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TCM Dietary Therapy

TCM Dietary Therapy. Eating your way to health and long life. Chinese Medicine. Diet Exercise Rest Acupuncture Chinese herbal formulas. TCM Food Therapy. The Art of Cooking and Preparing Food to help maintain optimal health Let Food be your Medicine -- Hippocrates.

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TCM Dietary Therapy

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  1. TCM Dietary Therapy Eating your way to health and long life

  2. Chinese Medicine • Diet • Exercise • Rest • Acupuncture • Chinese herbal formulas

  3. TCM Food Therapy • The Art of Cooking and Preparing Food to help maintain optimal health • Let Food be your Medicine -- Hippocrates

  4. Caloric Rate (BW0.75) Calories / day = 20 X body weight in lbs

  5. Caloric Requirements

  6. 5 Element Theory Fire Earth Metal Water Wood 8 Principles of Disease Yin & Yang Interior & Exterior Cold & Hot Deficiency & Excess TCM • Zang-Fu Organs • HT/SI -- PC/TH • SP/ST • LU/LI • KID/BL • LIV/GB

  7. Bitter Sour Sweet Salty Pungent 5 Element Flavors • Fire -- Bitter • Earth -- Sweet • Metal -- Pungent • Water -- Salty • Wood -- Sour Earth element through the stomach-tongue connection rules the taste

  8. 5 Element Diet

  9. 5 Element Meat Sources

  10. 5 Element Grain Sources

  11. Balance is the key Support constitutional needs, yet provide something from every flavor Add heat in summer and cold in winter For Deficiency --Feed organ and parent For Excess --Feed child and grandparent Use of 5 Element Food

  12. TCM 8 Food Principles • Exterior – Interior • Hot – Cold • Excess – Deficiency • Yang -- Yin

  13. TMC Food Directions • Outward and Upward tend to be Yang • Inward and Downward tend to be Yin

  14. TCM Food Directions

  15. Use of Food Directions • For exterior conditions – Outward and upward moving food • For internal problems – Inward and downward moving food

  16. TCM Food Energies

  17. TCM Food Energies

  18. Use of Food Energies • Treat hot conditions with cooling foods • Treat cold conditions with warming foods

  19. TMC Food Tonics

  20. TCM Zang-Fu Foods

  21. Therapeutic Food • Prepared much like TCM herbal products • The basic character of the food is the combination of ingredients with which it is prepared

  22. Identify constitutional type Determine whether Excess or Deficient In Excess, Feed the Grandparent (Ko cycle) In Deficiency, Feed the Zang-Fu and the Mother (Shen cycle) Balance the ingredients for each flavor, direction and energy Principles of Using TCM Diet • For Prevention, Feed the Constitutional Grandchild

  23. ground yellow corn chicken bi-product meal corn gluten meal brewer’s rice soybean meal beef tallow pearled barley animal digest a bunch of chemicals 27% protein, 12% fat, 61% CHO Purina Puppy Chow

  24. 2 oz Pork Chop 4 oz Tofu 8 oz Brown Rice 2 tsp Virgin Olive Oil ¼ cup Honey 2 Whole Carrots 1 cup Spinach 4 Tbs Green Pepper 4 Broccoli Spears ¼ tsp Dry Ginger 1 Raw Garlic Cloves ¼ tsp Dry Mustard 1 tsp Bone Meal Canine Diet for Athletes

  25. Nutritional Analysis • Commercial Software • NutriBase • Food Processor • USDA Nutrient Data Lab • http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/ • NATS • http://nat.crgq.com/mainnat.html

  26. Basic Canine Diet #1 • 8 oz Catfish • 8 oz Tofu • 2 tbs Virgin Olive Oil • 2 Whole Carrots • ½ cup Spinach • ¼ cup Green Pepper • ½ cup Broccoli • ¼ tsp Dry Ginger • 1 Raw Garlic Cloves • ¼ tsp Dry Mustard • 1 tab Flintstones • 1250 mg Calcium Contains 1355 Calories with a 27/13/60 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content

