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Digestion

Dutch Oven Chicken Thighs with Lemon and Sage Butter Sauce Recipe

There is nothing worse than dry, flavorless chicken and this recipe is anything but that! Perfectly browned and moist, this chicken dish is bursting with bright lemon, earth sage, and rich butter flavors.

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Cauliflower Fried Rice Recipe

This Chinese-style cauliflower fried rice is a healthy, low-carb dish. Food is medicine and this recipe is a perfect combination of easy ingredients that can help balance digestion. Cauliflower, peas, and carrots strengthen the spleen and promote digestion. Scallions are antiviral and antibacterial. Mushrooms detoxify, resolve phlegm, and are anti-tumor. Water chestnuts help to clear heat. Egg nourishes yin and tonifies the blood. Garlic is antiviral and antifungal. Ginger is antitoxin and benefits the lungs and stomach. Peanuts strengthen the spleen and regulate blood.  

Feel free to be creative and create your own variation of this dish with other ingredients that you enjoy. 

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KETO FRIENDLY AND GLUTEN FREE ALMOND COOKIES RECIPE

These crunchy keto, gluten free cookies are incredibly quick and simple to bake. 

I love baking these cookies for friends and family. The sweetness helps to feed the Spleen system, which represents Earth and the Mother of the body. The almonds support the Lung system, while the eggs and butter nourish Yin.

Moderation in all things is the Middle Way, which is the way of the Tao.

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Five Reasons Acupuncture Helps Digestive Function

Digestion is a complex task performed by the body. It begins in the mouth and finishes when the ingested food leaves the body through the rectum. For all we have learned over the years regarding digestion, there is still so much more we don’t know or are still learning. For example, it wasn’t until recently, the last 10 years or so, that modern medicine confirmed our gastrointestinal tract is our second brain. This discovery is drastically changing the way the body and its many functions are viewed, because everything we put in our mouths can potentially have life-altering effects on the mind, as well as the body.  continue reading »

Herbal Tonics for Digestion

Digestive disorders can be simple like flatulence or gas, or they can be much more serious, such as Crohn’s disease. But regardless of the severity of the disease, there is no doubt digestive disorders affect far more people than they should, especially in the United States. A recent survey reports nearly 74 percent of all Americans are living with digestive issues. Most people don’t report it to their doctors either, because they assume it is normal to have gas, bloating or abdominal pain. But these symptoms can be indicators of much more serious underlying problems. continue reading »

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