Diet of Traditional Chinese Medicine as feeding the patient adapt to his physical constitution, climate and current health status. The diet was one of the fundamental pillars for Traditional Chinese Medicine, at the time of curing the patient.
What is a diet according to traditional Chinese medicine?
The dietary China, along with acupuncture, herbal medicine and massage are part of the pillars therapeutic principles of the Traditional Chinese Medicine.
With acupuncture and massage mobilize and regulate the energy with herbal medicine and diet to preserve and nurture the essence.
When nutrition is adequate, energy will be abundant, the organs are well nourished and “Shen” bloom (our nervous system and our emotions are in harmony)
Food is therefore essential to achieve balance, harmony and therefore overall health.
Traditional Chinese Medicine classifies foods according
As energy intrinsic nature of the food
- Food hot and temperate:tone, heated, rise, move.
- Neutral foods: stabilize, harmonize, focus.
- Fresh food and cold refreshments, sedan, astring, moisturize.
Depending on your taste. Each flavor has a different energy feature
- Acidic foods: astring, get the energy inward.
It acts on the liver and gallbladder (Wood element) - Food bitter: promote drainage and evacuation, fall and dry.
They act on the Heart and Small Intestine (Fire element) - Salty foods: moderate amount soften, lubricate.
They act on the kidney and urinary bladder (Water element) - Sweet foods: amount of energy and lubricated.
They act on the Spleen, Pancreas and Stomach (Earth element)
According to their color
- Red foods: revitalized.
- Food yellow: stabilize, balance.
- Green foods: detoxify, purify.
- Food Negroes astring, invigorate the “Jing” (essence)
- White foods: purified.
According to the tropism of the meridian
- Each food has a major impact meridian.
Example: a pear in the lung meridian spinach by the liver pumpkin by Spleen chestnuts by the heart’s azukis by the kidney.
According to the movement of energy that they generate, and so on.
- Considering all these criteria and as diagnosed by the person determining the most suitable food to correct existing imbalances.
Back to Diet according to Traditional Chinese Medicine
Related posts:
- Advantages of the diet according to traditional Chinese medicine There is a steady diet but it adapts to the...
- Scarsdale Diet The Scarsdale diet, a fast and dissociated, was created by...
- Medicine uses in eyebright Uses in traditional medicine eyebright The Eyebright is used to...
- Pillars of Weight Loss Diet We will explain what are the pillars of the slimming...
- Tui Na Massage (Tuina) It is one of the massage is fast becoming popular...
back to fitness & beauty care guide.
Leave a Reply