Chinerchi Health Tips

Health tips

Eat a light dinner or stop eating dinner can help weight loss and anti-aging

04 May 2012

You must to eat 3 meals a day is a myth and a habit but not a concrete rock science. If you are seriously want to lose weight To eat a light dinner or stop eating dinner is a key..

A famous health tip from ancient Chinese longevity practice is no food after lunch - You can learn these ideas from many Buddhist temples or Taoism’s philosophy schools.

Many western Science research has discovered fasting enhances growth hormone secretion and improves your health {click here find out more}

At evening time having a full stomach will affect the body by reducing Melatonin, which is a hormone that helps you have deep sleep. Not eating dinner can naturally stimulate growth hormone secretion and anti- aging benefits.

I have read another article: “Study Shows Eating Less Can Keep the Brain Young Supple.”(Click here)

When people are overweight, there are two issues: Body cumulating fat and holds extra water. These excess fat and water are toxics for the body, can negatively affect your body functions.

Eat less; give your body a chance to release these excess fat and water. You need to change your mind set first and attend a Chinerchi self healing workshop, to learn the ancient Chinese breath technique that can help you to reduce the hunger sensation. Your weight loss dream can become your reality.

Say "No" to low cut tops in autumn winter and wear scarf

05 April 2012

keep warm Say "yes" to this style in autumn and winter

Your neck and chest is most important traffic station between brain, heart, and lungs. Keeping this area warm means keeping a good blood flow in these organs.

Autumn weather changes to colder temperatures and many people, especially ladies still enjoy wearing low cut tops. When your neck and chest contact cold air, that can do damage to your health: flu, asthma, headache, Bronchitis and heart problems can attack you. Often I see patient's arrive in clinic with a bad cold or asthma, still wearing very thin clothing and low cut tops.

Say "no" to this style in autumn and winter.

Year of Dragon and your health tips

20 Jan 2012

Chinese New Year 2012 at 23-Jan Monday this is the year of the Dragon. I want to share the meaning of Dragon in Chinese culture and this year of energy relating to your health.

The Chinese Dragon is a legendary animal. It is the symbol of the Emperor in Chinese history. Also the Celestial Chinese Dragon is comparable as the symbol of the Chinese race itself. Chinese around the world, proudly proclaim themselves (Descendents of the Dragon).

The Dragon symbolizes power and excellence, valiancy and boldness, heroism and perseverance, nobility and divinity. A dragon overcomes obstacles until success is his. He is energetic, decisive, optimistic, intelligent and ambitious.

It is regarded as the Supreme Being amongst all creatures. It has the ability to live in the seas, fly up to the heavens and coil up in the land in the form of mountains. Being the divine mythical animal, the Dragon can ward off wandering evil spirits, protect the innocent and bestow safety to all that hold his emblem. The Chinese Dragon is looked upon as the ultimate symbol of Good Fortune.

From a Chinese Feng Shui point of view 2012 also is a strong water year. That could indicate that there will be more raining days in the water year. From healthcare point of view: when the weather become too wet, the people who have water retention problems, their health condition could become worst. Because the human is part of nature. Our body can be influenced by nature.

Too wet in summer, easy to have digestive problems, in autumn it can cause more lung and breathing problems, in winter more severe arthritis and sore back.

What can you do to improve and protect your health?

Eat more garlic at summer to avoid food poisoning for stomach health. Eat more ginger and chilli for improve blood circulation. To keep warm in general. More exercise, more laughter is always good. That can generate more fire energy in your heart to fight against too much water which can damage kidneys.

New Zealand's population today is 4,435,452. Auckland is the most ethnically diverse region in New Zealand with 56.5 percent identifying as Europeans, 18.9 percent as Asian, 11.1 per cent as MAORI and 14.4 percent as other Pacific Islanders.

If you live in Auckland 1 in 5 people you meet may be involved in celebrating Chinese New Year. I wish the spirit of the Dragon year will empower all of us. We are all on the journey to live with good health and prosperity.

Eating to improve your energy .Treat yourself eat light and drink less.

20 Dec 2011

Christmas is a festival. We are celebrating through eating. Feast often associate eating and drinking a lot. Do you realize that over eating can cause digestion problems and also after eating a big meal you can get tired?

I did some research at Google the total world population is of all living humans on the planet earth is estimated to 6.982 billion

925 million hungry people in 2010.

Digestive Problem affects 30% of Population in developing countries.

