Diet & Nutrition

Looking for a flavorful, easy, and quick-to-make spring meal? This asparagus, chicken, and pasta dish fits the bill! Did An Acupuncturist Seriously Just Tell Me to Eat Pasta? Yep. Seasonal eating [...]

This recipe combines immune bolstering properties of mushrooms, miso, bone broth (vegan option given below as well), and green onion.  Shitake, maitake, and reishi mushrooms all contain [...]

Eating the fruits and veggies that are in season provides your body with the resources it needs to stay healthy. Zucchini is one of summer’s most prolific veggies (actually it’s a [...]

Good morning, root veggie hash! Winter is the time to recharge your essence, and we could all use a depth charge after 2020. One way to build back your energy after it’s been worn down by [...]

Whether you’re working from home, homeschooling your children, without a job, or you’re an essential worker, Shelter-in-Place is taxing everyone I know. People are starting to crawl [...]

Rice porridge, also known as jook or congee is the chicken noodle soup of Chinese medicine. The basic ingredients of rice, water, and broth can be combined with other ingredients to enhance [...]

Chinese medicine is, at its core, a preventive medicine. Many Chinese medicine texts begin by giving guidelines on how to stay healthy before addressing how to treat disease. Here are some ideas [...]

Diet is an important aspect of maintaining your health in Chinese and Western medicine. Sometimes they have different ideas about how to accomplish that and often they overlap. Chinese medicine [...]

Did you know that Chinese medicine recommends consuming your vegetables as salad only in summer? We also put faster cooking methods, like blanching and stir-frying, in the same hot weather [...]

Happy New Year! Are you coming out of your holiday haze? Please drop by my new office this Saturday, January 11 from 9AM to noon for a Mindful Morning! We’ll help you recuperate from the [...]