Long used as a way to improve health, Chinese medicine nutrition has been utilized just as much as medicinal herbs for thousands of years. The ancient Chinese used food as a way to prevent and treat disease. Thus, the continuance for the human kind was maintained and preserved.
Chinese medicine nutrition offers a holistic and qualitative concept of individually recommended foods with emphasis focusing on the flavor and thermal nature foods and their energetic qualities. This type of treatment works because it is grounded in the basic tenets of natural laws, is easy to follow, common sensical, and the foods included in the diet are the ones that we eat anyway, regularly or from time to time. The basic principle is simple: add where there is too little, lessen where there is too much, cool the heat, and warm the cold.
A dietary plan is concocted and food energetics is combined based on the patient’s symptoms, past medical history, and constitution. This plan will involve foods to avoid and foods to eat, the preparation of the food and how to combine various flavors. The diet plan will be specifically prescribed to avoid aggravating drinks and foods and to introduce foods if there are any pre-existing health conditions to resolve, in order to attain a natural homeostatic balance.
Basic recommendations
The diet typically should be made up of:
• 5% raw foods such as fruits and salads, except in summer.
• 5% fish, chicken, game, beef, and lamb-meat.
• 30% to 40% cooked vegetables such as fennel, lentils, cabbage, beans, carrots, and potatoes.
• 50% to 80% grains: wheat, spelt, rice, oats, millet, barley, corn.
Some other things to consider:
• Never eat when upset, angry, or stressed.
• Consume organic, unprocessed and high quality foods, if possible.
• Do not eat when you are preoccupied with other things (eating at the desk or in front of the computer, or watching TV).
• Chew your food well, do not rush meals.
• Eat foods that are seasonally appropriate.
• If you’re eating meal-large diets, drinking minimal amounts of liquids will prevent normal absorption and dilute the process of digestion resulting in lack of vital energy and tiredness.
• If you’re a vegan or vegetarian, it is important to include foods that are energetically warming be prescribed by a licensed practitioner.
• Consuming smaller quantities of food and at least one cooked meal a day is recommended. If you have problem with digestion, it is important that the food can be easily digested and moved through tissues.
The major part of formulating a plan of treatment for each patient is a correct dietary arrangement.
As the Chinese medicine diet differs from the typical western diet, there are usually a lot changes that need to be made. This is especially true as far as cooked versus raw foods are concerned.
Diet modifications however, should be done slowly and in small, attainable parts, in order for the body to get used to the new ways. Good results are always achieved through this process as it is easy to adjust to the needs of the modern man and woman and are designed to suit unique constitutional needs.
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