Dietary Therapy

Chinese dietary therapy is an effective tool that you, the patient, can utilize daily to aid and speed recovery.

As an essential complement to acupuncture and herbal therapies, we teach clients to implement dietary therapy based on constitutional type.  If a client has a yin constitution, then we teach them to balance that with yang foods and vice-versa. Utilizing the 6 flavors (salty, sour, bitter, sweet, bland, and spicy) and thermal energetics (hot, cold, warm, cool, and neutral) of everyday foods, dietary adjustments influence our inner climate, Qi flow, and organ health.  Even food colors and preparation techniques are important.  Indeed, Chinese herbal medicine ultimately comes from the culinary tradition, "Let Food Be Your Medicine."

This is not "dieting", but rather a process of learning how various food types affect us and can help us restore or maintain health. 

 

Resources Discussed at FOOD AND HEALING, A CHINESE DIETARY THERAPY CLASS, November 15, 2008

Food and Healing Recipe Book 

Local Whole Food Resources:

The Organic Rainbow, Beverly, MA

Russell Orchards, Ipswich, MA

The Natural Food Exchange, Reading, MA

Common Crow Natural Market, Gloucester, MA

Holistic Personal Chef Services:

Balanced Nutritional Lifestyles

Consumer Awareness:

Center for Science in the Public Interest

Pocket Chart of Produce and Pesticide Levels

Chart of Conventionally Grown Produce and Their Pesticide Loads

Environmental Working Group - A research group bringing to light health and environmental threats.