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2024 Ep11 Kitchen Spices for Therapeutic purpose

Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.

Onions eliminate wind promote sweat, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, lower glucose,
Caution of Onions is if you have itchy-skin rashes, and acute blood shut eyes, please don't have onions.

Garlic warm SP/ST, regulates stagnated qi, lowers cholesterol, lowers blood pressure, kills germs. They are good for tuberculosis, pertussis, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Atherosclerosis， coronary artery disease, obesity; Lead poisoning.
Cautions of Garlic: Don't consume garlic if you have Yin def heat, bloody shut eyes, irritable, constipation, low fever and dry mouth, stomach ulcer, cataract, dental and throat diseases, or hemorrhoid.

Scallions promote sweat to release cold, strengthen the stomach, kill germs.
Scallions are good for these conditions:
- common cold with symptoms of fever without sweat, headache, nasal congestion, cough with a lot of mucus;
- Abdominal pain with diarrhea,
- Chronic stomach cold with poor appetite
- Respiratory infection pandemic during the winter season
- High cholesterol,
- A lot of dandruff and itchy skull
Cautions of scallions: Please don't consume scallions if you have the following conditions:
- Cold with a lot of sweat or a person who sweat easily,
- Hircus/strong body odor
- Chronic skin diseases, lupus, lymphatic tuberculosis, asthma

Tangering Peels - promotes appetite, bloating and gas after a meal.
Ginger tea + honey are good to ease PMS abdominal cramping pain.
Miso soup with lots of scallions is good for prevention of getting common-cold.

I will continue on other kitchen spices in the future.

Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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2024 Ep10 Food for Healthier Liver and Gall Blader

Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.

In today’s episode, we will discuss the topic of the therapeutic diet for the Liver and Gall Bladder organ, which is mainly referencing master Jeffrey Yuen’s teaching.

The liver meridian and organ is classified as the wood element among the five elements. The wood element is associated with two organs in the body including the Liver and Gall-Bladder. The following body parts are classified as the wood element as well including: eyes, tendons, and ligaments.

If your lifestyle tends to be stressful, you may want to consider to take better care of your liver organ. It is important to go to bed before 11 PM, and try to do the following diet that is beneficial for your liver organ.

Try to eat various legumes. We differentiate legumes based on their color and size.

The small size of legumes can be useful to drain heat/inflammation from your liver meridian and liver organ, because they have the draining effect. small beans: peas, lentils, mung beans, aduki, black eye peas

• They could help to drain heat/inflammation from your liver organ
• If you have stagnation in LR, use pea soup. or sauté, or stirfrying peas
• big beans: (Big legumes can help the liver organ to consolidate energy and blood). are good in tonifying or nourishing the liver organ,
  • For example, broad beans, Lima, soy, chickpeas, are good for someone who lost a lot of blood after menstruation or surgery.
• If your lifestyle is stressful, and you constantly get bloating, gasy after meals, you may have the considered called LR invading spleen, you may want to eat yellow lentils with black beans. Yellow lentils could help to drain the liver from invading the ST/SP. The black beans help to drain the kidneys and liver, to help support the function of the liver organ.

Ex: if you have sluggish liver, you want to regulate liver functions, use aduki beans.

If you want to nourish the liver, you could use kidney beans because they are big and red color. They make a connection between liver and heart. They are good for nourishing the heart and liver.

These are for your reference in terms of self-care. If you experience any liver disorders, please seek proper medical treatments and use diet as supplements.

Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.

Today’s episode about therapeutic diet for different organ imbalance is mainly references master Jeffrey Yuen’s teaching.

In the Chinese Medical diet, different categories of food could be beneficial to different organs. For example,

• grains (SP/ST)
• Legumes (LR)
• Seeds (KD)
• Vegetables (SP/ST)
• Meat (SP/ST)
• Fruits (LU)
• Nuts (LU, KD)
• Dairy (LU - KD)

According to Chinese Medicine, we often diagnose deficiency of which organs or excess of which organs. Since different organs are categorized into five elements, due to the generating and controlling cycle of five elements, these organs have corresponding relationships as well.

For example, if you have spleen deficiency, since Spleen is categorized as an earth element, we could nourish its mother fire element. According to the five elements generating cycle, the heart is the fire element organ. That means when the spleen is deficient, we can nourish the heart to strengthen the spleen as well.

If a person has spleen deficiency, the person should eat drying / nonsticky/gluten-free grains. There are grains with a warming nature, that tend to be sticky, gluten amino acids.

