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The Tao of Health
How do you know if your Liver is 'toxic,' assume that it is! With the amount of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides all around us, in the air, water, food, and other products we use, you should assume your Liver is somewhat toxic, and start doing the simple things mentioned above to detoxify it.
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Oriental Medicine
- A Balanced Meal Is An Energetic and Healthy Meal
- A Healthy Discussion
- A Healthy Liver: Eating the Five Element Way
- A Question of Balance and Oriental Medicine
- About Kitty Bradshaw
- Acupuncture Can Reduce Chemotherapy Side Effects
- Acupuncture: East Meets West
- Antibiotics and Chinese Medical Herbs
- Antibiotics: Helpful or Harmful?
- Asthma and Oriental Medicine
- At-a-Distance Health Consultations
- Autumn Equinox: The Yin Deepens
- BALANCED Beet Soup
- Balanced Diet and Nutrition - The Oriental Medicine Way
- Beginning Chi Kung
- Being Consistent—Being Healthy
- Benjamin Franklin and Oriental Medicine
- BIOM ReTweets—Join the Conversation
- Calm Your Spring Nerves
- Calming Springing Nerves
- Chi and Oriental Medicine
- Chi Kung for Health
- Chinese Medical Herbs and Your Health
- Class Update: Movement, Meditation and Oriental Medicine
- Cold and Flu Remedies
- Collapsing Honeybee Colonies & Your Immune System (Part 1)
- Consequences of Excessive Antibiotic Use
- Controlling Your Liver Energy
- Cultivate Kindness: Strategy For A Balanced Healthy Liver
- Detoxify and Tonify Your Liver
- Early Spring: Rebuilding Kidney Energy
- Early Summer Health Tips
- Eat Shiitake Mushrooms in Spring
- Fall Health Tips: Metal Energy and the Lungs
- Feeling Hungry
- Fire Energy of Summer: Arriving Early This Year
- Flu Season Is Approaching - Get Ready With Oriental Medicine
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
- Gator In The Garage
- Get Ready for a Healthy Fire Season
- Get Ready for Spring and Surging Liver Energy
- Getting Well With Oriental Medicine
- Getting Well with Oriental Medicine
- Headaches and Stress
- Health Tips for Spring—Staying Healthy: The Oriental Medicine Way
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar-invitation
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Three
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Two
- Healthy Insights
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- Herbal Medicine: Everything Old Is New Again
- How Are You Feeling?
- How Oriental Medicine Works … When You’re Feeling Sick
- How To Eat Salad
- How To Protect and Strengthen Your Lungs In Autumn
- Improve Your Digestion in Springtime
- It Helps To Know Yourself
- It's Springing Up
- Jumping Into Spring
- Kidney Health In Winter
- Lunchtime With Kitty
- Massaging Hands and Feet for Health
- Meditative Breathing In Traffic
- Metal Controls Wood: The Five Elements & Your Health
- Mid-Spring Check-up—The Oriental Medicine Way
- Mid-Spring: Observations and Insights
- Military Doctors Embrace Acupuncture
- Movement, Meditation and The Medicine
- Oriental Medicine - Past and Present
- Oriental Medicine and Your Retirement
- Oriental Medicine News
- Oriental Medicine: A Common Sense Approach to Health
- Oriental Medicine: How It Works
- Oriental Medicine: Picking A Treatment Plan That Works for You
- Preparing for a Healthy Future: An Interview
- Preventing Colds and Flu (and More)
- Preventing Illness With a Strong Immune System
- Reclaiming The Yin in June
- Recognizing and Managing Stress
- Revitalized Communities: For A New Society—An Evening With Nicole Foss
- Scallion Broth To The Rescue!
