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2024 Ep11 Kitchen Spices for Therapeutic purpose
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.
Onions eliminate wind promote sweat, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, lower glucose,
Caution of Onions is if you have itchy-skin rashes, and acute blood shut eyes, please don't have onions.
Garlic warm SP/ST, regulates stagnated qi, lowers cholesterol, lowers blood pressure, kills germs. They are good for tuberculosis, pertussis, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, obesity; Lead poisoning.
Cautions of Garlic: Don't consume garlic if you have Yin def heat, bloody shut eyes, irritable, constipation, low fever and dry mouth, stomach ulcer, cataract, dental and throat diseases, or hemorrhoid.
Scallions promote sweat to release cold, strengthen the stomach, kill germs.
Scallions are good for these conditions:
- common cold with symptoms of fever without sweat, headache, nasal congestion, cough with a lot of mucus;
- Abdominal pain with diarrhea,
- Chronic stomach cold with poor appetite
- Respiratory infection pandemic during the winter season
- High cholesterol,
- A lot of dandruff and itchy skull
Cautions of scallions: Please don't consume scallions if you have the following conditions:
- Cold with a lot of sweat or a person who sweat easily,
- Hircus/strong body odor
- Chronic skin diseases, lupus, lymphatic tuberculosis, asthma
Tangering Peels - promotes appetite, bloating and gas after a meal.
Ginger tea + honey are good to ease PMS abdominal cramping pain.
Miso soup with lots of scallions is good for prevention of getting common-cold.
I will continue on other kitchen spices in the future.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!
2024 Ep10 Food for Healthier Liver and Gall Blader
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.
In today’s episode, we will discuss the topic of the therapeutic diet for the Liver and Gall Bladder organ, which is mainly referencing master Jeffrey Yuen’s teaching.
The liver meridian and organ is classified as the wood element among the five elements. The wood element is associated with two organs in the body including the Liver and Gall-Bladder. The following body parts are classified as the wood element as well including: eyes, tendons, and ligaments.
If your lifestyle tends to be stressful, you may want to consider to take better care of your liver organ. It is important to go to bed before 11 PM, and try to do the following diet that is beneficial for your liver organ.
Try to eat various legumes. We differentiate legumes based on their color and size.
The small size of legumes can be useful to drain heat/inflammation from your liver meridian and liver organ, because they have the draining effect. small beans: peas, lentils, mung beans, aduki, black eye peas
Ex: if you have sluggish liver, you want to regulate liver functions, use aduki beans.
If you want to nourish the liver, you could use kidney beans because they are big and red color. They make a connection between liver and heart. They are good for nourishing the heart and liver.
These are for your reference in terms of self-care. If you experience any liver disorders, please seek proper medical treatments and use diet as supplements.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.
Today’s episode about therapeutic diet for different organ imbalance is mainly references master Jeffrey Yuen’s teaching.
In the Chinese Medical diet, different categories of food could be beneficial to different organs. For example,
According to Chinese Medicine, we often diagnose deficiency of which organs or excess of which organs. Since different organs are categorized into five elements, due to the generating and controlling cycle of five elements, these organs have corresponding relationships as well.
For example, if you have spleen deficiency, since Spleen is categorized as an earth element, we could nourish its mother fire element. According to the five elements generating cycle, the heart is the fire element organ. That means when the spleen is deficient, we can nourish the heart to strengthen the spleen as well.
If a person has spleen deficiency, the person should eat drying / nonsticky/gluten-free grains. There are grains with a warming nature, that tend to be sticky, gluten amino acids.
There are grains with a cold nature, which tend to be nonsticky, and non-gluten. For a person with spleen deficiency, you should have grains of a cold nature, nonsticky, non-gluten.
The stomach likes moist, but the spleen likes to be dry. Grains that are gluten, and sticky, are better for the stomach, but not for people who have spleen deficiency. If you have spleen deficiency, it is better to have gluten-free, non-sticky grains including rice, millet, Barcket, Coren, quinoa, bulgar, and semolina.