There are grains with a cold nature, which tend to be nonsticky, and non-gluten. For a person with spleen deficiency, you should have grains of a cold nature, nonsticky, non-gluten.

The stomach likes moist, but the spleen likes to be dry. Grains that are gluten, and sticky, are better for the stomach, but not for people who have spleen deficiency. If you have spleen deficiency, it is better to have gluten-free, non-sticky grains including rice, millet, Barcket, Coren, quinoa, bulgar, and semolina.

All other grains are considered sticky, gluten, which is moistening, could be good for making soup, portage, and congee, and good to hold energy together. They are more nourishing stomach if you have stomach yin deficiency. Sticky grains include long barley, You should make them into the soup and drink them regularly to help with heat conditions, Sjogren’s syndromes, acid reflux, hot flashes, or heart burns. You should also avoid eating drying grains which are nonsticky.

I hope you will find this helpful.

Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.

According to Classical Chinese Medicine, diseases could be caused by external pathogenic factors or internal pathogenic factors. In today’s episode, I would like to discuss about the internal pathogenic factors. What are internal pathogenic factors? Internal pathogenic factors are our thoughts and emotions that could cause us physical conditions. Different emotions could impact different physical organs and cause complications in the body.

Sadness could weaken the energy flow of lung meridians and consequently impact the proper functions of the lungs. Anger and stress could stagnate the energy flow of the liver and consequently, it could cause many complications in the body including headache, high blood pressure, insomnia, and others. Worries and overthinking could weaken the functions of the spleen and pancreas, which could lead to possible digestive issues and other complications. Fear could weaken the functions of the kidneys. Overly joy could weaken the functions of the heart.

It doesn't mean not to have emotions. We should have emotions but not be stuck in emotions. When things happen, we are sad and cry, then we let go and move on.
If we find ourselves being stuck in any emotional situations, please seek professional help. Either see a psychotherapist, get acupuncture treatments, or other energy healings. Classical acupuncture treatments or energy healings could help your healing even at the subconscious level and karmic level.

Blaming others and trying to figure out what others did wrong only keep you stuck in negative emotions. Instead, you may be better off focusing your energy and time on figuring out what life lessons the universe wants you to learn from it. what you may have done wrong, and what you could have done differently if you were given the opportunity again.

If you wonder why certain things happen to you, try to think about why we are on earth, and what is the meaning of our lives.
I believe all life experiences are lessons for our souls to grow spiritually. Therefore, I'm thankful for everyone and everything in my life. By doing so, we transform negative emotions and energy into positive energies. So we can be happy and healthy.

If you are in an abusive relationship, putting up with your abusive partner at home or work situation, you are enabling the person to continue being that way. You are not helping them spiritually.

Loving yourself. When we love ourselves and take care of ourselves, we truly learned how to love and take care of others.

I sincerely wish everyone to be happy and healthy both physically and emotionally.

Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.

The thyroid gland is part of our endocrine system. It is located at the front of the neck, below the larynx, or men’s Adam’s apple. It is comprised of two lobes on each side. The thyroid gland secretes hormones that regulate many metabolic processes in our body. It affects pretty much every organ in our body. It controls the heart, muscle, digestive function, brain development, and bone maintenance. It also has an impact on growth hormones, energy expenditure, the female reproductive system, CNS, autonomic nervous system, GI, and metabolism. Its proper functioning depends on a good supply of iodine from the diet.

When the thyroid gland doesn’t work properly, it could have two opposite conditions: hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.

Common causes of thyroid dysfunction are iodine imbalance, stress, and autoimmune diseases when your immune system attacks your thyroid gland such as Graves’ disease, or Hashimoto’s disease.

Hypothyroidism is when the thyroid gland doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormones. If a person with mild low thyroid hormones, he or she may feel fine without any symptoms. The common symptoms are a puffy face, sluggishness, fatigue, weight gain, feeling cold, a slowed heart rate, constipation, low appetite, depression, and thinning hair or hair loss. According to Chinese medicine, hypothyroidism is caused by liver qi and blood deficiency, liver qi, or blood stagnation with mucus accumulation.

In terms of diet for hypothyroidism is to eat more sea vegetables, seaweeds, seafood with shells, bitter melons, tomatoes, apples, oranges, water chestnuts, and fish.

Try to avoid the following foods which could eliminate the absorption of iodines. They are mustard greens, Chinese cauliflower, radish, cabbage, and soybeans.

