静 · 平 · 和Inner Sunset, San Francisco · Open Tues–Sat · (415) 555-0188Now booking new patients · April 30, 2026

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Est. 2014 · Lic. Acupuncture · NCCAOM

The body remembershow to be still.静

Your Business is a small Chinese-medicine practice on Irving Street. Three licensed practitioners, a working herbal dispensary, and a treatment room that smells faintly of moxa and steeped chrysanthemum. We work slowly. We listen first.

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First visit90 minutes · $185

Follow-up60 minutes · $135

Sliding scaleThursdays, $45–$75

Acupuncture needle resting on a treatment cloth

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What we treat

Five roomsof the body,
five long conversations.

Most patients arrive with one of these five complaints. The work, often, is in finding what is connected to what — sleep that gets worse around a deadline, a neck that holds an old grief, periods that arrive like weather.

01 · Pain

Neck, back, joints

Frozen shoulder, sciatica, plantar fasciitis. Slow unwinding over six to twelve sessions.

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02 · Sleep

Insomnia & anxiety

Falling asleep, staying asleep, waking at 3 a.m. with a racing mind that will not settle.

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03 · Cycle

Hormonal & fertility

PMS, painful periods, PCOS, perimenopause, partnered fertility support alongside Western care.

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04 · Digest

Gut & digestion

IBS, bloating, reflux. The classical Spleen-Stomach pattern, mapped onto a 21st-century life.

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05 · Spirit

Stress & burnout

The Shen, unsettled. For people who are technically functioning but are no longer themselves.

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The first visit

An afternoonof careful attention.

Ninety minutes. Tea is poured. We take your pulse on both wrists, look at your tongue, and ask about sleep, digestion, energy, and what brought you here.

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Conversation

A long intake — symptoms, history, the texture of your days. 25 minutes

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Pulse & tongue

The two diagnostic windows. They tell us where Qi is moving and where it is stuck. 10 minutes

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Treatment

Sterile single-use needles, often with moxibustion or cupping. You rest 25 minutes. 45 minutes

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Plan & herbs

A treatment cadence and, if useful, a custom herbal formula from the dispensary. 10 minutes

Three practitioners

Different lineages,one quiet room.

Each practitioner brings a different lineage and specialty — Five Element, Worsley, classical TCM, Japanese-style. We try to match new patients to the best fit at intake.

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Mei Linnea Chen

L.Ac. · NCCAOM · M.S. TCM

Founder. Twelve years in practice. Specialty: women's health, fertility, postpartum recovery. Trained at AIMC Berkeley and Chengdu University.

First availableThu · 9:40 a.m.

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Ari Shimoda

L.Ac. · Dipl. O.M.

Japanese-style acupuncture (Toyohari lineage) — extremely gentle, shallow needling. Works often with sensitive patients, children, and pain.

First availableSat · 11:20 a.m.

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David Wells

L.Ac. · Dipl. Ac. · Five Element

Worsley Five Element acupuncture. Long sessions focused on the constitutional level — sleep, anxiety, the unsettled Shen, and burnout.

First availableWed · 2:00 p.m.

Stacked drawers of a Chinese herbal dispensary

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Six-pack package

The standardcourse of care.

Most patterns respond best to a course of six visits over four to eight weeks. We pre-pay the package so you can stop thinking about price and start thinking about Tuesday afternoons.

Visits6 follow-up sessions, 60 min each
BookingSame practitioner, recurring slot
HerbsOne custom formula included
Expires120 days from first session

$735($122.50 / visit · save $75)

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I came in for migraines. I left, eight sessions later, sleeping through the night for the first time in four years. Mei did not promise this would happen. She just kept asking the right questions. Patient since 2023— Hannah W., Inner Richmond

From the journal

Notes on seasons,cycles, and stillness.

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Seasonal · Spring

The body has beenasking for a while.

New patients, returning patients, second opinions. The intake takes ten minutes. We will get back to you within one business day to confirm a first-visit time.

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The body remembershow to be still.静