EP39 Yang’s Healing Journey with TCM and Chinese Herbal Cooking

Staying in the Game, A Plum Dragon Herbs Podcast

Show Notes:

Having healed herself successfully from illness labeled incurable, Yang uses her knowledge and experience to help others to achieve balance and well-being. In her blog, Yang's Nourishing Kitchen, she shares time-tested traditional wisdom from the east to the west, through nutrient-dense real food recipes.

3:00 As part of Chinese culture, food and medicine are integrated.

6:20 Yang became very sick and experienced widespread chronic pain.

9:20 She had various diagnostic tests run, tried various therapies, was misdiagnosed, and all the while, her condition was worsening.

14:20 Believing that recovery was possible was the first step to Yang healing from Fibromyalgia. Also, she felt she had to be willing to try an all-encompassing TCM approach to get well.

16:30 She shares what she has learned along the way in her blog, as a stepping stone for others on their healing path.

19:30 Detoxing her body with a liver flush routine is part of her health maintenance.

22:55 Healing takes time. It took Yang 5 years to feel fully recovered from her illness. During the first two years, she followed a very strict TCM protocol.

24:30 If we can keep our health in check before it gets too out of balance, we will be much better off than if we let ourselves fall apart.

28:00 A TCM protocol that encouraged circulation, as opposed to the Western medicine protocol of icing, helped her pain.

32:00 Yang discusses some of her favorite recipes, including those that incorporate Chinese herbs.

38:00 Although she did write a vegan cookbook, to be supportive of that way of eating, she personally doesn’t eliminate any food groups, focusing instead on overall nutrition.

43:00 She is grateful for the readers who have said her blog has given them hope for recovery from their chronic pain.

Connect with Yang:

Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Yang's Nourishing Kitchen

Resources mentioned by Yang:

• Fritillaria Steamed Pear Recipe

• Ginseng Chicken Soup Recipe

• How Yang beat severe chronic pain using traditional Chinese medicine

• Yang's experience with the amazing liver and gallbladder flush

• How Yang's husband lowered bilirubin with liver detox

• How to do a liver flush for kids

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