Blue lace agate – brings a gentle sense of renewal. According to Daoist Stone Medicine (DSM), Blue lace agate is a great place to begin your journey into the world of crystal elixirs. It is supportive of many aspects of our being – physical, emotional, mental, spiritual.

Agates are very helpful for separating what is necessary from what is not – ‘separating the clear from the turbid’. Practically, this helps us to take what we need from our food, and release what is not needed. The central organ of digestion for this is the small intestine. Mentally, it helps separate the important from the unimportant. Spiritually, what we need to learn and what we can leave behind. We know this as discernment.

Practically, one example of this is its ability to help with breaking down phlegm. One of the ways we produce phlegm is from weak digestion. In Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) phlegm produced by weak digestion clouds our thinking process, called Phlegm misting the Mind. CCM made the connection between gut and brain thousands of years before Western science began to make the gut-brain connection.

Blue lace’s approach to this process of separation is very gentle. Blue lace, as all other agates, possesses an internal ‘heat’, which when ingested, drives the separation process described above, helping to improve digestion, clarify the mind and calm nervous tension.