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Love this on creativity and connection from @cicutoacu Reposting @cicutoacu: ⠀ ...⠀ "The Five elements and the Power of Pinterevening!⠀ .⠀ .⠀ A few years ago, Kirsten from @angelica.peony started a shared board for the two of us on @pinterest called “Pinterevening” where we post food, craft, spa, and other ideas and projects that we want to try together. We’re both makers at heart ❤️ .⠀ .⠀ How are the five elements expressed in creative activities and projects? I’ll use our flower wand project as an example 🌊 🌳🔥⛰ ⚔️ .⠀ .⠀ . 🌊 Water element: Will and drive to do things⠀ Saying “Let’s get together and make stuff” shows the spirit of the Water element. ➡️Before you even have a project to do, you need the will to do it.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 🔥Fire element: inspiration. 💡 This is when the lightbulb goes on in your head about what projects you want to do. 🤝 😆 😊 ❤️ Connecting with people, laughter, joy and love align with the Fire element.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 🌳Wood element: Guides our dreams and visions.⠀ The Wood element motivates us to do things with our ideas.⠀ 🌿 Kirsten had a lot of herbs in her garden and posted some ideas to our Pinterest board about what to do with them.⠀ Being active & doing creative projects align with the Wood element.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ ⛰Earth element: Making the visions a reality.⠀ The Earth element is about manifesting. 📆 Setting a date on your calendar, gathering supplies, harvesting herbs, and actually making things (like our 🌸 flower wands) align with the Earth element.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ ⚔️ Metal element: Appreciating the awesomeness ✨Admiring the beauty of your completed project.⠀ 💫Appreciating your friend and the time you spend with her doing crafty stuff together. 🗑Tidying up after yourself, letting go of things you no longer need, and creating space for new things align with the Metal element.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 🌊 🌳🔥⛰ ⚔️ Try the 5 Element Healing Anointing Oils created by @angelica.peony and @cicutoacu .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #5elementanointingoils #essentialoils #fiveelements #herbalmedicine #linkinbio #plantwisdom #alchemy #traditionalchinesemedicine #shoplocal #shopoakland #shopalameda #naturalhealing #naturalperfume #aromatherapy #angelicaandpeony #cicutoacupuncture #alchemicalhealin
Summer Wellness Series #4: Self-Care for Summer 💗🛁🍓🍒🌞⠀ .⠀ Read the whole article about foot scrubs, aromatherapy for summer and more on my blog #linkinbio and the rest of the posts in the series at #tcmsummerwellness⠀⠀ .⠀ ❔❔➡️What is self-care? It’s a popular buzzword these days - #selfcare - but what does it mean? ⠀ .⠀ Here's my take: I think of self-care practices as not just things we can do for ourselves that promote health, but as loving time we take for ourselves. ‘Self-care’ can’t solve all our problems (or the world's), but it can be an important part of our mental and physical well-being, especially for those of us who receive constant messages from the outside about everything that's 'wrong' with our bodies.⠀ .⠀ Why is it that our self-care rituals are derided as 'vain' or wasteful or self-involved? Could it be white supremacist heteropatriarchy doesn't want us doing things that help keep us sane and healthy? 😒⠀ .⠀ Whether it’s dry-brushing, face masks, self-massage or herbal steaming 🍓🛁🌿- it’s as much about spending loving, soothing time with your body as any specific outcome. 💗⠀ .⠀ Take the opportunity of giving yourself a ‘beauty treatment’ 💗 to give yourself a💗💙💚💛💜 love treatment - slow down, use natural and non-toxic ingredients, and send your beautiful, amazing self some messages of love and care.⠀ .⠀ #tcmsummerwellness #holistichealing #traditionalchinesemedicine #summer #healing #naturalhealth #naturalhealing #herbalmedicine #latesummer #northerncalifornia #sfbayarea #oakland #sanleandro #acupuncture #acupuncturists #traditionalmedicine #kitchenmedicine #holisticuniversity #diyhealing #selfcare #feminism #healtheworld
