Cheng Integrative Acupuncture

03/12/2024

Dear Friends and Family, In April, I'll be returning to G… Global Healthworks Foundation needs your support for Help Paikea Volunteer with GHF (April 2024)

01/28/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-DUcbk58OI Stoicism is not the answer. Pay attention to scientists who pay attention to trauma / Gabor Mate & Bessel van der Kolk

This is a video about cancer, in the broader context of multiscale complex systems, made by Jordan Strasser - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-strasser-8a2...

10/01/2023

One of the 1,000 reasons why I supplement Amino Acids: AA is the building block for biology: structural (collagen), functional (cell transportation channels), neurological and hormonal (Insulin is 51 Amino acids, Growth Hormone is 192). And apparently, peptides (Peptides are just Amino Acids) are a major signally mechanism for Immune system, across plants and animal kingdoms. "Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are the small molecular peptides that play a crucial role in the innate immunity of the host against a broad range of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses. To date, the AMP database [Data Repository of Antimicrobial Peptides (DRAMP), http://dramp.cpu-bioinfor.org/] has reported 3791 AMPs from six kingdoms, including 431 from bacteria, 4 from archaea, 7 from protozoal, 6 from fungal, 824 from plants and 2519 from animals. Besides antibacterial activities, AMPs have been found to possess a variety of biological functions, such as immune regulation, angiogenesis, wound healing and antitumor activity [6,7,8,9]. The treatment of pathogenic bacteria has been long-time mainly relied on antibiotics. However, the emergence of drug resistance due to the single target of antibiotics, long-term and extensive utilization, is becoming a major challenge for clinical infection management. In contrast, AMPs show the advantages by acting on multiple targets on the plasma membrane and intracellular targets of pathogenic bacteria, and have potent activity on drug-resistant bacteria. Thus, AMPs provide a new alternative to antibiotics. Furthermore, the long-term chemotherapy in cancer patients not only leads to resistance to conventional cancer treatments, but also results in the susceptibility to pathogenic infection. AMPs have antibacterial and anticancer properties, and thus is a new treatment option for cancer patients. At present, the clinical application of AMPs is mainly on the treatment of pathogenic bacteria infection, wound healing and inflammation".

06/17/2023

ROADKILL INITIATION: FIRST TIME PROCESSING A DEER. I was in rural Idaho on my way to visit friends. Melody and Jim are off grid homesteaders and teachers of traditional lifeway, for 45 years! They are the original "back-to-landers" and there was instant love when we met a year ago. On the drive today I was thinking to bring a gift, like a watermelon or something, but haven't seen a single grocery store in two hours. Then, 20 minutes before arriving, I saw this.

A roadkill deer.

The velvet antler tell me it's a young male. The body is exceptionally clean, only small amounts of blood frothing out of his mouth. The color is bright red, not congealed, which means he died not long ago.

I've never hunted or picked up a roadkill. There is no cell signal. The closest civilization is a tiny library 10 minutes ahead. I decided to pick up the deer and go to the library, where I can make phone calls over Wifi or consult the Internet oracle.

Having changed out my pretty dress, I lifted him up on the back rack. Thanks all my gym squats!
It must have been a scene to pull my van into the library site. A woman stopped to take picture: "it's not everyday you see a traveler carrying their own deer jerky on the rack"! Turns out the woman Amanda is an acquaintance of my friends, and reassured me of the directions. Internet Oracle - I mean my friend who knows what to do - instructed me to fill out a roadkill report on Idaho Fish and Game website - it's a free permit and makes the salvage legal.

I finally found Melody and Jim's 40 acres at the end of 3 miles of dirt road. Jim didn't know I was bringing a deer, so the first thing he said was, "This is cosmic". Jim is a master of traditional crafts, in particular, book binding the old way. He had always wanted to tan a hide for making book covers, but never got around to play with a roadkill.

Melody and Jim have been off grid here for 45 years, but haven't really butchered a big animal. I recalled the steps I saw friends doing goats, and the three of us spun into action: Setting up a tripod under the shade - it's a warm summer day; Jim pulled a pulley out of his myriad of wooden tools; We tied the deer's leg to hang him upside down.

So the two women did most of the processing, with no power tools. A hand saw cut the head off, knives to skin, gut, then dissect backstrap and so on. Packaging organs into their freezer, which runs on 12v solar battery. We finished by burying the waste, and pouring the blood into garden - good fertilizer.

When washing off blood in the hot shower, I noticed my mind was chatter free the entire 3 hours we labored under the spruce tree - the relaxed concentration makes me completely in flow. We laughed so much, and all cherished the miraculous gift: the deer, the bonding time with friends. Then we ate like queen and king, with all kinds of greens from the fairy garden; Melody and I had many esoteric conversations around morning fire; Jim did some repair for my van.

I have many off grid friends now. Melody and Jim remind me of my mentor Doug Elliott and his wife Yanna, in North Carolina. You can find some of these people, and myself at Earthskills gatherings, to learn to live the old ways comfortably. And in the flow.

More pictures on https://blog.paikea.love/2023/06/roadkill-initiation-how-i-processed-my.html

11/25/2022

Whale Trip 2023 🐳 Nourishment for your Soul, and Body💉 -

Join me on Sea of Cortez in Baja Mexico in February, with whale researchers. You’ll encounter the largest animal on Earth (blue whale is bigger than any dinosaur) and other magical cetaceans.The timing is one week from Feb 5th to Feb 12nd, 2023, and only 4 spots are available.

