Indigo Chinese Medicine

08/01/2026

Now pouring: .of.origin Summer Tea 2 with Wu Mei (smoked dried plum) and Gan Cao (licorice root).

A smoky sweetness that gently cools and quenches thirst, restrains excessive sweating with a gentle sweetness without the sugar hit.

Gently balancing to terrain, Wu Mei is also known as a parasitic inhibitor.

19/12/2025

Thinking about recent events, I wonder how we got here. Supposedly we are more evolved than our forebears, yet here we are, ancient history playing out again.

Then I stumbled upon this quote which, to me, explains how we can get stuck. Rigidity.

Nature teaches us that life is flow, health is flow, yet all too often we remain inflexible where it counts - our mind (because thoughts lead action).

I’m a deeply spiritual person, and I love the concept of a spiritual practice as a grounding and guiding anchor, but ancient history has siphoned us off into different pens and called it religion. When will we see that at their core, all religions speak the same core beliefs. It is time and man that has created the differences.

Unfortunately I do think that “being right” is baked into religious practice and this is where our deeper wisdom and higher selves must prevail.

My Christmas wish is we all choose humanity over being right. May we stay supple in our thinking, gentle in our judgments, and kind in our actions (towards humans, animals, nature). In a world obsessed with “what can I take” this is the critical and missing conversation in our hyper-wellbeing culture.

Much love to you, my community. As a gently practicing Christian, I will say Merry Christmas.
(Jesus’ teachings resonate, and especially the sacrifice he made so we no longer feel the need to sacrifice animals

12/12/2025

🍉 Watermelon: your magic pill for summertime irritability, exhaustion, diarrhoea, thirst, and heat stroke.

Try to get the seeded stuff ie. old school non gmo / fiddled with, natural. It is harder to find these days but it is around.

⚠️ Just make sure it’s not refrigerator cold (which will cause digestive damage for in Late Summer.

07/12/2025

A small win to cleaning up the humongous vaccine load at birth and early childhood 🥳

Wonder when this will filter down to Australia?

Make sure you share with all the parents-to-be. These recommendations can sometimes take years to filter down to rural medical practices in my experience (let alone US —> AUS) and women can, for years, keep getting outdated information.

Know

BREAKING: The CDC's vaccine advisory committee has voted to remove the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to make vaccine recommendations based on the mother's testing status.

The recommendations state that if a mother tests negative for hepatitis B, parents should decide, with the guidance of their health care provider, whether the shot is right for their newborn — referred to as "individual-based decision-making," according to a document with the ACIP voting language.

Read more: https://abcnews.link/BnuxEEL

04/12/2025

Herbs in the wild: Hai Piao Xiao

This is Hai Piao Xiao - cuttlefish bone. We use this for hyperacidity causing reflux. We don’t use herbs in isolation, typically a formula will be constructed to address the underlying pattern (root-Ben) and additions to address symptoms (branch-Biao).

Medicine is everywhere and in everything (sunshine, healthy habits, clean thoughts, movement, grounding etc) not just what we ingest.

Happy Friday my loves ☀️

29/10/2025

Here’s one for midweek healthy, seasonally appropriate meals that reheat nicely (hello warm food and drink! 👋)

Ratatouille with rice (or congee!) and sauerkraut.

Why you would want this:

🥒 If you make Ratatouille right it’ll have plenty of culinary herbs (I used oregano, thyme, tarragon and rosemary) which are aromatic and amazing to dispel damp. Combined with oungenct action they also are fabulous to keep the system deodorised of parasites.
🥒 Most of the ingredients are sweet in nature and work to tonify the digestive organs (you want this for optimal gut health)
🥒 There’s also a note of sour. We are in Spring, the flavour is sour and a *little* harmonises the spring organs Liver and Gallbladder (too much will tip the wood organs out of balance by astringing the qi when we want movement, and expansion this time of year)
🥒…Which is why the pungency of the culinary herbs is welcome addition for taste AND function - pungent flavours move and circulate the Qi and Blood (health is flow people!)
🥒 It’s well cooked thus less taxing on the digestion
🥒 Neutral - slightly cool thermatic temperature to help the body cope with the rising temperatures (especially up here in SEQ).
🥒Reheats nicely for workday lunches

I love this French classic and it will be on high rotation through Spring and Summer.

16/10/2025

I know where hearing about Peri Menopause and Menopause ad nauseam lately, but as someone’s who’s going through the feels, and as a praccy who happens to treat a lot Peri menopause symptoms, I want to weigh in.

Hope it helps…

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27/05/2025

GIVEAWAY ✨

In partnership with .health we’re each giving away a weeks supply of amazing gut health to support you through winter.

Prize includes a 3 pack of and week’s supply of Turkey Tail mushroom honey pills which are well known to support gut wellbeing. The prize also includes a bonus sample of another mushroom honey pill selected at random.

