Illuminate Your Life: a chinese medicine blog
Bieler’s Broth (also called Trace Mineral Broth)
Bieler’s broth is an effective, gentle cleanse for anytime of the year. Cooling vegetables reduce inflammation in the digestive tract and ease the workload on the liver. In contrast to a cleanse that focuses on raw foods and juices, the cooked nature of this broth makes it tonifying and grounding.
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Pumpkin, the trendiest of Fall’s bounty, is so incredibly healing. It’s full of beta-carotene which converts to Vitamin A in our bodies. Enjoy this delicious pumpkin muffin recipe, best served warm with a hot cup of tea!
Winter In Chinese Medicine
In Chinese Medicine, winter is a time of reflection and rejuvenation, to slow down and conserve energy. Winter is an opportunity to focus on the health and spirit of the kidneys, which are the center of energy in the Chinese Medicine system. It is a time to nourish your body and boost the kidney energy with self-care.
Acupuncture + Asthma
We do incredible work helping people with asthma and other respiratory conditions. As always, we put on our detective hats to investigate the root cause and help the individual shift to greater wellness. It’s phenomenal to see how quickly and greatly people typically experience improvement, even those who are used to using multiple medications each day.
Give Your Immune System A Boost with Chinese Medicine
With the weather getting colder and Covid cases on the rise again, we wanted to share with you some of our best tips to give your immune system a much-needed boost.
Covid Policies For Your Continued Safety
We look forward to continuing to support you in 2022! With all the gatherings and travel over the holidays, we’d like to remind you of our Covid safety protocols. We are doing our utmost to keep you safe, as well as allow our doors to remain open so we can continue to provide you with care. Please continue to do your part by following our safety guidelines.
Acupuncture for Winter Pain
As the weather starts to turn cooler, we often notice more complaints of pain from osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other inflammation related pain. Arthritis and other joint pain can affect people all year long, but with winter approaching, arthritis can be harder to manage and seriously disrupt your quality of life.
Warm pumpkin smoothie
Chinese medicine recommends warm and cooked foods in general to stoke your digestive furnace, fuel your metabolism, transform fluids (think bloating, puffiness, water retention and loose stools) and strengthen your body’s ability to produce Qi and blood from the food you eat.