Park Slope Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs/Sarah E. Rivkin, DAHM, LAc, Dipl. OM

11/09/2025

Beautiful wisdom from Maria Popova today. Be like the lichen and learn their lessons! The Marginalian

When I was a child, little delighted me more than the magical green garlands draping from the pine trees, which I made into wreaths and mustaches to roam the mountains of Bulgaria as a miniature Or…

09/08/2025

Awesome facial acupuncture class this weekend with and ironic to see this car parked outside! No Botox for me.

08/20/2025

I was delighted to chat with Max on the Qiological Podcast about translation, language, and clinical practice. To listen, click on the link in the first comment 👇🏼

We explore what it means to translate not just texts, but meaning itself, the unseen weight of choosing one word over another, the challenges of translating classical Chinese into a modern context, how diagnosis itself is a kind of translation, and the subtle power of bias in everything we do—from clinic to scholarship.

08/19/2025

08/19/2025

08/08/2025

Curious about facial acupuncture? You’re not alone! See below 👇

07/12/2025

Yup!

'The Office' alum, Jenna Fischer, said she was “fully skeptical” but “almost all my hot flashes were gone” within two sessions.

07/01/2025

In China (and many other cultures) it's a tradition for new moms and babies to stay in and rest for the first 30 days after birth--no cold food, no cold showers, no hair-washing. This postpartum "championship window" can have a profound effect on a woman's future health. If proper care is given, it's a rare opportunity for her to resolve chronic health issues--but once it passes, you've lost your chance.

Modern life allows little time for rest, so this practice is often dismissed as old-fashioned or impractical. That's what the mom in this story from This American Life thought too. But then she tried it.

Listen to her story at the link in the first comment 👂👇

07/01/2025

Pop quiz! For how long do you think there have been steel acupuncture needles?

A. 50 years
B. 250 years
C. At least 2000 years
D. 10,000 years

Answer: C!

China's earliest known steel acupuncture needles have been discovered in the famed tomb of the Marquis of Haihun in east China's Jiangxi Province. The needles, expertly crafted using sophisticated puddling steel technology, date back over 2,000 years to the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD).

See link below to read more: 👇

05/23/2025

Acupuncture is everywhere!

05/09/2025

How the tariffs will decimate the practice of herbal medicine:

Dispensary owners say a protracted trade war would harm a niche but popular sector in which imported herbs are prescribed to treat colds, pain and other ailments.

04/25/2025

🌿Look what my dog found today! East Asian medicine in the wild! Varieties of mugwort (artemisia) are used in internal medicine to stop bleeding, treat pain, and dispel itching. Leaves are dried and processed to be burned on or near the skin for moxibustion therapy. The leaves are also eaten fresh in Japan in sweets, soups, and tea. Chinese name 艾葉（艾叶) ài yè; Japanese: yomogi 蓬 or よもぎ.