[-] How Does Natural Health Work? Why Should You Consider It?
By Madeleine Innocent Platinum Quality Author


What are the reasons behind the successes found with natural health?

Natural health is an enormous subject, with many different modalities, often covering different aspects of your health. Some focus on body work. Some on diet. Some focus on the whole of you, so are known as holistic. The scope of this article is not sufficient to address this complex subject more than superficially. However, it may provide you with some useful incites.

Natural health, almost as a body, is based on natural laws. This means the modalities are not at war with your body. Instead, they are supporting your body's natural inclination to heal itself. Your immune system was designed to keep you healthy, preventing entry of disease, or to help you recover quickly if disease was not prevented.

However, few people look after this intangible part of themselves, allowing it to become almost useless. So, ill health is an inevitable result.

The natural modalities of health care work to restore this essential part of you. This can come through healthy diet, from getting out into the sun, from changing your job, from changing any unhealthy habit, or one that does not promote your natural good health, to a health habit. The natural modality, homeopathy, probably restores your immune system faster than any other.

Fighting disease and ill health does tend to ensure it survives. There is a natural law that, in essence, implies that what you resist, persists. Fighting disease is resistance.

Naturally good health comes from addressing the cause of your problem and personalising your symptoms. You are a unique individual, so your treatment should be so, too. How can any other way work?

By resisting your health problem, you make it stronger. By accepting it and then working from this state of acceptance to change things, you have a far better chance of reversing the cause permanently. Even if your condition is severe or life threatening, there is still a possibility that this can be reversed. You'll never know unless you try.

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How Natural Health Works and Why You Should Consider It. - http://naturescuresremediesandhealings.blogspot.com/feeds/4589406835556671690/comments/default

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Beautiful Ohio Amish Country - http://www.friendshiptea.net/feeds/123485209150909736/comments/default

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In 2005, I was working for a consulting company called Accenture.  I enjoyed the job, but didn’t love it, and was always looking for a way to break out of the corporate rat race.  I was working and living in London for a client engagement and frequented Covent Garden for coffee on the weekends.  Then on one particular visit to Covent Garden on a random Sunday afternoon, changed everything.  I was seated at a café when I noticed that no one around me - folks both young and old, from all different walks of life - was sharing in my coffee-drinking experience.  Instead, everyone was enjoying tea.  Literally, everyone had a string hanging over their cups!

As an American, used to the frenetic fast-paced life coffee chains have inspired, this struck me as unusual, but fascinating.  I grew up in a Korean-American household and drank more tea than water in my home, but never saw tea as a business opportunity.  I immediately went online to research more about tea.  Once I realized that tea was the second most widely consumed beverage in the world only behind water, I was convinced where I wanted to be.

So I began my travels and visits to various tea houses, tea plantations, tea salons, and tea bars throughout Europe and Asia to collect information.  By the end of the two-year research period, I had visited over 300 of them.  Despite the fact that tea was so popular globally, domestically it ranked after soda, juice, beer, milk, and coffee.  It occurred to me that this was due to poor marketing and the perception of tea in the United States.  Tea is still a very foreign concept in the U.S.  Americans view tea variously as Asian, European, your grandmother’s sip, a pinky-up-in-the-air beverage, and only to be consumed when sick.  I knew I could change this with creative marketing, strong branding, and education.  We have the best PR company in the world behind us - called the medical industry - pumping out three to four studies per month telling us why everyone should be drinking tea!

I was ready when I came back to the States.  I immediately quit my job, and began preparations to start a tea company.

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Part 1 - The inspiration - http://www.tching.com/2010/07/part-1-the-inspiration/

[-] On the 2nd floor, a training session is in progress:….. In this session one of the 34 staff serves tea and receives feedback from his peers and staff supervisors (the two girls in light shirts)Li wraps the six cups I just purchased.  A perfect match to a tea pot I bought some 4 years back. Li and No. 39 prepare to serve tea. Always with the “crazy fingersâ€� :) :) A small selection of the teapots along the  back wall.    All pots are labeled and priced. Six natural bamboo form cups at 40 RMB each are a good buy. An extremely well organized collection of pots for sale

Part 4, the Staff and Tea Pots - http://chawu.blogspot.com/feeds/7829713086950673582/comments/default

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One of two large Slab tables,  a single slab of wood, approx 12’ x 3 1/2’ x 7â€� thick. Both sides of this table show the inner bark layer. This  one is a my favorite of the two, 11’ x 4’ x 8â€� thick …. just a thing of beautyI’d build a special room if I could only get this bad boy home: …… The third of the large tables on the ground floor is a true stunner … exotic in every sense. Made from a single tree base. the outer bark removed and the natural surface polished.  Each of the 5 stools are made from the same tree and retain much of their natural form. We later enjoyed tea sampling around this work of art: …….

Part III, The Tables - http://chawu.blogspot.com/feeds/1228613789264791920/comments/default

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The vast variety and diversity of the packaging of Pu-Erh tea is mind boggling. Everything custom:  from the inner ticket and wrapper to the outer box and carrier.  As I peruse just one of the section, this small sampling is available at reasonable prices .. but just to difficult to carry back, and if I did, I’d have to extend my tea room 10 fold just to display tea packaging. The collection of: 5 small cakes and one large cake sells for: 672 RMB:……. This “Elabration is Collectedâ€� package sells for 359 RMB, not sure of the tea weigh.I like this Box Set set of two cakes: …….. Another Box Set of two cakes. This Box opens up to reveal a small dramatic stage setting, as seen in Chinese Operas.  A pair of 400g cakes sells for 252 RMBA box set of Left and Right hand cakes, a pair of 400g cake sells for: 329 RMB Here we have a 250g block for just 31.5 RMB

Part B: Pu-Erh packaging - http://chawu.blogspot.com/feeds/2927816477982793953/comments/default

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2009 Joytea Organic Hadong Disk Type Ddok Cha - http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6853675985624071221/comments/default

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Last week I visited Li Hong at her new place of business.  Still located in the Dong Cheng area of Dongguan city.  Near the intersection of: XueYuan Road and Dong Cheng Zhong Road.   As ref: the Pink #2 is the location of Mrs. Yang's store.Map source:  heredg.com.

