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 | Aug 12, 2016 | Ayurveda Articles, Kapha, Vata
Tonight’s annual Perseid meteor shower got me thinking about the theory of the five elements in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine.. Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda Describe Life as a Process of Transformation Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda Describe Life as a Process of...
by Eyton Shalom | Feb 25, 2016 | Acupuncture, Mindfulness, Pitta, Vata
Anger and Fear: How Our Nervous Systems Make Us Sick Chinese Medicine attributes a minimum one third of disease as due to the effects of excessive amounts of emotions like anger and fear, but also sadness, grief, worry, on our bodies via the nervous system....
by Eyton Shalom | Dec 12, 2015 | Green Living, Mindfulness, Pitta, Vata
Mindfulness Meditation Body Scanning One of the challenges of modern life is balancing the stress response with the relaxation response. Mindfulness Meditation Body Scanning, found in Yoga, Tai Qi, and Mindfulness Meditation (Buddha was, after all, a Yogi before...
by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Feb 26, 2014 | Ayurveda, Ayurveda Articles, Dietary & Nutritional Counseling, Dosha, Vata
Does Ayurveda propose vegetarianism and a vegeterian diet for all? Many modern Ayuvedic physicians, especially those teaching in Europe and the West, espouse lacto-vegeterianism as the ideal diet for everyone. But is this an accurate reflection of the Ayurvedic texts...