Both products have deep roots in Chinese medicine and are the creation of bona fide Chinese medicine practitioners.

To enter, tag a friend. The more tags the more entries. Winners are selected at random on Sunday 1 June and can be posted anywhere in Australia. Two prizes to be won!

18/05/2025

𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗶'𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗸𝗸𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝗵𝗹

Ok, so you’re really going to want to make this one. It’s perrrrrrfect for the cooler months and has all the good elements from Chinese med and SBM perspective:

✅ Protien - plant based for helpful variety of sources (not just meat!)
✅ Lots of fibre - we seem to have forgotten how important this is of recent years
✅ Sweet flavours that tonifies Spleen Qi - an important factor especially for breakfast
✅ Aromatics that prevent damp and help eliminate it from the body

Lentils are a lot easier to digest than other legumes and are a good start to including more beneficial legumes in the diet. If prepared properly, legumes can be well tolerated. If you haven’t had beans in a while there might be a transition period with a bit of bloat and gas due to the heavy exercise your gut is getting. Much like going to the gym, the body adapts and you will no longer get the B + G.

Unless severe reactions, avoiding certain foods increases intolerance and you’ll spend your life having to narrow down the diet more and more.

Onto the recipe! ➡️➡️➡️

Sauté until fragrant spring onions carrot and celery in olive oil ground star anise, cinnamon and a good pinch of salt and grind of black pepper.

Add rinsed red lentils and coat.

Add plenty of filtered water and bring to gentle boil.

Turn down heat and add chopped pumpkin, zucchini and 1/2 chopped tomato.

Simmer gently stirring to prevent sticking.

Check for seasoning and serve with yoghurt and corriander. Gorgeous 🤌

🔖 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿

12/04/2025

Not all dreams are subconscious rehashing or processing or prophetic. Did you know that certain themes relate to the state of health of the organs?

According to classical Chinese medicine texts like the Simple Questions (compiled 475-221 BCE) and Spiritual Axis (c. 100 BCE), different dream themes reflect imbalances in specific organs.

All dreams are in a way connected to the Heart Blood and Qi, but especially the state of Heart Blood. Dreams are also related to Liver Blood. So we see a role with Blood deficiency and connection to dreaming and quality of sleep.

Some common dream themes are flying and falling. Flying indicates an Emptiness int he Lower Jiao - the lower third of the torso. Falling indicates a fullness in the Lower Jiao.

Here’s what Simple Questions and the Spiritual Axis have to say about certain themes:
💭 Dreaming of Fires: Weak Heart Qi,
💭 Volcanic eruptions: Weak Heart Qi in the Summertime
💭 Laughing: Heart in excess causing imbalance
💭 Mountains, fire and smoke: Heart deficinecy
💭 Being angry: Liver in excess causing imbalance
💭 Very fragrant Mushrooms: Liver deficiency
💭 Dreaming in Spring about laying under a tree without being able to get up: Liver deficiency
💭 Forrests in mountainous regions: Liver deficiency
💭 Weeping: Lungs in excess causing imbalance
💭 White objects or about bloody killings: Lung deficiency
💭 Dreaming in Autumn of Battles and war: Lung deficiency
💭 Worry and fear, or crying and flying: Lungs in excess causing imbalance
💭 Flying and seeing strange objects made of Gold or Iron: Lung deficiency
💭 Being hungry: Spleen deficinecy
💭 Dreaming of building a house in Late Summer: Spleen deficiency
💭 Singing and being very heavy: Spleen in excess causing imbalance
💭 Abysses in mountains and of marshes: Spleen is deficiency
💭 Swimming after a shipwreck: Kidney deficiency
💭 Dreaming in winter of plunging in water and being scared: Kidney deficiency

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10/04/2025

Change of Seasons Tune Up ⚖️​​​​​​​​
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In Chinese Medicine, seasonal shifts are seen as powerful opportunities to support our health and prevent illness. Just like nature, our bodies are constantly in motion—health isn’t a fixed state, but something we cultivate and adjust with the rhythm of the seasons.​​​​​​​​
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As the external world changes, we’re meant to shift with it. Aligning ourselves with these natural transitions helps create balance, build resilience, and maintain a deeper sense of wellbeing throughout the year. In Chinese Medicine, we take seasonal changes as opportunities to better our health and prevent disease.​​​​​​​​
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✨Acupuncture and cupping helps us adjust with the seasonal changes.​​​​​​​​
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📣 If you’re in need of a seasonal tune up I’m now offering shorter express acupuncture and cupping treatments. These focused sessions are designed for singular health concerns or a quick maintenance session I’ve got you covered Noosa. Express treatments can be booked online, link in bio.​​​​​​​​
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