3 Winter Warming Teas
3 winter warming teas to use during the winter months to assit with your health.
7 Best herbs to cook with in Winter
What are the best herbs to cook with during winter according to chinese Medicine? Ginger, Golji berries, Huang Qi, Peppermint and cinnnamon can all be used to assit with enhancing your immune system and staying well during winter.
Winter and Chinese Medicine
Winter is a time for slef refelection - to go within and hibernate and listen to your own body. In Chinese Medicine - winter is associated with the water element, the paired organs are the kidney and the urinary bladder and winter is a time to nourish our bodies and replenish our energy ready for Spring. In winter the focus is on nourishing our body with warming foods such as soups, bone broth soup, casseroles, and slow cooked meals. It is a time to focus on sleep and staying warm.
Autumn Teas – Chrysanthemum tea.
Autumn teas - a perfect way to drink your way to helath and assit your liver and benefit the eyes.
Flowers of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The vagal Nerve is the key to improving our overall health. Simple breathing techniques can turn on the vagal nerve - reducing stress, cortisol, improving sleep and digestion and increasing our immune system.
Have you heard about the benefits of Gua Sha?
Have you heard about Gia sha? Gua sha is the ancient technique of using long and short strokes on the skin to remove toxins, incfease blod flow and assist with pain and soreness. It has been "rediscovered" as a game changer in improving skin health and improving apperance.
A tea for all seasons
Traditional Chinese Mediicne uses natural healing principals to maintain health and wellness throughout all the different seasons. This blog suggests brews that you can drink in the differenty seasons to help with improving your health and nourishing particular organs associated with the season.
The Vagal Nerve – why is it so important?
The vagal Nerve is the key to improving our overall health. Simple breathing techniques can turn on the vagal nerve - reducing stress, cortisol, improving sleep and digestion and increasing our immune system.
Autumn and Chinese Medicine – the season of grief, metal, white & pears.
Traditional Chinese Medicne has been around for over 5000 years. Each season has an element, organs, flavour, colour and suggested foods to eat to maintain health and wellness throughout the season.
A juggling act!
these are crazy times and life at the moment is one huge juggling act! In this blog, I share tips that are seeing me through each day, I hope it helps you in your life and you can relate.