Hyperthyroidism is when the thyroid gland is overactive and produces more hormones than the body needs, which increases your metabolic rate, and your body uses energy too quickly. It can cause your heart to beat faster, palpitate, and cause anxiety and irritability. Although you eat more, you still lose weight without trying. Your thyroid gland could be swelling, you may have bulging eyeballs. Females may also experience reduced menstrual blood flow. Men could experience impotence. According to Chinese Medicine, we believe hyperthyroidism is usually caused by liver fire rising from stress or yin deficiency causing fire rising. Yin deficiency usually means dehydration, insufficiency of body fluid, and insufficiency of blood or hormones.

According to Chinese medicine, we recommend having food that is high in calories, high in vitamins, and high proteins. They could be Lyceum leaf, chrysanthemum nankingense, celeries, day lily, kalimeris Indica, winter melon, tomatoes, bitter melon, water chestnuts, watermelon, mulberry, apple, persimmon, banana, figs, mung beans, Chinese yam, soybeans, milk, lean pork, oyster.

Try to avoid stimulants including deep-fried food, fatty food, dog meat, lamps, beef, pork fat, chicken, pepper, hot pepper, scallions, ginger, garlic, leek, mustard, and alcohol.

How to maintain a healthy thyroid?

It is highly recommended to have a diet that is low in sugar, avoid processed foods, and eliminate the consumption of cabbage, and broccoli because they could interfere with thyroid hormone production. Try to exercise at least three to five times a week, and find ways to reduce your stress level.

The key is to find a balance in your diet and lifestyle.

In the end, I’d like to wish you all a healthy thyroid!

Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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2024 Ep6 0213 Lunar New YearHello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced mechatronic energy healer.

A Buddhist priest used the energy of qian gua 乾卦 (the most divine yang symbol) from the Book of Change 《易經》, to describe the energy of 2024, and advise us on what to do to best utilize the energy of 2024 in our favor.

The Book of Change is a very famous philosophical book in China. It is a book allowing people to learn and master the universal laws, so they can make wise decisions in life, in their career, or in other aspects of life. Many famous people in Chinese history were masters of the Book of Change including Kong Zi who was the founder of Confucianism and many famous leaders of different professions in Chinese history.

Qian symbol (in Chinese, it is called qian gua 亁卦）is the most yang symbol among the 60 divine symbols in the Book of Change. This divine symbol Qian Gua has six lines 爻. Each line represents a different stage of a dragon symbolizing different stages of us, and how we should behave at each stage.

The sequence of the six lines is read from the bottom to the top.

The first line at the bottom of qian gua is the hidden dragon. Hidden dragon means the dragon is still in its learning stage. Symbolizes us being in our learning stage. During this stage, it’s wiser to be humble and do our best to fulfill our responsibility at our position, but not show off ourselves.

The second line of qian gua is the visible dragon. At this stage, the dragon could be visible. It symbolizes at this stage, we have approved our capability to others. We could seek more responsibilities and allow our boss and others to see our talents.

The third line of qian gua is about the cautious dragon. At this stage, the dragon needs to be cautious, constantly strive to become better and stronger, and regularly self-reflect our actions and words. Even if we made mistakes, we could quickly realize and be able to come up with solutions to prevent or fix whatever consequential damage from our mistake.

The fourth line of qian gua is the leaping or jumping dragon. At this stage, the dragon has flown out of the deep ocean. It is ready to fly into the sky. It tells us, that at this stage, we have gained recognition for being very talented or being an expert in our career. Now it is up to us to choose if we want to elevate our current state or stay at the current state.

The fifth line of qian gua is the flying dragon. At this stage, the dragon is flying freely in the sky. It is symbolizing we have become the leaders in our careers or any aspect of our lives. We are in the position to manifest whatever our dreams are or have reached our dreams now.

The sixth line of qian gua is about the haughty dragon. At this stage, the dragon has reached the highest level. It symbolizes we have reached the highest peek of our profession or the highest position. At this stage, we need to be conservative, nourish ourselves, and start to retract our energy from our careers.

The summary of qian gua is being mindful not to take all the honors of your success, and stay humble. Constantly remind ourselves of the universal law, everything once reaches its peak, it will head downhill.

If we could follow the message of this divine symbol qian gua 亁卦, 2024 will be a great year for us. Wish the wood dragon and earth energy could bring you all good fortune and stability in life.

Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced mechatronic energy healer.

Suggestions for people with gout arthritis, it is important to manage your stress, manage your emotional state, and get sufficient rest.

