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.

Spice up Your Life

Can turmeric prevent Alzheimer's and ginger treat arthritis? Discover the health benefits of spices that you may have right at home in your kitchen. 

Amanda Lewis, L.Ac. will discuss how spices such as clove, cumin, fenugreek, garlic, licorice, and others can be used as medicine and offer some delightful tea samples along the way!

Treating Colds and Flus with Herbal Home Remedies

In this fun and informative class, local acupuncturist and herbalist Amanda Lewis will talk about treating colds and flus using teas that you can make from bulk herbs, as well as prepared herbal formulas. 

She'll cover some popular herbs, such as echinacea, goldenseal, and astragalus, but she will also discuss less common herbs like yarrow, elder, and honeysuckle…offering some delightful samples of tea along the way!

Home Remedies Using Bulk Herbs

In this fun and informative class, local acupuncturist and herbalist Amanda Lewis, will discuss some of the classic medicinal uses for 25 of the bulk herbs available at GreenStar…offering delightful samples along the way! 

She will also give instruction on basic herbal combinations and preparations. Some of the herbs include: ashwaghanda, astragalus, holy basil, licorice, marshmallow, nettle, valerian, and yarrow.

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.