In today's world, there is more population with digestive problems than population with hunger.

What causes digestion problems?

Stress, bad quality of food and over eating.

What can you do when you see lots of food in front of you?

Remember your body is a soft gentle living machine having limitations Eating is to celebrate also for healing. You need to be conscious: After eating these foods can I become more energetic, beautiful, sexy and enable you to relax having good sleep or the opposite?

You hold the power to protect your digestive system, Love yourself and be happy.

spring season health tips-Keep warm.

Do not be in a hurry to take off winter clothes; the spring season is always windy. That cold wind can cool down and slow the blood circulation and the inner organs will be lacking in blood supply. The results in a loss of energy and strength and then it could be very easy to catch a cold which can then develop into to asthma, bronchitis and pneumonia. You need to keep warm - it is the best way to prevent yourself from getting a cold.

Get up early and exercise.

The ancient Chinese culture believes that spring is the best season to exercise and to be outdoors enjoying nature and the renewed greenness and freshness which will be beneficial for the whole year. Because the spring season energy supports new life it is a new birth for the whole natural world. We are human and need to get up early in the morning energizing our own life force to move forwards.

Health tip for winter: Kidney tips

1, Brush your hair

In Chinese medicine winter is the time to take care of kidney. Kidney energy support bones, teeth and hair. Also kidney energy supports the brain function and sexual performance.

If your hair becomes thin, gray and you are having bad sleep, also you may be easy to felt the cold .That indicates your kidney energy is weak.

To help your hair stay healthy, you can use your fingers to brush or massage your hair 3 minutes each time and 2 times a day. one in the morning and one in the night.

2, Not have surgery at winter,if you have choices.

In Chinese medicine winter is the season to restore energy that is not suit for having a surgery. Because the winter is cold can slow the blood circulation and effect the healing .Spring is for growth and autumn is for harvest can be best time for recover from surgery.

Consider Sam's story: Sam is a patient having good result from treatment, 3 weeks ago he decide to have wisdom tooth out. After that seems small surgery he has a cold and developed to bronchitis and pneumonia end up he is in hospital. Maybe some people will not make connection between the tooth out and cold and the pneumonia .If you can agree the pneumonia is result in lower immune syndromes and you may see from the different light.

Eat only 75% full of your stomach

Eat only 75% full of your stomach and after food felt energetic. if you eat 100% or 110% full of your stomach than food could become a poison , that can make you sick.

Go to bed 10:30pm is the latest

Winter health tips-No bear foot at cold floor

No bear foot at cold floor, because the cold energy can though your foot to your kidney and your abdominal area to weaken your digestion, sexual energy also waken your immune systems.

No salad at winter. Cooked meal is easy for your digestion systems. If after eating salad you have a loose bowel motion that indicate you not able to digest the salad you eat. You only waste your food and energy also did put pressure to your body.

Wear long johns for under wear, to keep your body warm more important than looks smart. When you wear warm cloth will help your body blood circulation and protect your immune system.

Autumn Health tips - take care your lung and colon

Autumn season weakened organs are lung and colon.

Autumn disease: Dry cough, cold, all problems relating to abdominal areas.

Autumn air is cold and dry in nature with deciduous trees loosing their leaves and drying out. Humans are part of nature and we have same response. When the body easily looses fluids, it can make the skin and throat dry.A dry cough is indicative of body dehydration at blood level and the lung is most sensitive to dryness. The lung and colon are a net work, so if the lung been weakens the colon will be effected.

To strengthen the lungs you need to keep warm and go to bed early (before 10pm) and not to eat any food. Too much ginger, chilly, BBQ meat or deep fried food. All of these kinds of food, are likely to dehydrate the body. Choose to eat the food that is nourishing and adds the moisture to the body. Honey is the best food for autumn.

The Stomach energy is mother energy for the lungs. To keep the lung healthy you need to keep the stomach healthy. The best thing to strengthen the stomach is to eat warm food. Never eat anything ice cold and straight from the fridge. Ice cream certainly is bad food for asthma and patients with stomach problems.

Autumn season health care for lung

01 Mar 2011

At TCM human is part of nature. When the season changes and the human body energy changes.

What health problems most common at autumn season?

Lung and stomach problems.

Autumn season changes from warm to cooler. the body is easy loose hydration and effect to blood circulation the lungs ,stomach and skin will have sensitive to autumn, asthma and Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Diarrhea and dry skin are easy to happen.

