Chinese Medicine places a high value on diet and nutrition. The Chinese have known for thousands of years the correlations between what we eat and our health, and have used foods to heal disease and build immunity.
benefits of healthy eating
Healthy eating from a Chinese medicine viewpoint is very different from the Western viewpoint. The Chinese medicine dietary framework works with the five tastes inherent in the foods that we eat. The five tastes are spicy, sour, sweet, bitter and salty. These tastes correspond to different organ systems. In general, salty tends toward the Kidney and Bladder, sour to the Liver and Gallbladder, bitter to the Heart and Small Intestine, spicy to the Lungs and Large Intestine, and sweet to the Stomach and Spleen.
Recommendations regarding diet and nutrition are based on your constitution and presenting condition at the time of treatment. Following the recommendations can dramatically change the way to look, feel and think about your health.