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Nutrition
Meat, Poultry

Chinese Food Quantity Recommend

50~80% Grains : corn, barley, millet, oats, rice, wheat 30~40% Cooked vegetables : Carrots, potatoes, fennel, beans, cabbage etc 5% Meat : beef, lamb, poultry, fish 5% Raw foods, salads, fruit : small portion of the overall diet; more during the Summer Only small amounts of liquid during meals If Excess --- ST digestive fire (long term)

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Meat, Fish, Poultry & Animal products

Strengthening the inner center Knowing how to treat the center is knowing how to bring all networks into balance. Meat, fish, poultry and eggs should always be properly cooked and never eaten raw. SP --- Muscle

Meat diet theraphy

S/S : Strong person, loud powerful voice, red tongue, thick coating (yellow or white) avoid meat, no meat for 4-6 weeks, increase grains, fruit and vegetables S/S : Weak person, weak, quiet voice, often tired and exhausted, pale, swollen tongue, weak pulse beef, chicken, pork,

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Meat diet Theraphy

S/S : Heat sign, red tongue, rapid pulse, red face, reddened eyes, nervousness no meat for 4~6 weeks, increase grains, fruit, and vegetables S/S : Cold sign, pale, swollen tongue, weak, slow pulse, shivering, aversion to cold, worsens condition and pain lamb, chicken, beef

Meat diet Theraphy

S/S : Dampness, swellings, edema, chronic phlegm disorders (frontal sinusitis, bronchitis) avoid meat, no meat for 4~6 weeks, increase drying grains S/S : Dryness, dry mouth, lips and skin, constipation pork, increase grains, fruit and vegetables

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Beef
Nature/Taste : warm and sweet Action: 1. tonify Qi and blood 2. strengthen SP & ST 3. dispel dampness 4.relieve edema 5. strengthens bones and tendons

Beef
Condition: edema, abdominal distention and fullness, weak back and knees, deficient ST & SP Contraindications: Not to be used with any type of skin lesions, Hepatitis, or any type of kidney inflammation

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kwashiorkor
Protein Deficiency

Obesity

Beef Folk remedies

1. Deficiencies of blood, Qi, SP : take cooked ground beef and soak it in hot water for 10 minutes ; drink the juice 2. Edema or chronic diarrhea : stew beef in water for 2 hours ; drink the liquid

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Chicken
Nature / Taste : warm and sweet Action: 1. tonify Qi 2. Nourishes blood 3. aids Kidney deficiency 4. benefits SP & ST

Chicken
Condition : postpartum weakeness, weakness in old people, cold-type arthritis, weakness after illness or blood loss Contraindications : Do not eat Chickens that are force fed chemical pellets and injected with steroids and antibiotics. Heat type of cancer Leukemia (if Yin def heat s/s) Heat symptom : red tongue, fever, extreme thirst

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Chicken Folk remedies

1. weakness or anemia : cook 1 chicken with 1 ounce Dang Gui, and 6 cup of water. Simmer together for 1 hour. The darker meat birds such as the Chinese black chicken are the most tonifying

Chicken Egg
Nature / Taste : cool and sweet Actions 1. nourish Yin 2. tonify blood 3. stabilize hyperactive fetus 4. lubricate dryness

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Chicken Egg
Conditions : Dry cough, hoarse voice, dysentery, blood and Yin deficiency, hyperactive fetus, lubricates dryness Contraindications : Do not eat too many eggs. Do not eat eggs fried or raw.

Folk Remedies
1. Yin and Blood deficiency steam the eggs 2. Postpartum eat eggs with green onions 3. Pain of dysentery cook eggs with rice vinegar 4. Hyperactive fetus eat a hard boiled egg daily

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Fish diet theraphy

S/S : Excess, strong person, loud powerful voice, red tongue, thick coating Squid, Octopus S/S : Deficiency, weak person, weak quiet voice, often tired and exhausted, pale, swollen tongue, weak pulse eel, sardines, mussels, oysters

Fish diet theraphy

S/S : Heat, red tongue, rapid pulse, red face, reddened eyes, nervousness squid, octopus S/S : Cold, pale, swollen tongue, weak, slow pulse, shivering, aversion to cold, worsening of condition and pain with cold trout, salmon, prawns, crayfish

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Fish diet theraphy

S/S : Dampness, swellings, edema, chronic phlegm disorders, frontal sinusitis, bronchitis Carp, mackerel S/S : Dryness, dry mouth, lips and skin, constipation -- Oysters

Fish
Nature / Taste : Warm and sweet Actions 1. strengthens SP 2. Tonify Qi 3. remove dampness 4. regulate blood 5. aids diarrhea from Spleen weakness

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Fish
Conditions : Low energy states, hemorrhoids, postpartum excessive bleeding, itching or exuding damp type skin lesions Contraindications : Do not eat fish raw. (parasites) , always cook fish with garlic, ginger or onion to neutralize the potential toxins

Fish Folk Remedies

1. Kidney deficiency and back pain : cook chicken with fish Ocean fish : cooler than freshwater fish Clams, crabs : cool Oysters, abalone : neutral Shrimp, Anchovy : warm

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Fish
Herring : neutral - contraindication: skin eruption, recovery from chronic disease Mackerel : neutral Mussel : warm Octopus : cold Sardine : neutral Trout : hot

Lamb
Nature / Taste : Hot and Sweet Actions 1. tonify weakness 2. dispel cold 3. strengthens and nourish Qi and blood 4. promote appetites 5. aids lactation

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Lamb
Conditions : Kidney deficiency causing back pain, impotence, cold conditions, deficiency conditions, postpartum blood loss, lack of milk, leukorrhea Contraindications : generally not consumed in Summer, not to be consumed in edema, malaria, common cold, toothache or any type of heat conditions

Lamb folk remedies

Anemia, weakness, blood deficiency : cook lamb with ginger and Dang Gui + Dang Gui, Jujube date, astragalus, ginger, scallion, or ginseng for problems of weakenss and coldness

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Pork
Nature / Taste : Slightly cold and sweet Actions 1. moistens and nourishes organs 2. tonify Qi 3. strengthens the digestion

Pork
Conditions : internal dryness, constipation, dry cough, emaciation Contraindications : Not to be taken by overweight people, those with deficient SP and ST, hypertension, stroke patients or those with diarrhea

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Duck
Nature / Taste : Neutral and sweet Meridian : Lung and Kidneys Direction : ascending Quality : Yin and Yang Tx: Tonify Qi and blood, Lubricates Dryness, Tonify Yin, nourishes ST, heals swelling Contraindications: if SP deficiency and hemorrhage, overconsumption may cause stagnant Qi

Milk and Milk products

Nature / Taste : neutral and sweet Actions 1. strengthens weakness 2. nourished Qi and blood 3. lubricates dryness

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Milk and Milk products

Conditions : nutritional deficiency, weakness, malnutrition, anemia, constipation, dryness Contraindications : Not to be used with damp or cold conditions, or in cases of diarrhea

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