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Bean Sprout – It helps to remove toxins in the blood and reduces fat intake. Bean sprout is hard to utilize in food as it has crunchy texture but not much of flavor. Therefore it is often used as [...]

Cinnamon – It lowers blood sugar and in TCM it also helps to warm up the body and improve blood circulation. Therefore cinnamon is good to eat with any kind of meat but better in a bone broth. [...]

What is Blood? In TCM, Yin and Yang are always prevalent and in our body, there are two main yin and yang, blood and qi. Qi is light, ethereal, and moving. Blood is heavy, physical, and dormant. [...]

Not all the meats are thought as healthy and each one of them has different reputations. The main concern for the most of the time when eating meat is fat. Therefore knowing what kind of fat is [...]

Qi is the term used in Traditional Chinese Medicine to describe your body’s vital life energy. Qi is necessary for all life processes: proper organ function, circulation of blood, metabolism of [...]

You may have experienced this at some point: tiredness after eating, fatigue, no appetite, loose stools.  All signs of qi deficiency.  Logically one would think since we get our energy from food, [...]

Dear Shoppers, Thank you very much for your business in year 2017! We will be closed from Saturday, December 23, 2017 through Monday, January 1, 2018. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 2, 2018. [...]

In this age of information there is so much out there making villains and superheros of food, we are going to filter out all that information with Traditional Chinese Medicine. Diet can vary from [...]

There are many sources of nutritional information from the Western perspective and also sources of information from the Tradition Chinese Medicine perspective.  This ongoing series will look to [...]

There are many sources of nutritional information from the Western perspective and also sources of information from the Tradition Chinese Medicine perspective.  This ongoing series will look to [...]