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Healthy Lifestyle - Balance Dr. Baohua Wang 5-11-2012

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Healthy Lifestyle - Balance. Dr. Baohua Wang 5-11-2012. What does healthy mean ?. in Chinese Medicine (CM). Yin - 阴 Yang - 阳. Yin-Yang. Nature: couple Yin: cold, dark, quiet, down, inside, passive …… Yang: warm, bright, excited, up, outside, active ……. Examples of yin and yang. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Healthy Lifestyle - BalanceDr. Baohua Wang5-11-2012

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What does healthy mean ?

• Yin - 阴• Yang - 阳

in Chinese Medicine (CM)

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Yin-Yang

• Nature: couple

• Yin:

cold, dark, quiet, down, inside, passive ……

• Yang:

warm, bright, excited, up, outside, active ……

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Examples of yin and yang

• fire - water• day - night• summer - winter• spring - autumn• man - woman

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How to judge yin-yang for your body?

• feeling: cold - heat• disposition: introversion - extroversion

steady - impatient• behavior: slow - quick• sound: quiet - loud• hobby: indoor - outdoor• diet: cooked - fresh• figure: fat - thin• tongue:

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the tongue

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the common illnesses of yin-yang

• yin type body:• cold• diarrhea• arthritis

• yang type body:• insomnia• constipation• hypertension

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How to regulate the body

• diet• tea• sports• surroundings• music

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diet - meat / fish

• chicken - duck• sheep - pork• fish/ shrimp/ crab• beef

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diet - vegetable

• yang: ginger, pepper • yin: bitter gourd, cucumber, turnip, celery ......

bitter gourd tumip celery

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diet - fruit

• yang: chinese date, longan, leechee

• yin: pear, watermelon, banana, apricot

chinese date

longan

apricot

leechee

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tea

• Green tea• Red tea - fermented• Oolong tea• Scented tea and flower tea

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sports

• yin: yoga, chess, sit still, stand still• yang: run, jog, walk; ball.

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surroundings

• yin: quiet, cool, indoor• yang: sunny, warm, outdoor

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music

• yin: to calm down

( the mountain and river)

• yang: to wake up

(happiness)

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How to keep healthy?

• human and nature• What can we learn from nature? • the rhythm of nature

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characteristics of spring

• warm• beginning to move upward (outside)

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lifestyle in spring

• living: warm• diet: warm, less meat/fish, more vegetable

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common disease in spring - allergy

• The cause of allergy in CM - coldness• How to reduce symptoms? - pat, cupping, guasha• How to prevent?

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characteristics of summer

• hot; strong sunshine• outside

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lifestyle in summer

• living: to avoid heatstroke; to avoid cold (air-conditioning)• diet:

avoid: too much ice cube, ice cream; too much meat

recommended: bitter gourd, cucumber, watermelon, peach

bitter gourd

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common disease in summer - diarrhea

• Causes of diarrhea in CM.• How to prevent?

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characteristics of autumn

• cool; dry• beginning to move downward (inside)

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lifestyle in autumn

• living: cool• diet: more meat, more fruit (pear, apple, grape)

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characteristics of winter

• cold• hide (inside)

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lifestyle in winter

• living: warm, but not too hot• no violent movement, sauna• diet: more meat

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common illness - cold

• cause• treatment thought in CM

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Chinese tea

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tea knowledge

• There are several types of tea: green tea , red tea, oolong tea (pure tea), black tea, white tea, yellow tea, and flower tea.

• The producing area of tea is specially emphasized in China.

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Green tea

• a kind of no-fermented tea.

• The color of dry tea and after brewing tea look green.

• It can help to clear heat.

• Longjing (Dragon Well tea) from Hangzhou

• Biluochun (Green Snail Spring ) from Dongting

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Red tea

• a kind of fermented tea.

• The stem color and brewing tea are mainly red.

• It is helpful to warm the stomach.

• Qimen• Yunnan

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Oolong tea

• a kind of semi-fermented tea.

• It is intermediate between green tea and red tea.

• Dahongpao (Red Robe Tea) from Wuyi

• Tieguanyin (Iron Goddess Tea) from Anxi

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Scented tea and flower tea

• Scented Tea uses green tea as base, and mixes with scent of flowers (jasmine).

• Flower Tea is a simply dried flowers (chrysanthemum).

• Jasmine tea• Chrysanthemum tea

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Thanks for listening