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  • 04.09.2022

    Acupressure as self-care for long COVID

    Last weekend, I had the opportunity to attend an online conference from Hong Kong on Chinese medicine for COVID and long COVID.  Tele-health delivery of Chinese medicine has been encouraged in Hong Kong during the pandemic. Chinese medicine practitioners from... Read more

  • 10.08.2022

    Acupuncture, post-COVID condition and long COVID

    Since January 2022, in our Geelong clinic we have seen more and more patients who have had COVID-19. Some patients came to us within a few weeks of diagnosis, presenting with fatigue, brain fog, loss of smell, feeling cold and... Read more

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That gap between who you know yourself to be and who you can manage to be right now.
Chinese medicine has a clear view of what’s driving it 🗺️and a practical sequence for working through it.
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That gap between who you know yourself to be and who you can manage to be right now.
Chinese medicine has a clear view of what’s driving it 🗺️and a practical sequence for working through it.
New post on the blog. 🔗 in bio.

That spot on the tendon that just won’t warm up.
You stretch it, you rest it, you apply heat — and it feels better for a while. But the cold keeps coming back. In Chinese medicine, that’s not just a circulation problem. Cold can lodge in a joint or tendon and sit there, resisting the usual remedies.
Moxibustion is one of the ways we address it. Dried mugwort, burned close to the point, delivering a warmth that penetrates differently to a heat pack or hot shower. Deeper, like a pin-point infrared sauna, in a way that tends to linger.
It’s the same principle we use for whole-body cold: Yang as the body’s pilot light 🔥 When it’s low, or when cold gets in somewhere it shouldn’t, moxa is one of the most direct ways to rekindle it.
It smells a little like a campfire 🌿 Patients either love it immediately or take a session to appreciate it.
If you’ve got something that aches in the cold, or just won’t fully recover, this might be worth a chat.
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That spot on the tendon that just won’t warm up.
You stretch it, you rest it, you apply heat — and it feels better for a while. But the cold keeps coming back. In Chinese medicine, that’s not just a circulation problem. Cold can lodge in a joint or tendon and sit there, resisting the usual remedies.
Moxibustion is one of the ways we address it. Dried mugwort, burned close to the point, delivering a warmth that penetrates differently to a heat pack or hot shower. Deeper, like a pin-point infrared sauna, in a way that tends to linger.
It’s the same principle we use for whole-body cold: Yang as the body’s pilot light 🔥 When it’s low, or when cold gets in somewhere it shouldn’t, moxa is one of the most direct ways to rekindle it.
It smells a little like a campfire 🌿 Patients either love it immediately or take a session to appreciate it.
If you’ve got something that aches in the cold, or just won’t fully recover, this might be worth a chat.
📩 DMs open, or book via the link in bio.

The pain keeps coming back. Sound familiar?
In Chinese medicine, symptoms are the branches. The pattern underneath — the stuck Qi flow, the deficiency the imbalance — is the root.
When only the branches are treated, they grow back. When the root shifts, the branches settle, and stay settled.
That’s why we ask about more than just the one thing you came in for. Your sleep, your digestion, your stress response. They’re all part of the same picture.
And once we’ve identified the pattern, we work through it in a clear sequence: settling what’s most pressing first, then addressing the conditions that allowed it to take hold, then building the kind of resilience that means you stop needing us as much.
You’ll always know where you are in that process — and what we’re working toward together.
DM us or book via the link in bio if this sounds like what you’ve been looking for.

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The pain keeps coming back. Sound familiar?
In Chinese medicine, symptoms are the branches. The pattern underneath — the stuck Qi flow, the deficiency the imbalance — is the root.
When only the branches are treated, they grow back. When the root shifts, the branches settle, and stay settled.
That’s why we ask about more than just the one thing you came in for. Your sleep, your digestion, your stress response. They’re all part of the same picture.
And once we’ve identified the pattern, we work through it in a clear sequence: settling what’s most pressing first, then addressing the conditions that allowed it to take hold, then building the kind of resilience that means you stop needing us as much.
You’ll always know where you are in that process — and what we’re working toward together.
DM us or book via the link in bio if this sounds like what you’ve been looking for.

We don’t fix you. We guide you.
You know where you are. Tired, sore, stressed, stuck. And you know where you want to be. But the path between A and B? That’s where most people get lost.
That’s what we do. We listen to your story, read the signs your body is giving us, and build a treatment plan that makes sense for where you are right now and where you want to go.
Acupuncture. Herbal medicine. Diet and lifestyle changes. Clear direction. One step at a time.
You bring the destination. We’ll help you find the route.
📍 Geelong Chinese Medicine
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We don’t fix you. We guide you.
You know where you are. Tired, sore, stressed, stuck. And you know where you want to be. But the path between A and B? That’s where most people get lost.
That’s what we do. We listen to your story, read the signs your body is giving us, and build a treatment plan that makes sense for where you are right now and where you want to go.
Acupuncture. Herbal medicine. Diet and lifestyle changes. Clear direction. One step at a time.
You bring the destination. We’ll help you find the route.
📍 Geelong Chinese Medicine
🔗 Link in bio to book

Some weeks are better than others. That’s normal. The question isn’t whether you’ll have setbacks. It’s whether the overall direction is right.
That’s what a treatment plan is for. Not perfection. Just a clear trend in the right direction.
📍 Geelong | Link in bio to book

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Some weeks are better than others. That’s normal. The question isn’t whether you’ll have setbacks. It’s whether the overall direction is right.
That’s what a treatment plan is for. Not perfection. Just a clear trend in the right direction.
📍 Geelong | Link in bio to book
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