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如何以飲食來調整體質

除了以上提供的熱、寒證常見症狀，每個人一早起床的第一件事，一定要學會自我診斷、辨證，以掌握自己的健康狀況，並運用日常飲食根據『熱者寒之、寒者熱之』的原則，進行自我調理。

熱性體質者(陽臟人)平常容易牙齦虛浮、熱瘡、鼻衂(流鼻血)、便秘、怕熱、不喜歡吃熱性食物，宜多時寒涼食物，如薏仁、西瓜、綠豆等；

寒性體質者(陰臟人)常見怕冷、便溏(大便不成形)、易腹痛，吃不得寒性食物，尤其冬天或早上一喝冷開水或西瓜立刻肚子痛、腹瀉，宜多時熱性食物，如羊肉、胡桃、生薑、大蒜等。

以下即列舉一般常用藥效食物

◆溫性(一般稱為熱性)食物
(1) 龍眼肉：補心安神、養血益脾。
(2) 荔枝：性甘溫，有養血作用，常吃會使人臉色紅潤。
(3) 飴糖：補中緩痛、潤肺止咳。
(4) 扁豆：健脾養胃、化濕解暑
(5) 山楂：消時健胃、活血化瘀。
(6) 胡桃：補腎助陽、久服可以可耳聰明目、歛肺定喘、潤腸通便。
(7) 榖食類：麵、酒麴、蠶豆、豆油、酒醋等。
(8) 蔬菜類：生薑、大蒜、大蔥、韭、椒、胡荽菜、芥子、胡蘿蔔、韭白等。

9) 果品類：李子、橄欖、木瓜、烏梅、栗子、葡萄等。
(10) 食糖類：蜂蜜、白糖、砂糖等。
(11) 禽獸類：雞肉、雉肉、犬肉、羊肉、牛肉、鹿肉等。
(12) 鱗介類：鯽魚、鰣魚、海蝦、鱔魚、鰱魚等。

◆寒性食物

(1) 苡仁米：健脾止瀉，久服輕身益氣。
(2) 綠豆：清熱解毒、消暑除煩。
(3) 荸薺：化痰消積、清熱生津，可消甲狀腺腫瘤。
(4) 菊花：清肝明日、疏風散熱。
(5) 桑椹子：滋陰養血，用於肝腎陰虛、鬚髮早白等證。
(6) 百合：潤肺止咳。
(7) 柿霜：清熱除煩、健脾化痰。
(8) 梨：生食清熱止渴，熟食滋陰潤燥。
(9) 西瓜：清熱止渴、消暑利尿。以西瓜汁徐徐飲之，治腎炎浮腫。
(10) 榖食類：小米、蕎麥、豆腐、豆豉、豆漿。
(11) 瓜菜類：莧菜、油菜、白菜、黃瓜、甜瓜、竹筍、芋頭、茄子。
(12) 果品類：菱角、蓮藕、甘蔗、白果、柿餅。
(13) 禽獸類：兔肉、麋肉。
(14) 鱗魚、螃蟹、田雞、鱉、龜、蛤蜊、牡蠣等。

◆平性食物(不偏寒亦不偏熱，平時可多食者)

(1) 蓮子：養心安神、益腎固澀、健脾止瀉。
(2) 芡實：益腎固經、健脾止瀉。(用蓮子、芡實熬粥能治遺精與泄瀉)。
(3) 黑芝麻：滋陰肝腎、潤燥滑腸、適宜用老人有習慣性便秘的病人。
(4) 小麥：養心安神、配合大棗、甘草用於神志不寧、失眠多夢。婦女於停經後、更年期所見到的症候群常服小麥有良好的療效。
(5) 山藥：補脾胃、益肺腎，有糖尿病的病患及常患氣喘、咳嗽的孩童，每天以二兩煮水加冰糖當茶飲，具預防治療的效果。

