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Food for Ailments II

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DIABETES - Take a 20 minute walk an hour or two after meals. Stay away from sugar- keep your sugar intake low. If you have to ingest sugar, do it before 3pm.

DIARRHEA - Avoid eating cold, dairy, too sweet, or difficult to digest foods. Drinking slow-cooked Daikon Soup helps. Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition. Ripened bananas are also good for this ailment.

HEMORRHOID - Eat lots of green vegetables. Keep away from fried and spicy food. Form a habit of having bowel movements regularly. Make your lifestyle into a scheduled routine. Avoid sitting or standing too long at a time.

HAY FEVER - Before pollen season, eat lots of yogurt. Local honey builds up your immunity against hay fever.

HEADACHE - Try lots of fish -- fish oil helps to prevent headaches. Ginger also reduces inflammation and pain.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE - Eat celery! Juicing, making soup out of, or plain stirred-fry celery will reduce cholesterol and improve the hardening of blood vessels. Stay away from salty food, as well as heavy and high-calorie meals. Exercise and monitor weight gain. Laugh often! By the way, olive oil helps, too!

INSOMNIA Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative.

LUNG CANCER - A good antidote is beta carotene, which is a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables.

MEMORY PROBLEMS - Oysters help improve your mental functions by supplying much-needed zinc.

PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME - Women can ward off the effects of PMS with cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.

Food for Ailments III

PROLAPSE STOMACH - Eat a smaller amount of food frequently. Chew longer and increase bite-frequency. Spend some time resting after eating. Avoid rigorous exercises right after dinner. Take the Chinese herbal formula: “Tonify the Middle and Augment the Qi Decoction” (Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang).

STROKE - Habitual tea drinkers can prevent buildup of fatty deposits on their artery walls. Green tea is especially good for our immune systems. I like tea because it suppresses appetite and keeps me slim!

To prevent stroke, Chinese medicine encourages clearer and lighter intake, eating food with high fibers. Eat modestly and keep away from too much, too little, too spicy, and fried food. Cut down alcohol consumption.

UPSET STOMACH - Bananas or Hawflakes (Shan Za) may settle an upset stomach. Ginger will cure nausea, motion and morning sickness. Stomach ulcers need Oyster Shell Soup (Mu Li Ke Fang). Try eating a fixed amount of food at scheduled time. Avoid too hot, too cold, or spicy food.

ULCERS - Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers

EYLChinese used to incorporate food's nature characteristics into their diet. A lot of herbs show up in recipes as "medicinal diet" to help regulate intakes and improve metabolic functions. This article shows some examples we can use in our daily diet.

Have fun trying!
Eugenia
This email was sent by monkeykingsdaughter@gmail.com, aka Eugenia Lai, a medical board certified & licensed acupuncturist & Chinese Herbalist in Massachusetts.
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