Anti-wrinkle Effect of Facial Acupuncture

Authors

  • Siriwan Thanachotipan DIVISION OF DERMATOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, FACULTY OF MEDICINE CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY, BANGKOK, THAILAND
  • Wannasri Sindhuphak DIVISION OF DERMATOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, FACULTY OF MEDICINE CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY, BANGKOK, THAILAND

Keywords:

Electro- acupuncture, Acupuncture, Wrinkle

Abstract

Facial acupuncture has been proposed that it can stimulate new collagen production thus decrease the skin wrinkles. To our knowledge, there is no clinical study to prove this postulation. The aim of this study is to evaluated  anti-wrinkle effect and safety of facial acupuncture. Thirty Thai females who had wrinkles grade 1-3 were included. They were divided into acupuncture group and placebo group. The peri-orbital wrinkles improvement were observed in 5th week (37.9%) with statistically significance (p=0.035). There was no significance change in 8th and 12th week. The forehead wrinkles were no significance difference all three periods. All patients were satisfied. After each treatment, some patients had mild local erythema and pinpoint bleeding. Five in 20 patients had purpura. Most of the patients (95%) experienced mild to moderate degree of pain at the punctured sites

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Published

2026-07-02

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Thanachotipan, S., & Sindhuphak, W. (2026). Anti-wrinkle Effect of Facial Acupuncture. Thai Journal of Dermatology, 24(2), 87–97. retrieved from https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/TJD/article/view/283210

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