12/17/2025
✨ 🩸Blood building salad!🩸✨
In Chinese medicine, blood serves many important roles that go beyond "the wet red stuff" and include more energetic phenomena. Blood deficiency signs depend on the affected channel system and could include:
👀 Insomnia (especially difficulty falling asleep)
💪 Muscle cramps and being prone to overuse injury
😨 Anxiety
🏜️ Dry skin and nails
📜 Sallow complexion
😕 Trouble concentrating
🥶 Cold, pale extremities
🩸 Light or absent periods
😵💫 Lightheadedness
This meal has tons of lovely blood-building foods!
Dark leafy greens, red beets, red beans, red fruit, seeds, nuts, eggs...
Eating foods like this plus getting plenty of fluids can help!
These symptoms plus marked fatigue could indicate early signs of what allopathic medicine would diagnose anemia. Regular annual blood work and wellness checks are important and acupuncture and diet are not a substitute for but rather a supplement to regular medical care.