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Summer Wellness Series: Summertime Herbs
Summer Wellness Series: Eating for the Heat!
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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
Kitchen medicine! 🍲❤️😋⠀ .⠀ One of my earliest memories of Chinese medicine from Hong Kong was a young friend of my parents who stayed with us while she was pregnant and her husband had to be in Canada. She made simmered soups for herself with herbs her mum had sent her to keep her healthy through her pregnancy. 🍲🌿🌱⠀ .⠀ I thought of her this month when I made this restorative menstrual broth with astragalus, angelica, peony and red date, simmered in the heavenly beef broth from @brothbaby . I cooked the whole bottle with the handful of herbs, strained the broth back into the jar and sipped a cup or two everyday during my flow. 🌿🌱❤️😋⠀ .⠀ I get my broth at @energymattersacupuncture and it's a godsend, especially when you're exhausted and NEED to have some broth most! Ask me or your acupuncturist about herbal broth combos you can make at home.⠀ ⠀ #traditionalchinesemedicine #naturalhealth #naturalhealing #soup #herbalmedicine #herbalhealing #menstruation #womenshealth #peopleshealth #cramps #fatigue #bonebroth #beefbroth #astragalus #kitchenmedicine #kitchenhealing #pregnancy #postpartum #moontime #hongkong #danggui #baishao #selfhealing #selfcare #brothherbs #acupuncture #acupuncturists
Reposting @CicutoAcu ⠀ ⠀ 🍷❓No, it’s not red and white wine but it kind of looks like it! 🍵The tea on the left is 🌺 Hibiscus-Ginger-Cinnamon tea that @angelica.peony featured in a post last week.⠀ .⠀ 🍵The tea on the right is the Lavender Combo from @aromateashop made with Lavender, Pink roses, and Osmanthus. The combo is relaxing and can help with sleep. It works really well as a summer 🌞 sun tea! .⠀ .⠀ 🌱📔Here are some more uses of each of the individual herbs:⠀ .⠀ 💜Lavender (Xun Yi Cao). Calms anxiety and relieves depression; soothes skin rashes, bug bites, and eye infections.⠀ .⠀ 🌷Rose (Mei Gui Hua). Eases menstrual cramps; stops stomach pain and nausea.⠀ .⠀ 🌼Osmanthus (Gui Hua) Helps complexion, soothes dry skin, relieves hoarseness in the throat.⠀ .⠀ 🔥 Try Calm Fire and Nourish Fire along with all the other 5 Element Healing Anointing Oils created by @angelica.peony and @cicutoacu .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 📆Save the date! August 7 at 6 pm in Oakland: @angelica.peony is throwing a special party for acupuncturists, healers and makers to meet @therealcatbrooks bit.ly/august72018 .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #traditionalchinesemedicine #cuppatea #tisanes #herbaltea #acupuncture #acupuncturists #herbalists #homemade #california #oakland #flowerpower #kitchenwitch #witchesofinstagram #femmeship #plantallies #crafternoon #herbnerds #5elementanointingoils #herbcrafting #suntea⠀ #plantwisdom #angelicaandpeony #cicutoacupuncture
☀️☀️🍉The first installment of the Summer Wellness series is here! 🍉⠀ .⠀ ❤️❤️"Amidst summer’s passion is where dreams can be realized and desires fulfilled."❤️⠀ .⠀ ❤️❤️❤️I was really struck by this passage from @erinwoodacupuncture 's article about the energetics of summer and the magic of 'summer loving'. I took a look at the magician cards in my two tarot decks for some summertime inspiration.⠀ .⠀ 👉🔥🔥🔥"The fire element is associated with the archetype of a magician or comedian, who is all about charisma, compassion, and communication. This fire type personality is spontaneous, intuitive, and enthusiastic. Devotion, tenderness and empathy are also key characteristics. How are these qualities showing up for you this summer? We also might be asking "how do I express myself?" We might be longing for merging and pleasure. Perhaps we are feeling the magnetism and inspiration of the season, or the agitation and mania, or feeling it all at once. Amidst summer’s passion is where dreams can be realized and desires fulfilled. What dreams are on your horizon? "⠀ Read the whole article on @erinwoodacupuncture 's blog and follow #tcmsummerwellness to get the whole series 🍉☀️❤️🔥⠀ .⠀ 👉🌑BTW I brought my decks outside, including my Kuan Yin Oracle, so they can be cleansed under tonight's full moon. How are you marking the moon's energy? 🌜⠀ ⠀ #tcmsummerwellness #holistichealing #traditionalchinesemedicine #summer #healing #naturalhealth #naturalhealing #herbalmedicine #foodmedicine #latesummer #northerncalifornia #sfbayarea #oakland #sanleandro #acupuncture #acupuncturists #traditionalmedicine #kitchenmedicine #holisticuniversity #diyhealing #selfcare #heatwave #tarot #fullmoon #bloodmoon
I'm throwing a special party for acupuncturists, healers, makers, microbusiness owners and employees to meet @therealcatbrooks and learn about her plan for an Oakland that works for all of us. ⠀ .⠀ There's healing that can't be done one-on-one in a treatment room - it requires dreaming big about what we can do together as a community to tackle health crises in Oakland like housing and homelessness, lack of access to services, environmental issues and dumping, safety for our kids and communities and inequality that keeps us from reaching our potential.⠀ .⠀ Schmooze, snack, donate, learn, connect, get inspired and win some awesome prizes including classes, treatments, jewelry, skin and body care and my fave treatment room staples from Angelica & Peony!⠀ .⠀ .⠀ visit bit. ly/august72018 for more info and RSVP⠀ ⠀ #oakland #thinkglobalactlocal #therealcatbrooks #timeforchange #forceforchange #sanctuarycity #catbrooksforoakland #catbrooksformayor #acupuncturists #bayarea #healing #communityhealing