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Recipes: Fragrant Poached Quince and Fresh Ginger Cookies
Fragrant Poached Quince and Fresh Ginger Cookies This delicious poached quince and ginger cookie recipe is found in my book Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine: +175 recipes for Optimal Health in the Winter Recipe section. The unusual, ancient quince deserves a comeback in the kitchen. Its pink hue and bright fragrance is so nice, especially…
The Summer Season in Chinese medicine
Balance during the summer season in Chinese medicine In every new season we have an opportunity to renew and rebalance. If you are welcoming the open path of the summer season of 2021 like I am, despite the unbearable relentless heat here in the Pacific Northwest, this summer is filled with possibility. What are those…
COVID: 5 Simple Ways to Boost Your Immune System
5 Ways to Support Your Immune System with Chinese Medicine during COVID We are learning, in this time of COVID, that none of us are completely immune to this fast mutating virus (unless perhaps we have recovered from it). However, we do know that reducing our exposure by staying home and reducing contact with groups…
COVID-19: Optimizing Our Diets
Optimizing Our Diet in the Time of COVID – 19 “Those who take medicine and neglect their diet waste the skill of the physician.” -Chinese proverb Optimizing our diet in the time of COVID-19 can rely upon the wisdom and guidance of Chinese nutritional healing and Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine and its 3,000-year-old tradition of…
COVID-19: Nourishing Ourselves
Nourishing Ourselves in the Time of COVID – 19 “Those who take medicine and neglect their diet waste the skill of the physician.” -Chinese proverb I want to reach out to you during this challenging time we are living through to offer support and encouragement. In the past year I lived through my husband’s illness…
Immune Support Tips in the time of COVID
Immune Support Tips in the time of COVID In every time of difficulty there is opportunity. The world pandemic of COVID has brought us all to the same plane. What is clear is that the attention we pay to our health, the health of our immune system at this time and to the recommendations made…
