Basic Suggestions Advocated In Chinese Nutritional Therapy

For thousands of years, Chinese nutritional therapy has used as a means way to boost wellbeing and health just as much as therapeutic plants. Food was utilized for the prevention and treatment of disease. Hence the human species was preserved and guaranteed continuance for perpetuity.

A holistic and qualitative concept of individually prescribed foods, Chinese nutritional therapy, focuses on the taste and thermal nature of foods and their energetic attributes. It’s effective in that its foundation is rooted in the laws of nature, and is the reasonable diet that’s easy to follow since it involves the foods we commonly eat anyway. The premise is simple: to cool the heat, to heat the cold, to increase where there is too little, and to decrease where there is too much, energetically.

Based on an individual’s past symptoms and medical history and unique constitution, a dietary plan is formulated and food energetics is combined. It will be made up of foods to avoid and foods to eat, how to combine different tastes or flavors, and how to prepare food. If the patient has any current health conditions that need to be treated, the diet plan will specifically prescribe the exclusion of aggravating drinks and foods as well as the presentation foods that promote a natural homeostatic balance.

Basic suggestions include:

Eating foods that are seasonally appropriate

Drinking as few amounts of liquid as possible during large meals. Large meals weaken the digestive process and hinder proper absorption that can result in lack of vital energy and tiredness.

Not eating while at your desk, in front of the computer, or watching TV.

Taking time to eat your meal. Chew your food properly and avoid rushing your meals

Avoid eating when upset, angry, or stressed.

If possible, only eat organic, unprocessed or high quality foods

If you’re a vegan or vegetarian, it’s essential that you include energetically warming foods that will be prescribed by a reputable practitioner.

A proper diet should be made up of:

? 5 percent raw foods such as fruit and salads (except in summer)

? 5 percent fish, chicken, game, and lamb meat.

? 30 to 40 percent cooked vegetables such as fennel, lentils, cabbage, beans, carrots, and potatoes.

? 50 to 80 percent grains: wheat, spelt, rice, oats, millet, barley, corn.

? In general, eat at least one cooked meal a day and smaller portions of food. If your digestion is weak for any reason, it’s important that the food is easy to transport and convert (digest).

The most important aspect in devising a plan of treatment is a proper dietary plan for all patients.

There are a lot of changes that need to be made as Chinese nutritional therapy is different from the typical western consumption of foods, especially when it concerns cooked foods versus raw foods.

However, it’s important implement diet changes in small, attainable segments, in order for the body to completely adapt to the changes.

Eastern Healing Solutions, LLC
10875 Grandview St #2200
Overland Park, KS 66210
(913) 549-4322
http://www.overlandparkacupuncturist.com