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It’s summer! The season of baseball, barbecue and fireworks. Mirroring ways of nature, the five elements depict the season of summer with fire and heat, and late summer with humidity. You might ask, why is this important? Since our body has to adjust itself to the rising temperature and humidity, it is usually done through intake of what TCM calls “cold property” foods like watermelon, iced drinks, cucumbers, and so on. Intake of such “cold property” foods do cool us off, but in excess they might cause one to feel sluggish, lose appetite, or have slight water retention. Here are some healthy and delicious ways to fight off heat and sluggishness that summer brings.
Although American Ginseng is not as potent as Red Panax Ginseng, it has a more cooling properties than Red Panax (American ginseng replenishes more Yin than Yang. Red Panax tonifies more yang than yin). Hence, American ginseng tea or American ginseng roots are a great way to boost your energy and to cool your body down at the same time!
This is a popular summer’s soup dish in Taiwan. It is a common dish used when the kids have guzzled down one too many soda pop or popsicles and are not eating their meals! The four herbs used are to reduce “dampness” cause by eating too “cold property” foods. Hence, this is also great for those suffering from water retention!
Shi Shen Tang contains Dioscorea Batata, Euryale Ferox, Poria and Nelumbinis Semen $3.00/pack, 4 servings. Please contact Susan Yen at 1-877-322-6168 to order.
Cantonese people are well known for their frequent use of herbs in their cooking. This particular soup is consumed when one feels hot, sluggish and thirsty from the heat and muggy summer days.
This soup contains Glehnia Littoralis, Polygonatum Odoratum, Stemona Sessilifolia, and Doscorea Batata. $3.00/pack, 4 serving. Please contact Susan Yen at 1-877-322-6168 to order.
Qigong offers relief to those who suffer many diseases
Complementary therapies should be subjected to scientific study (wherever possible) so that the proven ones can be practised as evidence-based complementary medicine.
I AM happy to report that after many years of sharing that qigong is useful for different diseases, my message has finally been noticed by some local scientific associations and even a local university medical faculty.
Acupuncture can relieve migraine
After missing a big chunk of early spring training with migraine headaches and battling back stiffness for years, White Sox reliever Scott Linebrink has discovered his own relief acupuncture and Gua Sha.
“[Acupuncture] hasn’t eliminated the migraines, but it has made them more manageable and less frequent,” said Linebrink, who personally discovered the ancient Chinese remedy after his signing with the Sox.
“I’ll tell you what, it relaxes me more than a massage,” he said. “It’s a total body thing. I tell [the acupuncturist] what’s bothering me [so] he also does the back and shoulders.
Acupuncture can relieve migraine
After missing a big chunk of early spring training with migraine headaches and battling back stiffness for years, White Sox reliever Scott Linebrink has discovered his own relief acupuncture and Gua Sha.
“[Acupuncture] hasn’t eliminated the migraines, but it has made them more manageable and less frequent,” said Linebrink, who personally discovered the ancient Chinese remedy after his signing with the Sox.
“I’ll tell you what, it relaxes me more than a massage,” he said. “It’s a total body thing. I tell [the acupuncturist] what’s bothering me [so] he also does the back and shoulders.
A woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer becomes a believer in acupuncture after it helps her cope with the effects of surgery and chemotherapy:
One of her side effects was neuropathy, sometimes caused by chemotherapy.
As soon as treatment was completed, Goddard went on an Alaskan cruise. Then she came home and got back to work. However, she continued to experience neuropathy.
“It was causing numbness and tingling from my knees to toes and elbows to fingers,” she says. “I fell a couple of times, and it was driving me crazy.”
When she mentioned her discomfort to Moshe Frenkel, M.D., associate professor and medical director of M. D. Anderson’s Integrative Medicine Clinic, he suggested she visit Meide Liu, M.D., L.Ac., an acupuncturist in M. D. Anderson’s Place … of wellness.
“I don’t have any qualms about needles, and so I said, ‘Bring it on,’ ” Goddard says. “I don’t like to resort to any drugs unless they’re absolutely necessary.”
Within a week after her first treatment, the tingling sensation began to go away. After several weeks, her fingertips and toes were no longer numb.
Acupuncture leads to fewer drugs after recurrence
Everything was going fine until the familiar abdominal pain reared its ugly head again.
The cancer was back, this time in Goddard’s left lower abdomen, just outside her colon. Doctors suspected it had been there all along, hiding during her tests, shrinking during chemotherapy, then coming back just when she thought she was free and clear.
Goddard knew the drill: surgery, chemotherapy, losing her hair. But this time, she used acupuncture to help deal with the nausea, fatigue and pain. As an added bonus of using acupuncture, she made it through treatment with fewer drugs.
There’s also a good Q&A.
A farmer in China is feeding his chickens herbal-laced liquor, which supposedly makes them more delicious and healthy:
A chicken raiser in southern China has been making big bucks by feeding his livestock with medicinal liquor.
The raiser from Jiangxi province has been feeding his chickens with medicinal liquor, mixed with 30 types of herbs for three to seven months, reports the China Daily.
