A mask is a symbol and a life saver.
WINTER IS COMING! You don’t want to get sick in Summer, lest you go into Winter with weak, non-replenished organs.
Just like you fix your roof when it’s not raining, you REPLENISH YOUR CHI in Summer when your body has the fewest demands placed upon it.
We were stocking up on antivirus Chinese medicinal herb formulas when we got to talking with our supplier about how the antivirus medicinal herbs currently being prescribed by Oriental medicine practitioners to prevent the onset of Covid, or mitigate its symptoms, got formulated and distributed to people around China so quickly. He’s an expert in Chinese medicine pharmacopeia, authoring and translating several tomes on the use and effects of Chinese medicinal herbs; essentially encyclopedias which are widely used by institutes of Oriental Medicine to teach their students, and in the day to day clinic work of practitioners. So we knew he would have something interesting and informative to say.
As the Holiday Season arrives and we prepare ourselves to enter this first Winter of Covid, it is time for tales, new and old, told in ways new and old.
The attack of the Coronavirus has thrust humankind in an evolutionary moment! A statement surreal, yet all too true. An ancient Greek poet named, Hesiod gave the world the story about Pandora’s Box to warn about what can happen when Humankind strays too far from ‘home’; home being one’s inner knowing, one’s wisdom. It is not too far-fetched to say that’s where we Homosapients find ourselves today.
Right now we are in autumn-approaching-winter, and need to prepare our Body~Mind~Spirit for the normal seasonal energetics while adjusting to the presence of Covid.
It’s autumn, the ‘fall’ season, and in the 5 Element way of thinking, it’s the ‘Metal” season too. This means the Metal energy predominates during the autumn months, and since Lungs are associated with the ‘Metal’ energy they’re most affected this time of year. Oriental Medicine and 5 Element Theory offer many useful insights about […]
