Heaven Mountain Goji Berry
Goji Berry Super Food Lots of foods are super foods, in terms of anti-oxidant or anti-biotic value, like cabbage, nettles, and onions. One that has received a lot of well deserved hype are “Goji Berries” or Gou Qi Zi in Chinese Medicine and Culture. Gou Qi...Statin Drugs: Smoke and Mirrors, or Mirrors and Smoke
The below article written by Dr. Mercola really sums up the problem with the bio-med approach to heart disease and cholesterol. Never mind that besides the issue of cholesterol, Dr. Ornish and the research on both the Okinawan and Mediterranean diets show that a big...Baked Butternut Squash and Black Bean Stew
Cooking Methods in Chinese Food Medicine: From Warm to Hot to Very Hot One of the aspects of Food Medicine we pay attention to in Chinese Medicine is the cooking method itself. Each method of cooking adds relative values of heat to the dish being prepared. Steaming...Importance of Diet in Chinese Medicine
Over the millenia Chinese physicians developed a very effective and scientific (empirical) model for assessing health and disease. Practitioners assess a person’s health by feeling the quality of the pulses at each wrist, and by observing the color and form of the...Freeze Dried Nettles for Eczema, Allergy, and Asthma
Fresh and Freeze-Dried Nettles When I was a teenager, I was enthralled by the story of Milarepa, “Tibet’s Greatest Yogi,” who, spent twelve years in the cold high mountains, meditating and living only on soup made from Nettles and herbs. This is one...