350 Sa Sang, Bazi, and Food as Medicine • Jaguang Sunim
Cultivation East Asian medicine recognizes the central role that food can play in our health and wellbeing. We have various models for understanding the fluctuations and trajectories a human body can travel as we navigate the time we have between Heaven and Earth. In this...
347 The First Four Palaces of Alchemy • Leta Herman
Cultivation Alchemy sounds like magic. It sounds like magic because it involves the transmuting of something coarse and without value to something refined and of worth. But really, there is nothing magical about it. It’s the process of finding a corner of the world you want to...
344 Jing, Authenticity and Mushrooms • Mason Taylor
Cultivation Medicinal mushrooms have made their way into the everyday lives of the “old one-hundred names,” us common folk. Formerly rare and precious substances like Ling Zhi and Dong Chong Xia Cao are now cultivated and readily available for people like you and me. Considered...
342 Laughter of the Universe, Qi in the Year of Yang Wood Dragon • Gregory Done
Cultivation We are here in the midst of winter cold going into the Spring Festival— the new Chinese Lunar year. It might seem strange to consider Spring as beginning in the deep middle of dark and cold, but all beginnings start in the dark. They begin before they can be seen. ...