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Cool the Heat

Traditional Chinese diet and medicine teach ways to prevent our body temperature from reaching extremes. Excess cold or heat in diet or weather damage body and mind.

Balance for Healing
We need both yin and yang. A person with a fever and thirst has more heat, has more yang; whereas weakness and chills impotence require more yang, Keeping yin and yang working smoothly to support each other, to avoid excess from either, to avoid damage from outer forces.

Sophora japonica (槐花、槐花蜜)

Suffering from the heat? Headache, bloody nose, red eyes, hypertension? Many cooling, detoxifying herbs are very bitter. Sophora japonica, also known as Huai Hua Mi, (槐花、槐花蜜) is mild and pleasant tasting.