Spring Cleaning Your Liver

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Spring Cleaning Your Liver

Spring is here! The ritual of Spring Cleaning is as old as time. You might have already spring cleaned the heck out of your home. But what about your body?

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Spring is the time of the liver and gallbladder. Heat in the liver is common in Spring when we enter into the time of year that everything is rising, moving, and growing so fast. Sometimes we have a hard time keeping up with the energy and heat develops in our body. Heat symptoms in the hepatic (liver) region could manifest as headache, unexplained anger, "hot temper", skin eruptions, red inflamed eyes and muscle stiffness. Here are a few ideas on how to support the Liver during Spring.

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Brain Fog

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Brain Fog

So, what is brain fog? If you have to ask, you probably do not have it! Brain fog can feel like your brain is dark and full of cobwebs keeping you from being able to think clearly and grasp at thought patterns. You may have a diffucult time finding words or stringing sentences together, you may feel zoned out or irritable or like the “blood isn’t reaching my brain.”

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Feral Foods of Spring

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Feral Foods of Spring

This is an invitation to integrate wild plants into your daily diet. Wild, edible plants are the foods of our ancestors and they are calling. Not sure how to integrate them into your diet? Just add them to whatever you are eating!

Having scrambled eggs? Add some nettle. Mac and cheese? Nettles are great here, too…or how about adding some lambs quarters? Making your favorite wrap, taco, or sandwich? Add some chickweed and dandelion greens for added crunch and flavor.

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Using Elderberry for Cold Season

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Using Elderberry for Cold Season

Blue Elderberry has gained quite the reputation as an immune system stimulant and antiviral supplement. Elder sure is a plant to know this time of year, and its popularity as an antiviral is for good reason. It can reduce an inflammatory response in the sinuses and lungs and reduce the length of time you are ill by up to 50 percent. Reducing inflammation will relieve congestion which reduces symptoms, all good news!

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