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

中秋快乐 🌕
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the full moon of the eighth lunar month, the brightest, fullest moon of autumn. In Chinese tradition, the round moon symbolizes 团圆 (tuányuán), reunion, wholeness, and family coming together.

For generations, families have gathered to share a meal, drink tea, admire the moon, and eat mooncakes. And for those who can't be together, the same moon offers a reminder of connection across distance.

However you're celebrating tonight, a table full of family, a phone call with someone far away, or just stepping outside and looking up, there's something nice about remembering people have been doing the same thing for thousands of years.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival from City Pulse Acupuncture. Wishing you a night of good food, connection, and moonlight. 🌕

📍 City Pulse Acupuncture | Oakland CA

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Spent Saturday at a book talk for Sitting the Month by @dearclarissa, a beautiful exploration of postpartum food, recovery, and the tradition of postpartum confinement.

Postpartum care has been part of my practice for 15 years, so much of the conversation felt very familiar, especially the emphasis on nourishment, rest, warmth and giving the body time to recover after pregnancy and birth.

I brought a copy of Sitting the Month back to the clinic, so if you’re curious, feel free to flip through it in the waiting room at your next visit.

📍 City Pulse Acupuncture | Oakland, CA

Today is the first day of fall. In Chinese medicine, autumn is a time to slow down, conserve, and nourish what's been depleted.
Yin is the cooling, nourishing, restorative side of the body, reflected in your sleep, hydration, skin, menstrual health, and your ability to recover from stress. Watch for dry skin or eyes, waking around 2 to 3am, feeling tired but unable to fully relax, night sweats, or a period that feels shorter or lighter than usual. These can have many causes, but in TCM, they often point toward Yin deficiency.
Pears, black sesame, dark leafy greens, seaweed, dates, and nourishing soups and broths are traditionally used to support Yin, cooked and moist rather than raw or cold as the weather cools.
If you've been running on empty, autumn is a good time to slow down and actually address it.
Swipe through for the full picture.

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"Wasian." "Dry needling." Two ways Asian becomes more palatable.
A recent New York magazine feature on the rise of "Wasian" identity included a number that stopped me: 82% of multiracial Asians in the U.S. are part white. I'm half white and half Chinese myself, and I read that statistic differently than I might have twenty years ago. Proximity to whiteness changes how Asian identity gets perceived. What's familiar gets accepted more easily. What's closer to whiteness gets celebrated faster.
I see the same pattern in my own field. Acupuncture is an ancient medical system with its own language, theory, and clinical reasoning. Dry needling is acupuncture rebranded through a Western biomedical lens. Same needles. Different name. Somehow more legitimate once it's detached from its Asian origins.
Swipe through for the rest of it, including where this shows up in my own life, not just my profession.

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Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is coming up on September 25th, the day the moon reaches its fullest and roundest point of the year. In Chinese medicine, that roundness has never been just visual. It's a statement about balance and completeness.

The moon has always represented Yin: cool, receptive, nourishing, restorative. Autumn is the season most closely tied to Yin too, which is part of why this festival lands exactly when it does. If you spent the summer running hot and depleted, your body is already asking you to slow down.

Swipe through for how this shows up everywhere from mooncakes to family reunion to what we're actually treating for in the clinic this time of year.

📍 City Pulse Acupuncture | Oakland CA
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