Fall foods aren’t just good for the soul, but for the body too! These foods are often cooked, warm, soft foods that enter the stomach already broken down make the digestive system not have to work so hard. Think of soups, stews, winter squash, sweet potatoes. ginger and other warming spices – ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, […]
Food is Medicine: Crockpot to the Rescue
What is more comforting than walking in from the chill to the smell of warm food? That’s one of the blessings of a crock pot – it allows you to be away from home and come home to the comfort of good food that is ready to eat. The winter season has the yin characteristics […]
Eat Drink and Be Healthy
According to Chinese Medicine, our diet should change with the seasons to keep us in tune with the energies around us. As the weather cools off for the fall, it makes sense that we should eat more warming, strengthening foods. Using warming spices is an easy way to enhance the diet and warm the body […]
Warm Tea, Pure Heart
Tea is loaded with antioxidants, boosts the immune system, lowers the risk of cancer, improves brain function, helps with fat loss – the list goes on. We so often hear about the health benefits of drinking tea, but we don’t usually think about the healing benefits of sharing tea with others. Consider the simple pleasure in making a […]
Surprising Medicine Behind a Fall Tradition
One of my favorite things about fall is planting mums in my garden and enjoying all the different colors and varieties. The standard garden mum (Ju Hua, Chrysanthemum morifolium) can be dried to be used medicinally throughout the year. The mums in the Daoist Traditions garden are harvested each year when the flowers are in […]
