by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Feb 1, 2020 | Ayurvedic Recipes, Diet and Nutrition in Chinese Medicine Recipes, Dietary & Nutritional Counseling, Eating with the Seasons, Eating with the Seasons Recipes, Green Living, Kapha, Living with the Seasons in Chinese Medicine, Living with the Seasons in Chinese Medicine Recipes, Natural Food Recipes, Pitta, Plant Based Recipes, Seasonal Recipes, Spring
Ayurvedic Dandelion Greens for Spring are a great cleansing vegetable, excellent year round, but especially good in Spring. They are a wonderful Sattvic food that helps to cleanse the body of the ama dosha that accumulates naturally over the winter months. Green...
by Eyton Shalom | Dec 19, 2019 | Chinese Herbal Medicine, Diet and Nutrition in Chinese Medicine, Dietary & Nutritional Counseling, Eating with the Seasons, Eating with the Seasons Recipes, Seasonal Recipes, Winter
Bone Marrow Soup, Part 2: Winter In cold weather its natural to crave warm food. And the alchemical transformation of solids into liquids, of vegetables and meats or bones into soup, is a way of liberating the essence of these foodstuff into a substance that is much...
by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Jul 24, 2019 | Ayurveda Articles, Featured Recipe, Kapha, Kapha Dosha Recipes, Living with the Seasons, Pitta, Pitta Dosha Recipes, Plant Based Recipes, Seasonal Recipes, Summer, Vata, Vata Dosha Recipes
Cucumber Avocado Summer Soup–Description Cucumber Avocado Summer Soup is a light and creamy vegetarian summer soup that combines the light and cooling nature of raw vegetables, the specifically cooling nature of cucumber (think: “cool as a...
by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Jul 23, 2019 | Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Recipes, Eating with the Seasons, Green Living, Living with the Seasons, Pitta, Seasonal Recipes, Summer
Cooling Teas of Summer: Peppermint and Centella Asiatica (Brahmi, Gotu Kola, Pennywort) There are lots of ways to hydrate and cool off in summer, without damaging the Agni/digestive fire/Spleen Qi which is actually weaker in the hot weather than in the cold weather....
by Eyton Shalom | Jul 21, 2019 | Chinese Herbal Medicine, Chinese Medicine Recipes, Conditions Treated, Featured Recipe, Seasonal Recipes, Winter
I discovered Chinese Herbal Medicine Chicken Bone Broth for Recovery from Bronchitis in 1991. I was in my second year of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture school, and was also working full time as an apprentice in two very busy San Diego Acupuncture Clinics. At the...
by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Jan 20, 2019 | Eating with the Seasons Recipes, Green Living, Living with the Seasons in Chinese Medicine, Seasonal Recipes, Winter
The idea of winter in classical Chinese Medicine embodies the idea of slowing down. Slowing down is exactly what cold does to atoms in nature. To stop for a moment and meditate on the passage of time, to feel time moving inside you, is to practice the value of the...