Educating to promote eating supportive types of foods using Chinese medicine dietary therapy to complement your body type and conditions.
In Chinese medicine food can be used to help the body back to health, however when foods are incorrectly chosen for an individuals body type they may contribute as a cause of disease. Traditional dietary therapy can be used in all areas to support health including recovery from sports injuries, IVF/fertility and mental health.
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Chinese health philosophy views food as a form of medicine.
Our modern understanding of food provides us with the knowledge that food sustains us with proteins, fats, minerals, carbohydrates, phytonutrients ect, and that we eat these for the body to assimilate energy and tissues to function. We also understand it is important to eat a variety of whole foods from many groups, and to avoid processed food.
Chinese medicine adds another layer, in traditional thinking food affects the function of the body in other ways. It is said that foods have a “temperature” that they effect onto the body, ranging from hot, warm, neutral, and cool to cold. Understanding what temperatures might best promote wellbeing in an individuals body creates the concept that foods can be chosen correctly to support health.
For example, in Chinese medicine, many vegetables are considered to “cool” the body down and evidence suggests that a plant-based diet will go a long way to reduce (“hot”) inflammatory conditions. Chinese medicine further understands that more is not always better, as it also observes that a plant-based diet if taken in excess can have the effect of cooling the body down so much that it can create “cold” types of disease.
This type of dietary therapy is from medical observation developed over thousands of years that are now being evaluated by science.
When using food as medicine, we eat the food temperature that is the opposite of the disease temperature to balance or negate it.
If a “cold” disease of the Stomach is diagnosed with symptoms like nausea or reflux, we might choose a “hot” food like ginger to help warm the Stomach. If the reflux is hot then cooling foods like peppermint or camomile tea can be chosen.
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