Of what a diet consists according to the Chinese traditional medicine

Dietetic the Chinese, along with Acupuncture, the fitoterapia and the massage comprise of the fundamental therapeutic pillars of the Traditional Medicine China.
With acupuncture and the massage we mobilized and we regulated the energy; with the fitoterapia and the diet we preserved and we nourished the essence.
If the nutrition is adapted, the energy will be abundant, the organs well will be nourished and the “Shen” will bloom (our nervous system and our emotions will be in harmony).
The feeding is then, essential to obtain the balance, the harmony and therefore the integral health.

The Chinese traditional medicine classifies to foods according to

According to the intrinsic energy or nature of the food

• Hot foods and temperings: they tonifican, they warm up, they ascend, they move.
• Neutral foods: they stabilize, they harmonize, they center.
• Fresh and cold foods: they refresh, they soothe, they astringe, they hydrate.

According to its flavor. Each flavor has a characteristic different energetics

• Acid foods: they astringe, contract the energy inwards.
  The liver and the biliary vesicle act on (element Wood).
• Bitter foods: they favor the drainage and the evacuation, they descend and they dry.
  The Heart and the Thin Intestine act on (element Fire).
• Salty foods: in moderate amount they moderate, lubricate.
  The kidney and the urinary bladder act on (element Water).
• Sweet foods: they promote the energy and they lubricate.
  They act on the Spleen, Páncreas and Estómago (element Earth).

According to its color

• Red foods: they revitalize.
• Yellow foods: they stabilize, balance.
• Green foods: they decontaminate, purify.
• Black foods: they astringe, tonifican the “Jing” (essence).
• White foods: they purify.

According to the tropismo of the meridian

• Each food has a meridian of main impact.
  Example: the pear by the meridian of the lung the spinach by the one of the liver the pumpkin by the one of the Spleen the chestnuts by the heart azukis by the kidney.

According to the movement of the energy that they induce, etc…

• Having in account all these criteria and according to the diagnosis of the person the most advisable foods are determined to correct the existing imbalances.

Advantages of the diet according to the Chinese traditional medicine

It is not a fixed diet but one adapts to the particular conditions of each person: physical constitution, age, time of the year, country in which lives, type of work that realises, type of pathology that presents/displays etc.
It does not consider the quantitative aspect (amount of food) but the qualitative one (quality energetics of the food).
It is based on the basic principles of the Chinese Traditional Medicine that it considers to the human being from the totality, from the overall nature.

Disadvantages of the diet according to the Chinese traditional medicine

In order to apply this type of diets previous knowledge of the traditional Medicine China are required or to consult by a professional.

Example of a menu

We are going to make 2 diets comparative
Type A: a friolera, slow, asthenic person with tendency to the fatigue.
B type: an active, nervous, full person and with tendency to the heat.

Breakfast
Type A: Cream of oats with a little cinnamon and 2 or 3 nuts.
B type: Macedonia of fruits of the station with orange juice or yogurt (better of goat).

Lunch (noon)
Type A

• Soup of miso with alga wakame and carrots.
• Azukis (boiled with onion, a little pumpkin, leeks, tooth of garlic and a little ginger) accompanied by integral rice.
• Dessert: baked apple.
• Infusion: of liquorice and salvia or thyme.

B type

• Salad varied with rabanitos, rallado turnip, endives, germinated, alga nori and pipes of sunflower.
• It grazes integral (tubular powders, espaguetis) with stewed or skipped vegetables.
• Dessert: requesón.
• Infusion: of penny royal mint or manzanilla.

Dinner
Type A

• Soup of integral rice and sarraceno wheat.
• Chicken to the estofado plate with of vegetables.

B type

• Cream of asparagus with sesame seeds.
• Fish stew with vegetables in its juice.
• In the diet type foods of lukewarm, neutral nature and some hot one are chosen.
  In the B type mainly fresh and neutral foods and some cold.
  Also we will consider the flavors, the colors etc.

Observations

The Diet according to the Traditional Medicine China really helps us to be conscious at any moment of how we felt (with heat or cold, tired or excited, with dryness or excess of sweat, etc.) and from modifying our diet here just by adjustments to restore the balance.

In all the cases we recommended to him to consult with its doctor, therapist or another professional of the competent health. The information contained in this article has an informative function merely.