Traditional Chinese Medicine, also known as TCM, includes a range of traditional medicine practices originating in China
Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon said that take the five cereals as tonify food. It means that the five cereals is the base of diet and regimen. In Chinese medicine has the same saying too.
Millet and Spleen
Millet is the first of the five cereals. It has good effect on tonifying spleen and stomach. The rice bran oil which is the on the top of millet is essence, eat it instead of drop it away. Millet is good for weak people. It can tonify middle-jiao and Qi, prolong life span. Read more…
Black Rice can be both used as medicine and food. Its skin is black so it has another name of black pearl. People consider it as the king of all kinds of rice all over the world due to its nutrition. Beside cooking as porridge, black rice can be cooked as many nutritious food and making wine.
Black rice has prominent drug function which is recorded in ancient Chinese medicine books. It can treat yin deficiency by reinforcing body fluid and tonify kidney, it can make stomach feel warm and eyes look bright. It can also make the blood flow smoothly. So it can be used to cure dizzy, anemia, white hair of young, weakness of stomach and spleen, knee and waist weakness, night blindness, singing, constipation, difficult urination, and so on. If taking it for a long time, it can make people healthier and have a long life span. In hence, people also call it medicine rice and long span rice. It Read more…
People with dificient of kidney yang are not proper to eat cold food which are easily to damage yang qi. And oily food are not appropriate to eat. Such as aloe, nonglutinous rice, buckwheat, hulless oat, bean curd, pine nut, duck, agaric, balsam pear, wild rice shoots, celery, Chinese watermelon, eggplant, water spinach, banana, honey and so on.
Constipation caused by deficiency of yang should not eat food of antidiarrheic which can aggravate constipation such as lotus seed, quava, gorgon fruit, dark plum, sticky rice, river prawn and so on.
Deficiency of kidney yang is a kind of pathological change of weakness of warming, disorder of gasify, cold generate from inner body, sexual ability and reproduction decline.
It can caused by many factors such as innate weakness, aging, chronic diseases and excessive sexual intercourse. People who are deficient of kidney yang will feel sour and pain in waist and knees, feel cold especially the legs. Still they will be dizzy, faint and weak, their tongues are in light color and fat with white coat. Pulse is weak and deep to touch, impotence, premature ejaculation. Women will have a cold uterus and infertility, can not digest well and diarrhea which often happen in the early morning.
Yesterday I heard a speech about renal deficiency and how to protect kidney.
He said that nowadays people become forgetful and fatigue are all due to deficiency of kidney qi. So the most important thing to do is to protect it, do not be excessive in anything such as sexual intercourse and drinking.
One case during his curing career is about a young boy. He had the bad habbit of masturbation since he was thirteen years old. Then he abuse in it, can not study well as before and lose all Read more…
In Chinese medicine has a theory called that take the five cereals as main regimen food and vegetables and fruits as second helpful regimen food. So only eat vegetables or take fruits as main food is not healthy ways to regimen. Be on diet and eat little is harmful for health though its bad effect can not come so quick. We should eat enough rice and millet per day to get a strong body. Health is more important than beauty. And we still have other methods to keep slim.
Chinese medicine regimen divided into inner regimen and outer regimen. Inner regimen is to protect our spirit, energy and essence, and outer regimen is about skin, muscle and bones. The more important is inner regimen. Read more…
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