Ying Yu Jade/Calm Spirit June 2014 Newsletter

Early Summer and Chinese Wellness

Yang developing in early summer is that which is creative and generating, it develops and expands; it is dynamic and full of
movement.

During June, it's crucial to keep the gut healthy. This helps prevent imbalance of the immune system and the allergies that come with it. If you've been taking antibiotics to tackle your bronchitis (very cooling in Chinese medicine), you may be suffering from dysbiosis, which means too much yeast, or overgrowth candida. To combat your digestive imbalance, try taking acidophilus; this can help replace healthy bacteria in
your gut.

To improve your health, lighten up your diets in the early summer. We naturally eat less
or even fast to cleanse the body of the fat and heavy food of the winter. We emphasize food that contains the qualities of : fresh greens, sprouts, juicing with carrots, beets, apples, mint tea and the pungent cooking herbs basil, rosemary, dill and bay leaf.
These are foods that support good liver function and produce and activate the enzymes that help in various phases of detoxification.

Give the liver as much support as possible. Reducing coffee and alcohol can be especially helpful. At the same time, increase dietary Vitamin C (found in citrus fruits, rosehips, bell peppers and broccoli), the B vitamins, especially B-12, general multi-vitamins, ginger, milk thistle, lightly cooked vegetables, and give the liver the protection
it needs.

Other tips include drinking warm water with lemon, which helps cleanse the liver. And
of course green tea is highly recommended.

Be watchful of the effects of different foods on your mood and energy levels. If you suspect that a food makes you sleepy or irritable, try cutting it from your diet for a while.

Jade for June

If you wear jade to balance your body qi, this is the time to wear your light-to-medium green color jade. The soft green is the color you see in nature this time of year, very natural, adding needed yin energy to the strong yang of new growth and changes. Also, honey color, or yellow jade has qi energy for balancing the spleen and stomach. Natural color yellow jade is very rare and expensive at this time, but the honey is close in energetic color and can be very balancing for stomach problems.
The first photos is small jade baby bangle, and in China they are often made from more yellow color jade because babies often get stomach problems and the yellow jade enery helps

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Jade for Men

YYJ offers great jade gifts for men, for Father's Day or any gift giving occasion, including pendants, carvings, flutes and as you have seen in the Blog, some men even like to wear jade bangle bracelets.

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What's New

Check out our updated feature to help you learn more about jade. The Photo Album and Museum contains photos and descriptions of unique jade items with lots of information about jade.

Watch for Daily Specials for great values. When we list a new item, before putting all the work into it to get it listed on its web page, we often list it as a Daily Special so you can get a great preview price before we do the work and expense to add it to the inventory. After it's formally listed, the "deal" is gone, and you miss the savings.

We are still working on updating the entire web site and to make it more easy
to use we are eliminating some of the categories as we are downsizing for our
"retirement". The deals we offer for products being eliminated will be real bargains
so check back every day to see what's on sale.

Ying Yu Jade is NOT a discount web site. The prices are below retail and there are prices and jade pieces for every budget. They are not artificially marked up, and you won't see a discount "sale" every month on every item. So a Ying Yu Jade sale is a REAL sale.

Thanks for your interest in Ying Yu Jade, and please contact me at
yingyujade @ yingyujade.com if you have any questions or requests