AcuDetox (also known as AcuWellness or 5 Needle Protocol- 5NP), is a gentle, five-point ear acupuncture protocol designed to support emotional, physical, and energetic healing.

AcuDetox is a five-point ear acupuncture approach created in the 1970s by Dr. Mutulu Shakur and Dr. Michael Smith. It helps calm the nervous system, ease stress, and restore balance. Their work led to the founding of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA), carrying forward a vision of community empowerment, systemic healing, and accessible care. AcuDetox is a gentle, powerful practice that restores balance in mind, body, and spirit. Rooted in Dr. Mutulu Shakur’s vision, it affirms wellness as a human right and emphasizes justice, compassion, and community care.

The Five Ear Points

• Kidney — Restores vitality, heals fear

• Liver — Detoxification, emotional balance

• Lung — Processes grief, builds resilience

• Shen Men — Calms mind and spirit

• Sympathetic — Regulates stress response

  Benefits of AcuDetox

  ✔ Reduces Stress & Anxiety — calms the nervous system and promotes relaxation
  ✔ Supports Trauma & PTSD Recovery — regulates fight-or-flight and helps release stored trauma
  ✔ Eases Withdrawal & Cravings — supports detox, recovery, and emotional regulation
  ✔ Improves Sleep — encourages deeper, more restorative rest
  ✔ Strengthens Emotional Resilience — creates space for clarity, hope, and inner strength
  ✔ Boosts Natural Healing — supports immunity, detoxification, and vitality
  ✔ Accessible & Nonverbal — no need to “talk it out,” the body does the work
  ✔ Fosters Community Healing — powerful in group settings, creating connection and belonging

AcuDetox can be added to any offering—either as a grounding way to begin your experience or as a gentle, integrative way to close it.

Ear Seeds

For those who prefer not to use needles, ear seeds are a simple and effective alternative. Auriculotherapy, a branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), views the ear as a microsystem of the whole body. The ear is like a tiny map of the body, resembling an upside-down baby, so when ear seeds are used on specific points, gentle pressure activates those areas of the body, offering support in a variety of ways. Stimulating specific ear points can help with stress, anxiety, insomnia, digestion, and more—either on its own or alongside other modalities.

Ear seeds aren’t a cure, but they can help ease symptoms—most often pain and stress—while promoting a greater sense of calm. After cleaning the ear, seed, beads or bling are placed on specific points. These points can be gently massaged a few times daily. This stimulation encourages the release of natural endorphins, the body’s “feel-good” chemicals, which may help relieve discomfort, support balance & provide an overall sense of well- being. However you choose to receive, I’ll honor what feels best for you & where you’re at.

Benefits people often notice with ear seeds:

• Stress & anxiety relief

• Supporting better sleep

• Reducing cravings (sugar, smoking, alcohol, caffeine)

• Easing pain (headaches, physical pain & injury, PMS, etc.)

• Supporting digestion, vitality & energy

• Promoting relaxation, emotional balance & general harmony