Once upon a time, there was a yellow ginger called Turmeric that not many people knew about. Come 2018, every health website has high turmeric metric readings, golden powder are sprinkled everywhere and instagram #turmeric pulls up 721,000 posts and counting 😲. 💛 What is Turmeric Turmeric is a member of the Curcuma botanical group, which is also […]
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June Favourites
Hello! It’s time for the monthly updates of my favourite TCM and wellness happenings in June. Can’t believe half of the year is gone already. Have you been up to anything interesting? The Complete Book of Chinese Health & Healing by Daniel Reid Published in 1994, this book is filled with the basic principles of […]
CHOCOLATE: Probably the best medicine
As a child, sinking my teeth into a Mars bar gave me the ultimate chocolate euphoria. As my taste buds awaken to the burst of sweetness and chewy texture uninterrupted by hard peanuts. And before you know it, it’s gone. After 20 years, although Mars bar doesn’t bring back the same explosion of chocoragasm,I still […]
How to treat rhinitis
Achooo!! Known as air-conditioned garden city, Singapore, most people are constantly moving between hot and cold places. Outdoors makes you sweat while indoors is so cold that I have to bring a sweater everywhere I go. In a first world country with an overdose of antibiotics, too much sanitizing hand soaps that kills 99.9% of […]
Ear Acupuncture
You see celebrities wearing small “diamonds” and golden pins in their ears. Those might to ear acupuncture! Ear or Auricular acupuncture is the stimulation of acupuncture points (by needle, magnets, ear pellets or manual stimulation) on the external ear which is connected to the central nervous system (brain). It is a micro system, meaning that […]