All other grains are considered sticky, gluten, which is moistening, could be good for making soup, portage, and congee, and good to hold energy together. They are more nourishing stomach if you have stomach yin deficiency. Sticky grains include long barley, You should make them into the soup and drink them regularly to help with heat conditions, Sjogren’s syndromes, acid reflux, hot flashes, or heart burns. You should also avoid eating drying grains which are nonsticky.
I hope you will find this helpful.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.
According to Classical Chinese Medicine, diseases could be caused by external pathogenic factors or internal pathogenic factors. In today’s episode, I would like to discuss about the internal pathogenic factors. What are internal pathogenic factors? Internal pathogenic factors are our thoughts and emotions that could cause us physical conditions. Different emotions could impact different physical organs and cause complications in the body.
Sadness could weaken the energy flow of lung meridians and consequently impact the proper functions of the lungs. Anger and stress could stagnate the energy flow of the liver and consequently, it could cause many complications in the body including headache, high blood pressure, insomnia, and others. Worries and overthinking could weaken the functions of the spleen and pancreas, which could lead to possible digestive issues and other complications. Fear could weaken the functions of the kidneys. Overly joy could weaken the functions of the heart.
It doesn't mean not to have emotions. We should have emotions but not be stuck in emotions. When things happen, we are sad and cry, then we let go and move on.
If we find ourselves being stuck in any emotional situations, please seek professional help. Either see a psychotherapist, get acupuncture treatments, or other energy healings. Classical acupuncture treatments or energy healings could help your healing even at the subconscious level and karmic level.
Blaming others and trying to figure out what others did wrong only keep you stuck in negative emotions. Instead, you may be better off focusing your energy and time on figuring out what life lessons the universe wants you to learn from it. what you may have done wrong, and what you could have done differently if you were given the opportunity again.
If you wonder why certain things happen to you, try to think about why we are on earth, and what is the meaning of our lives.
I believe all life experiences are lessons for our souls to grow spiritually. Therefore, I'm thankful for everyone and everything in my life. By doing so, we transform negative emotions and energy into positive energies. So we can be happy and healthy.
If you are in an abusive relationship, putting up with your abusive partner at home or work situation, you are enabling the person to continue being that way. You are not helping them spiritually.
Loving yourself. When we love ourselves and take care of ourselves, we truly learned how to love and take care of others.
I sincerely wish everyone to be happy and healthy both physically and emotionally.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer.
The thyroid gland is part of our endocrine system. It is located at the front of the neck, below the larynx, or men’s Adam’s apple. It is comprised of two lobes on each side. The thyroid gland secretes hormones that regulate many metabolic processes in our body. It affects pretty much every organ in our body. It controls the heart, muscle, digestive function, brain development, and bone maintenance. It also has an impact on growth hormones, energy expenditure, the female reproductive system, CNS, autonomic nervous system, GI, and metabolism. Its proper functioning depends on a good supply of iodine from the diet.
When the thyroid gland doesn’t work properly, it could have two opposite conditions: hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
Common causes of thyroid dysfunction are iodine imbalance, stress, and autoimmune diseases when your immune system attacks your thyroid gland such as Graves’ disease, or Hashimoto’s disease.
Hypothyroidism is when the thyroid gland doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormones. If a person with mild low thyroid hormones, he or she may feel fine without any symptoms. The common symptoms are a puffy face, sluggishness, fatigue, weight gain, feeling cold, a slowed heart rate, constipation, low appetite, depression, and thinning hair or hair loss. According to Chinese medicine, hypothyroidism is caused by liver qi and blood deficiency, liver qi, or blood stagnation with mucus accumulation.
In terms of diet for hypothyroidism is to eat more sea vegetables, seaweeds, seafood with shells, bitter melons, tomatoes, apples, oranges, water chestnuts, and fish.
Try to avoid the following foods which could eliminate the absorption of iodines. They are mustard greens, Chinese cauliflower, radish, cabbage, and soybeans.
