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Anytime self‐massage, especially in Winter: Ear Rub:
Using your thumb and index finger, grip the outside fold of your ears where they join to your head. (left hand to
left ear, right hand to right ear) (You can do one ear at a time or both ears together) Firmly, slowly, "inch" your way
around your ear until you reach your ear lobe. Rub the lobe a few times and then give it a little tug ‐‐ gently, but
firmly. Start again at the beginning and repeat as many times as you want being certain to massage both ears.
When you are done, your ears should feel nice and warm and tingly. This simple massage connects to our entire
body, organ systems and /meridians as TCM teaches us that the ear is a microcosm of our entire body.
~ RECIPES ~
Here are a few simple recipes, meant to be repeated often because of their usefulness for self‐ healing.
To relieve head congestion from a cold or sinus
infection:
Ginger Tea:
Ingredients:
2 inches of fresh ginger – chopped
5‐6 scallion whites only (more if they are really skinny)
Peel of 2 dried tangerines
4 cups of water
Rock sugar to taste
Directions:
Put all the ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil.
Immediately turn down the heat and simmer for about
5 minutes – not longer – too much causes an
unpleasant bitterness
Remove the solid ingredients, sweeten to taste and
drink hot.
For constipation:
Mix together about 2 TB toasted black sesame seeds
and a teaspoon of honey. Chew very well.
For additional energy and especially good for
elderly people:
Mix together about 2 TB black sesame seeds with 2 TB
of ground walnuts and 1 TB of honey. Eat 1 tsp.
whenever you need a little “boost”.
Or try this energy boosting cereal:
Ingredients:
½ cup uncooked rice
1‐1/2 TB ea ground black sesame seeds and ground
walnuts
3 cups of water
1 TB wolfberries (goji berries)
Honey to sweeten
Directions:
Cook the rice with the seeds and the nuts (as you
would normally cook rice) and about five minutes
before it is done, add the wolfberries. When cooked,
sweeten with a little honey.
44 Yang-Sheng (Nurturing Life) Volume 2, Issue No. 1