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

Ten days studying TCM in Hangzhou, China 🇨🇳
 
Ginseng with one of the world’s foremost experts. Facial acupuncture and scalp therapy. West Lake, the tea plantations, and a palace dinner straight out of the Tang Dynasty. Clinics, lectures, and meals that were quietly doing more clinical work than most supplements.
 
50 CEUs and a lot to bring home to Oakland.

I also want to take a moment to thank @yina.co for organizing this retreat. It gave me something I did not know I needed: a spark to fall back in love with this medicine all over again again, and the inspiration to start creating content that actually reflects why I do this work.

The China 🇨🇳 series is officially complete, but I want to know what you want to see next. Drop a number in the comments:
1. Fertility and IVF support
2. Women’s health and hormones
3. Postpartum care
4. Chinese heritage, culture, and food
5. TCM seasonal living
6. Behind the scenes of my practice
 
Until next time.
 
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Come with me to the TCM Museum at Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hangzhou, China.
 
The lobby has a giant meridian model with every pathway illuminated. Seeing the entire system lit up at once makes something that is usually abstract suddenly feel real.
 
The museum traces thousands of years of Chinese medical history, including case after case of classical texts that form the foundation of everything still practiced today. One section covers President Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, which is largely what triggered the acupuncture movement in the United States. A piece of history worth knowing if you have ever wondered how this medicine made its way West.
 
Another display documented the Hangzhou medical team sent to Wuhan during COVID-19 in 2020. The plaque recorded a 100 percent Chinese medicine treatment rate, and a 98.28 percent improvement rate when Chinese and Western medicine were used together.
 
Thousands of years of history. Still being written.

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Ginseng. One of the most powerful tonic herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine and one of the most misused in the Western supplement market.

During my training in Hangzhou I studied with Dr. Fang, China's preeminent ginseng expert. His full practitioner course runs 100,000 RMB, roughly $14,000 USD. We were only his second cohort of American students. What he taught us in a single afternoon changed how I think about this herb entirely.

The most important thing to understand about ginseng: wild ginseng grows 0.3 grams per year. Cultivated ginseng grows 0.8 grams per year. Most people reach for the larger piece. Dr. Fang says do the opposite. Smaller means slower growth, more concentrated active compounds, and higher clinical value.
Swipe through for the full breakdown of what ginseng actually is, the different types, what it treats, how to evaluate quality, and how to use it properly.

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Come with me to He Fang Jie in Hangzhou, China 🇨🇳 to learn about ginseng.

Dr. Fang is China’s preeminent ginseng expert. His full ginseng course for practitioners runs 100,000 RMB, roughly $14,000 USD. He is in a category of his own. We were only his second cohort of American students.

The most important thing to understand about ginseng starts with the Chinese character itself. Ren Shen contains a radical indicating a slow growing plant. Wild ginseng grows 0.3 grams per year. Cultivated ginseng grows 0.8 grams per year. Most people reach for the larger piece. Dr. Fang says do the opposite. Smaller means slower growth, more concentrated active compounds, and higher clinical value.

He also taught us how to evaluate ginseng by the shape of its root tail to determine fiber versus carbohydrate concentration. Then he took us into the shops on He Fang Jie and quizzed us on everything he had just taught us.

This is what it looks like to learn from a master.

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We're honored to be nominated in Oakland Magazine's Best of Oakland 2026!
✨ Best Acupuncture Practice
✨ Best Alternative Medicine Practice
✨ Best Wellness Center
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