如何了解自己的體質

病從口入，很多疾病的發生是因為你的體質產生的偏寒或偏熱，
所反應出來的症狀，除了要了解所吃的東西其屬性是溫、熱、寒、
涼之外，更重要的你必須要了解你的體質是屬於寒性或熱性體
質，依中醫的臨床治療理論『熱者寒之、寒者熱之』使身體的體
質達成平衡既不偏寒也不偏熱，你的身體就可以保持在正常的狀
況，所以常常知道你的身體是屬於寒性體質或熱性體質是非常的
重要、很多來門診看病的病人，常問我什麼東西可以吃、什麼東
西不可以吃，我就依其臨床的表現告訴他，你是屬於寒性體質或
熱性體質?每次常花我很多的時間，今將如何判斷寒性體質或熱性
體質的要點詳敘如下：
◇人為什麼會生病?
人體臟腑功能的衰減，陰陽失去平衡是導致疾病發生的主要
原因，一但病症發生時往往需要靠藥物調理、治療。花錢費時
是小，病痛纏身、健康受損才是最大痛苦，若能從每天正確的
飲食中強化體質、增強免疫力，以調整臟腑平衡，才是最自然、
最積極的『防未病』作法。

◇熱者寒之、寒者熱之
一般來說熱體、熱病應吃寒涼食物；寒體、寒病應吃熱性食
物。中醫治療的最高原則，即根據體質的特點，依『熱者寒
之、寒者熱之』辨證治療，才能達到預期的效果。
所謂熱證、寒證的臨床表現分別為：
熱證(熱性體質)
‧ 面紅身熱
‧ 神煩氣粗
‧ 聲大言多
‧ 口渴、喜冷飲
‧ 尿赤便乾
‧ 苔黃
‧ 脈洪數有力
‧ 不喜歡吃熱性食物的人
寒證(寒性體質)
‧ 面色黯淡
‧ 精神萎靡
‧ 氣短懶言
‧ 口不渴、喜熱飲
‧ 尿清便溏
‧ 舌淡
‧ 脈沉細無力
‧ 吃不得寒性食物的人

◇熱證：表證、陽證、實證
以通俗的說法，常見表徵為：
(1) 常滿臉通紅、全身感到發熱、不安。
(2) 脾氣不好、沒耐性、容易心情煩躁。
(3) 喜歡說話，聲音又大又急
(4) 嘴巴易乾，喜歡喝冰冷的東西。
(5) 尿液赤黃，像濃茶色；大便乾燥，像羊大便，甚至便祕
(6) 舌上有一層厚厚的黃色舌苔、易口苦、口臭、口乾
(7) 脈搏跳的又快又強。(多見於高血壓體質)
◇寒證：裹證、陰證、虛證。
常見表徵為：
(1) 臉色蒼白、暗淡，沒有精神。
(2) 身體常覺得疲勞，往往勞動一下就容易累。
(3) 手腳冰冷，尤其冬天蓋被也很難蓋的暖。
(4) 講話有氣無力，不想說話的樣子。
(5) 很少覺得口渴，一天難得喝上一杯水，嘴巴淡、沒胃口
(6) 尿液清、白。容易拉肚子或大便不成形。
(7) 脈象很細微、無力。(多偏向低血壓病人的體質)
(8) 晚上多夢、易頭暈，有自覺性的記憶減退。
(9) 女性寒證者月經來時，常會出現下腹部喜按性經痛。(按著會比較舒服)

五柱穴在臨床上的應用

本人從事針灸臨床工作已超過三十年在臨床上看過無數的病人、在治療期間發現灸五柱穴對於過敏性鼻炎、氣喘、消化機能不全、急、慢性肝炎、某些腎臟疾病等體質虛弱的病人有很大的幫忙、但必須每一~兩天灸一次、所以我常將五柱穴的臨床應用、教來求診病人的家屬讓他能為病人作灸的服務、讓病人不必每天花時間來我診所灸治、可以省掉很多寶貴的時間、今將五柱穴如何操作與應用分述如下：
一. 何謂五柱穴：
五柱穴是有五個穴道所組成~
1. 中脘
2. 巨闕
3. 下脘
4. 左梁門
5. 右梁門

