Beauty from the Inside Out

Anti-aging is an area of healthcare and esthetics that has been growing since the Boomers became middle-aged and panicky. Everyone wants to look and feel as vibrant as possible as long as possible. That is what cosmetic acupuncture can help you achieve.
The Process:
After a complete TCM (traditional chinese medicine) intake, examination and differential diagnosis, very tiny needles are inserted into the face. Distal points will also be needled to balance all the meridians. Dietary and lifestyle advice are integral as well as a prescription for herbs and/or nutritional supplements to strengthen the constitution. Most practitioners will also discuss proper skin care.
The Commitment:
The initial protocol is 10 sessions within 5 weeks. The maintenence is typically 1x monthly. If the practitioner discovers that you are not healthy enough to benefit cosmetically from the treatment, she will usually offer other options to get you to a greater degree of health before starting the protocol, much the same way a plastic surgeon won't perform a cosmetic procedure on a compromised patient. You will have the best results if you are willing to follow all the practioner's lifestyle recomendations. You will be brought to a place of better health, beauty and balance.
The Results:
Outwardly, wrinkles diminish, skin color evens out, skin glows and achieves a more youthful texture, sags and bags uplift. All naturally, all coming from the inside out.
Inwardly, menstrual and menopausal symptoms balance out, digestion typically improves, as does energy, mood and sleep.
The Science:
Mechanically, the tiny, superficially-inserted needles create micro-traumas that the body will heal with increased collagen production. As any student of biology knows, when there is any compromise to the body's defenses, even something as small as miniscule punctures in the skin, circulation will increase to the area bringing nutrients and white blood cells. This creates an immediate improvement in the appearance of the face.
TCM-wise, the needles are inserted into specific acupuncture points to enhance and raise spleen qi, improve T&T, tonify lung and kidney and balance the yang meridians.
It's good for you, it works and there's no surgery or injection of toxic or synthetic substances.
A TCM note about facelifts:
Any surgery, including a facelift, involves interrupting the flow of qi in the local meridians by cutting into the tissues. This can cause a chronic stagnation of qi in those meridians and ultimately, depletion. If this is not corrected, you will actually age faster than you would've otherwise. From the inside out. Fortunately, cosmetic and traditional acupuncture can be applied to re-establish this flow.