Stay lean through the seasons 🍂❄️ The holidays are coming — and in TCM, this is when dampness and stagnation quietly expand the waistline. Cold, heavy foods slow the Spleen. The secret? Keep the center warm and moving. The foods: congee, warm soups and cooked greens — light and easy to digest. Cold, raw foods weaken your digestive fire in winter. Ginger, cinnamon, black pepper and pu-erh tea — warming spices that stoke that fire. The habits: eat warm, eat earlier, chew slowly. A short walk after meals keeps qi moving — "a hundred steps after eating." Sleep before 11pm and soften stress — in TCM, Liver qi stagnation drives cravings and slows digestion. The points: Zusanli (ST-36), Tianshu (ST-25) and Zhongwan (CV-12) — digestion, waistline and stomach harmony. Sanyinjiao (SP-6) and Fenglong (ST-40) — the classic dampness-clearing pair that keeps everything flowing. And consistent quantum cupping sessions — abdominal gliding, back shu points — keep digestion strong and inches off. ...