The use of colors is well known in alternative medicine for healing purposes. In yoga traditions colors feed the energy of the chakras of the body. In Ayurveda practice colors can increase or reduce the three doshas, vata, pitta and kapha. The Five Element Theory in Traditional Chinese Medicine attributes a color to each of…
Read more →If you have ever tasted traditional Thai cuisine, you will have noticed how colorfully presented the meals are. Red chili peppers, fresh green kafir lime and basil leaves, snowy white rice, a riot of color exploding on your plate.....you know it's going to taste good before you even try it! According to Oriental medicine, nature…
Read more →The following link is to an interesting article by Dr Mark Hyman on his recent visit to China, where he found that the average Chinese person knows more about the medicinal properties of food than he does after many years of research. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/food-as-medicine_b_1011805.htmlNote the questions Dr Hyman asks at the end of the article. What…
Read more →This is the time of year when our lightweight, thin summer clothes are sadly packed away and we slowly turn to our warmer and thicker fall and winter wardrobe. But do we also change our color scheme? Maybe we begin to choose warmer shades, depending on the temperature of the day, or do we change…
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