How to behave in autumn
Chinese medicine is very concerned with proper behavior and timing: What to do and when to do it to live a healthy, happy, and long life....
Hillary & Jonathan Day
- Jun 16
- 4 min
1% for the Planet
We can't heal ourselves without healing our home planet. Since we opened in Louisville last year, Turtle Tree has set aside 1% of our...
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Jonathan Day
- Mar 16
- 4 min
The Linger Method: Finding Presence in a Million Small Moments
When I finished school, I was exhausted. Mentally and physically exhausted. It turns out that even university programs in Chinese...
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Hillary & Jonathan Day
- Feb 21
- 3 min
All about herbs
We like to use herbs. No... put the bong and the Allman Brothers album away for now, we don't mean those herbs... Nor do we mean the...
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Hillary & Jonathan Day
- Jan 12
- 6 min
How to recover from a holiday food-binge
We're almost 2 weeks into 2022. Do you still feel like you're recovering from holiday festivities? Today's missive answers a question...
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Turtle Tree
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
3 common FAQs about acupuncture
How specifically does acupuncture work? From a Balance Medicine standpoint, acupuncture corrects the flow of resources and information in...
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Hillary Day
- Dec 17, 2021
- 3 min
What Is Cupping?
In a mountain cottage in Bulgaria, near the border with Greece, Petra Peevska has her patient Maria place her feet in a hot, salt-water...
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Jonathan Day
- Dec 17, 2021
- 4 min
Friendship, stress, and viral immunity
If you've read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, then you're familiar with the story of Stuart Wolf, a physician who, in the 1950s, stumbled...
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Turtle Tree
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Three things to keep in mind when you visit
1. You're like an onion Please pardon the expression, but you're like an onion. You have layers. We're going to have to peel back those...
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Jonathan Day
- Dec 8, 2021
- 7 min
Following your body's healing cues
Today's missive is about healing cues (my term) -- messages from your body about what it needs to get well. If you follow them, they will...
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Hillary Day
- Nov 17, 2021
- 3 min
Tuning in to nature's song
A couple weeks ago, Jonathan wrote about how health emerges like a symphony when all its possible determinants - physical, emotional,...
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Jonathan Day
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
What is Balance Medicine?
I've had a number of folks ask me why we call our medicine "Balance Medicine". Let me thrill you with some etymology. The official name...
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Jonathan Day
- Aug 15, 2021
- 3 min
Acupuncture's popularity: a call for more than pain relief
Acupuncture is gaining popularity in the U.S., and two modern epidemics have created this opportunity. The first is a pain epidemic....
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Jonathan Day
- Jun 7, 2021
- 9 min
Me vs. Us, Part 2: Disagreeable Greta
Anders Hellberg stands motionless in the middle of the street, camera at his side. "This!" he says, as he stares at the scene in front of...
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Jonathan Day
- May 24, 2021
- 6 min
Me vs. Us, Part 1: The Evolution of Kinji Imanishi
There's an old story about a beggar who had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by....
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Jonathan Day
- May 10, 2021
- 9 min
Lost in Space and Etymology
In this post, I want to tell you about two identity crises. But first, a word of encouragement: I'm going to spend some time talking...
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Jonathan Day
- Apr 26, 2021
- 6 min
Why don't people live as long as they could?
In a display case at the Shanghai Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China, sits an old copy of an ancient medical book. There's a...
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Jonathan Day
- Apr 12, 2021
- 3 min
TIME magazine replaced its logo and nothing will ever be the same again.
On the cover of the Nov. 2 issue of Time magazine this year, the iconic logo TIME did not appear for the first time in the publication's...
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