Rejuvenate with Cleansing and Fasting: Benefits and Guidelines

Periodic cleansing and fasting are considered fundamental practices in almost every healing tradition. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Spring is a particularly good season to consider doing some type of liver and gallbladder cleanse. 

In this class, licensed acupuncturist and certified herbalist, Amanda Lewis, L.Ac., will discuss various aspects of cleanses and fasts, including: (1) the benefits and cautions; (2) who are they recommended for; (3) when and for how long are they best to do; and (4) details about different types of cleanses and fasts. 

Treat yourself to a special time of healing and rejuvenation and some tasty food and beverage samples.

A Cancer Prevention Lifestyle

Find out how you can significantly reduce your cancer risk with things like vitamin D, green tea, exercise and eating right. As many as 375,000 cases of cancer could be prevented each year in this nation through healthy lifestyle and dietary choices. Amanda Lewis, L.Ac. will discuss specific things you can do, and offer some delightful teas to sample.

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: Free Class and Discussion Series

Free Class and Discussion Series 

Green Earth Market, 4 Market St, Oneonta 

1. The Benefits of Chinese Medicine:

Healing the Whole Person 

Tues, May 5^th - 6:00-7:30pm

1. Using Medicine From East and West
2. Yin and Yang: Balance is the Key
3. Natural Cycles of the Body
4. What’s a Treatment Like?

2. How Acupuncture Works

Weds, June 3^rd - 6:00-7:30pm

1. Basic Principles: The Science of Acupuncture
2. Feeling Your Own Energy
3. Energy Pathways: Everything is Connected
4. Acupuncture Demonstration

3. Food and Herbs for Health, Longevity, & Rejuvenation

Weds, July 15^th - 6:00-7:30pm

1. Using Food as Medicine
2. Herbs: Natural Remedies Without Side Effects
3. Healthy Shopping Tips

Anti-Aging & Longevity Super Foods

We need look no further than our fridge for some of the best age-defying, all-natural treatments out there. And all we have to do is add them to our diet. 
Amanda Lewis, licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, will share these secrets to the fountain of youth according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. 

Sweet Success: Understanding the Pros and Cons of Sugar

Most everyone loves a little sweetness in their diet. In Chinese Medicine, the sweet flavor has many beneficial properties: it strengthens and harmonizes, lubricates tissues, tends to be warming, and directs energy higher and outward in the body. But it's also true that too much sweet injures digestion. The same is true of all flavors: a little usually strengthens the body, but a lot can be damaging. 
In this class, licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, Amanda Lewis L.Ac., will discuss the nature of the sweet flavor according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. She'll cover various types of foods considered “sweet”- comparing their qualities, benefits, and risks ­ and the relationship between blood sugar, inflammation, and weight management. Food samples will be be included.

The Best Medicine: Foods That Heal, Part 2

Vegetables and Seaweeds

A Free Five-Part Discussion Series

Thursday, April 10, 5:30-7 PM
Greenstar Co-op, Ithaca NY

A healthy diet is invaluable for the vitality of all bodily systems. Healing that results from proper eating is not coincidental. Similar to herbal medicine, food has specific therapeutic properties. If diet is used correctly for prevention and treatment, other medicines are required much less frequently — if at all.

In this five-part series, Amanda Lewis, licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, will discuss the health benefits of five major food groups, drawing on insights from traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, as well as current Western knowledge.

This second class will focus on the nutritional and medicinal uses of vegetables and seaweeds. Amanda will pass around visual samples of the less common foods for identification. All classes are free and open to the public and will be held in the Classrooms@GreenStar (former Enterprise Building), 700 W. Buffalo Street. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar's Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Discovering the Pillars of Health

Developing a Healthier Lifestyle Through 

Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, and Acupuncture

Friday, March 14th, 5-6:30 

Town Hall, Bainbridge NY

&

Tuesday, March 18th, 5-6:30

Vestal Public Library, Vestal NY

Licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, Amanda Lewis, will share practical tips to living a longer, healthier life by using some of the fundamental, long-standing principles of traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. Come learn more about how nutrition, herbal medicine, and acupuncture can help you feel your best!