Chinese Nutritional Therapy Talk – April 17th

Kyle Smith — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:49:32 +0000

On the evening of April 17th I will talk about the Chinese Nutritional Therapy. The concept of Chinese nutrition, or how food affects our health, have a 3,000 year old tradition. Records dating back to the third century BC state that there was little difference between the application of food and that of medicine; in fact recipes for food were often similar to those of medicine. Foods are mild therapeutic agents that help the body stay balanced, or bring it back to balance, and actually follow the same criteria used for medicinal herbs: thermal nature, flavor, organ network, and direction of energy flow.

Come join us on Friday evening April 17th at 6:30pm at Brookfield Chiropractic at 15010 W. Greenfield Ave. Suite #100 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Look forward to seeing you.

Chinese Medicine Foundation Topic: Post-Heaven Essence

Kyle Smith — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:22:19 +0000

Post-Heaven Essence is the essence that is refined and extracted from foods and fluids by the stomach ans spleen after birth. Once a child is born it starts to get it’s nourishment from this form of essence. It comes from the foods it eats and air it breathes because the lungs, spleen, and stomach refine these sources. The spleen and stomach are vital in the digestion of food and the transportation for the transformed foods to lead to the production of Qi. Without this process we would cease to exist, and inhibited function of stomach and spleen cause problems with qi production.

Post- Heaven Essence is more of a generalized type of essence that existing within the body. This form of essence can be greatly affected by the quality and quantity of food we ingest. If we eat to much food we can problems by overloading the spleen and stomach with work. This overloading cause the transportation and transformation of food to be compromised and work inefficiently. Likewise, undereating causing problems because we don’t have enough nourishment to produce enough energy for the body. Our bodies can easily show that both the overeating and undereating cause problems for our body size.

Once these systems are unbalanced, we need to bring them back into balance. Nutritional considerations need to be implemented, as well as acupuuncture and herbal therapies, to create more harmony. The spleen and stomach need to be balanced along with the elimination of the harmful effects that have accumulated within the body because of the previous imbalance.

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Chinese Nutritional Therapy Talk – April 17th

Chinese Medicine Foundation Topic: Post-Heaven Essence