AcuHerb Community Circle

08/07/2025

07/25/2025

🥗 A Kid-Friendly, Five-Flavor Bowl with Real Healing Power

Dinner was simple, thrown together from what we had, and completely hit the spot.
Even better? It covered all five flavors in Chinese medicine—aka nourishment for every organ system.

🌾 Rice
🥬 Farmers market kale
🧄 Daikon radish
🌿 Yellow beets
🫑 Bell peppers
🫛 Organic peas
🌱 Parsley
🍲 Lentils
🌿 H**p seeds
🌊 Side of sushi seaweed
• seasoned with coconut aminos, tamari, fresh lime juice, and Mexican honey sauce

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In Traditional Chinese Medicine, a meal like this nourishes Qi, Blood, digestion, emotions, and immunity—all while using up leftovers and keeping kids happy.

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🔍 TCM Food Breakdown:
• Sweet: Lentils, peas, beets, rice, coconut aminos → supports Spleen & digestion
• Sour: Lime juice, yellow beets → supports Liver, regulates emotions
• Bitter: Kale → clears heat, detoxifies
• Pungent: Daikon, parsley → moves Qi, clears phlegm
• Salty: Tamari, seaweed, h**p seeds → nourishes Kidneys, grounds the system

🔥 The lime and honey sauce also add a Fire element layer—activating circulation and bringing a little joy to the bowl.

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✨ Why I love meals like this:
✔️ My children enjoyed it (seriously!)
✔️ It helped use up fresh market finds and pantry staples
✔️ It felt light but grounding—supportive, not depleting
✔️ It brought all five flavors into one balanced, healing meal

This is what Chinese nutritional therapy can look like—real food, made with intention, that heals you from the inside out.

📍Want to learn what your body’s asking for—and how to use food as medicine in your own home?
Let’s build you a simple, customized plan. We do this every day at AcuHerb Community Circle.

07/24/2025

✨ Remember:

Diets are short-term.

Probiotics are support tools.
But real, long-term gut healing happens through how you cook, combine, and care for your meals.

📍If you’re ready to use food as medicine in a way that works for real life—not just theory—we’d love to guide you.

Come in for your Fire Element session at AcuHerb Community Circle and let’s build your plan.

07/23/2025

Food Therapy in Real Life: 3 Simple Shifts That Make a Big Impact

Here are 3 food-as-medicine swaps I often recommend in clinic—and why they support digestion, mood, and immunity better than you think.

1️⃣ Pink Himalayan Salt > Processed Table Salt
If you’re hydrating but still feel dizzy, tired, or foggy—your body might not be absorbing fluids well.

In Chinese medicine, we talk about Yin fluids and their role in cooling and nourishing the body. But fluids need the right mineral balance to be retained.

💧 Try adding a pinch of pink Himalayan salt to your water, broth, or grain cooking water.
It replenishes trace minerals and helps your body actually absorb what you're drinking.

2️⃣ Say No to Microwave Popcorn + Aluminum Foil
From a TCM perspective, food should be as close to nature as possible.
⚠️ When we microwave in plastic, cook on aluminum, or rely on highly processed snacks, we introduce disruptive energetics—stagnation, toxicity, and excess heat or dryness.

🥣 Swap microwave popcorn for stovetop, organic kernels in avocado oil or ghee. It’s Spleen-friendly and way easier on your body.

👩🍳 Cook in cast iron, enamel, or ceramic—better for your health and your Qi.

3️⃣ Eat the Rainbow—But Cook It With Care
Raw food can be beautiful—but too much raw (especially when digestion is weak or the weather is humid) can damage the Spleen and create internal dampness.

Instead of cold salads and smoothies, try:
🌈 Roasted carrots, sautéed greens, steamed bell peppers, and warm fruit compote
Warm, lightly cooked, and colorful = easy to absorb + full of healing potential

But real, long-term gut healing happens through how you cook, combine, and care for your meals.

📍If you’re ready to use food as medicine in a way that works for real life—not just theory—we’d love to guide you.

Come in for your Fire Element session at AcuHerb Community Circle and let’s build your plan.

07/23/2025

This week in our Summer Fire Element Series, we’re focusing on one of the foundations of healing in Chinese medicine—Chinese Nutritional Therapy.

At AcuHerb Community Circle, this is more than just a passion—it’s a specialty. Because the truth is, if digestion isn’t right, nothing else in the body works quite right either.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), food is not just fuel—it’s energetic medicine.

Each food carries qualities that affect the body in specific ways:

-Temperature (hot, warm, neutral, cool, cold)

-Flavor (sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, salty)

-Organ affinity (which systems it enters)

-Directionality (does it ascend or descend, disperse or tonify?)

-Moisture or dryness

-And most importantly—how it interacts with your current constitution and imbalance

Chinese Nutritional Therapy is about understanding:
🔹 Who you are (your baseline constitution)
🔹 What’s happening now (your current disharmony or pattern)
🔹 And how to use food as gentle, daily medicine to support your body’s ability to correct itself

For example:

Someone with cold in the digestive system may need warming foods like ginger, cinnamon, cooked grains—not raw salads

Someone with too much internal dampness or stagnation may benefit from bitter greens, adzuki beans, and lightly drying foods

Someone who is weak, fatigued, and depleted may need sweet, tonifying foods that build Qi and Blood over time

This is not about strict diets or trendy restrictions—it’s about using taste, texture, temperature, and timing to rebalance your system gently and consistently.

✅ Improved energy
✅ Less bloating + gas
✅ Clearer skin
✅ Better elimination
✅ Calmer moods
✅ Stronger immunity
✅ And a sense of “feeling like yourself again” without relying on pills, powders, or short-term fixes

If you’re tired of diets that don’t work, probiotics that never take hold, or digestive issues that flare up seasonally—Chinese Nutritional Therapy offers a deeper, more sustainable path forward.

Let’s get your digestion working with you again—not against you.

07/22/2025

🔥 Week 5 of Our Fire Element Series: Let’s Talk Digestion & Food as Medicine
At AcuHerb Community Circle, this is one of our specialties—Chinese nutritional therapy and gut health.

Because when your digestion is strong, everything flows better:
✅ Mood
✅ Energy
✅ Immunity
✅ Healing

In Chinese medicine, digestion is a Fire process.
It needs warmth, movement, and rhythm.

But if your system gets cold, damp, or stagnant—you start seeing:
🥴 Bloating
😩 Fatigue
💨 Gas
🌪️ IBS + food sensitivity
🌫️ Brain fog or mood swings

✨ Chinese nutritional therapy is about more than what you eat—
It’s about what you actually absorb.

We look at:
🍽️ Seasonal needs (cooling, easy-to-digest foods right now)
🔥 Your tolerance for texture, temperature & food combos
🌿 Matching herbs + acupuncture to restore digestive flow

If your belly feels heavy after meals...
If you swing between constipation + diarrhea...
If “clean eating” still leaves you feeling off…

It’s time to look at the pattern underneath.

📍This week, come in for a Fire Element digestive session and follow my posts all about FOOD!.
We’ll build a real-life food strategy that works for your body—not against it.

02/20/2025

02/19/2025

🌿✨ Have you tried acupuncture?

If not... what’s holding you back?A lot of people think acupuncture is just for pain – but did you know it can help with:
💤 Sleep issues
🌪️ Anxiety & stress
🍽️ Digestion & gut health
🌸 Hormonal balance
⚡️ Boosting energy
🦠 Strengthening immunity… and honestly, so much more.
It’s like a reset button for your whole system.Your body is always talking to you—acupuncture helps you listen.Ready to give it a try?
Drop a 🫖 in the comments or DM me with your questions!