Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) offers a unique approach to health and wellness, focusing on balance and harmony within the body. One of its key components is diet therapy, which uses food as medicine to support the body's natural healing processes.

For digestive problems, and abdominal issues, such as gas, bloating, IBS, menstrual cramps, etc. It also calms down the nervous system.

What diet is the best? Mediterranean, Vegetarian, Ketogenic? There are a few characteristics that all of these diets have in common. They all emphasize pure ingredients consisting of whole foods in as fresh and natural a state as possible. They also all share one other important characteristic. They all include a large portion of vegetables in the diet. The difference therefore lies in the inclusion or exclusion of meat, or grains.

No matter what the disease or illness, the process of digestion remains the same. It is our source of transforming food into energy, and is required for all cellular metabolism, and repair. The stomach is thought of in Chinese Medicine as a pot on a stove. It receives food and liquids, that decompose and cook. In order to cook something and transform something, heat is required.

When illustrating the 4 movements of Qi, we are actually talking about how internal physiological processes and relationships interact in the body. This allows us to easily see and comprehend what physiologically is out of balance, and also how to correct it.

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