Seasonal Wellness, Herbal Medicine + Nutrition
Seasonal Wellness, Herbal Medicine
+ Nutrition
Benefits of Fermentation and How to Make Sauerkraut
Fermented foods are a wonderful way to expand your diet and deeply support your digestive system. Eating fermented foods promotes healthy bacteria (“flora”) in the digestive system which helps with the digestibility of foods, and the production and absorption of enzymes and vitamins. Traditionally, fermentation was used as a way ...
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4 Quick and Hearty Salads on the Go
It’s always a good idea to have a variety of ingredients for salad on hand in the kitchen. Mix grains or beans with vegetables, fresh herbs, and some seasoning to ensure you have healthy food on the go. Below I’ve included four quick and hearty salad recipes you can use ...
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Difficulty Digesting Beans and Legumes? Try These Tips.
Green and red lentils, black beans, kidney beans, mung beans, chickpeas, adzuki beans, navy beans, and so many more! Beans and legumes are used around the world as a staple food, and are a wonderful part of a healthy, whole, plant based diet. They provide variety in the diet, a ...
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What kind of chocolate to choose + raw chocolate recipes
Pure cacao (also know as cocoa) is a goldmine of rich, delicious nutrition. All chocolate is made from cacao. Cacao is a nut, seed, or “bean” that is harvested from South and Central American trees. It’s always in season, and can be harvested anytime. Cacao has always been highly revered. ...
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Loss and All the Seasons of Our Life
And…. EXHALE. I sometimes sit on my front porch wrapped in warmth listening to the rain. Every evening the night sky gets darker earlier and the tree in the front yard loses more of her leaves. At times it feels as if I am also losing my leaves. Stripped bare ...
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I Want to Cleanse. Where Should I Start?
As we sink into autumn, many people feel a natural turning inward. The busyness of summer has calmed, and now we can prepare for winter. Just like spring, autumn is a time of transition. In the autumn, we move from the heights to the depths. Cleansing and fasting are wonderful ...
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The 3 Most High Power Green Foods
While all foods can be used medicinally some “superfoods” have an unusually high amount of beneficial nutrients and energetic vitality. In general all green foods (especially the algae below) are detoxifying – they help to clean the blood, support the function of the liver, they decrease inflammation and acidity in ...
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Cool Down in the Summer with these Quick Tips
In Chinese Medicine, every season is related to an element and an organ system. Read on to learn a few tips about the summer or check out the summer seasonal cycles video. Heart, Small Intestine, Pericardium, San Jiao: The season of summer is related to the fire element, the Heart, ...
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The Energetics of Spring
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine every season is related to a corresponding element and organ system. The season of spring corresponds to the wood element and Liver energy in Chinese Medicine. The wood element in the cycle of the five elements is where manifestation begins to form from deep seeds ...
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Understand the Thermal Nature of Foods According to Chinese Medicine
Identifying the thermal qualities of hot and cold is a fundamental distinction used during diagnosis and treatment in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. This observation of thermal nature also exists within other holistic medical systems like Western herbalism and ancient Greek medicine. Within these systems, foods, herbs, spices, and disease ...
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