Transformation begins here.
We speak the language of the body.We are here to listen.
At Malachite Medicine, we trust in your body's innate healing power
We speak the language of the body and have the honor and privilege of being a translator for you. This is life-affirming medicine and it will transform the relationship you have with your body forever. This is attentive, individualized care rooted in the classical traditions of East Asian medicine.
Welcoming new patients in-office in Portland, Oregon, and remotely across the World.
Care tailored to your body
No two people present the same way. Every treatment is responsive, precise, and built around you.
Practitioners trained in lineage-based medicine
Decades of study, mentorship, and clinical experience shape the care you receive here.
Care that meets you where you are
In person or remotely, your treatment remains continuous, considered, and real.
Welcoming new patients in-office in Portland, Oregon, and remotely across the World.
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Welcoming new patients in-office in Portland, Oregon, and remotely across the World. +++
Symptoms are not problems to be silenced.
They are messages — your body's way of asking for what it needs. Our work is to listen, and to help you do the same.
Services
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Acupuncture
Channels activated. Vitality restored.
Your body is a vast watershed of interconnected channels — and when they flow freely, you experience vibrant health. Acupuncture restores that flow, working with your nervous system to support the body's own capacity for healing.
In-office · Portland, OR
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Herbal Medicine
Reminding your body how to function optimally.
Every formula from our medicinary is compounded specifically for you — drawn from the deep tradition of East Asian herbalism and tailored to address the root of your pathology, not only its surface. Healing through the wisdom of plants, daily, at home.
In-office · Remote
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Bodywork
The body responds profoundly when we listen.
You are a complex being with dynamic patterning. Where you feel pain is often not where it originates. The practitioners at Malachite Medicine wors with the exact signature your body holds, supporting you in living in a freer, more integrated way.
In-office · Portland, OR
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Western & Chinese Astrology
Your chart is a map. Let’s read it together.
Western and Chinese Astrology as a lens for self-understanding, life transitions, and deeper alignment with your nature. Offered by Kelsie — Licensed Acupuncturist and Professional Astrologer — in-office and remotely.
In-office · Remote
Meet Our Practitioners
A team that brings its whole self to the work.
Malachite Medicine is a group practice rooted in East Asian medicine, bodywork, and astrology. Our practitioners are trained in lineage-based traditions and bring deep expertise, genuine warmth, and an unhurried quality to every patient encounter. We work together — across modalities — to support you in living more fully.
Intuitive care. Classical roots. A genuinely warm presence.Melinda Iglesias Wheeler
Founder / Acupuncturist / HerbalistMelinda Iglesias Wheeler is a mixed, queer, mother, healer, bodyworker, acupuncturist, and trained as a doctor of East Asian Medicine. Melinda is the owner of Malachite Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Melinda practices a medicine that enables us to heal ourselves individually and by extension, collectively. East Asian medicine is a framework which illuminates a greater understanding of all the spaces, roles, relationships, and habitual ways we inhabit our body and mind — and offers us transformation. While listening to her patients words and bodies, Melinda co-creates lasting change and transformation in those she works with.
She founded Malachite Medicine to offer patients a more intimate, continuous model of care — a space where you are welcomed exactly as you are, and where healing is understood as something you move through together, not something done to you.
REMOTE + IN-OFFICE
Melinda sees patients in-office in Portland and remotely for classical acupuncture, herbal medicine.
Something personal about KelsieKelsie
Classical Chinese medicine & Western Astrology.Kelsie is a Licensed Acupuncturist, Professional Astrologer, and Biodynamic Bodyworker whose work sits at the intersection of East Asian medicine, somatic practice, and the ancient wisdom of astrology. She brings a rare integration of modalities to her patients — and a genuine curiosity about the whole person.
In her acupuncture and bodywork practice, Kelsie works with the body’s inherent intelligence, attuning to the patterning present and supporting the conditions in which it can reorganize toward greater ease and vitality. Her bodywork draws on biodynamic principles — honoring the fluid, rhythmic nature of the body’s systems — and is often combined with acupuncture for patients whose presentations call for both.
As a Professional Astrologer offering both Western and Chinese Astrology, Kelsie uses the natal chart as a framework for deeper self-understanding — particularly during times of transition, change, or the sense that you’re at a crossroads. Her astrological work is grounded, non-dogmatic, and oriented toward empowerment rather than prediction.
Kelsie sees patients in-office and remotely. She welcomes patients for acupuncture, biodynamic bodywork, astrology readings, and integrated sessions that combine modalities.
More Resources
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Foundational Reads
Symptoms Are Messages
A Different Way of Understanding the Body
What Makes This Medicine Different
Why Treatment Is Individualized
What We Mean by “Listening”
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Conditions & Patterns
Understanding Pain Beyond the Site
Why Digestion Reflects the Whole System
Anxiety as a Nervous System Pattern
Fatigue That Doesn’t Resolve
Hormonal Imbalance as a System, Not a Symptom
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Before Your Visit
What to Expect at Your First Appointment
How to Prepare for Treatment
What to Wear / Eat / Know Before You Come
After Your Session: What’s Normal
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Herbal Medicine Education
Why Herbal Medicine Is Individualized
What It Means to Take a Formula Daily
Granules vs Tinctures vs Raw Herbs
How Formulas Change Over Time
Is Herbal Medicine Safe?
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Nervous System & Lifestyle
Understanding Your Stress Pattern
Why Rest Is Often Missing
Rhythm, Not Perfection
How the Body Recovers Over Time
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Seasonal Transitions
Through Winter: Rest + the Nervous System
Spring: Movement + Renewal
Summer: Energy + Expansion
Autumn: Letting Go + Transition
You are welcomed here. Ready to find your way back to yourself?
Whether you’re navigating complex pathology, seeking support in disease, or simply feeling that something is off and wanting to understand it — Malachite Medicine is a place that holds you. Your first appointment is an unhurried conversation. Come as you are.
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