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December 19th, 2017

12/19/2017

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Does the holiday season leave you feeling cravings for sweets and cookies?  Who doesn’t love a festive Christmas cookie.  We want to share one of our favorite recipes that is free of refined sugar and flour, but still leaves you satisfied.  This cookie is the perfect mix of the holiday season with its subtle hints of cinnamon and nutmeg!
Coconut Almond Cookies
Ingredients
1 cup unsweetened desiccated coconut
3/4 cup almond meal
1 flax egg or egg
4 tablespoons extra virgin coconut oil at room temperature, soft not melted or soft butter
4 tablespoons honey or maple syrup or 1/4 cup coconut sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon - optional
1 pinch ground nutmeg - optional
1 pinch ground ginger - optional


Cookies decoration
1/4 cup dark cocoa chocolate >70% ,melted
3 teaspoons unsweetened desiccated coconut
1 teaspoons extra virgin coconut oil


Instructions
Preheat oven to 360F. Lay a cookie sheet with baking paper. Set aside
In a food processor, with the S blade attachment, add all the cookie ingredients.
Process on medium speed until all the ingredient comes together crumble. Transfer the dough into a bowl, form a ball with your hands and refrigerate 15-20 minutes.
Grease your hands with a tiny amount of coconut oil and form 4 large cookie balls or 8 small cookie balls - as you like, gently rolling the cookie dough between your hands to form balls.
Place the balls on the baking tray covered with baking paper.
Press each balls with your fingers to form thick flat round cookie - about 1 cm thickness.
Bake at 360 F for 12 minutes or until the sides are golden brown.
Cool down on the cookie sheet for 20 minutes, they will harden slightly when cooling down.
Transfer onto a cookie rack to fully cool down then decorate.

Cookies decoration
Melt the dark chocolate and coconut on the stovetop, stirring to avoid the chocolate to burn.  Dip half of the cookie into the melted chocolate then dip into desiccated coconut or sliced almonds. Dry on a cooking rack. Place the rack few minutes in the fridge to set the chocolate shell quickly.
Store up to 5 days in a cookie jar.
Servings: 8 small cookies
Calories: 169 calories
Recipe adapted from:  www.sweetashoney.com

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Nourishing Congee Recipe

9/7/2017

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Congee is a simple, very well cooked rice porridge that can restore  strength and bring warmth to the stomach.  Our modern diets are very cold in nature.  Raw vegetables, iced drinks, excess fruit, and diets high in carbohydrates cause a great deal of damage to our stomachs.  This recipe is great to use during acute illness/infection or during times of seasonal allergies.  


​Brown Rice and Walnut Congee
Ingredients
  • 1 cup of organic sprouted brown rice 
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 8 cups of water
  • sea salt
  • walnuts
How to prepare:
  1. To expedite cooking time, add brown rice to a food processor or blender first while dry to break into small parts.
  2. In a large pot add brown rice, water, and chicken stock and bring to boil.
  3. Add in walnuts and a pinch of salt.
  4. Once water is boiling, turn to a simmer and add lid on a slight angle to allow steam out.
  5. Continue to simmer on low to medium heat for 2-5 hours until rice is smooth
Eat congee for breakfast and as a starter before meals. Congee will re-balance your digestion, allowing you to absorb more energy from meals.

​Recipe adapted from Healing with Whole Foods, Paul Pitchford

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Spring Clean Simply with Asian Philosophy & Bartelt Acupuncture

5/5/2017

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Our long awaited spring is finally here Wisconsinites! It is a  time for renewal, rebirth, new starts, and new plans. In Ancient Chinese philosophy, spring breaks winter’s time of quiet introspection and rest and begins a time of preparation. We begin plans for summer: a time of growth and socialization. As an agrarian society, the ancient Chinese, followed the flow of the seasons to dictate all aspects of their life: from planting and harvesting, to health, wellness, politics, and lifestyle philosophy. “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:3.

Here at Bartelt Acupuncture we aspire to help others live a healthier, more natural lifestyle. As we ready ourselves for this season of anew, the lesson we have learned most in our practice is that healing modalities and lifestyle choices that were born thousands of years ago work and work well.  Research has shown in the last two decades particularly that using acupuncture, massage therapy, meditation, aromatherapy, and herbalism is comparable to modern medicine.  These healing therapies have fewer side effects, less investment in time and money, and can be more effective. Traditional Chinese Medicine, what is practiced by our Healing Team, is based in the philosophies of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucism which teach a slow-paced lifestyle rooted in simplicity.
“There exist no miraculous methods in the world, only plain ones, and the perfection of the plain is miraculous.” ~ Fei Boxiong, 1863

Take springtime as a time to revive yourself out of your quiet, contemplation and get to work managing a plan to simplify and spring clean your exterior and; therefore, interior life.
Principles of Feng Shui, one of the 8 Branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine, states that we can use placement of objects (such as furniture and plants) and the removal of unnecessary clutter to better and more efficiently improve our own vital energy, our Qi.

In Marie Kondo’s Book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, she writes, “There is a saying that “a messy room equals a messy mind.” I look at it this way; When a room becomes cluttered, the cause is more than just physical. Visible mess helps distract us from the true source of disorder. The act of cluttering is really an instinctive reflex that draws our attention away from the heart of an issue.” When a home or space is organized and simplified, new life, new efficiency, and new energy is born into it again.
Yangshen is the 2,500 year old Chinese practice of nourishing life and aims to cultivate health and longevity through simple lifestyle behaviors - behaviors that don’t cause harm. Eating right, exercising, having a contemplative practice, managing emotions, sleeping well, and breath work are all involved in the writings of Yangshen.

