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10/28/2026

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Ginger + red dates. Coincidence? Not quite. 🍵

In TCM, every ingredient in a soup or tea can play a role, just like members of a team. There’s a leader, a supporter, a balancer, and a harmonizer.

It’s called Jun, Chen, Zuo, Shi (君臣佐使), and once you understand it, you’ll never look at a recipe the same way again.

🎧 The full lesson, including how I build a warming ginger and red date tea using all four roles, is available for subscribers. Tap Subscribe on my profile to explore.

🌸 Want to bring these ideas into your kitchen? Get my starter’s guides to Chinese soups and teas: https://thechinesesouplady.com/starters-guide/

10/26/2026

A Guide for 30 Days Before Giving Birth

You know that feeling when you're getting close to giving birth… and suddenly, your brain won't stop thinking about EVERYTHING? 🤰🏻

One minute, you're excited to meet your baby.
The next, you're wondering…

💕 Do I have everything ready?
💕 Who's going to cook when I get home?
💕 What if I don't know what I'm doing?
💕 How am I going to recover while caring for a newborn?
💕 Have I forgotten something important?

And before you know it, you're making lists, buying things, Googling at midnight, and trying to prepare for something you've never experienced before.

Sometimes, it's not even the birth itself that's making you anxious.
It's everything that comes AFTER.
Because so much of pregnancy preparation revolves around the baby.
The nursery. The clothes. The diapers. The hospital bag.
But who's preparing for YOU?
Your recovery? Your nourishment? Your energy? Your emotional well-being?

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), we recognize how much Qi (energy) and Blood the body draws upon during pregnancy, childbirth, and recovery. That's why postpartum care, or 坐月 (zuò yuè), has been such an important tradition in Chinese families for generations.

It's about starting early. One step at a time. When you have time and energy for it.

🍵 Have key recipes and ingredients ready.
📝 Draft a postpartum plan.
🧦 Get the essentials you'll need.
💕 Decide who you can ask for help. I call this "the help list", request for this ahead of time is useful.
🥣 Prepare food for the days you won't feel like cooking.

Here are simple things you can do 30 days before birth to help you through postpartum.

With love,
The Chinese Soup Lady 🍲

You can download the full postpartum guide in my bio or start here: https://thechinesesouplady.com/a-tcm-guide-to-pregnancy-and-postpartum/

10/21/2026

Food as Medicine: A TCM View.

https://youtu.be/h3duv4Axyo8

10/20/2026

❤️ What is this concept of food as medicine?

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), it’s more than knowing which foods are “healthy.” It’s knowing your ingredients, how to cook and combine them, and most importantly, knowing your own body and what it needs.

Growing up, food as medicine was never a trend in my family. It was simply how we cared for each other. When it got cold, there was ginger in the pot. When someone was tired and pale, my mom cooked something rich and slow. In hot, sticky summers, out came the mung beans and winter melon.

In this video, I break down the TCM food therapy philosophy into three simple parts:

🫚 Know your ingredients: every food has a nature (warming, cooling, neutral), a flavour, a direction it moves in the body, and an organ it’s drawn to.

🍲 Know how to use them: how you cut, cook, and pair ingredients changes their effect. You’ll hear about the emperor, minister, assistant, and envoy ingredients, the traditional hierarchy behind building a balanced Chinese soup or recipe.

🌿 Know yourself: cold hands and feet? Running hot and irritable? Heavy and sluggish after meals? Your body is always talking, and TCM gives you the language to listen. The “healthiest” food isn’t healthy for you if it’s not what your body needs right now.

🔔 Subscribe for the full Food as Medicine series, where I explore each of these ideas more deeply, along with nourishing Chinese soups, teas, and seasonal recipes.

🌸Learn how to get started: https://thechinesesouplady.com/starters-guide/

Happy soup and tea making, and I’ll see you next time!

The Chinese Soup Lady ❤️

This content is for educational purposes and isn’t a substitute for personalized medical advice. Please consult a qualified practitioner for your individual health needs.

10/19/2026

TCM teas and soups for your eyes!

In TCM, “the liver opens into the eyes.” Long hours of looking drain liver blood, which can show up as tired, dry, or fading eyes. Here are 5 simple recipes with everyday ingredients

😵 TIRED, STRAINED EYES: cool + clear

Chrysanthemum & goji tea
5–6 dried chrysanthemum flowers, 1 tbsp goji berries, rock sugar to taste
Steep in 500 ml hot water for 5–10 mins. Refill 2–3 times.