What should you avoid?
1. you should avoid food with high purine proteins. The end products from metabolizing purine proteins are uric acids. That is why you should eliminate your consumption of food with high purine. Food includes:

• beef, animal organs, animal meet, any animals’ bone marrows,
• Seafood such as shrimp, crabs, shellfishes, mussels,
• Some fish such as carp, flatfish/turbot, sardine, and codfish

• Vegetables: spinach, beans, peanuts, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, asparagus

• you should eat less oily food to eliminate the burden on your kidneys:

• pork oil, butter, whipped cream, animal oil

• Eliminate deep-fried food,

• Eliminate stimulants including alcohol, coffee, dark tea, pepper, curry, and hot red pepper.

• you should eliminate acidic food especially fruits including bananas, apples, plums, oranges, strawberries, grapes, and apricots.

What are the foods people with gout should have more often?1. You should have food with low purine proteins including dairy products like (milk, and eggs), you could have rice, noodles, whole wheat bread, lotus roots, juicy fruits that are not so acidic, mixed nuts (except peanuts), vegetable oils, celeries, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, carrots, daikons, white cabbages, lettuce, coleslaw.

1. you should have more basic/alkaline food including kelp, seaweed, green leafy vegetables, fruits and yam, and sweet potatoes.

2. you should have food with high pantothenic acid because pantothenic acid could transform uric acid into urea and be eliminated from our bodies through urine. However, people who have high cholesterol should avoid such food because pantothenic acidic food could be transformed into cholesterol. Those foods are dairy, whole wheat, and egg yolk

3. you should consume more of the following vitamins which could help to eliminate your stress level.

4. Vitamin C, most green leafy vegetables have high Vitamin C.

5. Vitamin A: milk, carrots, pumpkins, cabbage, sweet potatoes
6. Vitamin B: milk, eggs, whole wheat bread, green leafy vegetables, fruits, yeast, malt, brown rice

7. Vitamin E is an antioxidant, that protects cellular membranes, improves microcirculation, and prevents vascular arterial conditions. Green leafy vegetables have high vitamin E.

8. you should have more lactobacillus drinks

9. Drink at least 2000 cc of water per day.

10. It is highly recommended to drink water boiled with plantain seeds or corn silk. Coin silk is the hairy part of fresh coins. You could also have barley congee. These could help to eliminate uric acid from your body via urine.

In summary, people with gout should consider a vegetarian diet.

Wish this diet suggestion could help people with gout being pain free.

Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced mechatronic energy healer.

I am often asked by patients “Is this food good or bad?”
It depends on your constitution, what your body needs at the moment, and how much you consume. So please be mindful of being balanced in what you eat.

Is it healthier to be a vegetarian?Being a vegetarian, you have to be even more mindful than carnivores. Most vegetables and fruits go to the Wei qi level which is the muscular skeletal part of our body. Meats and plant-based proteins nourish our blood. Many vegetarians suffer from deficiencies in blood volume, vitamin B, and calcium. Please reference the Mediterranean diet to include a lot of mixed beans, quinoa, hemp seeds, flax seeds, sesame seeds, and mixed nuts into your diet.

Is it better to be dairy-free?

It depends on the genetic constitution of your ethnicity. For example, Europeans and Americans are very used to having milk and cheese, they are not allergic to lactose. However, most Asians are sensitive to lactose.

Cow’s milk has a sweet taste, and a neutral nature, and nourishes qi and blood. They enter the Lungs and Stomach energy meridians of our body. Because they are nourishing yin fluids, they are good in treating constipation due to dryness of the colon. Modern milk seems to be more cooling, they can be good in treating gastric ulcers. However due to their nourishing effect, for people who have poor digestion, especially spleen deficiency, milk could induce more dampness, and phlegm (thick mucus) in our body. According to Chinese Medicine, Spleen is responsible for transforming body fluid and water metabolism. When there is spleen deficiency, the body tends to obtain fluid, and have more dampness accumulation.

Overconsumption of Cheese induces more phlegm heat in the body and could clot our lymphatic vessels. For people who have arthritis or other muscular-skeletal pain conditions with underlying spleen deficiency, please eliminate the consumption of cheese.

Soy milk has similar nourishing properties as cow’s milk, but it enters the spleen energy meridian. If you have spleen deficiency, it is better to drink soy milk. It could nourish the spleen. However, due to its nourishing yin and body fluid properties, overconsumption of soy milk could also induce mucus, and phlegm in our body.

Almond milk nourishes yin and fluid as well. It enters the lung's energy pathway. If you are lactose intolerant and have lung deficiency, you could consider drinking almonds. Be mindful, that overconsumption, could also cause dampness in our bodies.