Also dictated in Yangshen is the avoidance of exterior pathogens such avoiding environmental chemicals. When starting your spring cleaning this year, also consider what products you are using to do so. Simplicity also lies in the compounds you introduce in your home and around your family. Many household cleaners contain toxic chemicals that may cause short or long-term health concerns. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the air inside a typical home is 200-500 percent more polluted than the air outside mainly due to toxic household cleaning products.

Join Bartelt Acupuncture for our "Spring Cleaning with Essential Oils Make and Take Class" on Saturday, March 11th, 2017. During this class you will learn how to make your own cleaning supplies that are safe, non-toxic, and cost far less than commercial products. The cost of the class is $15 and includes the supplies needed to make your own cleaning products, that will be discussed, so that you can take them home with you and carry out your spring cleaning naturally.
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The Language of Touch

2/9/2017

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“Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of affections as leaves are to the life of a tree.” – Nathanial Hawthorne
As a medium of communication between humans, there is no other as primitive and, thus as important, as touch. Touch is our first language. Upon conception we are influenced and formed through our connection with our mother, her energy, and her environment, sharing cells, being protected, and making this very first human bond. As infants, touch is just as important to the development of our nervous systems as the food we are fed. Noted Neuroscientist Saul Schanberg said, “Touch is not only basic to our species, but the key to it”.
The ancients through out cultures around the world knew the importance and gift touch was as a healing modality unto others.  Evidence of touch therapy can be found in the history of the cultures of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China, Polynesia, and Native America since the beginning of civilization in early shaman practices, traditional healing practices, and religious ceremonies.
Touch is a silent language of connection. It’s a bridge between two separate bodies, two separate lives, universes, or energy fields. It can be a vehicle of transmission. A giving and receiving of emotions, intentions, desires, forgiveness, and love. Skillful, therapeutic touch offers a quality of compassion and gives a message to the person receiving to relax, feel safe, and to be open to healing.
The Touch Research Institute was established in 1992 by Director Dr. Tiffany Field, Ph.D. at The University of Miami. It’s mission is “to better define touch as it promotes health and contributes to the treatment of disease”. Research has shown that touch as therapy has numerous beneficial effects on health and well-being. For example, research done at The Institute has shown that Massage Therapy:

  1. Facilitates weight gain in preterm infants
  2. Enhances attentiveness
  3. Alleviates depressive symptoms
  4. Reduces pain
  5. Reduces stress hormones
  6. Improves immune function
Touch is innately healing to us as human beings. When we sustain minor injuries, our instinct is to touch or rub it ourselves. When we are sad, we look for someone to hold us and somehow contain those emotions within their hugs. When we need further, deeper healing, a skilled, professional can deliver the type of therapeutic touch that is needed to tap into deeper layers of the physical or energetic body. Loving touch is a beautiful, never-ending well of human connection that is literally built into our psyche. Remember to hug a friend, give your child or partner a foot or back rub with an oil infused with essential oils, or give the gift of a professional massage to someone who could benefit from therapeutic touch.
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Happy New Year!

1/19/2017

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Happy New Year from Bartelt Acupuncture! As another year begins, resolutions are made, and to-do lists, and goals are created. Not sure where to begin? Here are 5 healthy goals to get you started: 
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1.)     Get Healthier: Getting healthier is the #1 New Year’s resolution either by losing weight, exercising more, eating healthier, or quitting an addiction. Acupuncture, Asian herbs, and supplements can be helpful supportive aids in these goals.
2.)    Manage Disease Naturally:  A goal of many of our patients is to begin to take control over their health by decreasing the number of pharmaceuticals they take and, therefore; the side effects that they have from taking them. Evidence shows success in decreasing the number of pharmaceuticals taken with patients who suffer from chronic pain, headaches, nausea, knee pain, and more when using acupuncture.
3.)     Contemplate:  Winter is a yin season in Traditional Chinese Philosophy – a time of quietude and deep introspection. Start a meditation practice or deepen your existing one.
4.)     De-Stress: Lose the stress in 2017! Diseases such as diabetes, depression, obesity, headaches, and Alzheimer’s disease can be linked to a stressful lifestyle.
5.)    Take Time for Yourself and Your Health: Making your health your number one priority is the most important thing you can do for yourself. Take care of yourself as you would a close friend. When you are sick, get yourself well. Before you are unwell, prevent illness.
 Our team at Bartelt Acupuncture is dedicated to assisting our patients in making 2017 a year of committed health and wellness. Take a look at these 5 supportive practices to make your resolutions or goals successes.
 
  1. Acupuncture and Bodywork: Making time in your schedule for regularly scheduled acupuncture and bodywork appointments will keep up your immunity, mood, and overall health. Acupuncture can also be a beneficial tool in the support of a comprehensive weight loss or addiction program. Also think of us for acute illnesses such as for cold, flus, and tendonitis flare-ups.
  2. Meditation Resources: Anyone can practice mindfulness meditation anytime, anywhere. Meditating is easy with a number of resources available to help your practice. Check out the book Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: a 28-day Program by Sharon Salzberg, or the Smart Phone Apps Calm, Headspace, The Mindfulness App.
  3. Supplements, Natural Health Care Products, and Traditional Asian Herbs: All are available and recommended as needed by our Healing Team. Brands such as Standard Process and Mediherb, New Chapter, Evergreen Chinese Herbs, and Kan Herbs are on our shelves and easily ordered when needed to supplement standard treatment. Handmade products made by our Healing Team using herbs, essential oils, and other ingredients are also available.  
  4. Essential Oils and Aromatherapy: Bartelt Acupuncture is a proud distributor of DoTerra Essential Oils. Essential oils and oil blends are used in our clinic during treatments, in our handmade products, and recommended for homecare.
  5. Take a Class: Offering classes aligns with Bartelt Acupuncture’s mission to educate our patients on natural, Asian, and integrative medicine treatments and self-care option.
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