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New Pricing Effective May 21 We are updating our session rates to continue providing top-quality care. New rates: $115 for a single session, $840 for an 8-session package, and $1200 for a 12-session package. Thank you for your support and understanding.

Twelve Acupuncture Sessions Or More (a Season!) For Transformative Relief From Such Symptoms or Issues As Pain and Infertility

My hours are changing slightly during the holiday season.

I’m at Pulling Down the Moon today working with patients going through fertility treatment. Sometimes the treatments create heightened emotional states. It’s tough especially during election season and the …

Sabian Symbol Notes for March 15, 2020 – March 21, 2020 March 20 I’m late for this one. All week I have been watching and waiting and wondering …

Seven Steps To Staying Healthy During Flu Season Happy Chinese New Year! I want to send a follow-up email next week to describe the qualities of the Metal Rat but first …

From approximately mid-August until the first frost, in Asian medicine, we see this is the time of the year where the Earth element is most prominent. This is one …

I had a good time yesterday alternating my workday with acupuncture treatments and an impromptu in-person astrology reading. I think combining the two is working well. Part of my …

It’s been fascinating to observe insurance patients who are or aren’t willing to make the short phone calls to: a. find out their own benefits, or b. appeal their …

New Schedule! At Heartwood Center, I am still in from noon until 7 pm on Thursdays and from 10 am until 4 pm Sundays, BUT I have also added …

Astrology post (I’ve been practicing acupuncture since 2012 and have been a student of Chinese Medicine since 2004 but I’ve been a student of astrology and practicing astrologer since …

I was happy to treat this sweet patient once and receive this wonderful review later that night! I love when acupuncture works that quickly. She was here from out …

‘In Winter, I plot and plan….’ Henry Rollins Winter is dominated by the Water element and the emotion of Water is fear. Although fear isn’t something anyone wants to feel …

Since last year, I have been in network with United Healthcare, Cigna and Aetna and have been able to bill Blue Cross Blue Shield as well. I am currently …

Here is a great article from Pulling Down the Moon on the benefits of L-Arginine and how it can help with uterine lining thickness and increase sperm count. It’s …

This is has been an amazing and passionate season, an angry season full of conviction, the perfect time for contested primaries and the big bang of conception and birth. …

For anyone who is skeptical about and/or interested in if and how acupuncture works, this is a great video from colleague Mel Hopper Koppelman from the Acupuncture Now Foundation. It’s one of the best explanations that I’ve seen so far.

As many of you know, I work at Pulling Down the Moon three days a week with patients who are undergoing fertility treatment and receiving acupuncture as an adjunct treatment. Typically, I work with them through the whole process up until their pregnancy.

In 2010, there was a study done in Korea on a cross section of women who had been diagnosed with ‘unexplained infertility’. The modalities that were used were acupuncture, herbal medicine and moxibustion. The study was carried out over...

Last year was an interesting year. As some of you know, early in the year I was hired by Pulling Down the Moon to work in their new Highland Park office. It was a wonderful opportunity to specialize and focus on the field of infertility.