Hyperthyroidism is when the thyroid gland is overactive and produces more hormones than the body needs, which increases your metabolic rate, and your body uses energy too quickly. It can cause your heart to beat faster, palpitate, and cause anxiety and irritability. Although you eat more, you still lose weight without trying. Your thyroid gland could be swelling, you may have bulging eyeballs. Females may also experience reduced menstrual blood flow. Men could experience impotence. According to Chinese Medicine, we believe hyperthyroidism is usually caused by liver fire rising from stress or yin deficiency causing fire rising. Yin deficiency usually means dehydration, insufficiency of body fluid, and insufficiency of blood or hormones.
According to Chinese medicine, we recommend having food that is high in calories, high in vitamins, and high proteins. They could be Lyceum leaf, chrysanthemum nankingense, celeries, day lily, kalimeris Indica, winter melon, tomatoes, bitter melon, water chestnuts, watermelon, mulberry, apple, persimmon, banana, figs, mung beans, Chinese yam, soybeans, milk, lean pork, oyster.
Try to avoid stimulants including deep-fried food, fatty food, dog meat, lamps, beef, pork fat, chicken, pepper, hot pepper, scallions, ginger, garlic, leek, mustard, and alcohol.
How to maintain a healthy thyroid?
It is highly recommended to have a diet that is low in sugar, avoid processed foods, and eliminate the consumption of cabbage, and broccoli because they could interfere with thyroid hormone production. Try to exercise at least three to five times a week, and find ways to reduce your stress level.
The key is to find a balance in your diet and lifestyle.
In the end, I’d like to wish you all a healthy thyroid!
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!
2024 Ep6 0213 Lunar New Year
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced mechatronic energy healer.
A Buddhist priest used the energy of qian gua 乾卦 (the most divine yang symbol) from the Book of Change 《易經》, to describe the energy of 2024, and advise us on what to do to best utilize the energy of 2024 in our favor.
The Book of Change is a very famous philosophical book in China. It is a book allowing people to learn and master the universal laws, so they can make wise decisions in life, in their career, or in other aspects of life. Many famous people in Chinese history were masters of the Book of Change including Kong Zi who was the founder of Confucianism and many famous leaders of different professions in Chinese history.
Qian symbol (in Chinese, it is called qian gua 亁卦)is the most yang symbol among the 60 divine symbols in the Book of Change. This divine symbol Qian Gua has six lines 爻. Each line represents a different stage of a dragon symbolizing different stages of us, and how we should behave at each stage.
The sequence of the six lines is read from the bottom to the top.
The first line at the bottom of qian gua is the hidden dragon. Hidden dragon means the dragon is still in its learning stage. Symbolizes us being in our learning stage. During this stage, it’s wiser to be humble and do our best to fulfill our responsibility at our position, but not show off ourselves.
The second line of qian gua is the visible dragon. At this stage, the dragon could be visible. It symbolizes at this stage, we have approved our capability to others. We could seek more responsibilities and allow our boss and others to see our talents.
The third line of qian gua is about the cautious dragon. At this stage, the dragon needs to be cautious, constantly strive to become better and stronger, and regularly self-reflect our actions and words. Even if we made mistakes, we could quickly realize and be able to come up with solutions to prevent or fix whatever consequential damage from our mistake.
The fourth line of qian gua is the leaping or jumping dragon. At this stage, the dragon has flown out of the deep ocean. It is ready to fly into the sky. It tells us, that at this stage, we have gained recognition for being very talented or being an expert in our career. Now it is up to us to choose if we want to elevate our current state or stay at the current state.
The fifth line of qian gua is the flying dragon. At this stage, the dragon is flying freely in the sky. It is symbolizing we have become the leaders in our careers or any aspect of our lives. We are in the position to manifest whatever our dreams are or have reached our dreams now.
The sixth line of qian gua is about the haughty dragon. At this stage, the dragon has reached the highest level. It symbolizes we have reached the highest peek of our profession or the highest position. At this stage, we need to be conservative, nourish ourselves, and start to retract our energy from our careers.
The summary of qian gua is being mindful not to take all the honors of your success, and stay humble. Constantly remind ourselves of the universal law, everything once reaches its peak, it will head downhill.
