Mirrors and Windows
I’m getting a little anxious to start school next week. I’ve got to do some shopping over the weekend for the minor supplies like pencils and paper - the major ones have to wait until I cash that financial aid check. I don’t know how prepared I am for this next year. It’s going to [...]
Meditation in the Metropolis
Certainly, meditation is important for all of us - in terms of centering and clearing the energies of our all too busy American lives. That said, when do we do it? When do our patients do it? Meditation is clearly part of the lifestyle change that is so much more important than anything we can [...]
Baskets of Blueberries
Starting in mid-August, we began receiving baskets of blueberries from our CSA. I wanted to know how to put these berries are put to use - from a Chinese medicine perspective. However, there’s not much written anywhere that I can find. Because the blueberry (Vaccinium Cyanococcus) is a native American plant species, it’s definitely not [...]
More on the Aubergine
About the eggplant, the Shen Nong Ben Cao says this:
“一名茄根．味甘寒．生山谷．治勞傷虛羸．補中益氣．除??;血血閉寒熱．利小便．其苗．下水.”
yī míng qié gēn. wèi gān hán. shēng shāngǔ. zhì láoshāng xū léi. bǔ zhōng yìqì. chú ??; xuè xuè bì hánrè. lì xioǎbiàn. qí miáo. xiàxhuǐ.
With my less than mediocre understanding of Classic Chinese, I would translate this as, “It’s name is Qiegen. It’s flavor [...]
Cracking Open the Eggplant
The last couple weeks at our CSA we have received large, beautiful and firm eggplants. These indigo berries grow in Portland at this time of year so we’ve been eating plenty of them: fried, eggplant parmesan, ratatouille, etc…
The eggplant itself is native to India and Sri Lanka, but has been cultivated in most other parts [...]
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