Do not eat cold food as possible as you can. In Chinese medicine it is said cold will damage stomach yang, then cold will stay there which makes more damage.
Have a good mood. In Chinese medicine it is said anxiety will damage spleen, angry will damage stomach. So keep a good mood, smile everyday and make yourself happy.
Do not eat too much oily food and sweet food. Oily food will affect the function of spleen, make digest turn slow. Sweet food will affect the movement of qi, leave it stay in stomach. Too much qi in it will lead to stomachache and other uncomfortable feelings.
Regular diet. Eat regular is important to our health. Do not eat too much nor too quick. Both of them is harmful to your stomach. Read more…
People with deficiency-cold corporeity is often fat but weak, looking pale and eat little. They like warm and dislike cold, or have a lower temperature. Their tongue and lip are white and light, pulse is slow. Maybe they prefer reading to doing sport because they are introvert. These people have weaker energy and sexual desire, tend to be ill.
This kind of people have stronger munity to cold and damp evil, yin excess and yang deficiency will lead to disease. Such as dampness being viscous and lingering, edema, phlegm and retained fluid, blood stasis and so on.
The mechanism of pain in Chinese medicine is obstruction. It means qi and blood obstruct or go adverse under the influence of many factors. It lead to pain in organs or main and collateral channels.
There are three main factors to cause pain. They are internal cause, external cause and neither internal cause nor external cause.
The properties of pain have two kinds which are cold and hot. Cold is tight which lead to tight pain in collateral channels. Hot pain often lead to red and swell.
Pain also have some difference in qi and blood, deficiency and excess.
As to the specialty of pain, it can divided into stabbing pain, cut pain, distend pain, dull pain and so on.
Ginger are both a flavouring and a kind of Chinese medicine in Chinese culture. So it is important for people’s health. And there are some old Chinese sayings about it.
- Eating ginger at summer and radish at winner can keep the doctor away.
- The older the ginger is, the more spicy it is.
- Eating ginger in the morning is just like eating ginseng soup, however, eating ginger in the evening is just like eating arsenic.
Are these all right as modern view? Let us have a look at it. Read more…
People who know regimen a lot will definitely take spleen and stomach at the first place. If it is hurt inside, people will become sad and angry without letting off. Or people will hurt by hard work and mood disorder.
In addition, spleen and stomach belong to earth in the theory of five elements. Only fire can make it grow well. So spleen and stomach which belong to earth like warm condition rather than cold. Cold food is not proper to take a lot unless people have pathogenic fire inside body. Read more…
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…
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…
When getting old, essence and blood in kidney is decreased, then renal deficiency and deficiency of vital energy will destroy our immune system. Our immunity can protect us from getting cold in winter, if it is destroied, we, especially old people, will easily catch cold.
Our chinese medicine thinks that if kindey is the root of a tree, then immunity is the branches of it. Only if the root is healthy, the branches can be strong too. So the most important is to protect the kindey in winter in order to keep away from cold.
Calculus bovis is gall-stone of scalper or buffalo. It is dry. Calculus bovis is ovoid, light, yellow or filemot, smooth and shiny. Chinese medicine consider that calculus bovis smells fragrant, tastes a little bitter then turns sweet, cold. It can be used to reduce the fever, detoxifcation and make people calm dowm. It can cure fever and coma, madness, infantile of little children, tic and so on for oral use. And it also can cure angina, sore mouth, pyogenic infection with abscess for external use. Because of the high price of natural calculus bovis—much higher than gold, calculus bovis syntheticus is often used instead of calculus bovis.
