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WARM WATER to PRESERVE ENERGY

WARM WATER to PRESERVE ENERGY

by | Sep 20, 2020 | Food

 

 

  • Nourish our energy.  When you take a drink of cold water you need to spend extra energy to warm up the water before your body can absorb it.
  • Strengthen the energy of your organs blood circulation.  When cold water passes your chest, it may cool your heart, lungs and bronchi and effect breathing.
  • Protect your Stomach energy. Cold water can make your stomach contract, weaken the energy of the stomach consequently effect your digestion.
  •  Help gynecological health. Cold water can give you period pain, irregular periods.
  • Help to reduce allergies. So, the energy can flow better in your body.
  • Help mental energy and enables us to be happier.

    I suggest that people with depression, anxiety, tiredness and  digestion problems, drink warm water.

  • Makes you sleep better.

Please try to drink warm water.

Writer: Angela Tian Zhu

Copyright 20/09 2020

HOW BUSH FIRE SMOKE CONNECTS WITH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH

HOW BUSH FIRE SMOKE CONNECTS WITH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH

by | Jan 6, 2020 | Food

 

A client came to see me recently with an upset stomach and diarrhea which started with the bush fires and the smoky air.  Even though he is not near the bush fires, nor does he have a lung and heart condition, he can suffer as a result of the particles in the air which circulate throughout the whole body.  The smoke can make people feel nauseous and give them an upset stomach with diarrhoea. 

People who have mental disorders could feel worse because of the lack of oxygen in our whole body. 

People generally who have poor digestion, or a stomach condition, may feel depressed too.  People who feel depressed have anxiety and sometimes this affects their digestion – it works both ways.  They are very much connected because in TCM, Stomach energy governs our digestion, the absorption of nutrients and it also nourishes our muscles.  When we inhale a lot of smoke, it can weaken our Stomach energy and it may lead to problems such as poor appetite, abdominal distension, loose stools and tired muscles.  It can make you feel emotional, depressed, anxious, easily upset or fearful because the Stomach is considered our second brain. 

 

What can we do?

 

  • Avoid smoky air whenever possible
  • Eat light food regularly
  • Avoid eating heavy, oily and too much food all at the same time
  • Avoid eating when you are angry and upset
  • Eat food and drink liquids at body temperature to preserve your energy
  • Have a warm breakfast
  • Try not to drink and eat at the same time to avoid a bloated stomach
  • Try to keep your stomach warm with appropriate clothes
  • Consume less alcohol, coffee and soft drinks
  • Take short showers, at medium temperature, to preserve your energy
  • Massage your ribs which helps digestion and also moves the bottom of your lungs – to release matter which has settled there.  Place your palms on your ribs circling inwards, down and to the side, several times.
  • Ensure you have enough sleep
  • Drink plenty of water

Best wishes for the New Year!!

Angela Tian Zhe Zhu

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Food’s attribute – Cold or Hot- Warm

Food’s attribute – Cold or Hot- Warm

by | Mar 29, 2018 | Food

Food’s attribute – cold or hot-warm

The concept of cold or hot features of food has a double meaning: one meaning is the cold or hot in temperature, the other meaning is the cold or hot in the food’s attribute.
As the weather is becoming colder, we should not only eat more hot/warm food in terms of the food’s temperature, but also eat more hot/warm food in terms of food’s attribute.
This article will talk about food in terms of its attribute, not the food’s temperature. The wise Traditional Chinese Medicine divides food by its attribute, the application of the food’s attribute is good for adjusting the inner environment of the human body, thus helping with the prevention and recovery of the diseases. This is called “food treatment”   It is natural and effective.
The attribute of food is generally being categorised into cold and hot/warm. Generally speaking, cold food helps the body to get rid of heat. It also helps to remove toxins in the inner environment. Hot-warm food helps to warm up the organs, clear coldness, and strengthen Qi in the body. Generally speaking, people who have an inner environment with a cold manifestation should eat more hot/warm food, and people who have an inner environment with a hot manifestation should eat more cold food.
As a rule, people who have an inner environment with a cold manifestation are likely to have the following symptoms:  Feel cold, cold hands and feet, aching knees resulting from coldness, like hot weather and dislike cold weather, infrequent urination, and faeces with undigested food in it, deficient in energy, feel depressed, worry, anxiety in favour of drinking warm water,  hot food, the face colour can be pale.
In contrast, people who have an inner environment with a hot manifestation are likely to have the following symptoms: like cold weather, diss like hot  manifestation are likely to have the following symptoms: like cold weather, dislike hot weather, hot in five “little centres” (two palms, two feet and chest), thirsty or dry throat and mouth, feel  upset, angry, anxiaty and nervous, insomnia, like to have cold food and drinks. The face colour can be red.
Hot /warm (even) food Cold food
meat Lamb, beef, duck, kangaroo meat, deer meat, pork. Rabbit meat, chicken..
seafood Prawns, eel, butterfish, carp. Clams, crab, oyster
vegetable Ginger, garlic, onion, leek, carrot, pumpkin, taro, sweet potato, corn, cabbage, spinach, broccoli, potato, chilli, green beans, beans, eggplant. Chinese Cabbage, bai cai, cucumber, melon, fresh mushroom, bamboo shoot (Australian), radish, kelp, seaweed, celery, tofu, bitter melon,  tomato, bean sprouts.
fruit Plum, papaya, grape, jujube, orange, peach, apple, rockmelon, lychee, walnuts, fig, mango, grapefruit, cherry, mandarin etc. Pear, watermelon, kiwi, banana, pomegranate, apricot, loquat, persimmon, lemon, strawberry, pineapple.

Use natural ways to help your body. It will make you healthier  Mentally and Physically with the right food every day.

Prevention and Wisdom.

© Copyright Angela Tian Zhu 2018