If we could follow the message of this divine symbol qian gua 亁卦, 2024 will be a great year for us. Wish the wood dragon and earth energy could bring you all good fortune and stability in life.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced mechatronic energy healer.
Suggestions for people with gout arthritis, it is important to manage your stress, manage your emotional state, and get sufficient rest.
What should you avoid?
1. you should avoid food with high purine proteins. The end products from metabolizing purine proteins are uric acids. That is why you should eliminate your consumption of food with high purine. Food includes:
2. you should eat less oily food to eliminate the burden on your kidneys:
3. Eliminate stimulants including alcohol, coffee, dark tea, pepper, curry, and hot red pepper.
4. you should eliminate acidic food especially fruits including bananas, apples, plums, oranges, strawberries, grapes, and apricots.
What are the foods people with gout should have more often?
1. You should have food with low purine proteins including dairy products like (milk, and eggs), you could have rice, noodles, whole wheat bread, lotus roots, juicy fruits that are not so acidic, mixed nuts (except peanuts), vegetable oils, celeries, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, carrots, daikons, white cabbages, lettuce, coleslaw.
2. you should have more basic/alkaline food including kelp, seaweed, green leafy vegetables, fruits and yam, and sweet potatoes.
3. you should have food with high pantothenic acid because pantothenic acid could transform uric acid into urea and be eliminated from our bodies through urine. However, people who have high cholesterol should avoid such food because pantothenic acidic food could be transformed into cholesterol. Those foods are dairy, whole wheat, and egg yolk
4. you should consume more of the following vitamins which could help to eliminate your stress level.
5. you should have more lactobacillus drinks
6. Drink at least 2000 cc of water per day.
7. It is highly recommended to drink water boiled with plantain seeds or corn silk. Coin silk is the hairy part of fresh coins. You could also have barley congee. These could help to eliminate uric acid from your body via urine.
In summary, people with gout should consider a vegetarian diet.
Wish this diet suggestion could help people with gout being pain free.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced mechatronic energy healer.
I am often asked by patients “Is this food good or bad?”
It depends on your constitution, what your body needs at the moment, and how much you consume. So please be mindful of being balanced in what you eat.
Is it healthier to be a vegetarian?
Being a vegetarian, you have to be even more mindful than carnivores. Most vegetables and fruits go to the Wei qi level which is the muscular skeletal part of our body. Meats and plant-based proteins nourish our blood. Many vegetarians suffer from deficiencies in blood volume, vitamin B, and calcium. Please reference the Mediterranean diet to include a lot of mixed beans, quinoa, hemp seeds, flax seeds, sesame seeds, and mixed nuts into your diet.
Is it better to be dairy-free?
It depends on the genetic constitution of your ethnicity. For example, Europeans and Americans are very used to having milk and cheese, they are not allergic to lactose. However, most Asians are sensitive to lactose.
Cow’s milk has a sweet taste, and a neutral nature, and nourishes qi and blood. They enter the Lungs and Stomach energy meridians of our body. Because they are nourishing yin fluids, they are good in treating constipation due to dryness of the colon. Modern milk seems to be more cooling, they can be good in treating gastric ulcers. However due to their nourishing effect, for people who have poor digestion, especially spleen deficiency, milk could induce more dampness, and phlegm (thick mucus) in our body. According to Chinese Medicine, Spleen is responsible for transforming body fluid and water metabolism. When there is spleen deficiency, the body tends to obtain fluid, and have more dampness accumulation.
Overconsumption of Cheese induces more phlegm heat in the body and could clot our lymphatic vessels. For people who have arthritis or other muscular-skeletal pain conditions with underlying spleen deficiency, please eliminate the consumption of cheese.
Soy milk has similar nourishing properties as cow’s milk, but it enters the spleen energy meridian. If you have spleen deficiency, it is better to drink soy milk. It could nourish the spleen. However, due to its nourishing yin and body fluid properties, overconsumption of soy milk could also induce mucus, and phlegm in our body.
Almond milk nourishes yin and fluid as well. It enters the lung's energy pathway. If you are lactose intolerant and have lung deficiency, you could consider drinking almonds. Be mindful, that overconsumption, could also cause dampness in our bodies.
