Chinese Dietary Therapy, Food, Health, Natural Health
As the temperature outside drops during the winter season, it is no coincidence that aspects of our lives shift towards more activities that bring us indoors generating warmth with others to balance the chill that surrounds us outside. With winter comes frost, ice,...
Chinese Dietary Therapy, Food, Natural Health
Have You Ever Heard about Tumeric? If not, Turmeric is a plant that is within the same family as Ginger. Javanese Turmeric (Curcuma Xanthorrhiz) has been used medically for thousands of years. Curcumin is the active ingredient in Turmeric that contains many health...
Food, Inflammation, Natural Health
Turmeric: The Golden Herb Turmeric is a widely used herb; many use it medicinally, others in the kitchen or both. But what are its benefits and uses? And what makes it so popular? I’m going to tell you about it. Curcuma longa, commonly known as turmeric is a very...
Chinese Dietary Therapy, Fermented Foods, Food, Natural Health, Summer
Wood Element: Sprouts and Fermented Foods According to Chinese Medicine, there are foods that can heal you and foods that can harm you, based on your imbalance or constitutional make up. These foods are classified by their elemental affiliation, temperature, season,...
Chinese Dietary Therapy, Chinese medicine, Food
The use of sprouts as medicine, dates back in Chinese history since 3000 B.C. The practice of sprouting, and the use of sprouts as medicine, dates back in Chinese history since 3000 B.C. There are documents of sprouted wheat, millet, or barley, called nieh, eaten like...