As a collection of 40+ “sections/shopsâ€� under one roof,  a unique set-up for this area.  The consortium of 7 owners are rightly proud of this immaculate set of shops. The staff are enthusiastic, and are here to learn about the tea trade as a business. 

I plan on 4 separate postings to cover this visit.  In all we spent about 1 1/2 hrs here, after spending 2+ hrs at Mr’s Yangs “Getting drunk on teaâ€� to quote Palao. Part 1 The Sore, Part B  Pu-Erh detail, Part III:  The Tables, Part 4: The staff and Tea Pots

At the entrance, you are greeted by a host, who will escort and help you navigate through sensory input overload.  I would need to shop here for about a month to imprint what is on offer and get to know the place.  Fortunately Li Hong  has known Palao and myself for about 6 years, so in that regard we have a friend to help us.

Ground / Street level entrance .. Pu-Erh by the: pallet (æ ˆæ�¿ zhàn​bÇŽn)​ load.On the lower level we see pallet sized storage, all Pu-erhPalao eyes some new cakes of Pu-ErhOn to the upper level, we see a mixture of: Tea and Accessories. Everywhere is clean and free of clutter .. amazingly very “Un-Chineseâ€� Every thing in these stores has a marked price .. clearly defined in Chinese with sell prices in both Chinese and “Westernâ€� numbers.  Prices are, in my experience very fair.   A small amount of bargaining is possible depending on the size of purchase made. One of the girls is writing up a recent sale .. you take your sales receipt to a central pay station.One of the large “Plankâ€� tables, the girls give a sense of scale. 

Part I the Store, July 25th, Sunday afternoon in Dongguan. - http://chawu.blogspot.com/feeds/7762221088156518606/comments/default

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Woman as Orchid
by Isolde

People say that Orchids are hard to care for,
An urban legend that swirls around those bright
Beautiful red blue orange pink yellow dark light
Flowers goddesses that
Lean and lounge sensually from every
Elite doorstep, every corporate hallway
And are so often looked past in florist's windows because
A vicious reputation precedes them.
Yet my orchids grow, wild and fair
With hardly a care from my almost-
Green hands, reaching, floating,
Dripping down their own stems
Filling the world of my room with
Such an effortless exotic grace and Pop.

Orchids are women, a female flower
Undeniably
Then women are orchids as well?

Women are lush, curved, open and pinked
Sometimes blooming, sometimes waiting
Catching the sunlight as it dapples in
White yellow spots on our shiny leaves,
Stems and buds.

People say that women can be hard to care for,
An urban legend that swirls around our
Long hair and pointed shoes,
Every day goddesses that
Lean and lounge and work and play
And hurt and cry and love and laugh
And try and fail and try and win and
Hope and pray and want and need and
Walk past you, day in and day out
Searching for a place or a way to set down
Our own roots, our own strength
In a world that sighs and says
"they are pretty, but too much work...I'll take
A peace lily instead."

Chocolate and Orchids and Poems - http://stephcupoftea.blogspot.com/feeds/3189373278611163433/comments/default

[-] I find that Italian food is one of the hardest with which to pair tea. There's just something about it that gives me a mental block for some reason. However, being stubborn, and preferring to drink tea to any other beverage no matter what the circumstances, I am trying to come up with some options.

This post focuses on the simpler, lighter-flavored Italian type foods, the ones that you might choose to  accompany with a white wine. So, think of things like a risotto with veggies, pasta with sauteed greens, dishes that actually include some white wine in the cooking - even pizza if it's a fresher sort that's light on cheese and meats. Jamie's Italy and not the local pizzeria kind of thing (unless your local pizzeria happens to be DOC or Ladro, in which case you are lucky).

In my opinion these dishes actually pair well with fruity Chinese greens and greener oolongs, I think because the fruity notes and dryness can be quite similar to those you find in white wine. So you could brew up a pot of bi luo chun or milk oolong and it would be right at home... sort of... at any rate it would taste good! This week I drank some milk oolong alongside a pasta dish of penne with rainbow chard and it was a very good combination.

Likewise you would also do well with a greenish first flush Darjeeling; I accompanied my pasta leftovers the next day with some Singbulli first flush - also a very acceptable partner. Basically, I think in your tea selection you are looking for something with a bit of fruit and a bit of astringency - not mouth puckering, just enough to let you know it's there.

Herbal tea-wise... I would try chamomile, spearmint, maybe even fresh basil, bay leaf or lemon myrtle, depending on what flavorings you were using in the dish. Aniseed tisane would be very refreshing for afterwards (and that way you wouldn't need any Sambuca!)*

I'm still trying to get my head around the kinds of tea you would serve with more robust Italian dishes such as bolognaise... Does anyone have any suggestions? Or is this just not going to work?

* Just kidding. You can have the Sambuca too.

Tea and Food: What to drink with Italian - http://joiedetea.blogspot.com/feeds/6064129726426735383/comments/default