In conclusion, the key is finding a balance for yourself. Not to overconsume anything including things that could be good for your constitution.

My advice about self-care during the winter season.

• Please dress warmly. Even if you don’t feel cold, the cold air energy could still enter your body. When you have strong immunity, your body can block them at the muscular-skeletal layer of your body and even be able to expel them out of your body. However, they could still accumulate in the muscular-skeletal part of your body. Then you will slowly experience stiffness and tightness. Please dress warmly according to the temperature.
• After spending some time being exposed to the cold, when you first return to your house, please drink a cup of hot ginger tea or a miso soup with scallions to induce some sweat. This way, you could help your body to expel the cold air energy out.

Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and an advanced Metatronic energy healer.

One of the important guideline is eat seasonal growed food within few hundreds miles of your home.

Spring season is wood element, associates with the liver organ. Our diet should nourish the liver organ. Eat more flowery, green leafy vegetables with sour flavor including: lime, lemon, kiwi, bamboo shoots.

Summer season is fire element, associates with the heart organ. Our diet should cool body's temperature, dispel heat and calm the heart. Eat more fruits and vegetables in red color and bitter flavor to cool the body and hydrate the body fluid. For example: watermelon is very hydrating the body's fluid and cooling in nature. The bittermelon is very cooling.

Autumn season is metal element, associates with the lungs organ. Our diet should nourish and moisten lungs. Eat more food in white color with pungent and spicy flavor. For example: pears could nourishing and moistening lungs. Garlic and onions could disperse lungs energy and nourish lungs. So as scallians.

Winter season is water element. It is associated with the kidneys organ. Our diet should nourish kidneys. Eat more rooty plants including daikons, carrots, sweet potatoes; and more salty flavor food such as fish, seaweeds. Also walnuts and seeds are nourishing kidneys as well.

Thank you for listening to “You Are Your Best Healer” Podcast. Namastate!

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Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Haizhen Yang DAcM, L.Ac. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki and advanced mechatronic energy healer.

Today I would like to introduce some of the terminologies in Chinese medicine before we dive into the topic of nutrition. In Chinese medicine, the treatment is to balance the yin and yang of the body. Yin refers to the physical substance that you can see such as muscles, bones, body fluids, and so on. Yang of the body means the energy ATP which you don’t see but you know it exists. For example, in the blood circulation, the blood and vessels are considered as yin. The energy generated by the heart to push the blood flowing through the vessels is considered as yang.

Many of you may have heard of the five elements. They are earth, metal, water, wood, and fire. In Chinese medicine, our body is classified into these five elements. These five elements have mutual supporting and controlling relationships to maintain the balance among them. For example, in their supporting/generating/nourishing relationship cycle, the earth generates metal. Where do we find minerals or metals? We dig them out of the earth. In the hot summer days, you see water on the surface of metal. That is why we consider metal generates water. How do plants survive? We need to water them. So we consider water generates wood. We burn wood to have a fire. So we consider wood generates fire. After the wood is burned by fire and turned into ashes, so we consider fire generates earth. This is their supporting, generating, or nourishing relationship cycle. They also have a controlling relationship by controlling each other, they can maintain a balance among them. For example, if a river is flooding a town, how do we stop it? We use soil to build a bank around the river to stop the flooding. So we consider Earth control water. When a place is on fire, we splash water over the fire to diminish it. We consider water controls fire. A jewelry designer wants to turn a piece of gold into a beautiful ring. She/he uses fire to meld the gold and then mold it into whatever design they want. So we considered fire control metal. We need to trim trees, so they won’t grow wildly. We use metal to cut wood. So we consider metal controls wood. In the desert, how do we prevent drifting sand? We grow plants there. So we consider wood controls the earth.

In Chinese medicine, we believe we have our temperaments in our constitution. It means genetically we have our dominant elements that determine who we are. For example, some people are wood and earth-dominant. They tend to be tall, outgoing, sociable, and caring. If their wood is more dominant than earth, they tend to be tall, slim, and sociable. If their earth is more dominant, they tend to be shorter, heavier, more caring, and more introverted.
Different parts of our body are classified into five elements as well.

• The fire element includes a heart, small intestines, tongue, blood vessels
• The earth element includes Spleen, stomach, libs, flesh
• The metal element includes lungs, large intestines, nose, skin
• The water element includes kidneys, urinary bladder, ears, hair
• The wood element includes a liver, gall bladder, eyes, tendons and ligaments

These five elements could be classified into yin and yang as well. Fire and wood are considered yang elements. The earth, metal, and water are considered yin elements. Among each yin, there are yang aspects to it; Among yang, there are yin aspects to it. I will not go into details here to avoid overwhelming you all.

