by Eyton Shalom | Jun 7, 2016 | Wellness
Educate Your Immune System: Why Sterile Environments Are Associated with Auto-Immune Disease There is so much evidence now that since our immune systems are programmed to fight pathogens, that when we create hyperclean environments with silly products such as...
by Eyton Shalom | May 11, 2016 | Ayurveda Articles, Diet and Nutrition in Chinese Medicine, Dietary & Nutritional Counseling, Dosha, Kapha, Vata, Wellness
Pasture raised Meat and Milk in Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine is meat and milk as our ancestors ate it. Our hunter gatherer ancestors obviously did not drink milk, as they did not yet practice animal husbandry. But they were certainly not vegans or vegetarians, as the...
by Eyton Shalom | Apr 20, 2016 | Chinese Herbal Medicine, Wellness, Woman's Health
What Is Qi What the Chinese call Qi , and what Ayurveda calls Prana, is the Vital Life Force that moves things, quite literally, and also that creates growth and decay. Qi and Prana are what moves things quite literally on so many levels. Its only a living body that...
by Eyton Shalom | Dec 22, 2015 | Ayurveda, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Living with the Seasons in Chinese Medicine, Wellness
Winter and Sleep in Chinese Medicine: Kidney Qi Its Winter. Classical Chinese Medicine has this to say about it. “Go to sleep early, but get up LATE, after the sun has risen.” Makes total sense because as an animal you don’t want to waste your...
by Eyton Shalom | Sep 9, 2015 | Acupuncture Articles, Wellness
Mediterranean diet, and lifestyle; lots of exercise, warm family relations, help reduce heart disease. An alternative to statin drugs I have had very good results with even without any other changes in the variables is the Chinese herbal medicine called Red Rice...
by Eyton Shalom | Sep 1, 2015 | Diet and Nutrition in Chinese Medicine, Dietary & Nutritional Counseling, Wellness
I happened upon an article in the Guardian newspaper describing how giving peanut products in small amounts to infants under twelve months who are at risk of developing peanut allergy (those with eczema) may prevent peanut allergy in future.. As someone who...