CLASSICAL CHINESE MEDICINE

The New Lunar Year of the Wood Snake. What implications does this have for our energy? In what ways will 2025 differ from the departing year

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

"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."

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

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...

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

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 .

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.

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

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

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