Archive for July, 2010

Choose The Right Food To Complement Hormones For Women

Our human body can generate more than 75 hormones. These hormones play an important role in our body. Women in a higher level of hormone looks much younger than women who are in a lower level. From 25 years old, the generation of hormones of our body decrease at 15% every decade. As its decreased, organs and organisms get older and atrophic. Our skin turn dim and our spirit is weary. At the year of 60, it is only 1/5 of former secretory volume.

Lack of hormone can bring on many disorders of woman, such as insomnia, headache, irregular menses, skin aging, fidget, chest distress and so on. So how to relieve the deficiency of hormone? Nutrition of Chinese medicine consider human as a whole organism. The five organs are relevant to five elements, five tastes and five colours. They are mutual generation and restriction. Food with different colors are associated with different organs inside body, so appropriate diet is helpful to hormone exudation. Read more…

Corn——An Anti-aging Food

Most people go to beauty salon frequently in order to anti-aging. Well, expert of Chinese medicine give you another simple and economic way——eating more corns.

Food we eaten can not be digested totally, so generated free radical. It is harmful and it can accelerate the process of aging. Corn can wipe off free radical of our body.

In addition, corn is full of magnesium and selenium. The former can restrain cancer cell from forming and developing, the latter can wipe off carcinogens through alimental tract by mixing up with them. Read more…

Eating Ginger In Summer

There is an old saying that eating radish in winter and eating ginger in summer keeps the doctor away.

Many people like eating some ginger in summer because it is an healthy life style which can prevent and cure disease in their mind. However, it is not good to eat for all of us.

Eating ginger in summer need to combine with your own condition. Ginger belongs to acrid-warm herbs relieving superficies. It is tend to make people feel warm and generate fire inside Read more…

For Herbs To Make Women Healthy——4.Safflower

Safflower

Saffron has the function of activating collaterals, regulate menses and promote blood circulation by remove blood stasis, eliminate stasis to activate blood circulation, detumescence and reduce pain, cool the blood and detoxification. It is so called protector of women. It can cure menopausal syndrome, irregular menses, insomnia, fidget.

Mushroom safflower soup

Material: mushroom 30g, safflower 6g, cucumber 100g. Read more…

Four Herbs To Make Women Healthy——3.Motherwort Herb

Motherwort Herb

Motherwort herb can remove blood stasis and generate new, promote blood flow and regulate menses, inducing diuresis and reduce edema. It can cure irregular menses, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, dystocia, detention of the afterbirth, postpartum anemic fainting, blood stasis, bellyache, traumatic injury, edema of hephropathy, difficulty in micturition, urine of blood, abscess due to pypgenic infection. Bencaomengquan consider it can repel died foetus and steady the live foetus, make blood stasis clear off and generate new blood. Because of cold property of motherwort herb, it especially adapt to delivery woman with large blood volume, red blood and afraid of hot weather.

Motherwort herb salad

Material: motherwort herb salad 300g, carrot 50g, agaric 50g, tremella 50g. Read more…

Four Herbs To Make Women Healthy——2.Chuanxiong

Chuanxiong

It can promote blood flow and circulation of Qi, expel the wind and reduce pain, reduce depression and eliminate dampness. Chuanxiong is an important herb in prescription decoction for puerperal blood stasis. Rihuazibencao of Tang Dynasty has a high price for it:” It can cure all cause of wind, vital energy, strain, blood. It can reduce depression, and make energy circulation smooth, promote blood flow, reduce pain. It is effective to amenorrhea, dystocia, stagnation after delivering.

Ease porridge

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Four Herbs To Make Women Healthy——1.Angelica

Chinese herb medicine is natural, so most people think it does not have any side effect. It is not true. Though may be it is safer than western medicine, taken too much and not properly is bad to your health. You can get your anticipative effect only by taking the proper herb medicine.

Angelica

Since Southern and Northern Dynasties of China angelica has been considered as a precious medicine which can enrich the blood, regulate menses, simulate the circulation of blood, reduce pain and so on. It can make women stronger and healthier, playing an important role in protecting women’s health. Another research has found that angelica can simulate exudation estrogen, reduce resistance of vessel, increase blood of circulation, and nutrition skin.

Red date longan egg soup

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Sticky Rice and Peanut Can Cure Bronchitis

Sticky rice, which is also called glutinous rice, is a mild invigorant. It can not only do good to stomach and spleen, but also can make lung vital energy stronger.

Compendium of Materia Medica said that peanut is good to spleen and stomach, it can eliminate phlegm and invigorate vital energy, reduce angina.

So if these two roughage can be taken at the same time, it can cure chronic bronchitis.

The method to cook: take 70g sticky rice and 30g peanut without red coat. Then put them into a Read more…

Washing Feet With Hot Water Is Good To Your Kidney

Experts suggest that if you want to keep your kidney in good health, you should wash your feet at nine o’clock in the evening.

Chinese medicine consider that each time has its own effect on people’s health. So nine o’clock in the evening is the moment that kidney meridian, blood and energy is weak. So washing your feet at this time is good to stimulate circulation. Wash your feet with hot water can stimulate your energy.

Meanwhile, it can make you comfortable and reflex after a busy day. Read more…

Oat And Black Sesame Is Good To Constipation

Chinese medicine consider that oat is mild, tastes sweet. It is good to liver and stomach, and it can cure constipation. Especially for olders, it can improve the symptom of yin deficiency and dryness of the intestine.

Black sesame is mild, tastes sweet too. It is good to liver and kidney (kidney defined in Chinese medicine). It can also make the muscle strong, and make marrow grow. It is especially good at fighting against constipation.

How to eat these two food? Read more…