Fish maw (Yu Jiao) for Kidney yin and collagen. Bird's nest (Yan Wo) for Lung yin and skin vitality. Konjac jelly (Ju Ruo) for dampness and gut health. Braised abalone (Bao Yu) for Liver yin deficiency. Chestnuts (Li Zi) for Kidney yang and lower back support. Dried plums (Wu Mei) for fluid generation and digestion. Centella cream (Ji Xue Cao) for collagen synthesis and barrier repair.

Swipe through for the full breakdown of what each product does in Chinese medicine and why it is worth adding to your cart. 🛒

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I want to be honest about why I am posting this.

A systematic review and meta-analysis was recently published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health examining ten common IVF add-ons including acupuncture, endometrial scratching, platelet-rich plasma, and others. The conclusion: none of them showed sufficient evidence to improve live birth rates. Acupuncture was lumped in with the rest and the headline wrote itself.

As someone who has spent fifteen years doing this work with fertility patients, I found it deeply frustrating. Not because I am defensive about acupuncture. Because the methodology does not reflect how acupuncture is actually practiced and patients deserve to know that before they make decisions based on a headline.

The studies keep measuring the same thing: a fixed point prescription, one or two sessions around transfer day, compared against sham acupuncture. That is not fertility acupuncture. That is a needle protocol. And there is a significant difference.

Swipe through for the four reasons acupuncture and IVF research keeps missing the mark, and what good research would actually need to look like.

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Fertility foods. What TCM has been saying for thousands of years and what nutritional science is now confirming.

Every food on this list has both a TCM energetic rationale and a nutritional one, because that is how I think about food with my fertility patients.

Eggs for Kidney jing and mitochondrial health. Walnuts for Kidney yang and omega-3s, both partners. Black sesame for Liver Blood and zinc. Dark leafy greens for Liver qi and folate, cooked not raw. Bone broth for jing and glycine. Salmon for Blood tonification and DHA. Dates and goji berries for yin nourishment and antioxidant protection.

Food is not separate from your fertility treatment. It is part of it.

Swipe through for the full breakdown of what each food does and how to use it. Save this post and share it with someone who needs it.

📍 City Pulse Acupuncture | Oakland CA
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Last night I was at Spring Fertility’s Social Sips mixer in the East Bay, and it was exactly the kind of evening that reminds me why I love this work.

Spring Fertility brings together practitioners from across the fertility space a few times a year for an evening of connection. Last night that included a maker bar where you could customize hats, bags, and charms, and a special patch commemorating a milestone worth celebrating: 10,000 pregnancies.

10,000.

I have been working alongside Spring Fertility for years and they are the most collaborative, integrative fertility clinic I have encountered in the Bay Area.

Acupuncturists, OB/GYNs, therapists, and reproductive specialists genuinely welcome at the same table, working toward the same goal. This is what it looks like when a clinic actually means it.

If you are a health practitioner in the fertility space and want to be in this room at the next one, I would love to see you there.

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📍 City Pulse Acupuncture | Oakland CA
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