Acupuncture for Skin Disorders
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine for Healthy Skin
Acupuncture and herbal medicine can be very effective at treating skin conditions. Treatments can provide quick relief for acute symptoms and can provide significant and lasting relief from recurrent or chronic skin conditions.
The skin reflects and reacts to imbalances within the body’s internal landscape and the effects of the environment. Internal disharmonies caused by strong emotions, diet, and your constitution as well as environmental influences, such as wind, dryness, dampness, and heat can all contribute to the development of a skin disorder. To keep your skin healthy and beautiful on the outside, you must work on the inside of your body as well. Increasing the flow of energy, blood and lymphatic circulation improves the skin’s natural healthy color.
Promotion of collagen production increases muscle tone and elasticity helping to firm the skin. Stimulating the formation of body fluids nourishes the skin and encourages it to be moister, softer, smoother and more lustrous, and because of these effect, today cosmetic acupuncture is widely practiced and accepted as a natural way of treating wrinkles, sagging skin, scar tissue and so on, many clients love it.
General skin conditions that can be treated with acupuncture and herbal medicine include acne, dermatitis, eczema, pruritus, psoriasis, rosacea, shingles and urticaria (hives). Asian medicine does not recognize skin problems as one particular syndrome. Instead, it aims to treat the specific symptoms that are unique to each individual using a variety of techniques with acupuncture such as herbal medicine, bodywork, lifestyle/dietary recommendations and meditation to restore imbalances found in the body. Therefore, if 10 patients are treated with Asian medicine for eczema, each patient will receive a unique, customized treatment with different lifestyle and dietary recommendations.
If you suffer from a skin condition or would like to know how to optimize your skin health, please call 310-401-3347 to find out more about how acupuncture and Asian medicine can help you.