Every once in a while, we all have trouble sleeping. In Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) ideas about problems sleeping differ radically from western medicine concepts. TCM helps look at your whole body system to establish the root causes of sleep problems that may affect your or your children. In fact, using TCM strategies to help you sleep will benefit your overall mental and physical well-being. You can move from a sub-healthy state to optimal health!
What Color Foods to Eat to Help you Sleep
You can’t fall asleep. You find yourself waking in the middle of the night, tossing and turning. The bathroom calls your name long before it’s time to wake up for the day, and you cannot fall back to sleep. Vivid dreams disturb your sleep or wake you and leave you feeling anxious.
All of these sleep problems, insomnia, wakefulness, trouble falling back to sleep, and vivid dreaming, have their roots in Yin and Yang imbalances in your body. Your internal organs are not functioning properly so Qi and Blood cannot flow smoothly. We explain the major problems occurring in your body in our article A Good Night’s Sleep Using Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Fall Health Tips Using Chinese Medicine
Advice from ancient Chinese scholars, and their insights about the effects of Fall on the human body, can help you stay healthy, or fight illness faster! Billions of people in China follow their advice to this day, and now you can learn their secrets for health!
Using this advice can help you prevent sinus problems, runny noses, a sore throat, coughing, and digestion troubles this fall. It can also help you reduce chronic symptoms from asthma, CPOD, arthritis, and joint pain. It’s TRUE! Your lungs, sinuses, digestive tract, and skin will thank you if you keep reading!
Best Foods to Prevent a Cold and Cough
Some of the best cold and cough fighting foods for Fall come to us from Chinese medicine. Read more to learn about what foods you should eat to stay healthy during this transitional season!
Eating the right foods can help you prevent sinus problems, runny noses, a sore throat, coughing, and digestion troubles. They can also help you reduce chronic symptoms from asthma, CPOD, arthritis, and joint pain.
Five Elements Theory
Five elements theory developed over thousands of years through observation and trial and error. More like scientists in the field, Chinese doctors worked with people in their actual settings not in labs. They recorded their findings which had to stand up under the equivalent of peer-review to make sure recommendations worked over time. Numerous volumes compile this knowledge, with continued refinements over the centuries into present times.
Water Element Personality
Water element personality types reflect the nature of water. Water needs to have free time and space to flow. We can’t rush Water or expect it to follow the status quo. Water has its own reality, a mysterious and intriguing perspective that gets in the way of, say, taking out the trash.
Procrastinating by watching another cat video? Reaching for another cookie? Stop! Understanding your Water element can help you be creative AND regulate your behavior!
Water Element Chinese Medicine
The water element in Chinese medicine needs change, movement, and expansions. Try changing colors and texture in your wardrobe or home décor.
Also, water regulates fear and motivation at each stage of development. Balancing Water is essential for us to grow into healthy people at each stage of our lives.
Winter Foods to Keep You Healthy
Winter foods can keep you healthy, energized, and warm all winter. Chinese medicine has wonderful health and wellness tips for Winter. According to the Su Wen, “Winter is a cold storage season. Qi gathers in the core of the body. Do not disturb it… Warm up the body, store energy to rejuvenate and preserve life. Or the kidney gets hurt.”
Why Babies & Children Get Sick
In Chinese medicine pediatrics, children are not seen a miniature-adults. Their bodies are physically and functionally immature, according to Chinese medicine, and need special care and treatment. Their digestive systems, including their bowels, are seen as delicate and not yet complete. Many ancient Chinese texts remind us of this fact over and over and caution parents and practitioners to treat children as the beautiful, developing humans they are.
Solid Food for Your Infant or Toddler
According to Chinese medicine, before digestion can take place in the stomach, EVERYTHING must be warm and soft like a soup – ideally 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Adults can warm cold and raw foods by chewing and producing more digestive fluids. Infants and toddlers don’t have the same ability. Therefore, once your start introducing foods around 6 month of age, food should be cooked to body temperature or just a little above or below.
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