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Dietary Therapy
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Dietary Therapy in the TCM Clinic
The principles of TCM state clearly that food and exercise play an important role in maintaining good health by contributing to an optimal balance. In fact, the Chinese believe that food is one of the three sources of Qì (food, hereditary, and environment).
Therefore, according to TCM, the foods we eat directly influence the excesses and deficiencies in our bodies.
Food intake
TCM takes food very seriously. This has nothing to do with "diet", it has to with how food can change your health for the better and help to eliminate disease. The balance of energies and tastes are as important as that in Chinese herbal medicine.
Foods are seen as having different properties: yin or yang, warming or cooling, drying or moistening, etc.
Certain foods are better for some people than others, depending on the person’s type and condition.
In general, food is consumed to sustain the Qì (energy) of the body and promote good health and vitality rather than for therapeutic purposes of a more specific nature but the foods consumed by a person have to be taken into consideration because they may be adding to their imbalance / disharmony.
The preparation and consumption of food also have to be kept in mind - this is the way we prepare, cook and eat our food. For example, there is not point in preparing a good meal and then not sitting down and relaxing with plenty of time to enjoy it.
Daverick Leggett and Meridian Press
Daverick Leggett began his working life as a farmer and gardener.
He subsequently moved into a community with a focus on communal living, sustainable lifestyle and public education. His interest in education then led him to train and work for five years as a teacher in the state comprehensive education system.
These early experiences laid the ground for the development of his current work as a teacher and writer.
The titles of his two books Helping Ourselves and Recipes for Self-Healing contain the essential intent of his work: finding ways of helping people to help themselves to deeper health and more vibrant living.
Meridian Press is a small company based in Devon, England, and staffed by real human beings.
Please visit their website www.meridianpress.net or click the image and it will open in a new page.
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Quality Tea - How it can benefit you?
An Ancient Chinese Legend:
"Once there was a man who knew 100,000 healing properties of herbs. He taught his son 80,000 secrets. On his deathbed, he told his son to visit his grave in five years, and there he would find the other 20,000 secrets. When his son went to his father's grave, he found, growing on the site the tea shrub…"
Tea is the most commonly consumed beverage in the world after water.
Whether it is black, green or red (oolong) tea, they all contain polyphenols which give tea its antioxidant properties. Antioxidants may help protect our body from free radical damage.
If you are interested in finding out more about tea,
we would strongly recommend that you visit our friends at "Steamy tea".
Please click on the logo below to open their dedicated website.
'Steamy tea' was established by Dermot and Tina in the spring of '07 to promote and sell really good quality loose leaf tea.
Steamy Tea
Web: www.steamytea.ie
E-mail: info@steamytea.ie
Mobile: 087 930 8334 (Dermot)