Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pure Joy Acupuncture in Marin County is Now Open! Governor Newsom has declared acupuncturists to be essential workers. Pure Joy Acupuncture is cleared to resume in-person acupuncture treatments [...]

Whether you’re working from home, homeschooling your children, without a job, or you’re an essential worker, Shelter-in-Place is taxing everyone I know. People are starting to crawl [...]

A Muscular Perspective Is your lower back unhappy from lack of motion and an abundance of sitting during Shelter-in-Place? Wonder why your back hurts so much when you don’t move? The problem lies [...]

Rice porridge, also known as jook or congee is the chicken noodle soup of Chinese medicine. The basic ingredients of rice, water, and broth can be combined with other ingredients to enhance [...]

Chinese medicine is, at its core, a preventive medicine. Many Chinese medicine texts begin by giving guidelines on how to stay healthy before addressing how to treat disease. Here are some ideas [...]

Diet is an important aspect of maintaining your health in Chinese and Western medicine. Sometimes they have different ideas about how to accomplish that and often they overlap. Chinese medicine [...]

Did you know that Chinese medicine recommends consuming your vegetables as salad only in summer? We also put faster cooking methods, like blanching and stir-frying, in the same hot weather [...]

Happy New Year! Are you coming out of your holiday haze? Please drop by my new office this Saturday, January 11 from 9AM to noon for a Mindful Morning! We’ll help you recuperate from the [...]

You heard the rumblings. You’ve seen the paint swatches on social media. It’s time to announce that on October 15, 2019, Pure Joy Acupuncture has a new home! 750 Las Gallinas, Suite [...]

Please join me at wonderful no-cost events in the coming weeks! Mindful Morning this Thursday, October 3rd at 10AM. Mari of Modern Nutrition and Pilates will lead us through a short mat class. [...]