- Snowy Haiku
- Spring Health Tips
- Spring Health tips
- Spring Insights
- Spring is Hay Fever Season
- Staying Cool in Summer
- Staying Healthy in Spring
- Staying Healthy in Spring—The Five Element Way
- Staying Healthy in Turbulent Times
- Staying Healthy In Winter
- Staying Healthy: The Oriental Medicine Way
- Stressing Health
- Summer Health—Our Trip To The Black Sheep Gathering
- Summer Solstice: Being in Rhythm With the Season
- Tai Chi For Gardeners ~ At The Northwest Permaculture Convergence
- Tasty Diet and Nutrition
- Thanksgiving Interview With Jackie O' Lantern
- The Ant ... The Grasshopper ... and Oriental Medicine
- The Meaning of BIOM
- The Oriental Medicine Treatment Process
- The Power Of Liver Energy
- The Power of Oriental Medicine
- The Root of the Matter
- The Treat in the Treatment
- The Way of Prevention
- The Way Through
- The Year of the Rooster
- Thermography & Breast Health: Something To Consider
- Tips for Staying Healthy In Spring
- Understanding Energy ~ Inside and Out
- Unique Chinese Medical Herbs
- Valentine's Day: A Matter of the Heart (and Kidneys)
- Weathering The Seasons: Late Summer—Early Fall
- What Is Integrative Medicine?
- What People Say About Kitty Bradshaw at BIOM
- What To Do For The Winter Yin Blues
- What You Need to Know About Winter
- Winter Solstice ~ 2013
- Winter to Spring: Everything Old Is New Again
- Yin and Yang: Your Health and Your Life
- Your Health and Five Element Theory
- Your Inheritance
- Your Knees and Tai Chi Walking
- 5 Element Theory
- Acupressure
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Acupuncture
- Acupuncture
- Acupuncture a Powerful Tool in Complementary Cancer Care
- Acupuncture Can Reduce Chemotherapy Side Effects
- Acupuncture Eases Back Pain More Than Usual Care
- Acupuncture: East Meets West
- Herbal Medicine: Everything Old Is New Again
- Oriental Medicine News
- The Benefits of Acupuncture Become Obvious Once Your Try It
- What is Acupuncture Good For?
- Cancer Care
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Chi_Kung
- A Chi Kung Experience
- Autumn Chi Kung
- Beginning Chi Kung
- Chi Kung for Health
- Class Update: Movement, Meditation and Oriental Medicine
- Practicing Chi Kung
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Seasonal Chi Kung at BIOM: The Ba Gua Form
- Tai Chi For Gardeners ~ At The Northwest Permaculture Convergence
- Winter Chi Kung
- Your Knees and Tai Chi Walking
- Chinese Medical Herbs
- Facial Rejuvenessence
- Women's Health
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5 Element Health Coaching
- 5 Element Coaching for Health
- At-a-Distance Health Consultations
- Diet and Nutrition Workshop at BIOM
- Food That Heals
- Tasty Diet and Nutrition
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Diet & Nutrition
- 5 Element Diet and Nutrition
- A Balanced Meal Is An Energetic and Healthy Meal
- A Healthy Liver: Eating the Five Element Way
- BALANCED Beet Soup
- Balanced Diet and Nutrition - The Oriental Medicine Way
- Class Update: Movement, Meditation and Oriental Medicine
- Diet & Nutrition: The 5 Element Way
- Diet and Nutrition Workshop at BIOM
- Feeling Hungry
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
- Food That Heals
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar-invitation
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session 4
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session One
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Two
- How To Eat Salad
- HUGELing! At BIOM
- Jack O'Lantern's Post-Halloween Health Tips
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Summer Health—Our Trip To The Black Sheep Gathering
- Tasty Diet and Nutrition
- Thanksgiving ... For A Healthy Digestive System
- The Taste of Your Food Affects How You Feel
- What To Do For The Winter Yin Blues
- Your Relationship With Food: Know Thyself
- Personal Coaching
- The Four Steps
- Weight Loss
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Healthy Eating
- A Healthy Liver: Eating the Five Element Way
- Healthy Digestion and Happy Holidays
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar-invitation
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session 4
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session One
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Three
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Two
- Scallion Broth To The Rescue!
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Seasonal Health Tips
- Antibiotics: Helpful or Harmful?