  27. Basic Canine Diet #2 • 4 Strips Bacon • 4 Large Eggs • 8 oz Tofu • 1 tbs Virgin Olive Oil • 1 Whole Carrots • ½ cup Spinach • ¼ cup Green Pepper • ½ cup Broccoli • ¼ tsp Dry Ginger • 1 Raw Garlic Cloves • ¼ tsp Dry Mustard • 1 tab Flintstones • 500 mg Calcium Contains 1370 Calories with a 23/12/65 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content

  28. Basic Cat Food • 3 oz Salmon • 2 oz Chicken Heart • 4 oz Beef Kidney • 2 oz Turkey Breast • 2 oz Chicken Liver • 1 oz Sardines • 1 tbs Virgin Olive Oil • ¼ cup Broccoli • ¼ cup Spinach • ½ tab Vitamin B complex (B-50) • 1 tab Vitamin C (500 mg) • 1 tab One-a-Day • 750 mg Calcium (Tums) • 400 IU Vitamin E • 250 mg Taurine Contains 737 Calories with a 45/4/51 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content

  29. Chinese Food Therapy for Horses • Goal isto help maintain Yin/Yang balance • Cold food for Heat Pattern • Hot food for Cold Pattern • Does not have dramatic short term results • Combined with Herbals and acupuncture • Examples • Lotus leaf for anhidrosis • Watermelon rim (xi-gua-pi) for summer heat, anhidrosis • Chrysanthemum flower for uveitis, influenza • Angelica root for general qi-blood stagnation and Blood deficiency

  30. Dietary adjustment: Cooler diets Warmer diets Examples Buckwheat Barley Wheat Bran Barley Oats Ginger Garlic Onion Chinese Food Therapy for Horses

  31. Another Way for TCVM Feeding • Use a balanced base food • Supplement for constitution, disorders or deficiencies • Add additional therapy as needed

  32. 3 oz chicken heart 2 oz turkey breast 3 oz ground beef 3 oz beef kidney 2 oz beef liver 3 oz white fish 4 oz tofu 2 sardines in olive oil 1 T olive oil 1/2 c broccoli 1/2 c carrots 2 oz mushrooms 1/2 c spinach 1/4 c red peppers 1/4 c green peppers 1 T vinegar 1 clove garlic 1500 mg calcium Base TCVM Diet for Dogs Contains 1250 calories with a 48/11/42 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  33. Deficient Fire Food • 4 oz chicken heart • 4 oz chicken • 4 oz lamb • 1/8 t cayenne • 750 mg calcium Contains 800 calories with a 47/1/52 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  34. Deficient Earth Food • 1 T fresh ginger • 4 oz ground beef • 4 oz sweat bread • 750 mg calcium Contains 665 calories with a 34/1/65 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  35. Deficient Metal Food • 8 oz rice • 4 chicken egg • 4 oz egg plant • 600 mg calcium Contains 650 calories with a 20/36/44 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  36. Deficient Water Food • 2 oz bamboo shoots • 4 oz pork • 4 oz duck • 600 mg calcium Contains 572 calories with a 42/1/57 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  37. Deficient Wood Food • 3 oz chicken liver • 1/2 c asparagus • 4 oz chicken • 600 mg calcium Contains 356 calories with a 61/6/33 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  38. 4 oz ground beef 4 oz beef liver 1 T olive oil 1/4 cup spinach 3 oz string beans 1000 mg calcium Qi Tonic Food Contains 704 calories with a 37/10/53 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  39. 4 oz lamb kidney 1 T olive oil 1/4 t cinnamon 1/2 t fennel 1/4 cup red pepper 400 mg calcium Yang Tonic Food Contains 290 calories with a 38/6/56 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  40. 4 eggs 2 ox chicken liver 1 T olive oil 4 oz cheddar cheese 4 oz firm tofu 500 mg calcium Yin Tonic Food Contains 1225 calories with a 27/3/70 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  41. 4 oz ground beef 4 eggs 1 T olive oil 2 oz seaweed 500 mg calcium Blood Tonic Food Contains 958 calories with a 25/20/55 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content.

  42. Use 50% of diet as base food Add 25% for any deficiency Fire Earth Metal Water Wood Add 25% of Grandparent for excess Add 25 % of Grandchild if balanced Add 25% tonic Qi Yang Yin Blood To Use TCVM Food

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