Chinese Medicine has developed many methods over the last four thousand years not just to treat medical conditions, but to help strengthen the body and bring it into balance, so as to prevent illness from occurring in the first place.

It is often used to boost the energy, blood and hormones within the body to help it blossom and shine forth with good health.

For over a thousand years, many Chinese have also used its treatments to slow down aging. This has been particularly popular with the wealthy and upper classes in China ...

This article explains how certain types of foods can have an effect of immediate and also long term cooling in your body.
 
Knowing this can be very helpful in treating conditions and illness related to excessive heat in the body; and also avoiding problems created by the opposite, of having too much cold in your body.

(If you have been reading the other articles in this blog you will know why this is so important. If you haven't been reading them, then I suggest you start with this article ... The Art Of Balance )

In laboratory experiments, organo sulfur compounds found in ordinary garlic have been shown to be effective
in destroying human glioblastoma cells, a common, fast growing and life threatening type of brain tumor.

The study was conducted by researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and appeared in the scientific journal Cancer.

Two studies published in the journals "Cancer Research" and the "Journal Of Nutrition" by researchers at the Beckman Research Institute in California, found that mice fed diets containing 5 to 10% blueberry powder had significantly reduced growth and spread of their aggressive triple negative breast cancer cells.

These type of breast cancer cells are highly resistant to chemotherapy and account for about 10% of all breast cancer cases.

A study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry by scientists at Texas A&M Agrilife Research, USA, found that breast cancer metastasis had been inhibited by treatments that make use of simple peach extract.

Laboratory tests discovered that compounds in the peaches were beneficial to stopping the metastasis of breast cancer in mice.

Matcha is a tea from Japan which is made from finely ground green tea leaves.

It is centuries old. The traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony centers around the preparation and consumption of Matcha tea.

Buddhists in Japan have also used it for hundreds of years to help them focus during their meditations.

As you can see from the picture below, it is not simply brewed like a regular cup of tea, but after being measured into a cup, it is whisked to produce a frothy foam topping.

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There is archaeological evidence to show that the Chinese have been studying foods and herbs for well over three thousand years. During that time, they refined and perfected a great system.
 
It is entirely different to the Western way of counting calories and dividing our foods into groups of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. It is instead very practical and useful in altering states and conditions, and even in treating and resolving illnesses in your body.
 
Once you understand the Chinese method, you can start to see why there are many flaws in current Western nutritional theories.
 
The Western approach is nearly always to break foods down into smaller and smaller isolated chemicals, which are then categorized into similar groups. When you do this many elements start to appear to have the same qualities. However on the bigger level, the problem with this is quite clear.