The diet therapy of TCM

1. The diet therapy of TCM

2. We are what we eat!

3. Chinese Medicine Diet Exercise( breathing exercise—qi gong) Rest Acupuncture and moxibustion Chinese herbal formulas

4. TCM Food Therapy The Art of Cooking and Preparing Food to help maintain optimal health Let Food be your Medicine -- Hippocrates

5. Diet therapy in 5-element Fire -- Bitter Earth -- Sweet Metal -- Pungent Water -- Salty Wood -- Sour Bitter Sour Sweet Salty Pungent

6. 5 Element Meat Sources

8. Diet therapy in 4 seasons The pulse tends to be taut in spring,fullin summer,floating in autumn, and sunken in winter

9. Features of four season • 四季氣候的特點 春溫 Spring: Warm 夏熱 Summer: Hot 秋燥 Fall: Dry 冬寒 Winter: Cold

10. How to diet therapy in four seasons? nourishing yang in spring and summer time, nourishing yin in autumn and winter time.

11. Spring Spring is the season of new birth and new growth. According to TCM, spring belongs to the wood element and dominates liver functioning. The principle of diet therapy in spring: to protect and nourish liver.

12. Diet selection Good: Hot and sweet food Avoid: Sour and astringent food • Spring foods: Chinese yam, bamboo shoot and mushrooms.

13. summer heart over-function, and there is too much yang qi flows outward to the exterior part of the body. There are two principles of diet therapy in summer: First: Focus on protecting heart Second: The weather of long summer is usually wet. And the wetness hurts stomach and spleen. So we need to pay attention on protecting spleen.

14. Diet selection Good: Bitter food, sour and salty flavors Avoid: Hot and ice-cold food Summer foods: bitter gourd, watermelon, strawberries, tomatoes, cucumber, wax gourd, lotus root, lotus seed, bean sprouts, duck and fish. It is a Chinese tradition in summer to make soups for clearing summer heat, eliminating dampness and promoting digestion.

15. Fall lung system, dominates the skin, respiration, body fluids metabolism The dry weather usually causes an itchy throat, a dry nose, chapped lips, rough skin, hair loss and dry stools. Principle of diet therapy in fall: Focus on protecting Lung and ying energy

16. Diet selection • Good: sour and moisture food • Avoid: Hot and spicy food • Fall foods : lily bulb, white fungus, nuts or seeds, pear, lotus root, pumpkin, honey, soy milk

17. Winter Winter is also a good time to boost the natural constitution of the body and improve symptoms associated with chronic conditions. Energizing herbs such as ginseng, wolfberry, angelica, rhemannia root, can be used for this purpose. Principle of diet therapy in winter: Focus on protecting kidney

18. Diet selection • Good: Hot and spicy food • Avoid: salty and hot food • Winter foods:Mutton, beef, goose, duck, eggs, rabbit meat, Chinese yam, sesame, glutinous rice, dates, longan, black fungus,

19. Suggests Eating native foods eating locally-grown foods and those in season. Natural, home-grown and chemical-free products are the most nutritious foods.

20. 5、 external application about the women’s diseases

21. The head is regarded as "the house of essential substance" in TCM, essence from the organs are gathered there, and blood and qi always flow through it. Medicinal pillows can make the properties of herbs enter through the head.

22. Treat:dizziness, poor memory, ear ringing, blurred version, anxiety, facial paralysis due to strokes, shoulder pain and jaw pain. It also has been reported that these pillows are also effective for headache, insomnia, hypertension and neck problems.

23. In TCM, the feet are the start of the three yin meridians and the end of the three yang meridians with more than sixty acupoints below the ankles. Bathing the feet regularly can stimulate the acupoints, activate the flows in the meridians, and thus enhance body functioning.

25. Tuina--massage

30. Thanks!