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Nutrition for good health according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

10/5/2013

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Handout from the 2013 Teal to Pink Fundraiser and Womens' Health Day

· Guiding principles of TCM – Yin and Yang, 5 elements
· 4 basic criteria for energetic food classification – temperature,
flavor, organ network and direction of
movement
· 5 elements correspond to 5 seasons –Wood – Spring, Fire – Summer, Earth – late Summer, Metal – Autumn, Water – Winter
· Temperature of foods: hot, warm, neutral, cool and cold
· Flavor of foods: sweet, acrid, sour, bitter, salty
· Organ networks – Liver & Gallbladder, Heart & Small Intestine, Triple Warmer (San Jiao) & Pericardium, Spleen & Stomach,
Lung & Large Intestine, Kidney & Urinary Bladder
· Direction of movement – upbearing, floating, downbearing and
fallin
· Wood – Spring – Liver & Gall bladder, upward and out movement, sour taste
· Fire – Summer – Heart & Small Intestine, Pericardium &
Triple Warmer (San Jiao, upward, bitter taste
· Earth - Late Summer – Spleen & Stomach, in and out movement,
sweet taste
· Metal – Fall – Lung & Large Intestine, inward movement,
pungent (acrid) taste
· Water – Winter – Kidney & Urinary Bladder, inward and down
movement, salty taste
· Ideal food combining is having all 5 tastes and temperature
according to the season and person’s constitution

· Cancers can be hot or cold as well cancer treatments. Most cancer treatments produce heat in the body and require cooling foods to counteract ill effects thus juicing and raw vegetables are
beneficial
·  However if digestion is weakened then foods that support Spleen
& Stomach are important to restore appetite as well as more cooked foods
· Role of mushrooms in cancer treatment and prevention
Some species of medicinal mushrooms are listed here:
· Chaga, Inonotus oliquus (Birch mushroom)
· Cordyceps, Cordyceps sinensis (Cordyceps)
· Coriolus, Trametes versicolor (Turkey tail)
· Himematsutake, Agaricus blazei (Royal sun agricus)
· Maitake, Sclerotum grifola frondosa (Cloud mushroom)
· Poria, Poria cocos (Indian bread, Holen)
· Reishi, Sclerotum ganodermae (Mushroom of immortality)
· Shiitake, Lentinula edodes (Flower mushroom)
· Tremella, Tremella fuciformis (Snow fungus, White wood ear)
 
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    Aleksandra Mihajlovic,
    Licensed Acupuncturist, Board Certified in Chinese Herbology, 
    Certified GAPS Practitioner and a life-long student of natural medicine

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