Monthly Archives: October 2012

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Healthy LifeStyle introduce diet and soup for Lupus Patients.

Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by your immune system attacking your cells and tissue by mistake. It is more common amongst young women. Symptoms are complicated and can change for no apparent reasons.

TCM practitioners have observed some common categories of symptoms in lupus patients. The symptoms are attributed to different types of imbalances in the body. Recommendations for dietary remedies have to be appropriately matched with these symptoms and imbalances.

Try some of the recipes according to the symptoms that you may be exhibiting. Listen to your body carefully. Stop if you do not feel well.

Although many people might be skeptical about the lupus diet, but my hope is that lupus patients will eat well, nourish their bodies and heal their immune systems.

Chinese Pearl Barley Drink

This drink is supposed to be good for lupus patients who suffer from high and persistent fever and have rashes on the face or all over the body.

15-30g chinese pearl barley or coix seeds
Sugar to taste

  1. Cook the barley with water until soft
  2. Add sugar to taste
  3. Drink a cup daily

Mung Bean Sprout Juice

Mung bean sprouts has a detoxifying effect and has been quite effective on patients experiencing pain and inflammation in the joints, suffer from fever, feel thirsty all the time, and have facial rashes.

500g fresh mung bean sprouts
Sugar to taste

  1. Wash the bean sprouts thoroughly
  2. Wrap them in a muslin cloth and crush to release the juice
  3. Add the sugar to the juice and drink

Astragalus congee with red dates and codonopsis root

Suitable for patients suffering from heart palpitations, lower backache, weak limbs, hair fall and fatigue

60g astragalus
30g codonopsis root
10 red dates
100g white glutinous rice
1 litre water
Sugar to taste

  1. Cook the astragalus and codonopsis root till soft
  2. Squeeze the cooked herbs for juice
  3. Place the glutinous rice and red dates in a pot, add water and cook till done
  4. Add the herb juice
  5. Add sugar to taste

Ginseng thickened soup

A tonifying soup to strengthen patients weakened by lupus

100g astragalus
30g American ginseng
50g glutinous rice flour
Sugar to taste
1 litre water

  1. Slice the astragalus into thin slices and wrap them in muslin cloth
  2. Slice the american ginseng into thin slices
  3. Bring the water, American ginseng and astragalus to a boil and lower the heat to a simmer
  4. Simmer until the water is reduced to about 500ml
  5. Add the glutinous rice flour to thicken the soup
  6. Add sugar and serve

 

 

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The secret of success knows how to deal with your body to maintain peak health condition. But keep in mind that while exercise moves the body, food not only fuels the body but actually makes the body.

Operating at Peak Performance means centering in on the whole of which you are so you feel powerful, healthy, and energetic physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Water obviously supports us to feel better physically, and it also has positive spill-over effects into the mental, emotional and spiritual areas as well.

Nutritional Components of Peak Performance
The amount of energy that can be derived from the food eaten. We know that carbohydrates are important in creating short-term energy or fuel, while fats create a more sustained long-term energy source. Proteins work more in the area of building and rebuilding. So how do we go about getting the highest quality carbohydrates, fats, and proteins available?

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TCM Chinese Herbs, Health Benefits of Pseudo Ginseng (Tian Qi) 田七 also known as Tian San Qi (田三七) it belongs to the family is sweet, slightly bitter and warm properties. It is use for treating the liver, stomach and large intestine.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Panax Notoginseng Soup

Medical Function:

Stop bleeding and anticoagulation: anticoagulation of platelets, promotes dissolving of fibrinogens.
Anti-inflammation.
Relieving pain.
Calming.
Enhances the effects of adrenocortical hormone: regulate the metabolism of sugar.
Protects liver.
Anti cancer.
Improve capillary circulation: anti fatigue.
Anti aging.
Arrest bleeding (active chemical: dencichine, there is more of that in raw tian qi ).

Cautions Use:

Allergic reaction: face and eyes becomes red and swollen. Numbness in the limbs, dizziness, heaviness in the chest, palpitation, sweating, nausea, arrhythmia

Pseudoginseng should not be used during pregnancy. It has been found that it treats an embryo as a blood clot, and can therefore result in abortion. It should also be used cautiously if someone has weak blood (anemia, fatigue, etc.) and no blood stagnation. In such a case it should only be used along with herbs that strengthen the blood. It has the capacity to cause the expulsion of blood clots lodged anywhere in the system.

 

Pseudoginseng Root (Tien Qi or San Qi)

In contrast to Salvia, Pseudoginseng (also called Notoginseng) is in the category of herbs that stop bleeding (hemostatic herbs). In other words it causes blood to clot.

If this seems contradictory to what someone would want for increasing circulation, consider that this herb is unique among hemostatics because it is the only one that also helps disperse stagnant blood. In fact its classical uses include treating pain from stagnant blood, including chest and abdominal pain as well as pain from traumatic injuries.