11/05/2022

FORAGING WALK FIRST SUNDAYS: Nov 6th 3pm, 1882 Hammonds Rd, KY 40456

🍒How to eat a beautyberry? Grazing straight off the branch is good, but fermentation makes another level of deliciousness.

🥚GINKGO: We’ll process ginkgo nuts and roast them in airfryer. Eat this tasty nut as I share some nutty Ginkgo-logy: The ancient gymnosperm tree shouldn’t be here by all accounts. But they survived atomic bombing in 1945, won’t die from fire and things killing all other trees. Because of the beautiful foliage many cities planted male trees. But a male can mysteriously change into a female, producing massive quantities of stinky fruits… You should Not map out ginkgo trees in your area just for post-apocalyptic snacking ;) Rather, introduce yourself to such a graceful and resilient sage. Be nourished by its food that’s good for the nerve system. Be nourished by the community - people who come to such walk and care about plants

🌰 PERSIMMON. We’ll sample late ripe fruits, roast the seeds as a coffee substitute (Airfryer is so versatile! In September’s walk, we made “air potato” in airfryer) Crack the seeds to predict winter snow - you’ll learn the knife-spoon-spade inside a persimmon seed.

🎎SPECIAL GUESTS: A pair of Blackfoot friends will grace the November walk. William is a master blacksmith dedicated to “rehab” veterans with Earthskills, and his fiance Joanne Storm-Taylor is a popular musician of blackfoot lineage. I am stoked to have them, and learn their knowledge and songs about plants. No matter our skins are white, black or brown, our ancestors all lived off the land/sea, and had intimate knowledge of the natural world. And a personal relation with Earth is ALWAYS available, start with eating something wild! https://www.facebook.com/events/1450613435371476

09/25/2022

Wild Health Summit 🌍 Peptides and New Magic Bullets💉 Ancestral Healing 💖 -

In a couple of days the semi-annual Wild Heath Summit will be happening in Lexington Kentucky. It’s a unique gathering that I helped designing two years ago, to bring nature skills to doctors and medical professionals. Workshops range from blacksmith, flintknapping, breathwork, ice bath, to mental...

04/01/2022

FORAGING CLASS FIRST SUNDAYS: I’m back in Kentucky and Free Foraging is this Sunday at 3. Picture 1: Yak meat with Onion grass, Purple dead nettle, Dock, Clover…all simple weeds from where I live. Come out to the foraging walk for these spring nutrition powerhouses…The black walnut is gathered from the land too. 2nd pic shows the cracker that I use for Black walnut - My friend Abby and I cracked a bunch last fall, but the walnuts store well and still taste perfect now. Last pic is from Florida - that flower is Not for eating!

05/19/2021

New letter once a year 🌞 Healing, Teaching, Organizing - 2021 Offering 💌 - https://mailchi.mp/596b9a1b127e/from-florida-to-kentuckymatters-of-heart-and-of-attention-10238485

Is there anybody out there still haven’t spreaded themselves too thin, and have attention to read newsletters? 😃 Last time I emailed it was January 2020. I spent winter in Florida and now in Kentucky, finishing up a cabin on friends' 400 acres farm. Photos below for a glimpse of the nature para...

04/27/2021

BLOODWORK WITHOUT INSURANCE: You can order your own labtest, draw blood at a Quest near you, without going through docor’s office. Spend about $100 and you’ll know a thorough baseline of your health: Complete Blood Count, Fasting Glucose, Kidney & Liver function, Fluids and Electrolytes, Lipids Panel/Cholesterol, Thyroid function, Vitamin D, Bs, PSA and many other markers. I'm all about giving people tools that work, and making them affordable, and Lab testing is a power tool! Go to https://www.logicgirl.com/lab-tests to get started.

I can also order Micronutrient, Hormones, Genetic, MTHFR & detoxification profiles, Gut Biome/parasitology, Food Sensitivity, Heavy metal burden, and many other tests.

12/09/2020

I LOVE WHAT I DO.  Helping good people, problem-solving and boom! Three people reported overnight healing this week.  

I’ll share knowledge once again through a zoom workshop TOOLS FOR THE MODERN HEALER.  You don’t have to be a clinician to attend, it’s very accessible for anyone who wants to better their health, with little to no money to spend.   I’ll share how to order your own lab test, how to recognize “may ailment, a few common root causes”, how Not be overwhelmed by so many rabbit holes.  It’s Always possible to heal and thrive, even in our troubled times.

Register through profile link also Thursday Dec 10th 6:30PM-9:30PM class only $55 https://www.holisticlivingschool.org/product/tools-for-the-modern-healer-with-cheng-liu/

 

Thanks Sharon, Cat and all other sweethearts who work with me and even wrote reviews! You bring me 100% positive, gratifying social interactions 💖🌞

11/20/2020

TOOLS FOR THE MODERN HEALER Today 11/20 at 5pm I’ll go Instagram Live with for an interview about my upcoming workshop. Although we call it “Tools for the Modern Healer”, you don’t have to be a herbalist or clinician. It’s accessible and practical for anyone who wants a better understanding of their own health. I’ll introduce how to order your own lab test, how to recognize hidden epidemics and common nutrition deficiency as the “get you’s” in our modern time. For example, if you ever had dental amalgam, mercury toxicity is the root cause for many ailment, from anxiety to candida to neurodegenerative conditions - it’s NOT “just stress” or “getting old”. Speaking of getting old, I’ll also share the latest tactics from longevity and biohacking research. It *is* possible to live a pain free, fulfilled life even in our troubled times.

It'll be recorded but come ask questions! instagram.com/logicalgirls