I will continue this topic next Wednesday. Wish you all a wonderful week.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki and advanced mechatronic energy healer.

In today’s episode, I want to clarify a few misconceptions about healthier eating. I often hear patients saying they eat very healthily because they eat salad mostly and have morning smoothies. However, most of these people tend to have weak digestive systems. Why?

First, we need to understand our digestive system and how it works. Our body is an organic system. Our metabolism is a bunch of organic chemistry reactions. Have any of you done chemistry lab back in your school years? When we do experiments at the chemistry lab, what are the two things we add to the reactions to speed them up? One is heat and the other is enzymes. Most green vegetables and fruits are cold. If we eat most of them cold, it will make the stomach work much harder. From the Western nutrition perspective, eating more vegetables and fruits is good since they are full of vitamins. I don’t disagree with that. But from the Eastern nutrition perspective, we also consider their nature and properties. In future episodes, I will discuss more in detail.
So how do we balance their coldness? In your smoothie, you could add ginger, which is warming in nature. You could also warm the smoothies when you drink them. If you want to eat raw vegetable salad, you could use ginger dressing and add more spices to it. So I will suggest to cook your vegetables and eat them warm.

Secondly, Please do not overload our body with cheese, which could clot our lymphatic vessels.

I would like to answer two questions many of my patients asked me regarding weight loss.

Why do people over 40 years old, gain weight easily and start to have elevated sugar levels, elevated blood pressure, or elevated cholesterols? How should they eat?

Is it safe to take OZEMPIC for weight loss? We need to understand its mechanism and how it works on our body first. In nutshell,
- it increases insulin release to withdraw sugar from the bloodstream
- it slows down the emptying stomach and slows down the digestive process
- it affects the area in your brain feeling full (satiety)

What is the best way of losing weight?
- 30 minutes of cardiac exercise followed by 30 minutes of weight liftings (in between each set of weight liftings, you should do jump ropes to maintain your heart rate)
- 8/16 intermittent fasting

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Happy New Year to everyone! 2024 is a wood dragon year. The Wood element symbolizes prosperity and nourishment. I hope this will be a great year for everyone. Wish all of you happy and healthy!
My plan for this year is to share with you about eastern nutrition, how to eat healthy based on your constitution in different seasons; and how to adopt a healthier lifestyle to age gracefully. We will start the first episode on nutrition next Wednesday.
In today’s episode, I would like to introduce some of my teachers who have had major influences on my clinical work. I also want to take the opportunity to thank them.
- all of my patients
- Dr. Kamto Lee
- Master Jeffrey Yuen
- Dr. Liang Chuan Lin
- Dr. Chong Qing Fu
- Dr. Zheng Zhong Huang
- Dr. Ning Ma
- Dr. Ye Meng Chen

My clinical approches:
- Skeletal Muscular pain: using structural reduction therapy with sinew treatments
- All internal conditions (immune system disorder, endocrine system disorders, digestive issues): are treated with Nan Jing pulse diagnosis and divergent or/and 8 extra vessel treatments
- emotional disorders: using the treatment of luo channels and 9 heart pain

9 Heart pain refers to the emotional suffering caused by the 9 aspects of our life. They are:

• health,
• wealth/finance,
• prosperity/fame,
• home/family,
• relationship (peers, romantic love, families),
• global/travel/politics,
• career,
• spirituality/wisdom,
• creativity/fertility/children.

Let’s say farewell for now, and please come back for the 1st episode of Eastern Nutrition next Wednesday.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!

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Today's topic is about the history and benefits of traditions practiced at the Dragon Boat Festival.  It is a popular holiday celebrated by most Chinese all over the world to honor a minister named Qu Yu in Chinese history for his patriotism.  On this holiday, Chinese people eat Zongzi (sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves), eggs, drink realgar wine,  hang mugwort leaves and calamus leaves on the doors of houses,  and wear herbal sachets with mugwort leaves, calamus leaves, and realgar as bug repellents.  Modern Chinese simply practice these traditions on this holiday without knowing the healing benefits behind these traditions. In today's episode,  I'd like to share the history and benefits of these traditions. So we could apply these during the summer season to improve our quality of life during the hot and humid summer season. 

