Chinese food therapy is a mode of dieting rooted in Chinese understandings of the effects of food on the human organism, and centred on concepts such as eating in moderation. Its basic precepts are a mix of folk views and concepts drawn from traditional Chinese medicine.

City Life Subject Library invited Shi Renchao, a famous TCM practitioner to come to the library to hold a lecture on 12 March. The content of the lecture mainly focused on Chinese food therapy, and the attendees may expand the knowledge of how to better choose food to stay healthy.

Mr. Shi told the readers that food items were classified as heating or cooling. Heating food was typically “high-calorie, subjected to high heat in cooking, spicy or bitter, or hot in color”. They were to be avoided in the summer and could be used to treat “cold” illnesses like excessive pallor, watery feces, and low body temperature. Green vegetables were the most typical cooling food, which was “low-calorie, watery, sour in taste, or‘cool’in color”. They were recommended for “hot” conditions: rashes, dryness or redness of skin, heartburn, and other “symptoms similar to those of a burn”, but also sore throat, swollen gums, and constipation.

Do you want to communicate with a TCM practitioner face to face? Come to City Life Subject Library and join us! For more information please call 0571-86535100, 87065679.

Details

Name: Eating Healthily

Where: City Life Subject Library

When: Saturday 12 March

Enquiries: 0571-86535100, 87065679