In this issue you will find:

• Important PCOM Dates
• Tea Benefits for Transplanted Liver
• Acupuncture For Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Herb of the Month -- RED SAGE / SAGE
• Chinese Wisdom: Quote of the Day

Important PCOM Dates

• September 26 – New York Open House
• September 30 – San Diego Open House
• October 28 – Chicago Fall Open House

Tea Benefits for Transplanted Liver

The liver has multiple functions such as creating bile for digesting fats, storing glycogen for conversion to glucose, and secreting enzymes that aid in digestion and absorption of carbohydrates and proteins.  A healthy liver is essential to maintaining health and living a long life. 

The most common causes of liver breakdown are excessive alcohol intake, overeating, and poor diet (one high in complex sugars and fats).  These things accompanied by a sedentary lifestyle can also harm the liver because when the liver’s capacity to store energy is exhausted it begins to change the glycogen (converted food energy) into fat for storage.  A fatty liver or hepatic steatosis is the most common reason a person needs a liver transplant.  The liver becomes so clogged with fat that blood, bile, and other excretions can no longer flow freely through it and normal function stagnates becoming self destructive.   
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Acupuncture for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

The word functional disorder refers to a disease or disorder when a body part functions in an abnormal manner. The Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders affects many people around the globe of different age groups, and of all genders. Western physicians have accounted that Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders are the most common illness found in most individuals in primary care or gastroenterology.
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Herb of the Month - SALVIA OFFICINALIS - RED SAGE / SAGE

The Common Sage can have white, greenish-grey or purplish-red leaves. Often, Sage products and preparations refer to, or contain 'Red Sage'. This is not a different species, it is still Common Sage, but the plants with purplish-red leaves have been used. According to medical herbalists, the red leaf sage is the preferred medicinal variety.

From at least as far back as the Middle Ages, Sage has been documented as a 'cure-all' with references to longevity in folk medicine.  Commercially, Sage has always been very popular for culinary use, with its very strong, distinctive taste and aroma. In more recent years Sage has become increasingly popular for its therapeutic use, especially with symptoms associated with the menopause.
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Chinese Wisdom: Quote of the Day

“If you breathe partially, you live partially”

-- Unknown