Recipes
Lumberjack’s Beets Salad
Beetroots are good for the heart in both biomedicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. This article explains why: https://traceygoulding.com/beetroot-juice-high-blood-pressure/ This is a tasty and simple recipe. Quinoa and seeds provide a good dose of protein. Ingredients 4 small apple sized beetroots, […]
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What shall I cook with all these greens?
Springtime is green food time in Chinese Medicine. Yes I’m grossly simplifying matters here but essentially we are in the time of ‘Wood’ and energetically, the Chinese Liver organ (more about that in another blog). Roughly translated, we need to […]
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Avocado, roasted tomatoes and egg on toast
This is nutritious and tasty lunch. Eggs and avocado in Chinese Medicine are good for building yin and ‘blood’. Avocado contains lots of vitamins but also oleic acid, a fat which is contained in olive oil and believed to have […]
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Squash Salad with Tahini Dressing
This is a lovely salad with a vibrant array of colours, perfect for eating outdoors on a sunny day. Squash builds Qi or energy, is easy on the digestion and the herbs help relieve stagnant energy. Mint is cooling and […]
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Eating to build ‘Blood’ and Yin
Summer is the time of salads. In Chinese Medicine eating with the seasons is advocated, so eating salads and some raw foods in the summer is seen as living harmoniously with nature. So while we’ve still got some summer left, thought I’d […]
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Eating for the Summer
Chinese Medicine advises eating appropriately for the seasons. Out go the stews and soups of winter and in come more raw or lightly cooked foods. The key word here is more; a completely raw food diet would be seen as […]
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