Indigo Chinese Medicine

13/05/2026

Science is finally catching up. 🌿

The New York Times this week explored a newly identified network in the body called the interstitium — a fluid-filled connective system running between organs, muscles and skin, now being described as a possible third circulatory system.

What stopped me in my tracks was this: researchers found that acupuncture points along the meridians map directly onto the pathways where fluid moves through this network. One researcher said, "This truly has to do with acupuncture."

For those of us practicing Chinese medicine, this is less a revelation and more a long time coming. In fact, we already have a name for it: the San Jiao. One of the twelve main organs, the San Jiao has always described this precise function - the movement of fluids and energy through the body's connective spaces, linking organs and regulating the flow between them. Western anatomy just needed a microscope to see what classical medicine mapped thousands of years ago!

Ancient wisdom now has modern proof.

📖 Worth a read - link in comments

11/05/2026

Food medicine for Autumn dryness 🍐

After the hot humidity of late summer, the pendulum swings hard the other way. Autumn brings Dryness, and this season the spotlight falls on the Lungs and Large Intestine, which connect to the skin and the emotion of grief.

In Chinese medicine this isn't just poetic. It's physiology. And it shows up in very real ways - respiratory flare ups, skin conditions, bowel irregularity, hay fever, low mood, and that particular kind of sadness that seems to arrive with the cooler air. If any of that sounds familiar, you're not imagining it. It's the season.

The good news is that food can do a lot here. The pear has been used in Chinese dietary therapy for centuries specifically because it moistens the Lungs, lubricates the Large Intestine and supports the skin from the inside. It's one of those ingredients that's quietly doing a lot of work.

We love to poach pears low and slow with raw honey, star anise, cinnamon and ginger. The honey amplifies the moistening, the spices bring gentle warmth as the body starts its transition to cooler weather. It's genuinely one of the best things you can eat right now and the full recipe is on the blog.

And if you'd rather something already made, our Autumn Seasonal Attunement Tea is built on exactly the same thinking. Dried asian pear and Chinese red dates to support Qi, hydrate and moisten. It tastes beautiful too.

🔗 Link in comments.

07/05/2026

29/04/2026

~ Foot Soaks ~

A hot water foot bath has been used for centuries as a very important health tool. Often seen as more superior than a bath (or spa) which can be too dispersing and heating (boil in the bag ring a bell?).

Often brewed herbal medicine are used to promote certain effects, but you can always use regular pantry items such as epsom salts, fresh ginger, lavender essential oil. Straight water is also just effective.

Simply fill a tub with as hot water as you can tolerate. Gently lower in feet and soak for about 20 minutes until water cools. Dry off and hit the hay.

I team it with a sleepy herbal tea + a small amount of honey, turn the lights down low, maybe add some calming music or meditation, cuddle the cats.

Foot soaks have wide ranging benefits, most notably promoting sleep. I’ve been using this trick for years and it has worked an absolute treat especially in my Melbourne cold, improper footwear, overstimulated days.

I’ve picked up the habit again using it to promote better sleep and reduce hot flushes in perimenopause. Despite despite the warmer weather in SEQ and aforementioned hot flushes, I noticed I’m getting cold feet at the end of the day

13/04/2026

One needle? Prepare to be mind blown 🤯

I too was sceptical. But I experienced it for myself, and the feedback rolling in replicates what I felt and what we are taught to expect.

More isn't necessarily better in Chinese medicine. It's about using the right input at the right point, just like a succinct combination of herbs will hit the mark swiftly.

A targeted approach gets faster and cleaner results.

❤️🤘

09/04/2026

Hi ya 👋 Dr Becki here, and this is my beautiful space.

It is part apothecary, part professional medical suite. It is also calm and serene - Yin nourishing if I may.

In a world full of busy-ness, tensions, things to do, lots to juggle, it is necessary to have a space where we can chill ouuuuuuut.

With 15+ years of experience my practice has refined to a precise style of acupuncture using minimal needles, and concise herbal medicine formulas to achieve clear, effective results.

This perfectly harmonises with the intention to be more with less and creating space to do the real work of healing.

With my ninja-like skills I am able to help with pain, tension, stress, burnout, digestive complaints, gynae and fertility, anxiety and depression, insomnia, menopause, skin or just a good old re-balancing.

👉You can find me in Noosaville (Qld) or online. Head to the website to learn more.

11/03/2026

Your change of seasons best friends 🫚

So everyone is coming down with the lurgy and of course it’s always “covid”. Doesn’t matter the name, in Chinese medicine we understand according to pattern: wind-cold, wind-heat +/- damp etc and which level it is in the body. This will determine how we treat to expel the pathogen from the body, not just suppress the symptoms (which essentially works against what your amazing intelligent sophisticated body is trying to do).

👉 Your best protection hacks this change of seasons is spring onion *whites*, fresh ginger, congee, and keeping the skin covered - even if it’s warm with a light layer. A light scarf is perfect to protect the back of the neck for you short hair, up-dos, and hairless people 😉

❗️If you can’t quite get there with recovering, book an appointment for herbs and/or acupuncture xx

09/03/2026

My partner is back in Shanghai for a work trip and I’m sooooo wising I was there. We tried to make it work, but alas clinic and congee duties prevail!

No doubt we will make efforts to get back to China soon. Since visiting in 2024 I’ve had almost an overwhelming desire to return and explore China more. It really is nothing like what we’re lead to believe, and being on the terrain where the medicine I practice has a 5,000+ year history was something else, unexplainable really. I know Chinese medicine to be powerful, but witnessing it in action every day and everywhere I look - at markets, on the street, the hotel buffet, McDonalds…. It was all Chinese medicine in action, or simply Yang Shen / Nourishing Life in action (McDonald’s serves congee and it’s very very good!).

It was humbling to feel a part of something so deep and vast, to be a part of this incredible medicine.

27/02/2026

CELEBRATE YOUR WINS ✨

As a healthcare professional, sometimes clinic life can be gruelling. See, healing is a complex task with so many factors at play. Not just medical, it is psychological, spiritual. It’s science, art, belief systems, medicine, analytical, intuitive.

A life of service is not for the faint of heart. Being a healthcare provider and supporting people through their toughest moments is an honour not to take lightly or use for ego leverage.

Receiving compliments such as this are received with so much gratitude and humbleness. I share because my success is your success is my success… ☯️

Getting positive feedback such as this keeps the fire in the belly when juggling the commercial side of practice (self employed) can test the passion. I may be a small operator (by design), but I always strive for world class service and treatment.

✨ Heading to Melbourne next month for a 3 day acupuncture workshop with . CANNOT WAIT to link up with my Chinese medicine community for a long weekend of nerding out 🤓

24/02/2026

Got grey hairs? Eat more black sesame seeds.

I’ve got a few popping up in my part line so it’s time to bust these little seeds out. In Chinese diet therapy, Hei Zhi Ma / Black Sesame Seed is traditionally used to nourish the Liver and Kidney Yin which is responsible for strong healthy pigmented hair - along with a bunch of other desirable beauty manifestations!

They’re also famous lubricating the bowels which is helpful in weight management, heat control and removal of toxins.

Teamed with walnuts strongly nourish Kindney Yang and Qi so together they are a longevity and preventative medicine powerhouse.

Something more modern is teaming with organic berries (compote, not cold) for antioxidant activity and flavour.

👉Sprinkle over porridge, congee, curries, vegetables.