We all like our food to taste more-ish so that we keep going back to it to enjoy the flavour. Monosodium Glutamate hit the news a few decades ago about being risky to our health but with so many different multicultural foods now available since mass immigration in the 80's and 90's, its impact, like… Continue reading MSG – is a flavour additive harming you?
3 foods that are absolutely incredible for your gut health. If your gut is not doing so well, manifesting symptoms such as fatigue, heavy limbs, sweating on mild exertion, sugar cravings, fluid retention with loose stools and a squelchy belly with lots of noise, you might have the TCM diagnosis of Spleen Qi Deficiency with Damp.… Continue reading Bloating? Read this.
Read ON! Amazing source of iron, calcium and magnesium for vegetarians This is a fantastically delicious recipe for gingerbread from one of my vintage cookbooks published in 1967, called "Molasses Flavour - for modern cooks-". It's published by the Boston Molasses Company, a division of SuCrest Corporation, New York. Obviously some kind of advertising pamphlet… Continue reading Looking for a gingerbread recipe?
Chinese medicine practitioners often recommend Bone Broth as an addition to your diet, particularly over the cooler months. It is suggested for the TCM Diagnoses of Blood Deficiency or Yin Deficiency, to help restore your body with the structural proteins it needs. Bone broth is awesome for your health but sometimes it doesn't taste that great, and if you have to have it day in, day out it can be a little bit on the boring, stodgy side. So, we've decided to share a quick & easy recipe for a beautiful soup that you can enjoy, based on bone broth.
Seasonally in the Chinese medicine framework, Summer resonates with the element of Fire.
Bit of a no-brainer, really, if we take enough time to observe the world around us and the way the Sun heats up, the Earth dries out, fruits ripen and in Australia, bushfire season starts. But what happens in human beings during this time, and what impact does it have on our health, according to the ancient Chinese?
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