heat

How to keep your body cool and balanced in summer?

Food & Diet Therapy, General Health, Preventative Health 6 December, 2016 0

It is very helpful to know how hot and dry weather affects your body, so that you can recognise symptoms of overheating and keep your body balanced in summer. Especially in Western Australia, summers are hot, dry and windy with very little rain. The following organs and symptoms are most commonly affected by the hot summer weather. Which internal organs […]

Mung beans help to clear body heat, reduce acne and detox the body

Food & Diet Therapy 6 February, 2016 7

In China, mung beans are a very popular food, especially in the hot summer months. They are grown in almost all the provinces of China. Most families in China eat mung beans and use them widely in different recipes, such as mung bean noodles, mung bean cake, mung bean rice, mung bean soup, mung bean […]

Bitter gourd and diabetes

Food & Diet Therapy, Preventative Health 25 August, 2010 0

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 Southern China and South […]

Winter melon and odema

Food & Diet Therapy 1 February, 2010 0

I remember a special dish called “Dong gua zhong” winter-melon pot, which is very popular in Kan Tong South of China. Nearly 30 years ago, I visited this place when it was during a hot and damp season. Local people would eat winter-melon pot all the time to balance the body against the hot and […]

Lemon and maintaining early stage of pregnancy

Digestive Health, Fertility & Pregnancy, Food & Diet Therapy 4 January, 2010 8

When you walk along the Perth streets, you can often see trees full of lemons with branches leaning over fences; some of the lemons you can reach. Lemon trees are one of the most popular trees in Perth. In perth, lemon trees are easily grown, therefore many people grow lemon trees in their front and […]