Clara Cohen - Registered Acupuncturist in Port Moody

The information on these articles maybe useful to you and are not intended to treat. If you have any questions feel free to contact me by e-mail or by phone.

Here are foods that may help you warm up or cool down.

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.

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.

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)

 
The information above is intended to educate only. Consult a qualified practionner before making lifetsyle change. Common sense is the key!