yinyangdermatology

“My experience with Yin Yang has been truly inspiring. I’m loving the healthy glow of my skin and feel like I’ve had a youthful infusion! Most importantly, it’s so natural. I look like MYSELF and I couldn’t be happier!” - Emma Johnson

🌿 REVIVE is the holistic skin program that enhances your natural beauty. In each treatment, we look at your skin’s unique qualities to customize a plan and techniques that revive circulation and reduce what we call stagnation that’s a key factor in visible signs of aging and pre-mature aging in Chinese Medicine.

🌿 Amplifying inner alongside outer beauty, our sessions refresh, relax and lift your spirit.

🍃 In each 80-min. session you’re seen by both Dr. Toni Balfour and Maria Iorillo, our in-house holistic esthetician. Together, Dr. Toni and Maria bring nearly four decades of experience with addressing complex skin conditions with holistic dermatology, Chinese Medicine and formulating high-performance topicals with botanical extracts, plant stem cells, natural peptides, ceramides and organic oils.

🍁 Examples of treatment goals we customize with you and address effectively include:

🌿 Reducing eyes + dark circles
🌿 Lifting jowls
🌿 Smoothing wrinkles
🌿 Building up collegian + increasing elasticity
🌿 Improving hand wrinkles + age spots
🌿 Fading hyperpigmentation
🌿 Tightening neck skin + easing neck tension
🌿 Stimulating hair growth

🍁 Natural beauty is not perfection and REVIVE is not another quick-fix. We bring you this beautiful skincare ritual because we believe in you feeling good and healthy with restored skin that feels, looks and is your own best glow. ✨ ✨ 🌻

Life gives us seasons and we’re here to help you feel and look like your own glowing self where you are 🌿 more to come 🔜 🤍 we’ve been loving your results, healing journeys and you feeling like YOU!!

We 🤍 seeing your healing news 👏🏼 🌟 🌿 and look forward to being on this journey with you. Wishing you a restful holiday season and new year of vibrant health!!

Making medicine or making magic?
We grateful say yes to both. We believe nature wisdom and human healing are one. Combining custom herbal formulas with topicals we make for the individual healing journey is essential to each patient’s skin’s healing journey. 💚

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We 🤍 hearing your good news.

Especially when the healing powers of clinical herbal medicine feeds two (and more) ‘birds’ with one scone.😉 🙏🏼 🌈 💚 🌿

New schedule 🗓️ is up ✨ for in-person visits in our clinic in the pacific palisades // telemedicine appointments.

What does Shan Zha 山楂 have do with apples, peaches, strawberries, almonds and roses?

All in the family. 🍎 🍑 🍓

Also known as hawthorn fruit Shan Zha (craetagi fructus) is part of the (Rosaceae) rose family and a commonly used food herb in many classical Chinese Medicine herbal formulas for digestive disorders caused by excess food accumulation and blood disorders affecting skin health.

Modern research has consistently shown Shan Zha’s medicinal effects for heart conditions including mild to moderate heart failure.

Candied Shan Zha is a beloved household snack that stimulates low appetite and improves digestion after a heavy / greasy meal.

One whole plant. Different parts. Different medicine. Teamwork. What makes Chinese herbal medicine stand out is the timeless and generous healing wisdom + gifts from the plant world, magical Earth and everything in between that come together that make healing possible.

Life force and vitality manifest in the Blood in Chinese Medicine. Dang Gui and Dang Gui Wei are part of the same plant — with different effects in tonifying and moving Blood. Working together with other herbs in custom formulas to help skin heal naturally. 💚

From painful eye conditions to masses and nodules, the Prunella flower is part of the mint family and is sometimes known as the ‘self-heal flower.” Prunella plays an important role in many customized herbal formulas for treating skin conditions in TCM

🌿 🌿 🌿 Xia Ku Cao • Spica Prunellae • 夏枯草

In clinical TCM Herbal Medicine each formula is customized based on how an individual’s state health at the time of diagnosis. As conditions and our personal health needs change follow-ups are important for custom formulas to address body’s changing needs.

Custom herbal formulas are prescribed and prepared by appointment only. May availabilities are up 🗓️ follow out link in bio to schedule your visit. We look forward to seeing you here in our clinic + pharmacy or telemedicine 🤍 🖥️ 💚

Ongoing skin issues are not only the body’s way of communicating what may be happening with us physiologically but also mentally and emotionally.

Thank you for choosing us to be part of your recovery ❤️‍🩹 journey. We’re here to help.

1:1 consultations are both in-person in our Palisades clinic and via telemedicine. See you soon. 💚

🤍 thank you.

Thank you. 🤍 We love helping babies and toddlers heal skin naturally. Treatment is unique for each child.

🌿 At this time customized herbal medicine is available for patients with domestic US shipping address only.

From UV damage and environmental toxins to dietary and hormonal dysfunctions did you know strawberries are packed with skin-protecting vitamin A and C while increasing fiber intake that helps the body eliminate toxins?

A simple way to boost immune, digestive and skin health is one to two cups a day a few times a week!! Great with wild blueberries.

PS a calming treat for children, too 🍓 🍓 🍓