Category: intergrative health.
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Food Co-op: An old new way to shop
In all my years in Florida I never heard of a food co-op. Using my google I see that there many just never my orbit. Here is a link for the curious. Weaver Street Market is a worker- and consumer-owned cooperative selling natural and organic food with a focus on local and fair trade products. The original market is…
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My shitty ex gallbladder and letting go of the past
Over the 6 years or so I’d spend some time in counseling and my counselor would say “You need to cut the cord.” And I would retort “The cord is cut! ” Most of the time believing that I had actually done this. Time heals all wounds. So as time goes on you really believe…
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Why learn to Meditate?
Why learn to Meditate? If someone told me 5 years ago I would be meditating every day and teaching meditation to my patients-well- I would have laughed and said “Oh ya right!” Actually, five years ago I was so stressed out I probably would not have laughed. I would have walked away. Every day my…
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Poultices, apparently if you don’t use them they don’t work
Poultices A poultice, also called cataplasm, is a soft moist mass, often heated and medicated, that is spread on cloth over the skin to treat an aching, inflamed, or painful part of the body. It can be used on wounds such as cuts. I love stuff like this – things you can make naturally using…
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Food equals Medicine: Ginger
Food equals Medicine: Ginger I’m a fan of ginger ale. Its the one thing settles my yucky stomach. Canada Dry is my brand. It has real ginger in it. Having said that -its extracted and lots of not so good stuff in ginger ale. I don’t know why I have never included grated real ginger…
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Shoh wu chi a tonic and Lili Von Shtupp
When ever I think of “tonics” I think of the wild west and the guys in their wagons touting the latest cure. One of the more popular tonics like Hostetter’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters had an alcohol content of 44.3% by volume. Others, like Parkers Tonic had 41.6% and Peruna had 28%.From the 1850’s to the…
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Food equals medicine MUNG BEANS
Food equals medicine MUNG BEANS The only beans i ever really liked were Boston Baked Beans. Delicious but probably not good for you. With my hotdog and some potato salad. On my old sailboat in eel pond in woods hole. I digress… This stuff you can get the bean or also in vermicelli noodles. These…
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Food equals medicine Kimchi
Food equals medicine Kimchi This one of the foods my acupuncture doc turned me onto.I’m very lucky to be able to pick up home made at my local Chinese grocery store. You can also buy in Publix. Effective in preventing cancer and detoxifying heavy metals in the liver, kidney and small intestine. Slows down the…
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Intergrative recovery and being your own advocate
Integrative recovery and being your own advocate A few weeks ago I had a headache. Actually it was more like a head pain. Like my brain was on fire. There are thousands of reasons for a headache. I’m not a headachy type of person. I just thought I had some kind of virus. Took some…
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