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According to  Chinese Medicine, At different times of the day, energy and blood circulate to different organs in our body. To optimize energy and blood circulation and overall well-being, ideally, we should live our lives in accordance with our body clock. In today's podcast, I will go over what happens in our bodies at different times during the day. 

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Wish you all safe, healthy, and happy! 

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How do self-care in the summer according to Chinese Medicine? In Chinese Medicine, it is highly recommended to live in accordance with nature.  So it is important to understand the nature of the summer season. Have you asked yourself what is the energy characteristics of a summer season? HOT, HEAT!! It is true heat is the first thing that comes to our mind.  However, many of us actually live in an air conditioning environment rather than enjoying this summer heat. We are actually living against nature.  What else we are doing against nature? Check out today's podcast to find out how to live in accordance with the nature of the summer season. 
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Many people ask me what they could do to be healthier. It is actually simply four things:  eating well, sleeping well, regular exercise, and de-stress/being happy.  But what do I mean by eating well, sleeping well, exercising, and de-stress?  Listen to my podcast to find out. 

I will be covering more details about diet, food therapy, a healthier lifestyle, weight management, and emotional management in future podcast episodes. If you are interested,  please subscribe to my podcast and share it with your loved friends and families. 

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Welcome to "You Are Your Best Healer Podcast"! 
Today I'd like to do an energy healing for insomnia.  You could play this while you are getting ready to sleep. Lay on your back, and watch your breath to relax your body first.  Let me know how you like this episode and your feedback is important. Let me know any other topics that you are interested in. 

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According to the book of Nei Jing, the ancient teaching of Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on living in accordance with nature. March is the beginning of spring, and all living beings in the universe are revitalizing. The energy of the spring season is represented by the energy of wood and is associated with the organ Liver in our body.

It is recommended that we go to bed late (no later than 11 PM) at night, and get up early in the morning. Go out to take a walk with some fresh air. Let down your hair being loose, relax your mind, and let go of any limiting thoughts. let go of any suppressed emotions. Treat every living being with a compassionate and benevolent loving heart, and be willing to co-exist with all beings equally, harmoniously, and happily.

Learn to surrender, knowing things happen in life for reasons, and go with the flow of life. If there are people or things that stress you out or upset you, let them go with your compassion and benevolent loving heart. Going easy and being happy will encourage the free flow of your liver energy. It will allow you to be healthy and happy in Spring and prepare you for the growing energy of fire, the energy of summer.

This is the Dao of the spring season, the essence of the spring season. Spring is the season to go easy and be happy.

In the end, I’d like to share a “Poem” ‘Loveliest of Trees’ by A.E. Housman published in 1896 when he was in his 20s.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough [b@k],

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

I wish you enjoy the spring season and be free, lively, and vital! Go easy and be happy!!!

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If you are at a crossroads of your life path, take a pause, breath some fresh air, look around, and enjoy the people and scenarios around you. Take a moment to listen to your heart, what is it speaking to you? what is it calling you?  Regardless of what you choose to do, be courageous to follow your heart, and do what you love and are passionate about. 

In this episode, I shared a paragraph from the opening chapter of Tina Zion's book "Reiki and Your Intuition -  A Union of Healing and Wisdom". 

Wish you all the best!  A friendly reminder everything in life is temporary. Whatever you are experiencing now,  it will pass. Look forward to the beautiful rainbow after a storm.  Be well! 

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Today I will answer questions from audiences on Metatronic healing and meditation episodes.  I will prepare Q & A sessions here periodically. Please feel free to send me your questions or any specific healing topics that you'd like me to share on this podcast via my website. 

1. Does a recorded energy healing on a podcast work? yes, but a private session will be more effective. 

2. What are chakras? 
   chakras are energy focal points along the middle line of our body. 

3. What is Namaste?
   Namaste is a Hindu customary, non-contact form of respectfully greeting and honoring the opposite person or group, it means my heart to your heart. 

4. What distance healing services do I provide? 
        - Metatronic healing 
        - Health consultation, the assessment is based on the intakes, your tongue analysis, facial analysis, and your blood work analysis from a Chinese medicine perspective 
       - Customized herbal supplements,  the assessment is based on the intakes, your tongue analysis, facial analysis, and your blood work analysis from a Chinese medicine perspective 

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Some people have expressed safety concerns about meditation. They are afraid of their soul/spirit leaving their body and not being able to return during the meditation.

I would like to clarify that there are many different kinds of meditations. The type of meditation I am sharing with you is very safe which is referencing vipassana meditation. I highly recommend you all to attend their ten days retreat to learn their meditation technique.