二. 五柱穴之各穴取穴法：
1. 中脘
位於臍上四寸，居心蔽骨與肚臍之中間。
(及劍突與肚臍連線之中點)
2. 巨闕
臍上六寸，居心蔽骨與中脘的中間點。
(及劍突與中脘連線之中點)
3. 下脘
臍上兩寸。
(即中脘穴與肚臍之中點)
4. 左、右梁門
臍上四寸，中脘旁兩寸之左、右各一穴。
(即中脘左右旁開而與＜巨闕-中脘＞或＜中脘-下脘＞兩穴間隔等距之點)
三. 五柱穴在臨床上的應用：
1. 消化系統：
(1) 適應症：
①胃口不開，灸五柱穴可增強食慾。
②消化性潰瘍(包括胃潰瘍、十二指腸潰瘍)所造成的上腹部不舒。
③，如腹部脹氣、噁心嘔吐、打呃。
④急、慢性腸胃炎
2. 禁忌症：
腸胃穿孔或由穿孔所造成的腹膜炎所引起的一切實痛者，禁灸。
除了禁忌症之外，舉凡虛寒性之胃腸疾患，灸五柱
穴皆可改善其症狀和病症。在臨床上，凡是病患呈
現臉色蒼白、胃口不開、易感冒的不良體質之病人
或是吃冰冷食物後，常鬧胃腸不適的病人，灸五柱
穴皆可改善其病情及體質。
2.呼吸系統：
(1)氣喘病：
尤其是虛寒型氣喘病人，在喘的過程中，常吐出很
多白色的痰，若灸治五柱穴，再配合灸身柱，大椎
二穴，則可收到意想不到的效果。這種治療方法，
對於小孩因過敏所造成之氣喘，效果很好；不僅可
以縮短療程，更使得服藥的效果更加顯著。
(2)過敏性鼻炎：
早上一起床碰到冷空氣時，即不停地打噴嚏；或
一般婦女，兩手一碰到冷水，就不停地打噴嚏。
若灸治五柱穴和大椎穴、關元穴，再配合強化體
質的中藥，約兩個月，即可收到很好的治療效果。
(3)虛寒體質所造成的長期咳嗽：
喉嚨一癢即會咳嗽，灸治五柱穴、大椎、身柱、肺
俞、足三里、豐隆等穴，也是很好的補助療法。

3. 肝病：
(1)急、慢性肝炎：
許多肝病病人常有腹脹、胃口差、可灸五柱穴且
需『例行』(routine)灸，即一天或兩天灸一次；
可增加其食慾，減輕腹脹及腹部不適之症狀。
(2) 肝硬化合併肝癌：
這類病人到末期常會因血中白蛋白的不足造成腹水，而引起嚴重之腹痛。若長期打嗎啡(morphine)的止痛針，雖可得到短暫的疼痛緩解，但很容易造成嗎啡的蓄積中毒，而加速病人死亡。灸五柱穴，雖不能根治肝癌，但可暫時緩解病情，使病人在臨死前得到片刻的安寧，未嘗不適一個值得推薦的治療方法。
4. 腎臟疾病：
(1) 因腎病症候群(Nephrotic Syndrome)而造成的腸胃不舒適及腰酸背痛的病人，灸五柱穴，可改善其病情。
(2) 有些病人有下肢水腫的現象(即早上起來多走
一些路、或是坐著看電視、或持續坐著，不
久腳足背即有浮腫的現象，用手壓按、皮膚
表面會有凹痕)，但作抽血和小便檢查均無異
狀。在西醫的認為：小便正常，即是腎臟正
常，沒有病變。但中醫則認為此是『腎氣病』，
因尚未嚴重到造成『血病』，故在血中檢查不
出任何毛病。這種情形可灸五柱穴、關元穴、
太溪穴、腎俞穴，此現象則很快可獲得改善。
這種灸治方法是本人在臨床上的一大發現，
值得一提。
5. 其他：
凡是身體虛弱的病人，如冬天怕冷、手腳冰冷、經期不順、頭暈、目眩、長期腸胃機能不良、食慾不振、胃口不開等所造成的疾病，皆是五柱穴灸治的對象。
四、灸五柱穴的壯數(劑量)及次數：
一般灸五柱穴，一天或兩天灸一次，視病人得需要
而定；每次灸三~五分鐘，亦視病人的臨床反應及體
質而定。
1. 如果灸後覺得發熱、口苦、咽乾、則停灸一日，
或減少灸的時間；倘無此感覺，可繼續施灸，
或增加灸的時間。
2. 如果灸後次日，有疲倦的感覺，則休息一~兩
天，等精神如常，再繼續施灸。
3. 如果灸後起水泡，不宜再灸，必須等水泡消失
後再灸

