Iced Herb Tea
We watched golfers pass through the back yard while sipping this tea at our last lesser yang potluck. This is the ultimate refreshing drink. Even one hundred degree weather will not cause you to lose your cool. Thanks to […]
Personalized Medicine, It’s The Future
Ever since the sequencing of the human genome the promise of personalized medicine has been at the forefront of Western Medicine. The promise is getting ever closer as the cost of doing sequencing becomes less […]
Risk Factor #3 for Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema and COPD
If you have been diagnosed with any of these diseases I advise you to look at information for all of them. COPD was previously divided into emphysema and chronic bronchitis. But emphysema is a description […]
Bread & Butter Pickles
My Grandmother use to make bread and butter pickles that were delicious. However, like most other recipes I’ve found they contained sugar, onions and mustard seeds. These are completely cooling and ideal for lesser yang. In addition, they are […]
Roasted Grape Spinach Salad with Balsamic Dressing (Lesser Yang)
Roasted grapes:
1 lb. red, seedless grapes removed from stems
2 Tbs. olive oil
1/2 tsp. Balsamic vinegar
1/8 tsp. dried basil
pinch of salt
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Toss grapes in a medium bowl with olive oil, vinegar, basil and salt. Place […]
Apple Walnut Spinach Salad with Mock Caesar Dressing (Lesser Yin)
Apple Walnut Spinach Salad with Mock Caesar Dressing (Lesser Yin)
Salad:
6 cups baby spinach leaves, washed
1 apple thinly sliced
1/2 cup crumbled goat Feta cheese
1/4 cup slivered red onions
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Arrange walnuts on […]
What Do You Think Of This Product?
This is probably the question my Sasang Constitution clients ask me most frequently. They’re wondering whether a particular new product is warming, cooling, or whether it strengthens the lung or the liver, etc.
I try to include […]
Cool Green Bean & Tomato Salad
This Lesser Yang salad is totally dependent on the quality of the tomatoes. You can use either cherry or regular or heirloom. It doesn’t matter. Just make sure that they are vine ripened and at their peak and you […]
Tangy Beet & Fennel Salad
I made this Lesser Yin salad for some friends recently and they loved it. I just happened to get both beets and fennel in my CSA produce allotment that week. This is the time of year that even those […]
What’s Raw Got To Do With It? – The Truth About Raw Agave Nectar
It seems that the word “raw” is connected to the idea of “unprocessed” in the raw food community but by strict definition it only means “uncooked”. Specifically, the temperature has not been raised above 104 degrees F. at […]