Kombucha is a cultured tea beverage full of zing and health boosting ingredients. Learning the art of cultured foods is definitely a worthy endeavor for anyone who seeks true health.
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Ever since the summer of 2004, I’ve been hungry for bugs. That’s when Cicada Brood X made its last 17-year appearance, and when a Google search turned up an all-cicada cookbook from West Virginia, with dozens of recipes by women named Bea and Mabel. I was at once revolted and compelled. My wife was just revolted.
The periodical cicada (''Magicicada septendecim'') Plate 7 from ''Insects, their way and means of living'', R. E. Snodgrass. [http://www.archive.org/details/39088001578236] Caption: The periodical cicada (''Magicicada septendecim'') A female inserti
Human sexuality is closely linked to the physiology and pathology of the extraordinary vessels, especially the Du, Ren and Chong Mai.
The Du and Ren Mai are the expression of Fire and Water respectively with regard to sexuality: the exchange of sexual essences and of Yin and Yang during sexual intercourse takes place through the intertwining of the Du and Ren Mai during intercourse.
By Giovani Maciocia
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Most of us will be familiar with the experience of silently talking to ourselves in our head. Perhaps you’re at the supermarket and realise that you’ve forgotten to pick up something you needed. “Milk!” you might say to yourself. Or maybe you’ve got an important meeting with your boss later in the day, and you’re simulating – silently in your head – how you think the conversation might go, possibly hearing both your own voice and your boss’s voice responding.
By Peter Mosely
Inner speech and talking out loud share similar brain mechanisms. Photograph: Alamy. Image sourced from The Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com
An international panel of doctors has decided that a type of tumor that was classified as a cancer is not a cancer at all.
As a result, they have officially downgraded the condition, and thousands of patients will be spared removal of their thyroid, treatment with radioactive iodine and regular checkups for the rest of their lives, all to protect against a tumor that was never a threat.
By Gina Kolata
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By Leon Hammer MD
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Schisandra berry is a very special herb in that it has all five tastes. That means that in herbal theory, it contains the qualities and benefits of all five flavors. This explains why it doesn’t do just one thing!
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If there is a rule in biology, I can think about how it does not apply to fungi,” Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said earlier this year. “They challenge our preconceptions of how biology works.” Neither plant nor animal (though closer to the latter in evolutionary terms), fungi are everywhere.
By Nicola Twilley
Geastrum britannicum, one of 2015’s newly confirmed fungi, was previously dismissed as a variant of another species. Photograph by Dawn and Jim Langiewicz. Image sourced from The New Yorker. Available at: https://media.newyorker.com
In the horn of Africa, a small native tree, covered in spines, grows in the arid deserts. When the bark is wounded through to the sapwood, the tree exudes an aromatic, oily, yellow oleo gum resin which eventually hardens into a hard yellow-reddish opaque globule that can be easily harvested from the side of the tree.
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Scientists have unraveled one of the secrets of a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine.
BBC Health
Photo by Qing Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Image of the Chinese skullcap, Scutellaria baicalensis, sourced from BBC. Available at: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk
Sharing an image from our friends at Wing On Wo & Co at 26 Mott St. NYC. The oldest shop in NY's Chinatown, originally serving the needs of the new immigrant population as a mail center and providing goods from home. With the same proprietors for the last 91 years, Wing On Wo & Co now stocks fine antique porcelain goods and offers an unprecedented view on the history of the local community. Stop on by to see how they are still a driving force in shaping the future of the neighborhood.
A Chinese practice finds plenty of adherents in the West, including many in Houston’s medical community.
By Sarah Rufca
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There’s something magical about wild food: It draws us closer to the earth—and it’s delicious. Maybe it’s easy to romanticize this ease with nature, but it is romantic.
By Annie Graves
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As it turns out, spring cleaning is yet another opportunity to integrate herbs into our lives. Herbs can be used to clear and uplift the energy in our homes while herbal cleaning products are a good choice for our health and the health of our ecosystem. Not to mention that inhaling the scent of herbs while we tidy up is downright pleasureful!
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Peripheral nerve injury not only affects the site of the injury, but can also induce neuronal apoptosis at the spinal cord. However, many acupuncture clinicians still focus only on the injury site, selecting acupoints entirely along the injured nerve trunk and neglecting other regions; this may delay onset of treatment efficacy and rehabilitation. Therefore, in the present study, we compared the clinical efficacy of acupuncture at Governor vessel and local meridian acupoints combined (GV/LM group) with acupuncture at local meridian acupoints alone (LM group) in the treatment of patients with peripheral nerve injury.
Famous for facilitating an incredible exchange of culture and goods between the East and the West, the ancient Silk Road is thought to have meandered across long horizontal distances in mountain foothills and the lowlands of the Gobi Desert. But new archaeological evidence hidden in a lofty tomb reveals that it also ventured into the high altitudes of Tibet—a previously unknown arm of the trade route.
Source: “Earliest Tea As Evidence For One Branch Of The Silk Road Across The Tibetan Plateau,” By Houyuan Lu Et Al., In Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Article No. 18955; January 7, 2016; Map by Mapping Specialists
By Beth Griffing
Parenting is stressful. (Maybe you’ve heard?) But before you reach for that third glass of chardonnay or end up couch-locked during a Dora the Explorer marathon because you forgot that pot is stronger now than when you were in college, consider that acupuncture is one of the best ways for parents to de-stress without the aftereffects of drugs and alcohol, while having a longer term effect.
When we talk about the element of wood, many people immediately think of the hard wood from mature trees. However, the tiny green sprouts of new plants are also considered wood, and in many ways give us a better understanding into this element.
By Taryn Dentinger, DVM, CVA Image of a close-up of a person's eye with an allergic reaction sourced from IVC Journal. Available at: https: ivcjournal.com
Western medicine will sometimes accept chronic conditions as a variant of “healthy” if they’re not life-threatening or debilitating. It has become routine to treat symptoms as they appear, but to disregard the underlying immune system dysfunction that leads to the allergy symptoms in the first place.