結論：五柱穴在臨床上的使用非常廣泛與實用，筆者在
臨床上已使用多年，且得到很好的臨床療效，故
將此臨床經驗鄭重推薦。或許，五柱穴尚有其他
未發覺的臨床特殊療效，盼中醫針灸專家共同來
研究發覺和提供，以補本文之不足，共同發揚針
灸醫術，造福更多人群。

痛風的病因與防治

痛風的病因與防治
痛風跟關節炎不同與尿酸(Uric Acid)過高有關，並不是軟骨的磨損。尿酸過高，會形成結晶，黏附在軟骨上時，就會引起極大疼痛，其病情發作常來得很突然，患處會腫起來，尤其在左右的大拇趾。這種人尿酸值都偏高，通常會超過10mg%，驗尿即可查知。
一般引起痛風，有下述幾個主要可能原因：
(1) 腎功能退化
年紀越大，正常腎細胞越來越少，腎功能就會越差，排尿功能就越不順，所以就有一些病人到了傍晚常常會有兩腳浮腫的現象。
(2) 由食物所造成
北方人很多人有痛風問題，因為北方人平常主食以麵食為主，發酵食物含有核酸(Nucleic Acid)，進入人體很容易就形成尿酸，尤其越甜的麵包，含核酸的量越多。一般牛羊及其它動物的內臟，皆含有較高的普林(Purine)。
(3) 遺傳
有的因遺傳的影響，使得肝臟無法產生一種酵素叫做：“Uricase Enzyme”，這種酵素可將尿酸轉化成一種無害的物質，稱為“Allantoin ”，如果“Uricase Enzyme”在人體內缺少而無法將尿酸轉化成“Allantoin ”，尿酸就逐漸屯積在體內，最後造成痛風病症的發作。
日常生活注意事項：
(1)運動後要趕快喝水以防痛風發作
運動雖然好處很多，但運動後流汗過多，記得要趕快喝水，否則尿結石、痛風將會有增加發作的危險。
研究顯示，大量流汗無助排泄尿酸，所以劇烈運動流汗過多後，體內尿酸濃度因而會上升，若未補充足量水分，長此以往，痛風及結石便可能隨時發生。
不少運動員有痛風毛病，據調查一般運動員其罹患痛風的比率，是一般民眾的10倍。運動員罹患痛風比率過高，經調查發現，是運動員喝水習慣不好，在運動後沒有及時趕快喝水補充水份，是造成引發痛風病情發作的關鍵。
(2)飲食要注意
在藥物治療本病的同時要配合食療，有忌服、少食和多食三種情況：詳情請見200707/12的本人部落格〈痛風的防治〉一文中已詳細說明。
(3)平常吃什麼東西可以減少痛風的發作
依本人的經驗每天可以吃兩粒酸梅，同時服用綠藻片等鹼性食品，對減輕痛風的發作有很大的幫忙。今”中天生物科技股份有限公司”已研發上市一種產品叫”尿清”，對於預防痛風的發作有很大的幫忙大家不妨一試。至於對腎功能退化的痛風病人可同時服用中藥的濟生腎氣丸，應該有相當程度的功效。

中醫與西醫的見解有何不同

中醫與西醫的見解有何不同

陳立夫先生在中國歷史上首倡『中醫現代化』及『中西一元化』兩大口號，在中國醫藥學院附設醫院開始實行中西醫合作治病。他對於中醫與西醫的科學理論基礎有其獨特的見解，他認為：

中西醫各有其不同之科學理論基礎，各有所長亦各有所短。中醫之治病方法，可以『安內攘外』四字代表之，西醫之治病方法，亦可以『就事論事』四字代表之。中醫視人為一小宇宙，西醫則視人為一部機器，整體與局部，同為重要也。惟中、西醫僅各得真理之ㄧ半，若能相互愛其所用、敬其所異，則醫學 之進步可期，人類之健康福祉可達。

目前台灣的病人，有病求診心態大部分皆先看西醫，接受現代醫學的檢查，經抽血，照x-ray、C-T、等等的檢查，去探討在身體那一臟器有問題，如經一系列檢查，發現了那裏有問題，再針對問題決定以開刀，化學藥物療法，放射療法或物理治療等來幫助病人解除病痛，這就是立夫先生所講的『就事論事』。