In conclusion, the key is finding a balance for yourself. Not to overconsume anything including things that could be good for your constitution.
My advice about self-care during the winter season.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki healer and an advanced Metatronic energy healer.
One of the important guideline is eat seasonal growed food within few hundreds miles of your home.
Spring season is wood element, associates with the liver organ. Our diet should nourish the liver organ. Eat more flowery, green leafy vegetables with sour flavor including: lime, lemon, kiwi, bamboo shoots.
Summer season is fire element, associates with the heart organ. Our diet should cool body's temperature, dispel heat and calm the heart. Eat more fruits and vegetables in red color and bitter flavor to cool the body and hydrate the body fluid. For example: watermelon is very hydrating the body's fluid and cooling in nature. The bittermelon is very cooling.
Autumn season is metal element, associates with the lungs organ. Our diet should nourish and moisten lungs. Eat more food in white color with pungent and spicy flavor. For example: pears could nourishing and moistening lungs. Garlic and onions could disperse lungs energy and nourish lungs. So as scallians.
Winter season is water element. It is associated with the kidneys organ. Our diet should nourish kidneys. Eat more rooty plants including daikons, carrots, sweet potatoes; and more salty flavor food such as fish, seaweeds. Also walnuts and seeds are nourishing kidneys as well.
Thank you for listening to “You Are Your Best Healer” Podcast. Namastate!
Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”
This is Haizhen Yang DAcM, L.Ac. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist. I am also a certified reiki and advanced mechatronic energy healer.
Today I would like to introduce some of the terminologies in Chinese medicine before we dive into the topic of nutrition. In Chinese medicine, the treatment is to balance the yin and yang of the body. Yin refers to the physical substance that you can see such as muscles, bones, body fluids, and so on. Yang of the body means the energy ATP which you don’t see but you know it exists. For example, in the blood circulation, the blood and vessels are considered as yin. The energy generated by the heart to push the blood flowing through the vessels is considered as yang.
Many of you may have heard of the five elements. They are earth, metal, water, wood, and fire. In Chinese medicine, our body is classified into these five elements. These five elements have mutual supporting and controlling relationships to maintain the balance among them. For example, in their supporting/generating/nourishing relationship cycle, the earth generates metal. Where do we find minerals or metals? We dig them out of the earth. In the hot summer days, you see water on the surface of metal. That is why we consider metal generates water. How do plants survive? We need to water them. So we consider water generates wood. We burn wood to have a fire. So we consider wood generates fire. After the wood is burned by fire and turned into ashes, so we consider fire generates earth. This is their supporting, generating, or nourishing relationship cycle. They also have a controlling relationship by controlling each other, they can maintain a balance among them. For example, if a river is flooding a town, how do we stop it? We use soil to build a bank around the river to stop the flooding. So we consider Earth control water. When a place is on fire, we splash water over the fire to diminish it. We consider water controls fire. A jewelry designer wants to turn a piece of gold into a beautiful ring. She/he uses fire to meld the gold and then mold it into whatever design they want. So we considered fire control metal. We need to trim trees, so they won’t grow wildly. We use metal to cut wood. So we consider metal controls wood. In the desert, how do we prevent drifting sand? We grow plants there. So we consider wood controls the earth.
In Chinese medicine, we believe we have our temperaments in our constitution. It means genetically we have our dominant elements that determine who we are. For example, some people are wood and earth-dominant. They tend to be tall, outgoing, sociable, and caring. If their wood is more dominant than earth, they tend to be tall, slim, and sociable. If their earth is more dominant, they tend to be shorter, heavier, more caring, and more introverted.
Different parts of our body are classified into five elements as well.
These five elements could be classified into yin and yang as well. Fire and wood are considered yang elements. The earth, metal, and water are considered yin elements. Among each yin, there are yang aspects to it; Among yang, there are yin aspects to it. I will not go into details here to avoid overwhelming you all.
I will continue this topic next Wednesday. Wish you all a wonderful week.
Thank you for listening to the “You are your best healer” podcast. Namestate!
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