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

Facial acupuncture. What it treats, how it works, and why the results last.

Before any needles touch your face, a full health intake is completed covering your menstrual cycle, sleep, digestion, energy, and emotional wellbeing, alongside pulse and tongue diagnosis. Body acupuncture comes first to address the constitutional patterns driving your skin health. Facial needles come last.

The cosmetic results are real: improved skin tone, reduction in fine lines and puffiness, lifted and firmed facial muscles, and a clearer complexion. But they are downstream of the internal work. That is what makes this treatment different from anything else you will try for your skin.

Swipe through for the full breakdown of what facial acupuncture is, how it works, what to expect, and what it treats.

Facial acupuncture is available at City Pulse Acupuncture in Oakland.

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Come with me to receive facial acupuncture in Hangzhou, China. 🇨🇳

We started with a computerized skin analysis that mapped the surface of my skin and identified exactly what needed to be addressed before a single needle was placed. Then came the intake with Dr. Li. Her skin was exceptional by the way.

Facial acupuncture is for fine lines, loss of muscle tone, hormonal acne, puffiness, and dullness. But it is not a one size fits all treatment. Dr. Li assessed my constitution through pulse and tongue diagnosis first and built the entire treatment around what she found.

Body needles came before anything touched my face. The facial needles came last, stimulating collagen and elastin production, improving circulation, and releasing the muscle tension that contributes to lines and sagging.

Your skin is telling you something. Facial acupuncture listens to the whole story.

Facial acupuncture is available at City Pulse Acupuncture in Oakland.
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Ten days in Hangzhou. Every meal was medicine.

Not in a metaphorical sense. In a literal, here-is-the-herb-and-here-is-what-it-does sense.

From ginseng infused noodles to black chicken soup with cordyceps to a hot pot broth that was essentially a clinical formula, food and medicine are not separate categories in Traditional Chinese Medicine. They never have been.

Swipe through for the full breakdown of what I ate in Hangzhou and what each ingredient was actually doing.

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Moxibustion. What it is. How it works. And why it has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 3,000 years.

After sharing the ginger moxibustion reel from Dr. Feng Ninghan's clinic in Hangzhou yesterday, I wanted to go deeper on what moxibustion actually is, because it is one of the most powerful and most underexplained tools in this medicine.

Moxibustion involves burning dried mugwort near or on specific acupuncture points to warm the channels, move stagnation, strengthen yang qi, and support the body's vital energy. It comes in several forms, moxa sticks, cones, on needles, on ginger 🫚 , each with specific clinical applications.

Research has shown it can improve uterine blood flow, regulate hormonal function, reduce inflammation, support immune function, and even help turn a breech baby. It is warm, aromatic, deeply relaxing, and one of my patients' favorite parts of their treatment.

Swipe through for the full breakdown, the different forms, what it treats, and what to expect.

Moxibustion is available at City Pulse Acupuncture in Oakland.

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Come with me to the clinic of Dr. Feng Ninghan in Hangzhou, China 🇨🇳.

What you are seeing is ginger 🫚 moxibustion, one of the oldest techniques in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Fresh ginger 🫚 grated and packed directly over acupuncture needles. Moxa shaped and placed on top. Lit. The heat travels through the ginger 🫚 and into the tissue, warming the channels, moving stagnation, dispersing cold and damp from the body.

The ginger 🫚 is not just a conductor. It is medicine in its own right: anti-inflammatory, deeply warming, and moving. Together with moxa it creates a depth of heat that penetrates in a way nothing else can replicate.

The patients receiving this treatment? Unbothered. Relaxed. Actively scrolling.

This is what medicine looks like when it is simply part of life.

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