Quan Yin: Archetype of Beauty

"The greatest beauty in the world is compassion, love shining free of attachment and grasping."
- The Tarthang Tulku

Kuan Yin is an avatar of the divine feminine, the goddess of love, the bodhisattva of compassion. She relates to our modern ideas of physical beauty, and the act of renewing oneself by means of facial acupuncture, healthy aging and the idea of renewal as a process of transformative change. In this process, which originates from within and manifests itself outward in our shen, a vital opportunity exists for the one to experience compassion, joy, beauty and peaceful balance.

Eastern Medicine promotes Beauty from Within, unlike Western perspectives that advise topical solutions for skin troubles. Stress, unbalanced diet, inadequate sleep, exhaustion, or anemia may lead to improper nutrition and metabolism by the skin. These factors will promote rapid aging of the skin. All of these negative influences have been shown to negatively influence the formation of collagen in the skin, which deprives the skin of vitality and radiance - and even accelerates flabbiness and aging of the skin, the formation of wrinkles, cracked lines, roughness, brown aging spots and black spots.

Blood deficiency in particular will lead to rapid aging of the skin, and, unfortunately, many women in America are slightly anemic, or do not maintain optimum hemoglobin levels. This results in premature aging. The Chinese tonic herbs may be used to promote healthy, beautiful skin provide natural nutrition to the skin. They are effective in enriching the blood with many special nutrients and elements that the skin requires to remain youthful and beautiful. The herbs are superb at moisturizing and nourishing the skin, as well as rejuvenating the degenerated elastic and collagen structures of the skin. They can also facilitate blood circulation and metabolism of the skin, functions absolutely essential to maintaining beautiful, youthful skin. And the herbs used in tonic beauty care have powerful antioxidant, free radical scavenging action that helps remove toxic peroxides from the body and keep the cells youthful. These qualities are essential elements for rejuvenating and maintaining healthy skin, for repairing damaged skin and for smoothing away wrinkles.

Chinese Acupuncturists can prescribe the perfect combination of herbs for your skin type. Facial Acupuncture treatments can help rosacea inflammation by calming the skin.