EntericAlchemist

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Looking for natural microbiome support and gut health solutions? Join the Chorus Circle, a group of people from around the world helping each other heal through blending the best of ancient healing traditions and modern science. https://www.skool.com/chorus-circle

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What most people trying to heal from gut problems or other chronic health issues miss is that they don't need more information, or more supplements. They need to restablish rhythm.

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This is going to be big

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More than just a pretty face: peonies are not only beautiful and associated with honor, love, and prosperity in East Asia - the roots are medicinal. Peony root is anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory, and is used in the treatment of many diseases: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3108611/

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An ever timely warning from Zhuangzi on how the very security measures centralized systems create inevitably end up being used against them by bad actors. Fortunately, centralized systems are not our only options:

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Even beyond circadian rhythms, it's now known that seasons directly impact immune functioning and even genetics. Chinese Medicine has understood this for thousands of years. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/seasonal-immunity-activity-of-thousands-of-genes-differs-from-winter-to-summer

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There is a lot in the Xingqi Yuming 行氣玉銘 that pertains to medicine, beyond the use of breathwork and meditation as therapeutic modalities. At a most basic level, Chinese Medicine says there are rythmns to life processes. An expansion (yang) and contraction (yin), an exhale, and an inhale. (1/4)

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This object is so old that it's unclear what it was used for. Some think it may have been the top of a walking stick. Others that may have been a pendant or attached to a belt.

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This 2,300 year old dodecahedral jade block is inscribed with some of the earliest instructions on breathwork and meditation in East Asia. These instructions have been titled 行氣玉銘 "Jade Inscription on Breathwork [or Circulating Qi]".

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It does not make sense to silo off various kinds of health from one another. Gut health and mental health and neurological health and immune health and endocrine health are all interrelated. The body is an ecosystem. The connectivity between different body systems, and how that plays into health and disease is something Traditional Chinese Medicine has always understood. The whole systems approach of ancient healing traditions is increasingly validated by modern research: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10059722/

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Beyond the specific benefits of this specific practice, the bigger re-frame here is that health is relational. Health and illness both emerge out of the totality of relationships we have with everything in our environment.

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Real medicine is so much more than just pills and procedures. One of the best things you can do for your microbiome health, immune health, and mental health is to go for regular walks in the forest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36328581/

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"You decide that you want to get rid of the by-products of human life and that Lake Erie will be a good place to put them. You forget that the eco-mental system called Lake Erie is a part of your wider eco-mental system − and that if Lake Erie is driven insane, its insanity is incorporated in the larger system of your thought and experience.” - Gregory Bateson

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