In this article I would like to share some knowledge about eating sweet corn and how it is beneficial. Sweet corn is very popular in markets and throughout the world. It is available in any season in the market and is very easy to cook and tastes very nice. In certain areas some people may eat corn instead of bread, rice or grains. Most people like to eat sweet corn.
Bitter gourd is a vegetable that is tender green and long with seeds in the middle and is very juicy with a bitter taste. Hence its name bitter gourd. If it is over-mature it will become a yellow/red colour and less bitter. Bitter gourd is very popular in many dishes in South China and East South Asia, it is a very popular dish in restaurants not only in family cooking. Families treat bitter gourd as a cooling food for health. In the last 30 years, it has become more and more popular on the market in Asia and can buy anywhere in the world in Asian markets. So there are many different varieties of bitter gourd dishes such as bitter gourd tea and juice which is very convenient in the summer. In many restaurants they make bitter gourd soup, salad or stir fried with egg or meat and are extremely popular not only for food but also for their health.
In this article, I want to share the principle of how foods are suitable for some people and not others due to their own bodies constitution. First of all I would like to discuss one of my clinic cases to help you understand.
It is during the Australian winter when I write this article. I find that many shops and supermarkets sell chestnuts. Chestnuts have a dark brown husk varying from a small round like the size of the tip of your thumb to large chestnuts being the size of a whole walnut. Every time I see the chestnuts it reminds me of the view of the Beijing street in winter: Every frozen, cold winter in Beijing, fried chestnuts are the best and popular foods in winter. Freshly cooked chestnuts are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside and have a nice warming heat and pleasant smell. This attracts many people to buy the chestnuts, some may even spend one hour in the cold winter in a line in the street waiting for fresh cooked chestnuts.
When I began writing this article, I wanted to address the upcoming season and its abundance of bringing disease along with it. I am living in Perth, Australia in which the season is in autumn but heading into winter it is between April and May. The characteristics of the season now still has some summer heat whilst the autumn has also brought the cold. This is why the temperature in Perth varies quite often. When the winter comes in Perth, it is usually cold, windy and is abundant in rain. Going into winter, yang energy is getting weaker whilst the ying energy is getting stronger- it is during this time that Yang transforms to ying. It is because of this that during this season many people catch the flu, colds and viruses.
Many people in winter can catch the flu many times, as they have not completely recovered which may affect their health and job. Because having a flu, cold or virus can be spread very easily, it may effect a whole family or office. Having a cold for a very long time can cause many problems such as; pneumonia, asthma, kidney infection, urinary bladder infection and glandular fever. Catching either the flu, cold or virus can cause other illnesses to get worse for example having sinus infection, asthma, bronchitis and arthritis. This is why it is very necessary why I want to share my knowledge of how Chinese medicine and acupuncture greatly improve the immune system and how it can prevent illness.