但有一部份的病人，雖經過一系列的檢查，一直找不出真正的病因，醫師就無法給藥，最多勉強給精神安慰劑，如眩暈、耳鳴、腦鳴、掉髮、手腳冰冷等等問題，既使吃了一段很長時間的安慰劑，但問題一直無法解決，最後轉看中醫，尋求中醫藥是否能解決他們困擾的問題。

事實上，依中醫理論的看法，以上的症狀，皆因腎氣不足，或正氣不足，經中醫調理之後腎氣補足時這些症狀就可很快得到緩解，還有很多人容易感冒，怕熱又怕冷，這就是衛氣不足，經調理同時配合適當運動、均衡的營養、規律的生活，這些問題很快就會得到改善，這就是立夫先生所講的『安內攘外』。

Dr. med. [sin.] Gunter Neeb

Dr. med. [sin.] Gunter Neeb

Akupunktur

First three-year Akupunkturausbildung in Germany. Subsequently, four years old study of the modern and classical Chinese in long characters at the Sinicum and at the Taiwan national normally University. 1991 - 2000 study of the traditional Chinese medicine with Professor Chang Chung Gwo, master Li Feng - Shan in Taipei, study at the university for Chinese medicine of the province Yunnan and graduation at the University of Tianjin. Thesis over geomedical aspects of the TCM.

Since 1998 physician for Chinese medicine and lecturer at the TCM research institute of the University of Tianjin. Since 2003 guest professor at the university for TCM Yunnan. Numerous publications and translations of classical texts. Author “the Blutstasesyndrom” [publishing house for holistic medicine, Dr. Wühr], CO author “manual of the TCM”. Established in own practice.

Dietetic clues for some commonly seen diseases and obesity

Dietetic clues for some commonly seen diseases and obesity

1. Diabetes

TCM takes the dietetic aspects of diabetes absolutely serious, like it is said in the Gu jin yi tong da quan (Large collection of modern and classic medicine): With a clear spirit and little desire, controlling appetite and reducing the [restless] thoughts, it can be cured. But if this lacks only the slightest bit, even the most famous doctor and the best medicine cannot help [the patient] to live. Such pointing out that the focus points to treat this disease lies in the control of appetite and sexual desire.

The diabetic has to apply it by himself, and also for many other diseases it is a basic factor. as for obese persons this is the only efective way to solve their problem. Serious diseases, which are treated with medication should also be accompanied by the right diet, such achieving beter results.

Diabetics know their food and beverage intake from the medical doctor, usually determined by bodyweight and physiological condition. The right diet contains protein, fat and sugar in the right mixture and should be carried out as adviced by the physician; the patient can eat when he is hungry and can even add vegetables and leguminous fruits in higher amounts.

Often is recommended to eat more vegetables containing low carbohydrate levels like celery, cucumbers, etc. and also eat food with a rich compound of aminoacids like soybeans and their products (Tofu), red beans, eggs, lean meat etc. According to findings of research experiments, chinese medical herbs like ginseng, radix astragalus, Indian bread (pachyma cocos, poria), rhizoma dioscurea, rhiz. polygonatus, radix rhemania, asparagus root, jujuba fruits, rad. polygon. multiflor., rad. pueraria are all able to reduce a high blood sugar level, and therefore can be cooked with grains as a sautee. Consuming this often is very effective for prevention and treatment of diabetes.

Diabetics should be very careful to eat only small amounts of fish, egg-yolk, brain, fat meat, offals etc. and other food containing a high amount of cholesterole. Absolutely forbidden are sweets, sugar, marmelade, etc.

2. High blood-fat level, arterosclerosis, coronar diseases and high blood pressure

The only reason for those diseases is choosing unfrugale foods and drinks, moreover a liking for rich and abundant, heavy food. The best prevention and treatment is to reasonably select the right meals.

The most suitable foodstuff for these diseases are:

Rice, noodles, corn, buckweed, sorghum, etc. used to be eaten together. Furthermore added can be celery, onions, jiao bai, all beans, cucumbers, kelp, kombu, seaweed (nori) etc. When using oil, the best is to use soybean,peanut, corn, sesame and teaseed oil. According to a report onions, celery, kelp, jellyfish skin, sea cucumber, water chestnut, mung beans etc. can lower high blood pressure. Corn oil, sesame, peanuts, sea vegetables, boxthorn, lotus and tea leaves can lower the bloodfat level.

