Health Tips
Chinese Medicine is based on prevention and patient education. Disease states are created out of our habits, diet, emotions, lifestyle and environment. In Chinese medicine the objective is to keep the body in balance by adjusting to ongoing changes that affect our bodies, such as stress, the seasons or major life events.
Some ways to adjust the body include:
- Eliminate dairy products; they cause mucus build-up in the body.
- Eat all of your food cooked. By lightly cooking the food you make it easier to digest and easier for the body to absorb the nutrients from the food.
- Eat plenty of "living foods", such as fresh produce. Avoid packaged, processed foods. Eat root crops in the winter (carrots, potatoes, turnips, etc.) and more leafy vegetables in the spring.
- If you feel that your life is out of balance, stop what you are doing, begin to take a few deep, slow breaths, relax your mind and body as you breathe. Find ways to simplify your life so that you can focus on what is really important to you.
- Exercise regularly in a manner appropriate for your health, age and condition.
- Strive to be content and in balance with your world.
- Take responsibility for your health; how you eat, how you sleep, how you work and how you spend your leisure.