I hope you are enjoying this year’s 端午 Duan Wu festival. There are many fun traditional activities such as the dragon boat race, making 粽子 Zongzi — glutinous rice cakes with various tasty stuffing, drinking realgar wine with family and friends, taking bath infused with orchids, hanging bundles of mugwort plant on the door, wearing …
Spring is the perfect time to talk about worms and bugs! In Divine Farmer’s Materia Medica 神農本草經, grub (Ji Cao) belongs to the “Least Favorable” 下品 category, meaning it has to be taken with caution because of its strong partiality and actions may potentially damage the body’s Upright Qi 正氣. Grub is said to be …
Do you know anyone who have menses once every three months, or even once a year? This is considered amenorrhea (absence of menstruation) in Western medicine. However, Daoists believe that this may be due to their extraordinary ability to store Jing, or prenatal essence. If a person has no significant diseases, neither their Qi or …
