“Balance is not a place you arrive at. It’s a practice you keep.”
Meridian pathway, drawn by hand
Dried herbs, weighed on the counter
Meridian Acupuncture & Herbs · San Francisco
Your body’s story, written in needles and herbs.
A small San Francisco practice where acupuncture, herbal medicine and food are written into one plan — yours. Bring what hurts, what stalls, what you would rather not carry into another season.
Acupuncture · Cupping · Herbal medicine · Moxibustion · Dietary therapy · Tui na
The entries
Six treatments, kept like recipes.
Every entry in the ledger has its ingredients and its season. We choose from them the way a cook chooses from a shelf — by what your body is asking for that week.
Glass cups, warmed and waiting
No. 01
Acupuncture
Hair-thin needles placed along the meridian lines to move what has stalled and settle what won’t rest.
fine needlesquiettime
No. 02
Cupping
Warm glass drawn across the back, releasing tissue that has been held tight for far too long.
glassheatsuction
No. 03
Herbal medicine
Dried herbs measured and blended for one person at a time, with plain instructions on how to take them.
rootsbarksimmer
No. 04
Moxibustion
Mugwort burned close to the skin to bring warmth back into cold, tired, slow-to-move places.
mugwortwarmthsmoke
No. 05
Dietary therapy
Not a diet. A short list of what to cook in this season, and what to leave for later.
seasonbrothhabit
No. 06
Tui na
Hands-on bodywork along the channels — pressing, rolling, stretching what the day has stiffened.
palmspressurerhythm
The apothecary shelf
The apothecary
Roots, bark, and what’s already in your kitchen.
Herbal medicine and dietary therapy are where the practice becomes something you can hold: a jar of tea on the counter, a pot of broth on the stove. Both are written for one person at a time, and both change as the season does.
Herbal medicine
Dried herbs measured and blended into a formula of your own, with notes on how to prepare it and what to expect from it.
Dietary therapy
Food as the first medicine — what to cook now, what to set aside, and how to keep it simple enough to actually do.
“What you eat and what you steep are the same conversation.”
The first visit
How a visit unfolds.
I.
We talk first.
Your history, your sleep, your digestion, the places that ache. Nothing is too small to mention.
II.
We read the signs.
The pulse, the tongue, the way you hold yourself — the body keeps its own notes.
III.
You lie down, we work.
Needles, cups, moxa or hands, chosen for the day you’re having rather than a fixed script.
IV.
You leave with your entry.
A written plan for the weeks ahead: what we’ll do next, what to take, what to cook.
A quiet room, a steady hand
The appointment card
Come in. Let’s write your next chapter.
Fill in what you can and we’ll answer with a time. If you aren’t sure which entry you need, say so — that’s the first thing we’ll talk about.
