If it looks like a grain, grows like a grain and tastes like a grain, it may be a seed. Seed grains (also called pseudograins) may be combined with traditional grains to supply high quality protein.
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Traditional Chinese medicine offers a practical treatment strategy and simple teas to improve complexion as they detoxify acid impurities.
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The winter solstice, hiemal solstice, or hibernal solstice occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun.
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Roger Green’s enjoyable “barefoot doctor” class at Academy of Healing Nutrition offers simple ways to keep you and family sane, healthy and safe from stress and germs.
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Traditional Chinese herbal medicines have been proven effective for curbing milder symptoms of COVID19.
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COVID prevention, treatment and recovery is a big concern these days. A year into the COVID pandemic, there is now a lot of information on the best ways to use Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to combat COVID problems.
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Drinking tea, the right kind of tea, is really good for your body. And the tea known as matcha definitely falls under the heading of the right kind of tea.
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a very different and holistic way of looking at the body and at health. This system uses five natural elements to metaphorically describe the relationship between nature and the body’s life force.
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Below Letha Hadady, D.Ac., a leading expert on natural health and beauty treatments, best-selling author and faculty at Academy of Healing Nutrition shares how we can transition our diet from winter to spring for elevated energy and wellbeing.
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Read to uncover safe, natural, and gentle tips and strategies that may help support women’s health using the wisdom of TCM.
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While in the west, we tend to look at food as a series of nutrients we have to ingest to survive, many cultures of longevity leverage food as a daily effort towards restoring mental, physical and emotional health, and even healing from disease. This article surfaces Eastern and Western traditions that encourage a “food as medicine” approach to health, healing and improving quality of life.
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Imagine that our digestion is like a relay team. The runners’ track is the long, winding digestive tract, the gut. Each runner carries a basket of food passing the basket from one runner to the next. If a runner gets tired there is less digestive fire or digestive qi so that digestion is slow and incomplete. If the runner drops the basket in the mud, undigested food, acids, irritants, and toxins become mixed into the food. Worse, if a runner trips and falls, making a hole in the basket, spilling some food, there is less food in the basket. It spills onto the grass making a mess.
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How do we boost our immune system? The answer depends upon who you ask. At Academy Healing Nutrition, we study both natural, modern and ancient approaches (like Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine). This article will help you prevent illness, chronic disease, and the ill effects of aging through immune-system boosting foods, herbs and lifestyle practices.
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Imagine your body is a fortress. Along the outer walls are the parapets where armed soldiers protect against invasion. Their attention is outward as they scan the distance. Inside the fort are ammunition, supplies, reinforcements and family. Your body, the fortress, is protected inside by nourishing foods and herbs for organs, blood, and for freeing circulation so that oxygen and hormones can move where needed…
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