3 bulbs garlic 1 large onion 1 tablespoon olive oil 1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil 4 cups water 1 large potato 3 bayleaves 1/2 teaspoon thyme 1/4 teaspoon oregano 6 tablespoons tamari or soy sauce Pinch cayenne pepper 1. Chop the garlic and onion and sauté together in the oil for about 20 minutes. Keep...
Category: Health
Flow with the Spring Season
According to TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), a happy and comfortable life is, for the large part, the result of carefully adjusting oneself to the prevailing external and internal circumstances – “going with the flow” so to speak. I will write more of the various flows of life that affect us another time, but today I...
Lockdown Zoom Classes: Stretching and Bending
Welcome to the all new 2021 – the world has changed in a very unexpected way and most of us are finding that we need to adapt. Practicing medicine, for example, has become very different and at times severely limited and restricted by the Covid safety precautions, and often it is those very people who...
Course in TCM Dietetics #1: How to Eat Right
Gut health has been in the news frequently this year, since the recent research from doctors Braden Kuo and Allan Goldstein at Massachusetts General Hospital, the US, who found that bacteria in the gut can affect mood, cognition and behaviour and lead problems in these areas – and vice versa. In neurobiological terms, the enteric...