Food & Diet Therapy

Watermelon and abnormal urination symptoms

Food & Diet Therapy, Women’s Health 6 December, 2016 0

Watermelon is traditionally a summer fruit that is sweet, juicy and cooling in nature. I remember from my childhood that the local Beijingers would eat watermelon nearly every day to keep their bodies cool and in balance throughout the summer. Traditional Chinese medicine diet therapy recommends watermelon to relieve thirst and cool the body in […]

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 […]

Warming and cooling characteristics of common foods

Food & Diet Therapy 14 September, 2012 129

Each type of food has its own unique characteristics. Since ancient times, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have used the warming and cooling nature of foods to balance the body’s yin and yang – to prevent and treat disease. The ancient Chinese medicine practitioners discovered that most foods have either cooling or warming characteristics. When you eat cooling foods, they are […]

Pear and the Lungs in Hot, Dry Weather

Food & Diet Therapy 29 July, 2012 4

First of all, I want to share with you a case which I treated about 10 years ago. A 3-year-old girl came into my clinic with her mother. The mother described to me her daughter’s symptoms: every hot-dry season her daughter’s bowel movements became dry and hard and she could not go to the toilet […]

Why does my child not want to eat?

Children’s Health, Food & Diet Therapy 14 December, 2011 0

Parents worry when their growing children do not want to eat. Parents use many ways to encourage their children to eat, but sometimes without success. Some parents even put the food into their child’s mouth but the child spits it out. If you are having this problem with your child, I think you will have […]

Healthy habits after eating

Digestive Health, Food & Diet Therapy, Preventative Health 13 September, 2011 4

A few years ago one of my patients told me that her boss had a heart attack after dinner, whilst he was watching television. He was only 55 years old. This story has made me think, this man did not have a heart attack whilst he was busy or during exercise, but whilst he was […]