Due to its medicinal value, these chickens sell from 64 to 776 yuan per Kg, and the raiser has been making a profit of 60 yuan on each sale.
The chickens, which are sold mainly to deluxe restaurants, are said to have a unique taste.
You can find some beneficial herbs right in your kitchen:
The herbs and spices used by ancient healers are still grown today. And many of them can be found in your kitchen cabinet. Scientists have been testing many of these herbs and spices to determine the real medicinal value of the products. Some herbs and spices have a very strong effect on the body, while for others, the research is not very strong or has produced mixed results. Here is a list of some common herbs and spices and their potential uses:
Basil – potential cancer-fighting properties.
Cardamom – inhibits blood clots, reduces gas and aids in digestion.
Cloves – eases the pain of toothaches.
Garlic – lowers cholesterol, decreases blood pressure.
Ginger – eases digestive problems, nausea and vomiting. Also potential for treating pain, colds, fever, arthritis and joint and muscle pain.
Rosemary – may have potential to fight some cancers.
Sage – improves cognitive function.
Salt – combined with water to ease sinus congestion and cold symptoms.
Thyme – fights fungal infections.In addition to the herbs and spices, two other kitchen ingredients may have potential medicinal uses.
* Honey may soothe a sore throat and cough, treat diarrhea or constipation and ease insomnia. There is some evidence to show it may also reduce nausea, lower cholesterol and, when applied to the skin, improve wound healing.
* Peppermint oil may be used to treat stomach upset, irritable bowel, headache, respiratory congestion and muscle pain.
As Chinese medicine gains in popularity, some key ingredients may be growing scarce:
The trekkers are searching for caterpillar fungus (Cordyceps sinensis), an elusive fungus that grows on the caterpillar of the Thitarodes ghost moth, which lives at altitudes over 10,000 feet (3,000 meters). A prized medicine believed to boost immunity and increase stamina, caterpillar fungus is a popular cure for everything from cancer to erectile dysfunction among Han Chinese in the nation’s east. (It had been for the Tibetans, too, but now they can’t afford it.) Collected and traded east as early as the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618 to 906), the medicine has long been central to the Tibetan economy. But rising incomes in eastern China are now pushing demand for the fungus, sparking a frenzied collection that exacerbates environmental degradation, sometimes erupts into violence, and threatens the fungus’s very existence.
As China’s economy booms, per capita disposable incomes are rising by as much as 10 percent yearly in the affluent east. Many middle class Chinese are spending some of their extra cash on traditional medicine. Tonics such as caterpillar fungus, believed to ensure good health when taken in soup or steeped in hot water, are in particular demand. Last year, prices for caterpillar fungus doubled in just months. By December, 1.8 ounces (50 grams, or roughly a handful) of prime caterpillar fungus retailed for 25,000 yuan ($3,376). That same month, Chinese headlines exclaimed that 2.2 pounds (one kilogram), enough to last a few months, cost more than a small Mercedes—500,000 yuan ($67,522).
High demand now appears to be endangering supply. “I started picking when I was as young as this boy,” said 48-year-old nomad Buchang from his yak hair tent in this mountain encampment last June, gesturing to his small grandson. “Then, every person could pick 200 pieces per day. Now we find 15.” Indeed, in January a report on medicinal plants from London-based conservation organization Botanic Gardens Conservation International highlighted Cordyceps sinensis as a threatened species.
Pharmaceutical companies are going to Vietnam to source herbs for Chinese medicines:
With humid environment and good weather, Vietnam is rich in herbal resources, giving it potential to develop Chinese medicine products, said a Chinese pharmaceutical company official.
Xiao Junping, board director of the Chinese Pozin Pharmaceutical Company is attending the ongoing Second Chinese Commodity (Vietnam) Fair in Hanoi lasting until July 13. He came to Vietnam with a big interest in the local medicine market.
Gancao(liquorice), Jinyinhua (honeysuckle), huoxiang (wrinkled giant hyssop) and a number of herbs grown here can be cultivated and developed with modern technique into Chinese medicine in tablets, with the function like clearing away the heat and curing cough, said Xiao.
With hot weather and a dense population in Vietnam, Xiao is confident these products cater to local people’s needs.
The four-day fair draws about 100 Chinese companies in different sectors, including home electronic appliances, Chinese medicine, machinery and garments.
At the fair, Chinese booth selling rare Chinese herbs like ginseng and glossy ganoderma also draws many visitors.
Wang Zhiwei, manager of Tianlilu Company from southwest China’s Jilin Province, brought a dozen kinds of herbs to the fair. “I came to the fair last year, and found Vietnamese people interested in buying Chinese herbs, so I travel all the way here again this year.”
Dong Viet Thang, chairman of Vietnam Pharmaceutical Companies Association, hailed the idea of Pozin company to establish a factory in Vietnam to produce Chinese medicine products.
Vietnamese people have learned about Chinese herbs and Chinese medicines for a long time. Some families recognize it as an effective and safe way to cure disease, he said.
