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“Free and Happy Wanderer”: Traditional herbs for depression and stagnation
Spring is Liver time, according to Chinese medicine. Time of the Wood element, which means sometimes we can get physically and mentally 'stiffer' at this time. The Liver is often out of balance in modern times. If so, we can feel emotionally depressed, stuck, lacking...
Emotions and Your Body: A (mostly) Traditional Chinese Medicine view
What, if anything, do our emotions have to do with our physical health? In recent years, Western medical researchers have increasingly acknowledged the links between emotions and physical symptoms. Since I first studied cognitive neuroscience, the neurobiology...
Spring Health Tips and Recipes
Spring is a time of rebirth, cleansing, and renewal. In Chinese medicine, Spring is the time of the Wood element, or 'Liver' energy system (TCM 'Liver' is not the same as your physical liver organ). The 'Liver' circulates energy (Qi) and blood around your body and is...
Beating the Winter Blahs
Winter is the season of the “Kidney-Adrenal” energy system according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. The TCM Kidney-Adrenals (not the same as your physical kidneys, please note) are the foundation of all life energy the body. So winter is a time to focus inward,...
5 Winter Food Tips
NOTE: The info below is for general information only. It doesn't replace a personalized assessment and a therapeutic food plan specific for your constitution (yin/yang, hot/cool, dry/moist, organ system balances, etc.). A more personalized Chinese medicine...
Simple Winter Recipes
Winter-Warming Breakfast Cereal This quick breakfast can warm you from the inside out, strengthen the foundation of your body's energy, and having you ready to face the cold weather outside! Chinese Medicine agrees with the adage that breakfast is the most important...