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…
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…
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.
Taste: sweet, mild.
Meridian: heart, lung, stomach and spleen.
Function: it is good to the spleen and stomach, and it can also complement energy and smooth the pulse.
Indication: weakness of the spleen and stomach, dyspepsia, tired, weakness, palpitation, slow pulse with irregular intervals and slow and weak pulse with regular intervals. RADIX GLYCYRRHIZAE PREPARATA can detoxicate the toxin of 附子radix aconiti carmichaeli.
Dosage: 1.5~9g.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of our Chinese people. When at this day, we eat rice dumpling, having a dragon boat match, and the most important, to cherish the memory of Qu Yuan, the famous patriotic poet of China.
Well, the Dragon Boat Festival is not only a festival eating and playing. Besides its gigantic significance of Chinese traditional culture, it has some meaning at regimen too.
Read more…
Chinese Medicine has five tastes: pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty.
The function of pungent medicine is diffused. It can make the energy run throughout the body. It can cure some diseases which are caused by external fators.
Sweet medicine is restorative. It can reduce pain and emergency. Its indicatiions are deficient syndrome and pains.
Sour medicine can weaken and restrain some deficient symptoms, such as some kind of sweat and diarrhea which is caused by dificient reason.
Bitter medicine is often used to reduce anger of mind and heat of body, and it can expel redundant water of the body and reduce constipation.
The last one, salty medicine can reduce constipation and mass.
