Facial Acupuncture and Jade Guasha--Needling back the hands of time
Facial Acupuncture and Jade Guasha--Needling back the hands of time
Acupuncture facial is one of the wonderful timeless beauty therapies practised by the Chinese since the Sung Dynasty (960-1279AD). It is said to be one of the basic Traditional Chinese Medicine methods for preserving the youth and beauty of royalties such as Empress Dowager Cixi. This therapy involves the insertion of microneedles into facial meridian points, hence increasing blood flow and circulation to the face, increasing collagen and elastin production, thus ultimately lead to anti aging and facial tightening/slimming effects. Also, acupuncturing at the right areas of the face can have profound balancing treatment effects to the internal organs that are mapped accordingly, otherwise known as face mapping.
Acupuncture facial is usually paired with Jade stone sculpting, a therapy that involves using ancient Jade to smooth over specific areas of face repeatedly. Tapping into the calming properties and revitalising positive energy of Jade stone itself, together with the skilled techniques of smoothing over the appropriate areas of the face, this therapy can help bring about lifting of the face, clearing of pigmentations and water retention and ultimately even reshaping the face to its ‘golden ratio’, making one look younger, more chiselled and charismatic.
While most information surrounding the effectiveness of facial acupuncture is anecdotal, a 1996 research reported in the International Journal of Clinical Acupuncture showed that 90 percent of 300 individuals who tried facial acupuncture saw positive results, including softening of facial lines, improvement in skin tone, reduction of under-eye circles and a general facial glow.
What good can I get from needling my face?
So to sum it up, this is a short but not exhaustive list of the wonderful benefits of facial acupuncture:
-Firms sagging skin
-Helps to minimize fine lines and wrinkles
-Tightens pores
-Reduces dark circles and puffiness under the eyes
-Lightens blemishes and scars
-Reduces double chin
-Improves skin complexion and gives a healthy glow
-Makes face becomes smaller and resculpts facial features
-Improves hormone-based skin conditions
-Treat dry skin and oily skin acne
-Non-invasive
-Less costly and safer than surgery, chemical peels and injections
-Restores balance to the body and create a sense of well-being
How can facial acupuncture achieve those above?
Increases muscle tone → firm up sagging skin
Stimulates cells to lay down new collagen and elastin fibres under wrinkles and pores → filling them in and minimizing them
Promotes lymphatic drainage → detoxifies and drains blockages in the face which are causing dark circles, puffiness, blemishes, double chin and poor skin complexion
Promotes increased blood flow to face → new blood brings fresh oxygen, nutrients etc to nourish the face → healthy glow
Fat burning effect of acupuncture → reduce size of face and reshape facial features
Rebalances hormonal systems → improves hormone-based skin conditions, oily or dry skin
Balances organ systems through face mapping, in which acupuncturing different facial parts can affect different internal organ systems → restores balance to body and create a sense of well being
Needles over chemicals and knife?
For facial acupuncture, stimulation of the body’s own healing capability and aging reversal powers is the key to this aesthetic procedure. Therefore, since patients do not take chemicals or undergo anaesthesia and surgery, there’s little if any controversy over the safety of this method, not to mention side effects.
Furthermore, facial acupuncture do not just tackle your face, it works to balance your whole body and organ systems and get them working well so that your face can exhibit the healthy glow from within and not just skin deep at the face. This is unlike methods such as Botox injections, Restylane fillers, chemical peels and surgical facelifts where the face, and only the face, is addressed.
However as this is a fully natural method to rejuvenate the face and cut back a number of years on the biological age exhibited, time and effort is required of the patient to upkeep the sessions for accumulative effects of acupuncture to take place. However there also requires a lot of techniques which many people may offer the service but may not produce the good effects from there. Read on in my blog about the real deal and fakers for Facial Acupuncture.
So are you ready to needle back the hands of time?