In addition, like Salvia, Pseudoginseng improves blood flow to the heart while lowering cholesterol. It is a very important herb in the Chinese herbal pharmacy.

"The miracle root for the preservation of health and life," as it is called by the Chinese, stands as one of the most excellent health preserving herbs known to mankind. Panax Pseudoginseng, also commonly called Tienchi ginseng, is a relative of Panax Ginseng. It is a superb blood tonic and blood cleanser when cooked. It is a powerful blood vitalizing agent when consumed raw, and it believed by the Chinese to protect the heart and vascular system. It can be used externally to stop bleeding. It is widely used in Chinese herbalism internally as a tonic after traumatic injury. It is one of China's premier longevity herbs.

Whole, fresh roots of Superior Grade A Tienchi are used to guarantee the total benefits of the most potent ginseng available anywhere. Yunnan Tienchi is worldwide famous for its superior quality, purity and pollutionlessness. Tienchi is called "the pioneer of the ginseng field." Researchers have found up to 42 trace elements and minerals in Tienchi roots. An important element in Tienchi, germanium, is especially prevalent in Yunnan Superior Grade A Tienchi. Germanium is an electrolytic conductor. This makes possible the construction of transistors in the body. Tienchi is believed to help increase the supply of oxygen in the blood.

History China's most famous herbalist, Li Chih Shen, said that "Tienchi is more valuable than gold." Since ancient times Tienchi has been taught as a premier life-preserver and general tonic, building the blood and strengthening the primary energy.

It has long been recognized as one of China's best blood tonics, and has been used to improve circulation and to prevent anxiety. Nutritional Value Like Panax ginseng, a tremendous amount of scientific research has been done on Tienchi. As a matter of fact, Tienchi now seems to be even more valuable, with the research bringing to light a number of actions of this herb that make it of special interest in these modern times. A great deal of scientific research has been conducted on raw Tienchi. Tienchi contains three particularly important substances: Saponin A, Saponin B, and flavonoides. Tienchi is also rich in Iron, Calcium and proteins.

It appears that these substances provide raw material for the human synthesis of major adrenal hormones such as cortisol and reproductive hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone. Tienchi has also been found to promote non-specific RNA to deploy amino acids to form gamma globulin which acts as an antibody for the control and prevention of general diseases. The most astounding and significant research findings, however, revolve around Tienchi's ability to positively affect the heart and its tributaries. Chinese research indicates that Tienchi increases blood flow in the coronary artery (the artery that supplies the heart itself with blood) and increases the consumption of oxygen in the middle muscular layer of the heart. This results in the lowering of blood pressure and in improving regularity of the heartbeat.

This has led to the finding that Tienchi can prevent insufficiency caused by stagnation of blood in the heart. Research further indicates that Tienchi can relieve chest pain and/or the feeling of oppression in the chest due to angina pectoris induced by coronary insufficiency. Tienchi has also been found to arrest both internal and external bleeding, while being able to disperse blood clots. Tienchi has further been demonstrated to significantly reduce the cholesterol levels in the blood and coatings in the arteries.

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What is Lupus?

Lupus is an autoimmune disease where the body's immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue. This results in symptoms such as inflammation, swelling, and damage to joints, skin, kidneys, blood, the heart, and lungs.

Under normal function, the immune system makes proteins called antibodies in order to protect and fight against antigens such as viruses and bacteria. Lupus makes the immune system unable to differentiate between antigens and healthy tissue. This leads the immune system to direct antibodies against the healthy tissue - not just antigens - causing swelling, pain, and tissue damage.

What causes lupus?

Since lupus is known to occur within families, doctors believe that it is possible to inherit a genetic predisposition to lupus. There are no known genes, however, that directly cause the illness. It is probable that having an inherited predisposition for lupus makes the disease more likely only after coming into contact with some environmental trigger.

The higher number of lupus cases in females than in males may indicate that the disease can be triggered by certain hormones. Physicians believe that hormones such as estrogen regulate the progression of the disease because symptoms tend to flare before menstrual periods and/or during pregnancy.

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My Comment:

This is good it explain very clear how traditional chinese medicine works. Traditional Chinese Medicine takes time in healing with no side effect, unlike western medication antibiotic it does have side effect.

Chinese Traditional Medicine is based around the idea of restoring balance to the body. Unfortunately, Chinese Traditional Medicine does itself no PR favours by referring to this as Qi – which literally translated means life force or health. To put it in more practical and scientific terms, many of the afflictions that affect the body are caused by chemical imbalances and Chinese Traditional Medicine focuses on restoring this balance.

Unlike western medicine, which attempts to pinpoint a specific disease or infection as the cause of your illness and treat it, Chinese traditional medicine takes a wider, holistic view of the both symptoms and treatment.