Herbs & Food
144 articles · Kitchen herbs, healing foods, and the TCM approach to eating for your body type.
Healing foods from the kitchen: herbal teas, nourishing soups, warming spices, and the everyday remedies that cultures worldwide have relied on for centuries.
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1Autumn’s Gentle Grip: Why TCM Says Your Lungs Are the First to Feel the Chill
Discover why Traditional Chinese Medicine links the autumn season to your Lung organ system and how to protect this vital…
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2Spring’s Green Qi: How to Eat and Move Like the Season Is Awakening
Discover how to align your diet and movement with spring’s rising energy using TCM principles for renewal and gentle detoxification.
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3Spring’s Liver Qi Surge: Why Your Body Feels Stuck (And How to Move It)
Discover why spring’s rising energy can cause tension, irritability, and stagnation in your body—and learn simple TCM practices to help…
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4The Winter Stillness Practice: A 15-Minute Meditation to Cultivate Your Inner Fire
When the world outside is cold and still, your inner world can become a warm, glowing hearth. This winter meditation…
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5Winter’s Silent Grief: Why Cold Weather Deepens Sadness & TCM’s Warmth Rituals
Winter’s cold can deepen grief and sadness. Learn TCM warmth rituals and foods to nourish your Kidney Yang and find…
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6Winter’s Silent Language: What Your Cold Hands & Tongue Reveal About Your Qi
Discover why your body’s winter signals—cold extremities, a pale tongue, and deep fatigue—are whispers from your Kidney Qi. A TCM…
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7Winter’s Quiet Hearth: A TCM Ritual to Kindle Your Inner Fire
Discover the ancient Chinese practice of building your ‘inner hearth’ with warming foods, gentle movement, and a nightly ritual to…
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8Winter Tai Chi: The Slow, Warming Flow for Cold, Still Days
Discover a gentle, 15-minute tai chi sequence designed to cultivate inner warmth and circulate Qi during winter’s quiet, yin-dominant season.
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9The Winter Kitchen Apothecary: 5 Warming Soups to Nourish Your Jing
Discover 5 nourishing winter soups from the Chinese kitchen, designed to warm your core, build deep energy (Jing), and support…