Thayne Breezee - AOBTA Certified Practitioner

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It's hot! Are you eating enough cucumbers?
Cucumbers are nearly 95% water bound up in dietary fiber. They contain most of the essential vitamins our bodies need of a day including: Vit A, B1, B6, C & D, calcium, folate, magnesium, potassium and trace minerals. The skin is higher in Vit C, silica and sulfur, so don't peel all your cukes if you don't need to.
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Energetically, cukes are very cooling, their flesh is sweet and slightly bitter while the skin is very bitter. They influence the Stomach, Spleen, Lungs and Large Intestines. They strongly nourish Yin and help to purge parasites.
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Replenishes Yin and fluids - Excellent for Summer Heat and dry, hot conditions. They are also very beneficial in patterns of Yin deficiency heat (false heat) like menopause and hot-flashes.
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Clears heat in the Middle Burner - This form of heat attacks the Stomach, Spleen and Pancreas and appears as conjunctivitis, burning sensation in the stomach, acid reflux, ulcers, bleeding and burning gums, pancreatitis, and diabetes. Cucumber also clear bad breath, which is a Stomach heat pattern in Asian medicine.
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Clears damp heat in the Lower Burner - Huh? Bladder infections, Kidney infections, and painful hot urination, yeast infections, epididymitis and vaginitis are examples of damp heat in the Lower Burner.
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Treats sore throat and dry Lung conditions - Chronic dry throat, sinus and dry, tight lungs - cukes to the rescue. Their Yin nourishing nature replenishes the delicate fluid balance in the Lungs, which rules over the throat and sinuses.
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Treats burns - Any, and all burns. Apply slices of cucumbers or grated cucumber packs to sun burns or any burns to cool and replenish the skin.
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Pictured - cukes and red onions in water with a red wine vinegar, with a pinch of sugar, cayenne and cilantro.
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Learn more - https://aprilcrowell.com/blog/coolcucumbers

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Heard of AMMA?

A practice of Chinese medicine predating acupuncture.

No needles 🪡

🔥 cupping available

Amma - First Appointment

A pathology for earth, inertia, one must move.

Tomato season is upon us.

Energetic Temperature: cold

Channels: Stomach, Liver

Flavors: Sweet, Sour

Tonifies: Yin

Effect: Clears heat, eliminates toxins.

This fruit is full of antioxidants, vitamin C, and potassium.

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Succulents decided to bloom.

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How do you create meaning?

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One of my favorite fruits happens to be in season right now. Go find yourself a strawberry 🍓 patch and indulge.

Strawberries are sweet and sour in taste.

Sweet affects the Spleen, sour affects the Liver.

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Snow pea harvest!

Temperature: neutral

Channels: Colon, Stomach, Spleen, Heart

Flavors: Sweet

Tonifies: yin

Properties: resolves water accumulations

It is the thought of differences that cause separation.

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Category: Herbs that warm the Interior and/or expel Cold

Nature: Hot

Taste(s): Pungent & Sweet

Organ affinity: Spleen, Heart, Kidney, and Liver

Scientific name: Cinnamomum cassia

Warms the Spleen and Kidneys and tonifies the Yang. Expels Cold, Warms the meridians, promotes circulation of Qi and Blood and relieves pain. Used with tonics to assist in the generation of Qi and Blood.

Currently loving Cinnamon bark tea, boiled at 700° for 20-30 minutes, or as desired.

Cinnamon bark can be brewed up to seven times before composting; a weeks worth of tea!

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— Sun Tzu

Happy New Year,
year of the water tiger.

Alternative Therapies
Dry Needling Vs. Acupuncture

Dry needling certification: 32 hour - weekend course.

Acupuncture certification: minimum 1725 hour, average 3200+ hour with ongoing yearly credits required.

Dry needling goals: offer alternative treatment method via western medicine to reduce symptoms, while piggybacking on the success of Traditional Chinese Medicine by calling it “similar to acupuncture.”

Dry needling is the act of inserting a needle to the location of pain and hoping for a better result.

Acupuncture is the act of studying the cycles of nature, the location of the patient, the habitat of the patient, and the effects of the natural energy of that environment, then carefully selecting a poetically and symbolically important set of points to help engineer a variation of life goals as deemed fit by the patient and met by the practitioner. Symptoms being relieved are among the repercussions of acupuncture, however for those with eyes to see, it rarely stops there.

Acupuncture points are intelligent finite sources of specific energies, carefully constructed treatments are similar to alchemy.

Dry needling trigger points are symptom and location based points of insertion with very basic information on their effects. (Needling the elbow for tennis elbow.)

Where does AMMA fit?

AMMA predates acupuncture(5000 years old), uses the same understanding, and is a more gentle approach to the enactment of change without the use of needles.

AMMA descends from a Korean Royal Lineage, passed down from each preceding generation for the last 5000 years, brought to the United States by Tina Sohn and Robert Sohn.

When are we “healed?”

Japanese Kabocha Squash-Miso Soup

Treats:
Cold hands and feet 👣
Joint swelling
Spleen deficiency

Reduces phlegm
Promotes urination
Reduces edema

10-12 oz cubed squash
4inches of dried seaweed
6inches of white stem from leek
3 cups water
1-2 oz soft tofu
2 tablespoons white miso
Garish with chopped green onions

Combine everything except tofu, green onions, and miso.
Bring to a boil then turn down to simmer for 20 minutes.
Remove seaweed from pot.
Add tofu
Simmer 5-10 minutes
Blend with hand blender
Add miso
Garnish with green onions
Serve

Friyay!

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