Patient with the above mentioned diseaes should especially pay attention not to eat food with high cholesterol levels like egg-yolk, fat from ainmals, brain or bone marrow and offals, as well as some crusted animals like clams, conches and crabs. Eating less sugar, refrain from smoking and alcohol, as well as hot, pungent foods is also recommended. Patients with heart and kidney diseases should control their salt intake and choose foods with a low salt level. Obese patient also should control the amount of their daily intake; the best advice is, to eat only 2/3 of what would make them feeling eaten to full.

Practical hint:

I. Cao jue ming decoct

At symptoms of hypertension and high cholesterol 5 qian - 1 liang of this herb after been cooked until it has a tea-like color, taken daily has a cholesterol lowering effect and furthermore moistens the hard stools.

II. Highblood-fat level (incl. high cholesterol level)

Rhizoma alismatis (Ce-xie) can be used: Drinking daily 2-3 qian decoct (until tea-color dark) of it, or of radix polygonium multiflorum (He-shou-wu) 4 qian. Before starting this treatment, the patient can check the triglyceride and cholesterol level. After applying it for 3-4 weeks check again. If it is still not better, a specialist should be consulted, to find an orthodox way of treatment.

III. Arteriosclerosis and stroke

The UCLA and the Cambridge University medical institute cooperated in a project where the connection between apoplex (stroke) and diet were researched. After running this 12 year long-term study, they found that the patients had only to add 400mg of potassium (kalium) to theit daily intake, in order to reduce the apoplex death ratio for 40%. For receiving this amount they just had to eat a few fruits or vegetables with a high potassium level like potatos, oranges, bananas, fresh tomatos, almonds, peaches, or some lean pork, white chicken meat, etc. These should be adviced as a reference to all friends with apoplex.

3. Chronic Bronchitis in the old age

This disease in TCM is often observed as emptiness of qi in spleen or lung and as vacuityness in lung and kidney. According to TCM older patients with this symptoms should eat the right food, selected to build up the spleen order the qi and nurture the lung and kidney. It is approprita to eat a few more foods with hot character and many vitamins like smelt (a small eel) and turtle etc. and also sea vegetables like kombu, seaweed, and kelp etc. Besides those lilly bulbs, yucca, euryalis seed, turnip, water chestnuts and fresh vegetables are also beneficial. Foods like walnuts, pork, beef, sheep lungs, etc. are known for moistening the lungs, supporting the spleen and transforming phlegm.

Practical hint:

For patients with long term bronchitis, asthma, coughing with much phlegm, and easily catching a cold the following recepy has prooved to be very effective: 2 liang yucca, 3 qian walnuts and 3 qian ji nei jin, cooked until the broth becomes tea colored dark. If taken for more than a month the above mentioned diseases will obviously improve.

4. Hyperthyreoidism

A. Recommendable to eat often:

Water chestnut, plankton skin, arrowhead, taro, seaweed, kombu, seashells and shellfish.

B. To be avoided:

Pomelo, dried longans, lichees, pineapples, mangos, sugarcanes, peanuts and stir fried, deep fried, as well as hot, spicy, irritating food.

5. Coughing

Beneficial and harmful food for patient with coughing symptoms depend actually on the situation and the different background of its origin as listed below:

A. Coughing, caused completely by external factors

Persons with a normal health condition in general only need to make sure not to encourage the bad influences on the disease.

I. Patients with external wind-cold symptoms like white phlegm, itching throat:

Persons belonging to this group shouldn't eat greasy food or such with a cold character, otherwise the digestion may be disturbed and the humidity might produce more phlegm.

II. Patients with external wind-heat symptoms like yellow phlegm, painful throat:

Persons belonging to this group shouldn't eat spicy food or such with a hot character, like chili and alcohol or stir fried, deep fried, roasted or broiled dishes.

III. No matter if the coughing belongs to the hot or cold type, if the patient produces a lot of phlegm, he should eat and drink only plain food and avoid for a while to consume meat or dishes containing plenty of fat or a highly alkalic sources. In avoiding such kinds of food the disease won't become worse. After the recovery the patient may of course eat those restricted items again.

B. Patients with a weak constitution and long term coughing

Persons that belong to this YIN-emptiness symptom:Little phlegm that is hard to cough out, dry mouth, hard swallowing, hoarse coughing, feeling heated after noontime, and having a thin, frequent pulse etc.

