CLASSICAL CHINESE MEDICINE

The bitter side of Love - Summer Chicory flowers story

Jul 23

The bitter side of Love - Summer Chicory flowers story

Fire is associated with the Summer season, with fire, with the red colour, with the Heart, with Love and with the bitter taste.

Loving-3-phase-detox for Spring rejuvenation

Dorota

Feb 14

Loving-3-phase-detox for Spring rejuvenation

The intention of a detox should be the desire to give our body some loving attention.

Lunar New Year - your health with the energy of the Green Dragon in 2024

Dorota

Feb 7

Lunar New Year - your health with the energy of the Green Dragon in 2024

It will be a truly different year... It is like flipping a coin, there is a sudden move into a full Yang energy of Wood and Fire.

Winter and the Water Element - the Inner Explorations

Dorota

Dec 3, 2023

Winter and the Water Element - the Inner Explorations

How to Stay Healthy and Balanced During the Winter Season with the Five Element Energies?

Dorota

Oct 11, 2023

Autumn - Body, Mind, Spirit clear-out

Autumn is the season of great preparations for the downtime in Winter. We can utilise this energy for our health and wellbeing if we...

"Honourable Harvest" - Earth Element's higher octave of consciousness

Dorota

Sep 22, 2023

"Honourable Harvest" - Earth Element's higher octave of consciousness

Much of the bases of the Classical Chinese Medicine do not pertain to Chinese or Oriental cultures only, they have been lived and followed..

Dorota

Sep 1, 2023

Late Summer - Energy of completion

We have got over the maximum heat and active Yang energy of the Summer months, and now we start going back to self, back to our center.

Dorota

Jul 25, 2023

Summer - learning about Self

How can we best utilise the everywhere present energy of Summer to build our health and wellbeing?

Dorota

Apr 17, 2023

April - newly found innocence

In April are awarded with the newly found innocence to rejoice in. Here is how to best flow with the energies of April.

Dorota

Mar 29, 2023

Sweet Violet - Flower Essence

This is a new chapter at DOROTAO: flower essences. Although it is not new to Chinese Medicine. Tuning into plants for their energetic...

Dorota

Mar 9, 2023

March - the courage to change

"Don't be afraid of seeing new parts of you born: the blacksmith is an artist and what he creates is only a work of art."

Common fern (Polypodium vulgare) - timeless health and beauty

Dorota

Feb 26, 2023

Common fern (Polypodium vulgare) - timeless health and beauty

Ferns are living fossils. The Chinese herbalists call them the "ancients", the "sages" and as such they pass on to us the ancient wisdom.

Dorota

Feb 8, 2023

February - sprouting time

With some delay, I provide you with a new format of my monthly energy updates starting from this month. With February 5th started off the...

Lunar New Year - improving your health with Yin Water Hare in 2023

Dorota

Jan 18, 2023

Lunar New Year - improving your health with Yin Water Hare in 2023

4th February marks the beginning of the first month of Spring and a change into the energy of Water Rabbit.

Dorota

Jan 11, 2023

January - balance of willpower

In January we still have that low time in which not much is happening in Nature, so follow it and rest and recharge your batteries .

Wild Rose - for finding a sparkle in life

Dorota

Dec 19, 2022

Wild Rose - for finding a sparkle in life

That zesty taste of its fruits gives me just that: the zest for life. It does sound like a perfect pick-me-up for the Winter blues.

Dorota

Dec 8, 2022

December - withdrawing and accumulating

So, here's the Winter season! According to the Classics, 7th December marks the beginning of the second month of Winter.

Rough Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium) - coffee alternative?

Dorota

Nov 12, 2022

Rough Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium) - coffee alternative?

Xanthium is perfect for this cold season in cases you cannot get rid of your blocked nose and start noticing musculoskeletal aches too.

Dorota

Nov 2, 2022

November - last orders for letting go

Being at the far end of the Autumn there is more emphasis on Colon and clearing out activity.

Dorota

Oct 7, 2022

October - Acceptance

Metal element is introducing us into the Yin phase of the year by its Lung-related quality of acceptance.