Congee to the Rescue
… to nourish life and seek peace and joy is not a matter lying deeply buried or far away and therefore difficult to know. It is situated between sleeping and eating. Hence this book was written to urge people to eat congee every day, and not laugh at it. (Zhang Lei’s Zhou Ji)
Moderating the Liver?
For the past two weeks, much of my attention has been taken up by a course on “Nurturing the Fetus: The Ten Months of Pregnancy in the Chinese Medicine Classics and the Modern Clinic,” which I am currently teaching with my clinical colleague and friend Andrew Loosely. A student in that class had a great question about the recommendation for the first month of pregnancy. Here is the information and advice, as worded in one of our sources, Bèijí qiānjīn yàofāng 2.3 《備急千金要方》…
Lillian’s List of Lucky Leckerlie
What follows is a long list of lucky foods that my dear friend and soul sister Lillian Pearl Bridges compiled two years ago after a Tea Time Talk event where several people in the audience requested it. Lillian always emphasized the importance of surrounding yourself with lucky foods (and other items) during the new year celebration and made sure I followed her advice.