Summer Foods and Acupuncture
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Summer in Chinese Medicine is a Yang season and associated with the HEART organ and the color for the heart is red.
Tomatoes - have cooling properties and can help with anemia and help digestion. Can lower high blood pressure and benefit the heart. It have a lot of vitamins and minerals , antioxidants and benefit prostate health. Tomatoes are good raw or in a form of souse. Organic tomatoes and tomato products are much more potent, so you benefits increase.
Red Peppers are also a good source of lycopene which helps prevent prostate cancer as well ans bladder and cervix as well as pancreatic and lung cancers related to smoking and second hand smoke.
Beets can also be included in your diet. They are high in vitamins A and C. This vegetable can help your liver and gallbladder as well as energize your immune system and enhance your athletic performance. Beats can reduce inflammation and if eaten regularly can reduce your bad cholesterol by 30% and help during pregnancy by strengthening the blood.
In the next issue we will discuss exercising in the summer.
(if you have a medical condition and or take medications, please discus exercising with your doctor)
The
heart in Chinese Medicine houses the Spirit, which means mental
faculties like: memory, anxiety and insomnia can be attributed to
the heart function, in addition to regular Western function of pumping
blood.
Conditions like high blood pressure, irritability and skin conditions (in the summer) can be attributed to the heart functions in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. The emotion for the heart is laughter. If someone laughs inappropriately and very frequently, that may be a sign of a heart imbalance. The heart has a close relationship with the Kidneys and Small Intestine (its yang pared organ).
Acupuncture can treat conditions like: heart palpitation, insomnia, irritability and acute and chronic stress and other summer related symptoms.
Conditions like high blood pressure, irritability and skin conditions (in the summer) can be attributed to the heart functions in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. The emotion for the heart is laughter. If someone laughs inappropriately and very frequently, that may be a sign of a heart imbalance. The heart has a close relationship with the Kidneys and Small Intestine (its yang pared organ).
Acupuncture can treat conditions like: heart palpitation, insomnia, irritability and acute and chronic stress and other summer related symptoms.
SUMMER FOODS:
Because summer is a very hot season, it is important to eat foods that are cooling and generate fluids. Too much heat in the body can lead to
restlessness, insomnia, and irritability, as well as skin disorders. Because red color is the summer color it is a great idea to eat red foods as they benefits the organ and very appropriate for keeping balance in the Summer.
Tomatoes - have cooling properties and can help with anemia and help digestion. Can lower high blood pressure and benefit the heart. It have a lot of vitamins and minerals , antioxidants and benefit prostate health. Tomatoes are good raw or in a form of souse. Organic tomatoes and tomato products are much more potent, so you benefits increase.
Tomatoes are good for the eyes, act as powerful inhibitors of different cancers: breast, prostate and lung. Being a good source of carotenoid called Lycopene contained in tomatoes is an inhibitor to heart disease many cancers types
Water Melon has cooling properties and upon urination passes through small intestine the Yang pared organ of the Heart. Even though cucumber is green it also has cooling properties and will benefits
Beats can be juiced, steamed or eaten raw. They help with building and purifying blood, help heart health, guard against many cancers, especially colon cancer
Please visit our website for more info. http://www.newyorkacupuncturecenter.com or call 212-533-1192
(if you have a medical condition and or take medications, please discus exercising with your doctor)
Mark Moshchinsky, L.Ac(NCCAOM)
Licensed Acupuncturist in NYC
www.newyorkacupuncturecenter.com/
Watermelon is the best! Very interesting about the beets with the cholesterol and pregnancy, I put beets in a crock pot soup and they come out delicious!
ReplyDeleteYes,watermelon is the best. I mostly juice beats or eat them raw. But my mother cooks them in a soup, it is all red !
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