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Traditional Chinese Medicine is about achieving balance between the yin & the yang.

Yin is : Yang is :

Feminine MasculineCalming StimulatingCooling Heating

Negative PositiveMatter EnergyNight Day

Winter SummerMoon SunEarth Sky

Water FireInward Outward

Stillness MotionDegenerative states Generative statesDeficient conditions Excess conditions

Hypo-functional conditions Hyper-functional conditionsChronic diseases Acute diseases

Deep pulse Superficial pulseSlow pulse Fast pulse

Weak pulse Strong pulseOne of the ways that Chinese physicians diagnose is by feeling the different pulses in the body and seeing how deep, fast & strong they are. They will also look at your tongue, and ask lots of questions about how your body is functioning. Some of the questions may seem to have no relevance to the problem you're consulting them about.

Imbalances can be treated with acupuncture, herbs, food & Tai Chi like exercises. All foods are either heating (stimulating), cooling (calming) or neutral, & have other special properties. Some experts differ on the properties of some specific foods, but a general rule of thumb is the darker the food, the warmer it is. (see update below the chart)

WARMING NEUTRAL COOLING

DAIRY ~ FATS & OILS

Chocolate Cheese Ice Cream

Animal fats Cream Sour Cream

Milk Soya Milk

All vegetable oils Yoghurt

MEAT~POULTRY~SEAFOOD

Beef Bacon Crab

Chicken Butterfish Duck

Cod Catfish Oysters

Crayfish Clams Pork

Eggs Flounder Rabbit

Freshwater Eel Ham

Kidney Orange Roughy

Lamb Perch

Liver Quail

Prawns Saltwater Eel

Salami Terahiki

Shrimps

Squid

Tuna

Veal

Venison

GRAINS ~ NUTS

Barley Black Sesame Seeds Sunflower Seeds

Chestnuts Buckwheat Wheat

Malt Extract Peanuts

Oats Rice

Walnuts

VEGES

Kidney Beans Cabbage Alfalfa

Celery Carrot Broad Beans

Olives Cauliflower Cucumber

Onions Chinese Mushroom Eggplant

Spring Onions French Bean Lettuce

Kumera Marrow

Potato Mung Bean Sprouts

Sweet Corn Mushroom

Peas

Pumpkin

Soya Bean

Spinach

Tofu

Tomato

FRUIT

Apricots Apple

Blackberry Banana

Blackcurrant Grapefruit

Blueberry Hawthorn Berries

Boysenberry Kiwifruit

Cherries Lemon

Coconut Lime

Dates Mango

Figs Mulberry

Grapes Oranges

Greengages Pear

Nectarines Persimmon

Peaches Rhubarb

Pineapple Rockmelon

Plums Tangerine

Raspberry Watermelon

Strawberry

Tamarillos

HERBS~SPICES~FLAVOURINGS

Chilli Honey Kelp

Ginger

Vinegar (all kinds)

Coriander

Garlic

Pepper

Sugar

BEVERAGES

Black Tea Camomile Tea

Oolong Tea Green Tea

Red Wine Peppermint Tea

Inca White Wine

Without the guidance of an experienced Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, you couldn't use this as a form of medicine. But it can be useful for fine tuning your eating on occasions. If you are feeling cold within yourself, increase the warming foods you are eating and decrease the cooling foods. Vice versa, if you are feeling overheated.

UPDATE - I received the following in an email from Dan "Cooling foods can be calming, but if you eat too many of them, they can make one extremely tense, agitated, and anxious, even fearful and paranoid." Remember that Traditional Chinese Medicine is all about balance. If you are overheated, you are aiming to cool your system to bring you back into balance. It is definitely not recommended to keep eating yin foods till your system becomes cold. Also remember that this page is a very brief overview. I recommend seeing an experienced practitioner if you feel you can be helped this way. Or there are many good books on the subject. Dan suggests The Chinese System of Food Cures: Prevention and Remedies by Henry C. Lu.

For some information on acupuncture, see the Natural Therapies page.

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