Printable Chinese Medicine Food Chart

Helping ourselves is a concise guide to traditional chinese food energetics as useful for the layperson as it is for the practitioner.

Printable chinese medicine food chart. Let medicine be your food and food be your medicine said hippocrates the man who is reputed to be the father of western medicine. See more ideas about acupuncture accupuncture acupressure. Somehow or other we have lost this sense of the value of food just as we lost the practice of energetic medicine. I asked a chinese medical practitioner in hong kong chan kei fat and guo qiming a practitioner from beijing with a shop in cologne to describe to what extent food and medicine are related and.

Diets stronger in yang energy contribute to sexual health in men while yin diets support the sexual energies of women. In chinese medicine yin or yang food treats energy imbalances and provides ordinary nutrition. Qi tonic foods are foods that warm the body allowing the body to develop and maintain warmth. Once you have filled out the form keep a printed copy with you at all times.

Print this record will help you keep track of your medicines and dietary supplements. In the latter part of this century we have increasingly looked to the east to replace this loss. Jan 15 2018 explore chinese medicine living s board meridian charts followed by 3152 people on pinterest. Each food in tcm is seen to have a thermal property warming cooling or neutral.

The yin yang concept applies to all things including food. The book contains charts detailing the energetic properties of over 300 common foods and succinct explanations of the principles of chinese medicine in an easy to read format. In the short term it may be more important than the food s nutritional effect. Food therapy in chinese medicine is complex but looking at how people and foods are seen to have a thermal nature is a simple way to begin to look at your body its symptoms and the foods you eat so that you can begin to understand how you are reacting to certain foods and potentially how to add and subtract certain foods from your diet depending on the symptoms you are experiencing in an.

Conversely the body can also be hot cold or balanced or neutral and certain illnesses introduce heat or cold into the body so in chinese medicine we eat cooling foods for excess heat or warming foods for excess cold. But from that chinese medical perspective a food s energy can have a huge effect on your health.