Essential oils can offer such fast relief from discomfort. Here's three of my faves for high summer - the time of the Fire element. 🌻🔥✨🍋🌿💚💛❤️⠀ .⠀ Sadly imbalances in the earth's energies have been manifesting as fire for us in California. Although in the Bay Area we haven't been as directly devastated as our neighbors up north, the terrible air quality is affecting all of us. 😷🔥⠀ .⠀ Be aware that folks who are very sensitive to air pollutants or have lung problems might find essential oils make them feel worse. 💨😟⠀ .⠀ Always dilute essential oils, don't diffuse them endlessly in your spaces, and try using the whole plant🌿 as a less intense (and more environmentally friendly) alternative. Both lime 🍋 and mint 🌿 are available here in farmers' markets or gardens and will happily give you their gorgeous and healing scents. Hydrosols 💦 are another wonderful alternative that make a great cooling body spray.⠀ .⠀ Learn more about these oils in my new blog post coming tomorrow (link in bio) 💌 and try Five Element Healing Anointing Oils in gentle doses, created by @cicutoacupuncture and I. 🔥Calm Fire, my must-have blend for hot weather, contains essential oils of ylang ylang, lime and bai zi ren or arborvitae seed and is like a breath of fresh air.🌬️❄️ (link in bio for purchase info)⠀ ⠀ #5elementanointingoils #essentialoils #fiveelements #herbalmedicine #linkinbio #plantwisdom #alchemy #traditionalchinesemedicine #shoplocal #shopoakland #shopalameda #naturalhealing #naturalperfume #aromatherapy #angelicaandpeony #cicutoacupuncture #fireelement #alchemicalhealing #lime #ylangylang #peppermint
We've been eating a ton of this instant pot chicken curry in my house. The terrible air quality in the bay has left my partner and I feeling vulnerable to lung issues like sinus congestion, wheezing, allergic flare ups and other fun stuff. 😷🔥⠀ .⠀ In Chinese Medicine it's said 'phlegm is created in the spleen (digestive system) and stored in the lung' - in other words one of the best things we can do to protect our lungs is eat easy to digest, nourishing foods that keep our spleens happy. 🥘😋⠀ .⠀ 🍊🍑💛The yellow color is especially connected with the spleen, so this turmeric infused curry wins on that score too. From a western perspective, the many spices offer anti-inflammatory, anti-viral benefits that help our lungs stay healthy and improve our breathing.⠀ .⠀ PS Instant Pot curious? Stay tuned for a special announcement *suspenseful music*⠀ ⠀ #norcalfires #lunghealth #asthma #instantpot #chickencurry #healthyandeasy #tcm #traditionalchinesemedicine #naturalhealth #kitchenmedicine #kitchenwisdom #cooking #homecooking #allergies #turmeric #herbalhealing #herbalhealth #foodismedicine
Reposting @erinwoodacupuncture: ⠀ ...⠀ "I love making Hibiscus Tea or Jamaica Agua Fresca in the summer.  You can buy either tea bags with Hibiscus or the dried Jamaica flowers at a Mexican market.  With the tea bags, you could simply make a sun tea by adding a few bags in a glass pitcher and let in steep in the sun.  If you buy the flowers, throw in a few handfuls of dried Jamaica flowers in a big pot of filtered water, bring the water to boil on the stove, then turn it down to low for about 10 mins to simmer along with cinnamon sticks, cloves, and orange peel for a bit more flavor.  Although cinnamon is slightly warming, it can be comforting in the way it improves heart circulation and is also good for diabetes. Clove and orange peel improve digestion. After 10 minutes have passed, take it off the heat and you will have a very strong tea that you might want to dilute with cold water and a touch of honey.  I usually skip ice since it impedes digestion. I tend to drink it at room temperature.  Prepare it how you like and enjoy!⠀ ⠀ #tcmsummerwellness ⠀ #jamaica⠀ #suntea⠀ #hibiscus⠀ #kitchenmedicine⠀ #sanleandro⠀ #oakland"
Denise had me saying aww shucks with this sweet spotlight! 😳 Reposting @cicutoacu: ⠀ ...⠀ "💡Spotlight on Kirsten Cowan from @angelica.peony .⠀ ✨Kirsten has been inspiring me for over 15 years. We met at Hogwarts 🏰 (aka acupuncture school @yosanuniversity) all those years ago.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 🌿Kirsten is, among other things, an Herbalist, Acupuncturist, Maker, Alchemist, Activist, Feminist, and Ravenclaw. She's also one of my best friends. .⠀ .⠀ 📰Kirsten was featured in Oakland Magazine earlier this year about her line of healing & beauty products: ➡️https://buff.ly/2LXZuDx⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 🔥🌊🎍⚔️⛰We developed a line of essential oil blends together inspired by the five elements of Chinese Medicine: ➡️https://buff.ly/2FLRrSb (It was totally Hogwarts potions lab.)