Blog | Jonathan Hadas Edwards, LAc.

New Substack Blog: Seeds from the World Tree

From now on, new posts will go up on Seeds From the World Tree, a new Substack feed dedicated to nourishing wisdom and healing...

The Nose Knows: Listening to our Senses for Healing

When it comes to traditional incense materials--the woods and resins people have burnt for millennia in sacred and healing...

Perfume, Anointing and Medicine

For me, “perfume” used to call to mind nasty-smelling stuff worn by people I didn’t understand. Perfume meant headaches; it meant...

How Does Acupuncture Work?

‘So how does acupuncture work?' It's a question I hear often enough—sometimes with a “really” in there, as in “how does acupuncture...

Insomnia: Patterns & Treatment Strategies

[Note: If you prefer to watch a video, most of this article's content is covered in this YouTube video.] Before the pandemic,...

From Children's Cooking to Herbal Alchemy

I loved to cook even as a kid, a tendency my mother encouraged with what strikes me now as incredible indulgence. Our “children’s...

Healing through Beauty: Adventures in Olfaction

The funny part, in retrospect, is how much I resisted. Contemplating the hundreds of vials I would need to obtain for even a basic...

Traditional East Asian Medicine and Covid-19

People are often skeptical when told that Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM) can treat Covid-19, and this is understandable: if there...

"Its Use Came into My Hands"

I recently came across the title phrase in a book on Kampo, the Japanese system of herbal medicine with close ties to classical Chinese...

The Library Angel

This 2018 post is from an old, now-defunct site. Ever had a run-in with what dream-worker Robert Moss calls the "library angel?" It's...

Treating Traumatic Injuries with Chinese Medicine

This 2018 post was migrated from an old site, Axis Mundi Healing Arts. Americans often associate acupuncture with chronic pain treatment,...

Living Traditions and Symbiosis

It's as if the tradition itself is doing the instructing