Watercress & pork bone soup
500 g watercress, 500 g pork bones, 3 honey dates, 1 piece chen pi, 2.5 L water
Blanch the bones, then simmer everything for 2 hrs. Salt to taste.

💧 DRY, GRITTY EYES: moisten + soothe

Yu zhu & goji tea
10 g yu zhu (Solomon’s seal), 1 tbsp goji berries, rock sugar to taste, 600 ml water
Simmer the yu zhu for 15 mins, adding the goji for the last 5.

Snow fungus & pear sweet soup
1 snow fungus (soaked), 2 snow pears, 30 g lotus seeds, 5 red dates, rock sugar to taste, 1.5 L water
Simmer the snow fungus and lotus seeds for 45 mins, then add the pear and dates for 20 more.

👓 FADING EYESIGHT: nourish + restore

Pork liver & goji leaf soup
200 g pork liver (thinly sliced), 1 bunch goji leaves, 1 tbsp goji berries, 3 slices fresh ginger, 1 L water
Marinate the liver with soy sauce, cornstarch, and Shaoxing w**e. Boil the ginger, add the leaves and goji, then add the liver for 10 minutes or until cooked.

💗 Learn how to build your own Chinese soups with herbs: https://thechinesesouplady.com/starters-guide/

This is general info on TCM food therapy, not medical advice. Please see your doctor or TCM practitioner, especially for sudden changes in vision.

10/19/2026

Some of us run hot. Some of us run cold. 🔥❄️

And most of us are somewhere in between — which is exactly why our diet, our exposure, our bodies are uniquely our own.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is your constitution. The body you were handed at birth.

My grandmother never needed a quiz for this. She could tell from how you slept, what you craved, and whether your hands were ice cold in July. Your childhood was leaving clues, too. The kid who wet the bed a little longer than the others? In TCM the Kidneys are in charge of holding things in, and in children that job is still under construction. Glasses by age eight? The Liver stores the Blood that nourishes the eyes. The one who caught every cold going around, the picky eater who stayed skinny no matter what you fed them — these are patterns, read the same way for a very long time.

Here’s why it matters at the dinner table: warming foods and cooling foods do different work (and this is warm and cool in nature, not temperature). Your body already has an opinion about which it needs. Once you know your constitution, you stop eating what’s trending and start eating what YOU need.

So the engineer in me built a quiz. 20 questions (based on TCM’s 10 observation principles), about 3 minutes. Your temperature, your sleep, your tongue… and yes, your p**p. 😄

You’ll get your result as a percentage, because almost nobody is 100% anything.

🔗 Learn about yourself: https://thechinesesouplady.com/whats-your-tcm-body-constitution/

This is general info on TCM and not medical advice. Please see your doctor or TCM practitioner.

10/15/2026

✨Here is the ultimate Parent’s guide to making Chinese soups for children!

With so many ingredients and herbs, the combinations and permutations are limitless! And children are unique when it comes to the development of their little bodies from a TCM perspective. This is why I’ve created this unique 16-page guide to walk you step by step.

This guide breaks it all down into:
1. TCM in children — Why they are so different and what to pay attention to
2. Soup design principles — How TCM in children informs our soup design
3. Recipe bases to build on — A step by step, choice-by-choice guide for you to get started
4. Tips and tricks — That have worked for me as a mom making Chinese soups
5. Ingredient tracker template - Keep track of each ingredient as you introduce them

Whether you’re a new parent or an experienced one, this guide will get you started and expanding on building your own healthy, easy-to-make Chinese soups for your whole family!

Start here. Keep it simple. And make your first soup today. 🍲

👉 GET THE GUIDE HERE: https://thechinesesouplady.com/starters-guide/

10/14/2026

Went LIVE this morning, check it out here: https://youtu.be/-eFDmpvCAJ0

🔴 Come with me to make this healing, warming, blood building and nourishing soup with leftover turkey (from Canadian Thanksgiving!). 🍂🦃

Thank you to everyone who joined me live this morning! 💛 If you missed it, the replay is up. We turned leftover Thanksgiving turkey into a nourishing dang gui soup, perfect for the dry autumn season.

🍲 What I used:• ½ roasted turkey carcass• 2 slices dang gui 当归• 10 dried scallops 干贝 (soaked 30 mins)• 10 red dates 红枣, whole• 2 fresh corn, cut into chunks• 2 sticks fresh Chinese yam 山药, peeled and cut• 10 goji berries 枸杞
• 3L of water

👩‍🍳 How I made it
1. In a pot, add in all your ingredients together
2. Boil on high for 30 minutes and then reduce boil for another 1.5 hours (or use a thermal pot)
3. Salt to taste. You may need less, since the scallops add natural saltiness!