Vipassana meditation doesn’t allow visualization. It is all about going inward, self-observation, and letting go of anything we notice on our body without judgment. This kind of meditation helps us learn to live in the moment, be less influenced by what’s going on around us; helps us to become more detached from worldly matters, and learn to treat everything equally. I personally love vipassana meditation, which has helped me tremendously.

I signed up for their 10 days retreat six months before the actual event. However, my father passed away suddenly right before the retreat. There was just so much I had to take care of at that time. I wasn’t sure if it was a good time for me to go into a ten days retreat. But I had waited for a few years for this retreat opportunity. I finally decided to go because I thought it might help me to heal since I am in an emotional mess at the time.

I went to the retreat. When I arrived, they took away my car keys, my electronics, my notebooks, and pens. No communication was allowed. Only breakfast and lunch are served. All you do is meditate, sleep and eat. I was in an emotional mess, and there were so many things in my mind. After the first three days, all I could think of was the things on my to-do list, and my mother. Also, my whole body hurt. I finally gathered my courage and asked the teacher if I could leave. She asked me to sit and meditate with her in a smaller room for one more day. She taught me a few techniques to clear my mind. Something magically happened. After that day, all of a sudden, I was surrounded. I was able to focus on my breath. All pain in my body disappeared. All worries and distractive thoughts disappeared. I suddenly realized life is simply in one breath. What I really have is the moment that I am breathing. The past is gone, the future is an unknown. There was no point in holding on to things and people from the past. There was no point in worrying about the future because I don't know my future after this breath. All I have is this moment of breath. At the end of the ten days, I had never felt so good physically and emotionally. Ever since it becomes my favorite meditation.

When I don’t feel well physically or emotionally, I sit and meditate. Usually at the end of the meditation, somehow most discomfort would disappear. If not, I should seek professional treatments.

I highly recommend morning and evening meditation. In the guided meditation that I share on this podcast, I started with grounding, so you could be grounded on earth, then clear your energy space to prepare a sacred space for the meditation. If you don’t have much time in the morning, you could simply do the grounding and clearing energy space to start your day. You will find yourself being more present and more focused on whatever you need to do that day. In the evening, you could do the full meditation to reset your body, so you could have a good night's sleep. It is not recommended to do meditation after 11 pm.

I truly hope you all could be benefit from a daily meditation routine. Thank you for listening to the "You Are Your Best Healer" podcast.

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This is a 30 minutes guided meditation for physical and emotional healing.  I incorporated the Vipassana meditation technique. I highly recommend Vipassana meditation.  Vipassana meditation doesn't recommend any kind of visualization. In this guided meditation, I did include some visualization guidance in the beginning (the preparation part) to help you ground yourself, clear your energy space and create sacred space first before starting the vipassana meditation (scanning of your body). The key to meditation is to develop detachment and non-judgment. Learn to accept ourselves without judgment.  It is the meditation I do to relieve any physical pain, tension, or emotional disturbance.  I hope you could use this meditation for your self-healing as well. 
The background music is Pu An Zou (Buddhism chanting to calm our mind and spirit) played in Qin, an ancient Chinese instrument.  

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This is a 30 minutes Metatronic healing session. The background music is based on the earth element which is healing tones for anxiety. 

Please find a comfortable and quiet space for yourself. You could be lying down or sitting, but just don’t fall asleep. If you really fall asleep, it is okay because your subconscious is getting the healing as well. During the session when you don’t hear me talking, it is because I’m in meditation and working with Metatron doing the healing on you. 

I hope you all find this helpful! Remember YOU ARE YOUR BEST HEALER!
To learn more about  Metatronic Healing,  please visit my website. 

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You are the best healer for yourself! You are the only person who is with yourself 24 hours by 7 days. You are the only person who knows how your body feels,  how you feel emotionally, what you ate today,  what you did today, what thoughts you have in mind? Nobody knows better than you do. You are what you eat, you are how you feel, you are what you do,  you are what thoughts you have.

If you ever feel depressed, lonely, hurt, and struggling with anything in life, I hope you could find little support and comfort here. 

Regardless of where you are, and what hardship you are experiencing, please remember that when all doors are closed, there must be a window opening for you. You aren’t alone, God/the divine being/your higher self is with you!!! I'd like to create a sacred space for you here. In the future episodes, I will add guided Metatron healing, guided meditations, seasonal advice on self-care, food therapy, and such.  If there are any healing questions you have, please feel free to send them to me, and I will try to cover them in future episodes.

To learn more about self-healing, you could visit my blog SelfHealer.