⠀ .⠀ . 📺We hosted TCM Talk show together on Periscope and YouTube: ➡️https://buff.ly/2ngJH3O⠀ https://buff.ly/2LVD8Tc⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 💸Kirsten will be hosting a fundraiser for Cat Brooks for Mayor of Oakland, California. Kirsten says: "Healing is a community process! As an acupuncturist and a microbusiness owner, I want to be part of creating a community and world where both I and my patients can truly thrive." : buff.ly/2NMuGCn .⠀ .⠀ #traditionalchinesemedicine #cuppatea#tisanes #herbaltea #acupuncture#acupuncturists #herbalists #homemade#california #oakland #flowerpower#kitchenwitch #witchesofinstagram#femmeship #plantallies #crafternoon#herbnerds #5elementanointingoils #herbcrafting #ravenclaw #hogwarts #hogwartspotions⠀ #plantwisdom #angelicaandpeony"
Summer Wellness Series #2: Food + Drink 🌞🍉🍧⠀ ⠀ This installment is pretty light and focused on the energy of summer around love, fun and late nights - and how we can stay balanced with some help from the kitchen. But tbh my heart and fire element are out of balance with sorrow, fear, anxiety and rage a lot of the time these days. The same medicine applies. ❤️⠀ ⠀ Read the whole article on my blog #linkinbio and the rest of the posts in the series at #tcmsummerwellness⠀ .⠀ 🔥❤️😎Last week Erin talked about the energy of Summer - it's the season of the Fire element and the Heart. We're 'fired up' and open to connection, eating together with friends, family and lovers, and especially tuned to beauty and love in our mealtimes. ⠀ .⠀ 🔥👅The flavor of the Fire element is bitter. Bitter has a 🌬️ cooling, ⬇️ descending quality, and a small amount can help us cool off and feel more grounded. It's a flavor that's often neglected in Western diets. ⠀ .⠀ Try adding some bitter greens like escarole or dandelion🌱🍃🥦 to your salad, sprinkling a few raw cacao nibs on a bowl of diced peaches,🍫🍑 or have some herbal bitters in water🍹 - especially if you're feeling overwhelmed with the fiery energy of summer, too hot, too much, overdrawn on social energy or having trouble sleeping or 'coming down' after fun and exciting times.😜⠀ ⠀⠀ #tcmsummerwellness #holistichealing #traditionalchinesemedicine #summer #healing #naturalhealth #naturalhealing #herbalmedicine #foodmedicine #latesummer #northerncalifornia #sfbayarea #oakland #sanleandro #acupuncture #acupuncturists #traditionalmedicine #kitchenmedicine #holisticuniversity #diyhealing #selfcare
🍀🍃🍂If you follow me on Instagram, there's a good chance you're interested in herbs... do you remember where you got the bug?🐞⠀ ⠀ 📗🍀🍃The book @cicutoacu and I used for our #tussiemussie photoshoot , "All You Need To Know About Herbs," was one of my earliest introductions to the world of herbs and all their facets. My mum bought it when she was pregnant with me, and when I was a teenager it made its way into my possession. Thanks mum.😍⠀ ⠀ Here's some of what the venerated tome (from the British publisher of "Golden Hands Magazine") has to say about 🌿rosemary, 💜lavender and 🍃sage, the herbs in our posies💐:⠀ ⠀ ➡️🌿Rosemary: Use as a final rinse to darken dark hair. Use in cooking especially with game meats or lamb.🥩🍗 Make into a tea to cure headaches. I also found this saying: "where Rosemary flourishes, the wife rules."😍⠀ .⠀ ➡️💜Lavender: Brought to Britain by the Romans who used it to scent their baths. 🛀Make herb sachets with lavender, rose, southernwood, bergamot and lemon balm, adding a few crushed coriander seeds or cloves to scent cupboards and keep away moths:🦋 ⠀ .⠀ ➡️🍃Sage: Its Latin name 'Salvia' means health, and the tea can be drunk as a general tonic especially in spring. In cooking use it with rich meats as it aids the digestion of fats.🥓⠀ .⠀ ⛰Try Move Earth and Nourish Earth along with all the other 5 Element Healing Anointing Oils created by @angelica.peony and @cicutoacu .⠀ .⠀ #traditionalchinesemedicine #acupuncture #acupuncturists #herbalists #homemade #california #oakland #tussiemussies #flowerwands #posies #kitchenwitch #witchesofinstagram #femmeship #plantallies #tarot #crafternoon #herbnerds #5elementanointingoils #herbcrafting #britishherbalism #lavender #sage #rosemary⠀⠀ #plantwisdom#angelicaandpeony #cicutoacupuncture