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Should You Ditch Your Dermatologist For Acupuncture?
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  • How does acupuncture work for skin? There are two primary reasons to treat your skin with acupuncture therapy — health and beauty — and they are often connected. As you likely know from experience, nearly anything can affect your complexion, from stress, poor sleep, and a bad diet to hormonal imbalances and environmental factors. "An acupuncturist must first diagnose the cause for a patient’s skin problem then select proper acupuncture points for the treatment," Dr. Zhang explained. The acupuncturist can then treat the skin concern locally (on or around it) and/or via the meridians connected to the concern. To illustrate, Dr. Zhang cited a specific case: "Hormones play an important part in some skin conditions. One female patient was suffering from very bad acne and an irregular period from her birth control medicine. After six treatments of focusing directly on her skin condition and her hormone points, her period became consistent and her acne was tremendously improved."
  • How do you treat signs of aging with acupuncture? Acupuncturists treat concerns like fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging with local treatments nicknamed the "acupuncture face-lift." Dr. Zhang told me that cosmetic acupuncture has been used since the Sung Dynasty (960-1279 AD) and kept the empress looking youthful. By inserting needles into specific points on the face, acupuncturists can stimulate collagen turnover and blood flow to nourish the skin and reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
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