- August Health Tips
- Calming Springing Nerves
- Detoxify and Tonify Your Liver
- Dog Days of Summer
- Fall Health Tips: Metal Energy and the Lungs
- Fire and Water in Summer: Dealing With Heat-Related Health Problems
- Fire Is Waning
- Food Remedies for Colds and Flu
- Get Ready for a Healthy Fire Season
- Get Ready for Spring and Surging Liver Energy
- Getting Ready for Fire Season
- How to Stay Warm
- It's Springing Up
- Jack O'Lantern's Post-Halloween Health Tips
- July Health Tips
- Kidney Health In Winter
- Mid-Summer Checkup: Heat-Related Health Problems
- New Year Health Tips
- Preventing Colds and Flu (and More)
- Protect Yourself Against Cold
- Reclaiming The Yin
- Spring Health Tips
- Spring Health tips
- Spring is Stirring
- Staying Healthy In Autumn
- Staying Healthy in Spring
- Stressing Health
- The Way Through
- Tips for Staying Healthy In Spring
- Valentine's Day: A Matter of the Heart (and Kidneys)
- What You Need to Know About Winter
- Winter Food Tips
- Winter Health Tips
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Fall Health Tips
- An Enlightening Interview With Jack O'Lantern
- Autumn Beach Retreat
- Autumn Equinox: The Yin Deepens
- Fall Health Tips: Lungs and Kidneys
- Fall Health Tips: Metal Energy and the Lungs
- Fall Health Tips: Your Heart
- Fall Health Tips: Your Immune System
- Fall Health Tips: Your Liver and Lungs in Autumn
- Fall Health Tips: Your Lungs
- Good Sense in Autumn
- Healthy Digestion and Happy Holidays
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- How To Protect and Strengthen Your Lungs In Autumn
- Planting a Fall-Winter-Early-Spring Garden
- Staying Healthy In Autumn
- Thanksgiving Interview With Jackie O' Lantern
- The Ant ... The Grasshopper ... and Oriental Medicine
- Weathering The Seasons: Late Summer—Early Fall
- Winter Solstice Retreat: Following Your Energy Inward
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Winter Health Tips
- A Winter Solstice Retreat
- BIOM Winter Solstice Retreat—2012
- Early Spring: Rebuilding Kidney Energy
- Getting Ready for Winter
- Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Three
- Kidney Health In Winter
- Staying Healthy In Winter
- The Ant ... The Grasshopper ... and Oriental Medicine
- Valentine's Day: A Matter of the Heart (and Kidneys)
- What To Do For The Winter Yin Blues
- What You Need to Know About Winter
- Winter Solstice ~ 2013
- Winter Solstice ~ 2014
- Year of the Wood Sheep
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Spring Health Tips
- Calm Your Spring Nerves
- Controlling Your Liver Energy
- Cultivate Kindness: Strategy For A Balanced Healthy Liver
- Detoxify and Tonify Your Liver
- Early Spring: Rebuilding Kidney Energy
- Eat Shiitake Mushrooms in Spring
- Fire Energy of Summer: Arriving Early This Year
- Get Ready for Spring and Surging Liver Energy
- Getting Well with Oriental Medicine
- Health Tips for Spring—Staying Healthy: The Oriental Medicine Way
- How To Eat Salad
- Improve Your Digestion in Springtime
- It's Springing Up
- Jumping Into Spring
- Maintaining a Healthy Relationship With The Internet
- Metal Controls Wood: The Five Elements & Your Health
- Mid-Spring Check-up—The Oriental Medicine Way
- Mid-Spring: Observations and Insights
- Spring Haiku
- Spring Health tips
- Spring is Hay Fever Season
- Staying Healthy in Spring
- Staying Healthy in Spring—The Five Element Way
- The Importance of Inspired Creativity
- The Power Of Liver Energy
- The Taste of Your Food Affects How You Feel
- The Way Through
- Tips for Staying Healthy In Spring
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Summer Health Tips
- Early Summer Health Tips
- Fire Energy of Summer: Arriving Early This Year
- Five Steps To Creating The Life You Want To Live
- Mid-Summer Checkup: Heat-Related Health Problems
- Planting a Fall-Winter-Early-Spring Garden
- Staying Healthy in Summer
- Summer Health—Our Trip To The Black Sheep Gathering
- Summer Solstice: Being in Rhythm With the Season
- The Ant ... The Grasshopper ... and Oriental Medicine
- The Simple Joy of Creativity
- Weathering The Seasons: Late Summer—Early Fall
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Musings
- 2010: The Year of the 'Metal' Tiger
- 80% of Good Health is Just Showing Up
- Agate Pass Bridge Work: Delays Expected for 3 Weeks
- An Afternoon With Roger Lauen
- An Enlightening Interview With Jack O'Lantern
- Autumn Equinox: The Yin Deepens
- Being Consistent—Being Healthy
- BIOM ReTweets—Join the Conversation
- BIOM Winter Solstice Retreat—2012
- Chinese New Year: Year of the Water Snake
- Cultivate Kindness: Strategy For A Balanced Healthy Liver
- Dancing Dragon
- Five Steps To Creating The Life You Want To Live
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HEALTHY Thoughts ...
