UR Recipes – February 21, 2022
By Neka Pasquale, Founder of Urban Remedy
Soups can be the warm medicine your body needs when you are feeling under the weather. By adding ingredients like ginger, garlic, cinnamon and green onion …
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UR Wellbeing – January 13, 2022
By Neka Pasquale, Founder of Urban Remedy
Element: Water • Nature: Yin • Organs: Kidney, Urinary Bladder, Adrenal Glands, Ears, and Hair • Taste: Salty • Emotion: Fear and Depression Chines…
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UR Recipes – November 10, 2021
By Neka Pasquale, Founder of Urban Remedy
Fall Element: Metal * Color: White * Nature: Yin * Organs: Lung and Large Intestine * Taste: Spicy * Emotion: Grief The season of autumn is related to the …
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UR Recipes – June 7, 2021
By Neka Pasquale, Founder of Urban Remedy
Summer: The season of maximum activity and the fullest expression of yang (heat/fire/movement), according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In TCM sum…
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UR Healing – February 8, 2021
By Neka Pasquale, Founder of Urban Remedy
Most everyone has heard about the health benefits of eating dark chocolate, but what isn’t as obvious is that the source of those benefits is from a ma…
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UR Recipes – February 1, 2021
By Neka Pasquale, Founder of Urban Remedy
Eating with the seasons is an important part of living in harmony with nature which is the foundation of Chinese medicine. In winter and fall it’s a time…
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UR Wellbeing – October 7, 2020
By Neka Pasquale, Founder of Urban Remedy
“He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skills of the physician.” Chinese Proverb As a practitioner of Chinese medicine, I look at balanc…
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UR Recipes – September 20, 2017
By Neka Pasquale, Founder of Urban Remedy
When I had my acupuncture practice there was one complaint almost everyone shared. FATIGUE! For some they woke up with it, others felt it later in the day,…
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UR Recipes – March 30, 2017
By UrbanRemedy
Springtime is here, along with its crop of sweet, fresh asparagus. Chinese medicine teaches that asparagus is warming, a natural diuretic, and benefits the…
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UR Recipes – March 15, 2017
By UrbanRemedy
As luck would have it, San Francisco-based mixologist Jonny Cimone of Contempo Cocktails has created a disease-fighting green mocktail for us this St. Pat…
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