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This was written last year and posted to Substack. I never really went anywhere with Substack... -------------------- When I was asked to write a blog post on how acupuncture can address gut issues I came down with a massive case of writer's block, I was really dragging my feet on this homework assignment. Where to start? How far back to fundamentals do I go? Even if I were to mention that acupuncture has been effective for digestive disorders like IBS and Crohn's I felt lik

Lots of buzz about the year of the Crimson Horse, and with Summer-Heat soon upon us, I thought this was timely. Source: Healing Soup FB page . Simple soup with three ingredients: mung beans yi yi ren (薏苡仁 coix lacryma-jobi, Job’s Tear) crystal rock sugar. This soup clears Summer-Heat and drains Dampness. Great for climates that are hot and humid. The amount of beans and Job's Tears are according to personal liking. Some people like thick soups and some like it runnier. Pre-s

When learning about astrology, the question of is our life already set or is it in our hands always arises. And the answer I've found is it's BOTH. The most concrete example I can find of this is in the stock market. Since this is the year of the fire horse, let's use bing wu as an example (the two SPY 5 mins charts for fire horse days above). I use SPY as a summary indicator for the world because it contains the energy of the 500 biggest public companies in the US - a ve

This story is shared with permission. This story takes place around the time beef was reintroduced to back to Michael, and more and more used-to-be-off-limit-foods were making their way onto the plate (see previous blog post). When Leah was in the summer of grade 5, she came to me, as the main cook for the family, to ask for help to loose weight. Here we go I thought to myself, I would do anything to keep my daughter from entering her preteen and teen years worried about foo

This story is shared with permission. Now this is a story all about how my life got twist turned upside down... Imagine a newly released fresh-faced accountant after graduating, getting married, living abroad, completing her articling to obtain her designation, ready to conquer what's next. What's next was welcoming my beautiful baby boy, one of the greatest teachers I've had. Infant cradle cap and dry skin was the warm-up to skin conditions that would change the direction of