These people should avoid tobacco, alcohol, chili, ginger and other hot, spicy things. Instead better eat more light, bland food with high nutritional value, like soy products (Tofu, soy-milk), milk, green vegetables, eggs, etc.Suitable to be eaten mainly are steamed dishes like noodles, steamed buns, rice, and so on, but not fried cakes, Chinese crullers, broiled and roasted food.

Under some circumstances it is suitable to eat a few fruits like oranges, apples, pears, water chestnuts and honey as well as seafood like abalone, sea cucumber, dried sea mussel etc.

C. Patients with an obese body and long term coughing, whence producing a lot of phlegm:

Avoid eating fat meat and drinking big amounts of fluid, do more exercises and reduce the body weight.

D. Patients with long-term coughing, weak body, afraid of cold, short breath and a thin, fragile body-shape:

Avoid eating raw, cold and greasy food. Instead eat easy digestible, highly nurturing food with hot character like lean meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, etc.

If the patient daily coughs out a lot of phlegm and excrete, he should make sure to add a few dishes containing high protein or Vitamin A to his diet. Food such as beans, fish, lean meat, eggs, liver, yolk and vegetables with a high level of carotene.

6. Obesity

The main reason to slim down should actually not be the beauty, but the health that we gain from it. Typical civilization maladies like hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases etc.pp. all can be improved without medication, but by loosing weight.

Important points about eating and drinking habits:

Don't starve yourself, essential food must be eaten, but don't eat, when you don't feel hungry, better eat often some small portions than one or two large meals a day. Don't commit those little sins against your own will: Sometimes a chewinggum or a little cup of milk is enough to ruin the balance and stop the already started fat reduction, and you must start all over with the diet, that is to stay completely away from all sugar for a couple of days (2-3) to force your body again to begin with fat reduction.

A. The foodstuff you can eat:

1. Major dishes:

Chicken, duck, fish, and fried, stir fried, cooked, steamed meat can all be eaten (just eat less of ready made things outside, the best is to make it by yourself at home), and eggs (especially good are simple, cooked chicken eggs)

2. Accompanying foods:

Vegetables with big, fresh green leaves like cabbage, kohlrabi, water convulvulus ( a green), spinach, qing gang cai ( a green vegetable with spoon-shaped leaves).

3. Fruits:

Big tomatoes (preferably the greener ones), lemons, guavas (better the green, hard ones, growing in Taiwan and subtropical areas) and grapefruits. Except for those four, all other fruits should (temporarily) not be consumed, not even a mouthful (Fruit sugar!).

4. Beverage: Water

5. Avoid eating appetizing food like ginger, onions, garlic, pepper and MSG.B. Absolutely forbidden are:

Major dishes: Rice, noodles and flour products (bread, cakes, ice-cream), any sweet food, fish balls and meat balls, sausages, pork concentrate, thick soy sauces (miso), medical syrup, western pharmaceutical products and TCM medicaments, dairies (fresh milk), all offals, all seafood and wild growing vegetables (mushrooms, wild celery) and all preparations of shao zhen ( peony tips).

Accompanying foods: Except for green-leafed vegetables everything else like carrots, turnips, bamboo shoots, eggplants, celery cabbage, Corean cabbage, wild and vegetable cucumbers, scabbard fish, seaweed, kombu, any beans and their products (soy bean, tofu, pressed bean curd, soy sauce) should not be consumed during the diet.

Fruits: To make the regimen effective no fruits, except for the above mentioned four sorts are allowed.

Beverages: Soft drinks, juice, coke, honey and alcohol are strictly taboo.Visits to the restaurant should be absolutely avoided

C. Some special foods (can be eaten less than stated but not more):

1. Breakfast: 2 chicken eggs, 2 tomatoes.

2. Lunch: 3 cucumbers one dish celery, one egg.

3. Dinner: One chicken leg or 2-3 wings, and 2 tomatoes.

The diet should be kept for one or two month. many cases are known, in which people lost 2-10 kg weight!

Other points of importance:

1. Taking a daily early-morning-walk with an empty stomach for about 30 min. is very useful.

2. Sleep shouldn't exceed 8 hrs. and in ideal cases also the afternoon nap can be skipped.

3.Daily exercises are also an ideal supplement to increase the loss of weight.