Daikon Radish: Detoxify and Promote Digestion
Daikon Radish is a great soup or salad vegetable. It is spicy, and acts as a digestive by stimulating digestive fire, just as the small radishes that Mexicanos eat with corn and meat do, but it is more aromatic, especially when boiled, than the small radishes and not as hot. Daikon is used in Chinese Medicine Nutritional therapy to balance heavier foods that are high in harder to digest animal protein and fat, like beef or pork. Beef and pork, which are are also neutral and cool in natural temperature, easily produce toxic dampness when eaten in excess, because the combination of heavy...
Read MoreDeep Medium-Dark Ultra Green, or "More Adventures with Nettles"
For a vegetable that grows on land, nettles sure make a broth that tastes like the sea. In San Diego we have had rain lately, so the Nettles are up and happy and large and green, and already starting to flower, so I have seized the day, and marched into the canyon at Morley Field and collected some choice specimens, washed them, and boiled them in water. They developed such a beautiful color i could only call “Deep Medium-Dark Ultra Green.” Darker than a banana leaf, but lighter than cooked spinach. So I took my left over Basmati rice, and sauteed some ghee with a couple of...
Read MoreFibroids, Heavy Bleeding, PMS and Bloating
Chinese Medicine excels at the all-natural treatment of Woman’s Health. Here is a verbatim email recently from a patient of mine, T., who suffers from fibroids, heavy bleeding, and PMS. Hey E! Amazing…. I awoke with my period this morning and had no idea it was coming! No swelling/bloating, no growth of the fibroids with the hormone flow, no irritability, no cramps or back ache! Just a slow, deep deep brick red flow right now! TCM and herbs………….wow! Im always so damn impressed!… T’s previous visit she was having such heavy bleeding on Day 2 of...
Read MoreVegan Sea and Land Vegetable Soup for Spring
This wonderful soup is in the category of recipes for gently cleansing and renewing the body in Spring, or whenever you feel weak or are recovering from illness. It relies on the deep flavors of root vegetables, sea vegetables, and shitake mushroom. It is a simple soup with subtle flavors to be savored slowly and mindfully. Shitake mushrooms are an excellent fragrant mushroom that in Chinese Herbal Medicine are used to strengthen the stomach and intestines, invigorate the blood, fortify the bones, and re-enforce the Qi and Yang of the body. The Qi and Yang are, among other things, in charge...
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