If you are opting for a live rosemary tree this year for your Christmas tree, have you thought about what you can do with it after the Holiday Season is over? Well, after planting it outside, try adding a sprig of fresh rosemary to a hot cup of tea! Not only will it have a…
Read more →Do you always cook the same kind of rice? Or do you stand in the grocery store wondering whether to try jasmine, basmati, brown, white, long grain, short grain or wild? Thinking about rice as a medicine may help. In Oriental cooking, rice is considered a staple because of its many healing properties. Sweet in…
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 →Energy drinks and teas for digestion, stress, the immune system, etc, are now common place on grocery store shelves. Most people will agree that what we eat affects our health. The Chinese, however, take this one step further. Chinese medicated cuisine for health and prevention of disease has a history dating back to 1000 BCE.…
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