Come join me in exploring natural, effective and safe pediatric remedies for the care of your family. Home remedy kits stocked with essential remedies will be available for pre-order so you can get your medicine cabinet stocked and ready! Panel presenters include practitioners from Chinese medicine, traditional food therapy and homeopathy. To register and for [...]
Tag Archives: Chinese Medicine
The “Right” Prenatal Nutrition
April 27, 2011 – 9:11 AM
Prenatal Nutrition: What Is Right? Healthy diets vary as greatly as the individuals who employ them. From Vegans to Carnivores, the food we eat is a reflection of who we are, what we believe, and the health of our system. Celebrity news of late has all eyes on Nathalie Portman, who has recently “come out” [...]
Homemade Kombucha
April 14, 2011 – 10:48 AM
Kombucha – a lovely, slightly effervecent, detoxifying, energizing and digestive enzyme-boosting cocktail. It now adorns grocery store shelves and sells for $5.00 per bottle. At first sip, this beverage can be sour and intense in flavor. Make it at home and this bite mellows to a refreshing after-dinner-digestiv. Kombucha is good for you, and is [...]
Nourishing Chicken Soup
February 8, 2011 – 11:45 AM
Chicken soup is known in many cultures to help prevent and fight-off common colds and flu’s. The broth is deeply nourishing, while the pieces of chicken and vegetables are satisfying and filling. In Chinese medicine, chicken bone broth is said to deeply nourish the kidneys, and are often used in situations where the kidney energy [...]
Home-Made Beans
January 5, 2011 – 12:17 PM
During my undergraduate degree I was fortunate enough to write my dissertation while living with a lovely family in Heredia, Costa Rica. I remember Maria, the host mother, making fresh black frijoles (beans) almost daily. The process appeared exhausting: Hours of rinsing, soaking, rinsing again and boiling – careful not to over or under cook [...]
Delicious Sweet Potato Bake
November 17, 2010 – 9:10 AM
This dish is a response to the famous sweet-potato casserole of the Midwest, which is full of sugar and artificial ingredients like marshmallows (literally robbing any healthful benefits from the lovely yam itself). If you want to impress the folks at your Thanksgiving dinner, try out this recipe! Not only does it taste scrumptious and [...]
New Cancer Research
November 10, 2010 – 11:29 PM
A recent article by Dr. Mark Hyman on the Huffington Post completely caught my attention – so much so, that I felt compelled to share it with you here on my blog. The article discusses the faultiness in current cancer treatments, and the need to change tactics. While this area is not a particular specialty [...]
A Weekend With Ina May
September 13, 2010 – 8:50 AM
For Labor Day this year, I decided to take a road trip with a couple of amazing women to visit a long-time inspiration and hero of ours: Ina May Gaskin. For those of you who are not familiar with Ms. Gaskin, she is a world-renowned midwife known for her work in maintaining humane childbirth practices, [...]