Chinese medicine consider that apples with different colors have different effects.
Red apple can protect heart and vessel. It can reduce the content of lipid, which is bad to vessel and heart. It can intenerate vessel of elder people. So people who is in old age can eat more red apples to keep healthy and prolong life span.
Green apple do good to liver. It has the fuction of detoxifcation of inner body. It can also fight against depression, so people with a terrible mood can eat more of it. In addition, green apple can Read more…
The five elements in Chinese medicine are wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Each of them has its own character.
Wood is growing and it is the same as tree to some extend. Fire is hot, and ascending. Earth means sow and gain. Mental is constringent and variational. And wanter is wet and alow.
The five elements has relationship among each other. One can generate another, meanwhile it is generated by a third. Still, one can destory another and can be destoried by a third too.
According to the generation and destory relationship of the five elements, we can cure diseases more easily.
There is an old saying that thunder does not hurt people who is eating. That means eating time is very important to us.
Some parents always blame children at table, and that will really do harm to their health. These critical words will impact children’s appetite.
Exactly speaking, that is the spleen which is impacted in fact. And critical words will make children unhappy too. If they are, then liver-engergy will be stagnant.
As a result of it, food can not be digested totally, and redundant food become the burden of spleen and stomach. So we should keep happy when we are eating.
Spleen has a deep relationship with muscle and limbs. Mouth and lip can reflect the condition of this organ.
If spleen is in good condition, mucle will grow strong and limbs will become flexible. In clinic we always see skin of some children’s arm and leg is rough, though they should be very smooth. These show problem of spleen, because it is weak, energy of the body can not reach the bottom of limbs. Skin of bottom is lack of nutrition, as a result, it become rough and lose its polish.
Lip can tell the condition of spleen too. The color and shape of lip can reflect people are healthy or not.
Astronomy is a subject of celestial bodies movement. In ancient times, Chinese consider that vitality is the origin of nature, and all things in universe are made up of vitality. This view is quoted in Chinese medicine too. It is said in the Yellow Emperor: energy, which is the same as vitality, is the basic part of human body, and the movement of energy is the symbol of life.
Another part of ancient astronomy is constellation. It contains 28 stars, 7 at east, 7 at west, 7 at south and 7 at nouth. Chinese medicine think that the movement of defensive energy in body is corresponding to the movement of 28 stars, moving according to the moving rules of the 28 star in the sky. There are 28 pulse conditions, which are corresponding to the 28 stars too. From these pulse conditions, we can know the health condition of the body.
In Chinese medicine pepper is a mild food which can keep cold outside the body in order to make a warm place inside the body. Pepper can keep humidity away too. It can still reduce pain and desinsection.
Everything is growing in spring. It is a growing season. Yangqi is growing in spring too, so eating some pepper properly will help yangqi to grow.
Spring is also a busy time of epidemic. And the naphtha in pepper can improve the activity of macrophage in body, which can improve Read more…
In ancient times of China, alcohol is also a kind of medicine except a kind of beverage.
Alcohol is made of grain and distillers yeast. It smells sweet, tastes spicy, with the functions of restoring blood flow, improving the body, smoothing joints and bones, humidifing the skin, eliminating dampness inside the body. As a result of so many advantages of alcohol, it is called the number one of all drugs. Still, the ancient Chinese character ”medicine” is made up of Chinese character “alcohol”, that means “alcohol” is a part in “medicine”. This demonstarates the close relationship between alcohol and medicine.
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Chinese medicine consider that apples with different colors have different effects.
