Download - Healthy Lifestyle - Balance
Healthy Lifestyle - BalanceDr. Baohua Wang5-11-2012
What does healthy mean ?
• Yin - 阴• Yang - 阳
in Chinese Medicine (CM)
Yin-Yang
• Nature: couple
• Yin:
cold, dark, quiet, down, inside, passive ……
• Yang:
warm, bright, excited, up, outside, active ……
Examples of yin and yang
• fire - water• day - night• summer - winter• spring - autumn• man - woman
How to judge yin-yang for your body?
• feeling: cold - heat• disposition: introversion - extroversion
steady - impatient• behavior: slow - quick• sound: quiet - loud• hobby: indoor - outdoor• diet: cooked - fresh• figure: fat - thin• tongue:
the tongue
the common illnesses of yin-yang
• yin type body:• cold• diarrhea• arthritis
• yang type body:• insomnia• constipation• hypertension
How to regulate the body
• diet• tea• sports• surroundings• music
diet - meat / fish
• chicken - duck• sheep - pork• fish/ shrimp/ crab• beef
diet - vegetable
• yang: ginger, pepper • yin: bitter gourd, cucumber, turnip, celery ......
bitter gourd tumip celery
diet - fruit
• yang: chinese date, longan, leechee
• yin: pear, watermelon, banana, apricot
chinese date
longan
apricot
leechee
tea
• Green tea• Red tea - fermented• Oolong tea• Scented tea and flower tea
sports
• yin: yoga, chess, sit still, stand still• yang: run, jog, walk; ball.
surroundings
• yin: quiet, cool, indoor• yang: sunny, warm, outdoor
music
• yin: to calm down
( the mountain and river)
• yang: to wake up
(happiness)
How to keep healthy?
• human and nature• What can we learn from nature? • the rhythm of nature
characteristics of spring
• warm• beginning to move upward (outside)
lifestyle in spring
• living: warm• diet: warm, less meat/fish, more vegetable
common disease in spring - allergy
• The cause of allergy in CM - coldness• How to reduce symptoms? - pat, cupping, guasha• How to prevent?
characteristics of summer
• hot; strong sunshine• outside
lifestyle in summer
• living: to avoid heatstroke; to avoid cold (air-conditioning)• diet:
avoid: too much ice cube, ice cream; too much meat
recommended: bitter gourd, cucumber, watermelon, peach
bitter gourd
common disease in summer - diarrhea
• Causes of diarrhea in CM.• How to prevent?
characteristics of autumn
• cool; dry• beginning to move downward (inside)
lifestyle in autumn
• living: cool• diet: more meat, more fruit (pear, apple, grape)
characteristics of winter
• cold• hide (inside)
lifestyle in winter
• living: warm, but not too hot• no violent movement, sauna• diet: more meat
common illness - cold
• cause• treatment thought in CM
Chinese tea
tea knowledge
• There are several types of tea: green tea , red tea, oolong tea (pure tea), black tea, white tea, yellow tea, and flower tea.
• The producing area of tea is specially emphasized in China.
Green tea
• a kind of no-fermented tea.
• The color of dry tea and after brewing tea look green.
• It can help to clear heat.
• Longjing (Dragon Well tea) from Hangzhou
• Biluochun (Green Snail Spring ) from Dongting
Red tea
• a kind of fermented tea.
• The stem color and brewing tea are mainly red.
• It is helpful to warm the stomach.
• Qimen• Yunnan
Oolong tea
• a kind of semi-fermented tea.
• It is intermediate between green tea and red tea.
• Dahongpao (Red Robe Tea) from Wuyi
• Tieguanyin (Iron Goddess Tea) from Anxi
Scented tea and flower tea
• Scented Tea uses green tea as base, and mixes with scent of flowers (jasmine).
• Flower Tea is a simply dried flowers (chrysanthemum).
• Jasmine tea• Chrysanthemum tea
Thanks for listening