🌿 Why these ingredients?✨ Dang gui builds and moves Blood. Just 2 slices gives gentle support without overpowering the soup.✨ Chinese yam moistens and supports digestion, perfect for autumn dryness.✨ Dried scallops nourish Yin and add a rich, savoury depth.✨ Corn is gentle and naturally sweet, easy on the stomach.✨ Red dates support Qi and Blood. Keeping them whole makes the soup a little more warming.✨ Goji berries nourish the Liver and Kidneys, and support the eyes.

🦃 No turkey? Use a chicken carcass or chicken thighs instead.

⚠️ Skip dang gui during pregnancy.

Did you make a soup with your leftovers this weekend? Tell me below! 👇

Learn how to build your own Chinese soups with herbs: https://thechinesesouplady.com/starters-guide/

TCM concepts are shared here for education and aren’t a medical diagnosis. Persistent, new or unexplained excessive sweating should be discussed with your healthcare provider.

10/13/2026

当归 Dang gui: A powerhouse herb 🌿

Known as "female ginseng" in TCM, dang gui is the most important herb in Chinese women's health. Warm, sweet and acrid, it enters the Liver, Heart and Spleen. Its superpower? It both BUILDS and MOVES Blood. Most tonic herbs only do one or the other!

✨ One root, three parts ✨

1️⃣ Head 当归头 (dāng guī tóu)
Stops bleeding (止血) and lifts energy. Chosen to hold Blood in, like heavy or abnormal periods.

2️⃣ Body 当归身 (dāng guī shēn)
Nourishes and tonifies Blood (养血、补血). The go-to for fatigue, a pale complexion, dizziness and blurred vision. Best for rebuilding after your period, childbirth or illness.

3️⃣ Tail 当归尾 (dāng guī wěi)
Moves and breaks up Blood (活血破血) and eases pain. Used for period pain, clots and bruising. The most moving, least nourishing part.

➕ Whole root 全当归: Nourishes AND moves. The balanced, everyday choice for home soups.

🥚 Dang Gui Red Date Egg Tea: 3 slices dang gui, 6 pitted red dates, 3 slices ginger, 1 tbsp goji, 2 hard-boiled eggs (peeled), brown sugar to taste, 1L water. Simmer dang gui, dates and ginger for 30 mins. Add eggs and goji, simmer 10 mins. Sweeten and enjoy warm, great after your period.

🍵 Dang Gui Energy Tea: 3 slices dang gui, 6 pitted red dates, 1 tbsp goji, 3 cups water. Boil everything for 10 mins. Sip warm for fatigue or a pale complexion.

🐔 Dang Gui Black Silkie Chicken Soup: 1 black silkie chicken, 10g dang gui, 5 slices old ginger, 2L water, salt. Blanch chicken 5 mins and rinse. Simmer everything for 2 hrs, then salt to taste. Great after your period or postpartum.

🛒 Most shops sell whole-root slices. Ask which part you're getting! Look for firm, oily slices with a sweet aroma.

🌸 Want to bring these ideas into your kitchen? Get my starter's guides to Chinese soups and teas: https://thechinesesouplady.com/starters-guide/

This series is for educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for advice from a licensed healthcare practitioner.

#当归

10/08/2026

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Your Body Is a Mini Universe | An Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine

Close your eyes and take one slow breath. In that moment, your lungs opened like a sky filling with wind, your heart kept its steady rhythm, and rivers of blood moved through you on their own.

Thousands of years ago, Chinese physicians looked up at the stars, the seasons and the rivers, then looked inward and found the same patterns inside us. In this first episode of my illustrated TCM series, we explore the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine: the idea that your body is a mini universe.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
🌙 Heaven, Earth and Human: the ancient idea that we are one with nature
☯️ Yin and Yang: the two forces behind every breath and every season
🌿 The Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, and the organs they connect to
👑 The organs as a royal court: the Heart as Emperor, the Lungs as Prime Minister, the Liver as General, the Spleen and Stomach as the Granary, and the Kidneys as the Root of Life

We have this one body, this gift called a body. My mission is to help us understand it, so that we can take care of it.

🌸 Want to bring these ideas into your kitchen? Get my starter’s guides to Chinese soups and teas: https://thechinesesouplady.com/starters-guide/

This series is for educational purposes only and isn’t a substitute for advice from a licensed healthcare practitioner.

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