Acupuncture Sessions
All private and community acupuncture appointments are by appointment only.
Private treatments
Private acupuncture may include acupuncture, cupping, moxabustion, gua sha, and herbal consultations. Your acupuncturist will talk to you one-on-one each session to determine your health needs and craft a personalized treatment. Practitioners will also offer nutritional counseling and lifestyle recommendations to help you heal. Different practitioners have different pricing schemes for private acupuncture, treatments range from $80-$120 a session. This discounted price is based on payment at time of service. Some of our practitioners are in-network with the Veteran’s Administration and with Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO.
We also offer a free initial consultation (20 minutes) for private acupuncture appointments.
Community treatments
In community acupuncture treatments you will share the space with up to two other people. The sliding scale for community acupuncture is $40-$60.
Treatments include an intake and a personalized treatment created by your acupuncturist. Only a single service (acupuncture, cupping or extended gua sha) is guaranteed during your treatment but occasionally your practitioner may add a brief moxibustion session, gua sha, herbal consultations, or nutritional counseling based on your health needs.
We work on an honor system and we don’t ask for any proof of income level. Patients are fully dressed and wear (or bring) clothes so that the practitioner can needle their arms and legs.
Herbal therapy
Herbal therapy is a system from Traditional East Asian Medicine that spans over 500 single herbs and 300 formulas. Our formulas have been handed down for thousands of years and have demonstrated their effectiveness time and time again. In the pre-modern era, herbs were commonly prepared by boiling roots in water, distilling the essence of roots in grain alcohol, or cooking ground herbs into salves and pastes. This type of medicine was practiced by all civilizations and one of the most precious items in ancient civilization were exotic herbs. Needless to say, where there was money to be made there were fakes to be sold. As modern herbalists we are still trained to recognized, by sight, smell and taste, the raw form of all our herbs. This is in many ways a relic of a more ancient system where you had to be sure that they money you were shelling out was for real ginseng.
Modern herbalists are concerned not only with high-quality products but also with additives. The herbs that we stock are distributed by American companies and are heavily regulated in their country of origin. We want to make sure that we are dispensing potent herbs with nothing extra added. We stock products from:
We don't expect modern people to brew up their own herbs anymore (although you can!) Our herbs are offered in liquid, or pill form so they are easy to carry and consume in today's busy world. We can also craft custom formulas in granules (these are simply dissolved in water). Custom granule formulas can be tweaked from week to week as your health picture changes. Custom granule formulation is included in the cost of an acupuncture session.
Herbal formulas are selected based on individual patterns and are modified as needed based on patient reaction. For patients who are fearful of needles, herbs are often a great way to enter the world of traditional medicine.