Nutrition and Chinese Medicine

Nutrition plays a major role in Chinese Medicine. The food you put in your body is the first line of defense in warding off disease. What you are eating feeds your tissues and directly affects the health of your body. Proper nutrition of eating organic foods, little to no meat, and a clean water source, will create an environment that diminishes a disease's ability to flourish. A person can maintain a healthy body environment with organic food, clean water, quality sleep, a zest for life, being in love, meditation, acupuncture, and annual cleansing. We are never totally free of exogenous pathogens, but if we have a clean internal environment, the exogenous pathogen will not have a chance to thrive. A clean internal environment will also keep our endogenous pathogens from expressing themselves. Dr. Mikio Sankey states,“(Antoine) Bechamp felt that changing the environment in the physical body was the most fundamental factor in health and balance, not the exogenous microzymas.” (Discern The Whisper, p. 131) As we keep the body in a slightly more alkaline state, the ph of the blood does not offer bacteria and viruses a suitable environment to thrive and mutate. Changing one’s diet and eating habits takes time, and everyone has their own pace when making lifestyle changes. One of the first steps I encourage my clients to do is cleanse down to the parasite level, and take a good probiotic that will diversify their microbiome. These steps will help to curb cravings, and combined with Esoteric Acupuncture, will allow making dietary, emotional, and other habitual changes easier.