Introduction: using food as a treatment

- Western and Eastern ways of healing with nutrition have different approach but the same purpose: to help patients regain their health and avoid diseases.

- Eastern emphasizes food that is at its most natural state to be eaten in harmony with the mind.

- Eastern uses food as a method of treatment in accordance with the patient’s disharmony. It treats the patients as individuals and helps them regain balance.

- People & food should balance each other as Yin & Yang so health is restored.

- Eastern food cures should change with seasons and according to the disease progress.

Cooling food: if you are often and easily warm or hot while others feel confortable,
the food below should help.

Fruit

Vegetable

Legumes/

grains

Animal product

Herbs/spices

Apple, banana, pear, cantaloupe, watermelon, tomato, all citrus

All lettuce, cabbage, cucumber, celery, asparagus, spinach, eggplant, chard, summer squash, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, dandelion

Soy products, mung bean, sprouts, millet, barley, wheat

Oyster, clam, crab, yogurt,

All seaweed, duck

Peppermint, nettle, lemon balm, cilantro, marjoram

Warming food: if you are often and easily cold while others feel confortable,
the food below should help.

Fruit	Vegetable		Legumes/grains	Animal product	Herbs/spices
Dates, figs, cherries, dried fruits, alcohol	Parsnip, mustard greens, winter squash, sweet potato, kale, onion, garlic, leeks	Black beans, aduki bean, lentil, oat, spelt, quinoa, sunflower & sesame seeds, walnut, chestnut,		Lamb, turkey, beef, pork, anchovy, chicken, mussel, trout, butter	Ginger, cinnamon, basil, rosemary, fennel, dill, anise, caraway, cumin, chive, scallion, cayenne (very hot)