- HUGELing! At BIOM
- Human Being
- Jack O'Lantern's Post-Halloween Health Tips
- Late Summer Haiku
- Living in Stress-filled Times
- Lunchtime With Kitty
- Meditative Breathing In Traffic
- New Year … New Beginnings … New Opportunities … New Hope
- NORTHENDIA PERMACULTURE ~ BIOM Presents ... An Afternoon With Nicole Foss
- Olympic Peninsula Fiber Farm Tour
- Planting a Fall-Winter-Early-Spring Garden
- Recent Tweets
- Return of the Magi: An After-Christmas Tale
- Revitalized Communities: For A New Society—An Evening With Nicole Foss
- Seeing the Light on the Darkest Night
- Signs of Autumn
- Tai Chi For Gardeners ~ At The Northwest Permaculture Convergence
- Tassajara Journey: A Late Summer Retreat
- Thanksgiving Interview With Jackie O' Lantern
- The Importance of Inspired Creativity
- The Night of the Iguana
- The Root of the Matter
- The Simple Joy of Creativity
- Understanding Energy ~ Inside and Out
- Winter Solstice ~ 2013
- Winter Solstice ~ 2014
- Year Of The Ox
- Year of the Water Dragon—2012
- Year of the Wood Horse
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Interviews
- An Afternoon With Roger Lauen
- At-a-Distance Health Consultations
- BIOM is Evolving
- NORTHENDIA PERMACULTURE ~ BIOM Presents ... An Afternoon With Nicole Foss
- Oriental Medicine: How It Works
- Preparing for a Healthy Future: An Interview
- Thanksgiving Interview With Jackie O' Lantern
- The Treat in the Treatment
- What People Say About Kitty Bradshaw at BIOM
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Podcasts
- Fall Health Tips: Lungs and Kidneys
- Fall Health Tips: Metal Energy and the Lungs
- Fall Health Tips: Your Heart
- Fall Health Tips: Your Immune System
- Fall Health Tips: Your Liver and Lungs in Autumn
- Fall Health Tips: Your Lungs
- Mid-Summer Checkup: Heat-Related Health Problems
- Revitalized Communities: For A New Society—An Evening With Nicole Foss
- Staying Healthy In Autumn
- Staying Healthy in Summer
- Staying Healthy In Winter
- The Year of the Fire Dog
- Winter to Spring: Everything Old Is New Again
- Reclaiming The Yin
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Retreats
- A Winter Solstice Retreat
- Autumn Beach Retreat
- BIOM Winter Solstice Retreat—2012
- Reflecting on a Winter Solstice Retreat
- Seasonal Retreats at BIOM
- Summer Health—Our Trip To The Black Sheep Gathering
- Tai Chi For Gardeners ~ At The Northwest Permaculture Convergence
- Tassajara Journey: A Late Summer Retreat
- The Importance of Inspired Creativity
- Winter Kaiseki: A Celebration of Yin
- Winter Retreat at BIOM (2009)
- Winter Solstice Retreat Update — Early November
- Winter Solstice Retreat Update: Plan To Benefit
- Winter Solstice Retreat: Following Your Energy Inward
- Winter Solstice ~ 2013
- Health Myths
- The Way of Tea