In celebration of Earth Day, I want to share some of my recent sights of Costa Rica with you. I wish I could also share the sounds - a symphony of frogs from our private frog pond beneath the balcony of our amazing treehouse…

On my clinic step, on each side of my door, I have planter pots. In the Summer they were abloom with pink and purple lavatera and cosmos. They were cheerful and bright and lovely. And now they are… dead. And yet not there by accident…

Bunnies! So sweet! So soft! So gentle! That sounds like good news for the year ahead, no?! As the owner of 3 different rabbits in the life I can say that they definitely all have their own unique temperaments and personalities within their rabbitness though…! Read on for the annual forecast of what energy THIS particular bunny may bring into our lives in the year to com

I was reminded this week (numerous times!) of how the nature of these times can be described as unpredictable at best. As a species that typically thrives on a sense of control - or at the very least, predictability - these discombobulated times can be a cause of anxiety for many.

From a Chinese medicine point of view, the advice for these “Hua transformation” or “breakdown” times is to

Storms. It feels like we have had a lot, lot, lot of them in our world these past two years. Actual storms - of wind, fire, heat, water and that new concept of an “atmospheric river”. Storms related to our health, and Covid’s affects on our bodies. Storms related to our mental and emotional health, as a result of all the many stresses and strains of the pandemic. Storms related to politics, and race, and communities, and relationships, and families. And nations. And wars.

I’m so happy to be moving into a new lunar year, with the entrance of the Yang Water Tiger on February 4th 2022!

I like this image because of the four categories that make up “you”, only one is actually your body. And yet so much of what we experience of our humanness is in our physical body.

My previous post about the turkey tail mushroom (Trametes versicolor or Yun Zhi) is the most searched and viewed post on my blog! Clearly this fungus is the topic of a lot of interest.

So I was thrilled to discover it growing in the forests near my home on a mushroom forage walk last week! And I was even more thrilled to discover that it is currently the subject of an FDA approved clinical trial for use in mild-to-moderate Covid-19 patients in California!

This is a good news / bad news kind of post!

The bad news is that if this applies to you, you have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 72 hours, or are within 9 days of symptom onset.

The good news is that if you choose to and meet the eligibility requirements, you can now receive high quality Chinese Herbal Medicine as part of a clinical trial being run out of UCLA and UCSD! The FDA has approved a clinical trial to test the safety and feasibility of a specific Chinese Medicine formula during Covid infections.