Months of recurring acne in the same spot on my face and one panicked Google search later, I landed upon face mapping—i.e., a millenniums-old Chinese medicine practice that links the location of ...

“Traditional face mapping for acne or spots originates from ancient Chinese and Ayurvedic principles,” explains Dr Mahto. “The technique claims to address the ‘root cause’ of ...

Acne face mapping is a practice that dates back thousands of years in East Asia, known as mien shang, and suggests that acne in different regions of the face corresponded to varying imbalances in ...