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kitchen alchemy
for health, vitality and spirit
HEALINg RECIPES
functional mushrooms
adaptogenic herbs
super berries
At Kitchen Alchemy we view health as a dynamic equilibrium of natural forces shaped by the food we eat, the air we breathe, how we inhabit our bodies, and how we relate to the world around us. Our ethos is to encourage a simple, direct and deeply relational engagement with our food, bodies and communities as integral expressions of a living earth.
Kitchen Alchemy is a workspace to explore food and lifestyle within the holistic framework of Yang Sheng - the Way of Nourishing Life. In addition to a selection of botanicals to cook with, you’ll find guides on Daoist health cultivation, Chinese medical theory and a wealth of delicious recipes to help you bring this ancient wisdom to life in your own kitchen.
Try our latest recipes
You can browse our recipes according to season, ingredient or TCM principle. Each recipe includes a food energetics focus to enhance your understanding of Chinese nutritional therapy.
WORKING WITH WHOLE HERBS
Rather than powders and capsules we promote the culinary use of herbs in their whole form and flavour. Human beings evolved informed by the intelligence of plant life and our symbiotic relationship with plants connects us to a vast storehouse of adaptive strategies. The taste of a herb gives the body a clear signal on how to assimilate its nutrition.
Browse our herbal ingredients and blends
Health Focus
the Yang Sheng way
Yang Sheng is a holistic approach to health which understands all areas of body and mind as an inseparable unity. However, often we are called to focus on specific body systems and areas of health. Here you will find guidance on addressing specific health goals from the Yang Sheng perspective.
Discover principles, practices and food therapy guidelines to help you to rebalance and revive.
SEASONAL LIVING
Life is the ebb and flow of yin and yang, a dance of stillness and movement which unfolds through the rhythmic fluctuations of the seasons. There are times to retreat and draw inwards and there are times to advance into action. When we are in harmony with these natural rhythms we flourish. Yang Sheng is the art of aligning our activities and bodily rhythms with the natural fluctuations of yin and yang through the seasons of the year and stages of our life, creating the optimal conditions for radiant health.
Chinese Medicine
explore your inner landscape
Chinese medicine views the human being as a microcosm of nature. The body’s interior is seen as a living landscape with its emotional rhythms and physiological processes mirroring the weather. When our inner environment is in harmony with the outer environment of nature our internal weather is balanced and changes smoothly with the seasons giving rise to a state of radiant health. When the rhythms of our life depart from those of nature, however, our internal weather can lose its balance and turn stormy and untimely. When this happens characteristic 'patterns of disharmony' arise leading to ill health.
Effectively regulating our diet and lifestyle helps us to weather the storms, get back on track and prevent the development of more serious imbalances. Learn how to recognise the early signs of these patterns and respond.
The Way of Earth
Our botanical products are made with authenticated DaoDi herbs. Grown in accordance with the DaoDi or 'way of earth' principle they are cultivated in their native regions whose specific ecological conditions are known to produce consistency of quality and potency, in accordance with the classical text Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing. Traditional cultivation methods with correct harvest times and Pao Zhi processing techniques ensure the right level of active ingredients which are crucial to these herbs' medical properties. No pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used in the farming and drying methods, and neither sulphur, fumigation, nor irradiation are used to increase their shelf life. All of our DaoDi herbs are 100% traceable to source and come with batch-to-batch certificates of analysis.
Botanical Profiles
Chinese medicine perspectives
Tonic and adaptogenic herbs have long been used in traditional medicine to support mental and physical resilience and increase resistance to stress. When we find ourselves depleted or overwhelmed these plants can teach us how to metabolise change, reconnect with our natural rhythms, and flourish in the face of adversity.
Here you will find individual botanical profiles for the herbs we work with. They will introduce you to each herbs essential character, its energetic properties and traditional uses.
