Chaga: The King of Mushrooms

The concept of using mushrooms as anything other than delicious additions to an omelet, pasta [...]

Cold-Busting Remedies

With the weather spiking and dropping from day to day—and even hour to hour!—your immune [...]

Breathing In, Letting Go: Fall and the Metal Element in Traditional Chinese Medicine

It is the summer’s great last heat, It is the fall’s first chill: They meet. [...]

You’re Worth It: The Importance of Clean Beauty Products

Many patients come to me with skin issues, which can be especially hard to deal [...]

Here Comes the Sun: How to Protect Your Skin Without Harming The Earth (And Yourself)

It is hot. It is humid. It is sunny. It is 2018. I often get [...]

Mother Mugwort: The Healing Powers of Mugwort

If you google “mugwort” and “magic,” you’ll find articles recommending that you place mugwort under [...]

Magnificent Matcha

I used to think I couldn’t start my day without my daily almond milk latte. [...]

Fire and Joy: Learning to Embrace Summer Fully

It’s officially summer! Today is the summer solstice (the exact moment of the solstice–when the [...]

Spring Has Sprung: Finding Balance and Connecting to the Seasons

We’re now well into spring here in NYC and it’s finally actually feeling like it! [...]

Mellow Yellow: How To Get the Most Out of Turmeric

In Chinese medicine, all foods have a particular energy and effect on our individual constitutions [...]