What should you do?

Not eat cold breakfast.

Most kiwi has habits is eat cold serial or fruit for break first that is not good for stomach blood circulation. When the stomach is colder not help food get digest and body can not receive nutrition and the whole body will be cold and not good for energy to flow. At Chinese medicine the lung energy support by stomach energy to keep lung healthy first need to keep stomach healthy.

Answer: warm or cooked breakfast: toast or porridge is the best.

Drink or eat more honey least once a day.

TCM believe honey is good for nourish yin energy and autumn easy to lose yin energy. Not eat too much chilly and ginger at autumn because will produce the dryness at the lungs.

Get up and go to bed early.

When you excise keep warm.

If you exercise by walking outdoors, it may be time to locate other places you can walk that are protected from sharp winds. Indoor shopping malls are great places to walk. With the days getting colder, take a few extra minutes to warm up your body and stretch your muscles before you exercise.

Summer solstice health care for your digestion part two

26 Jan 2011

At Traditional Chinese Medicine between the summer solstice and autumn equinox, we call it long summer. In New Zealand, long summer is about from 22nd Dec to 20st Mar 2011.

And it is quite different between summer and long summer. Summer is good for nourishing heart, but long summer is for spleen. It is easy to catch get sick if your long summer spleen is not healthy. Humid weather makes the body easy to catch dampness. To reduce Humid dampness in your body here is some tips to help you.

1. DO drink less alcohol. And eat less BBQ meat, because in Chinese medicine alcohol and meat accumulates dampness in the body.

2. DO eat less hot spicy, greasy, and high-sugar foods as this produces unbalanced heat energy and could weaken your body.

3. DO drink plenty of water; drink at least 2000 cc per day. Water is the key to good health. It detoxifies, cleanses, and purifies the blood and the entire human body.

4. DO eat some watermelon, to cool your body.

Summer health care tips part one

06 Jan 2011

1.Summer diet is an important part of health, high daily temperature, which causes the skin blood vessels to dilate, increasing blood volume, and a corresponding drop in blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract, digestive function and resistance also will be reduced.

Summer, drink plenty of water, do not eat greasy food, diet for summer is more appropriate to light foods, so eat more fresh vegetables and soy products

Do not drink too much cold liquids Too cold, especially after heavy physical labor will stimulate the gastric mucosa, the secretion of gastric juice, can lead to indigestion, and sometimes cause stomach pain or diarrhea. Therefore, we should drink a small amount water at room temperature several times as well.

2. In taking breaks from work Do not sit on the concrete ground like brick, or concrete floor when it is very hot or even try sleeping outside. The brick, concrete cement holds cold and wet energy, and this very wet moisture permeability and accumulation, means you could catch cold damp, induced arthritis, sciatica and other rheumatic diseases. DO NOT sleep direct on concrete or brick floors.

3. Summer,humid hot weather, it is easy to sweat, the exercise time should not be long, you should choose gentle, slow movement , such as walking, Tai Chi, and so on. Choose the time of day for shade, and remember not to exercise immediately after a meal or swim. Because swimming immediately after a meal will affect the digestive system function.

Allow, at least half an hour after a meal to swim

4. Watch dry skin from showering habits, in general shower once a day, in water temperature 35 degrees to moderate. Excessive showering you should not use soap, especially do not use strong alkaline soap, so as not to cause skin itching better to use plain water.

Sexual energy protection in summer

09 Dec 2010

At TCM Sex life and food all good things in life could bring pleasure and also could do damage of your health .Sexual of intercourse activity can be modest increases in the summer but you need to pay attention to two aspects. The first is not to have cold shower and drink. immediate after a sexual intercourse as the body is doing a lot of sweating, in the most vulnerable state, then rinse with cold water can easily lead to pathogenic cold energy produce to health problems.. Secondly for some people, summer sex season you eat less, you body weight loss slows, shortness of breath , and if you have too frequent sexual intercourse, it is more likely to result in physical weakness.

Green tea is unhealthy with empty stomach

09 Dec 2010

During hot summer weather, many people like to drink teat to refresh, it does but. Tea is cool energy for the body; too much green tea could affect body yang energy, too much tea could result in period pain, and lack of sexual energy

Eating cold food at hot summer night is bad for your digestion

09 Dec 2010

At summer season human body tries to release the heat from inside so then constitution could be little weak, the abdominal area could be cold, this is why summer people have more digestive problems, be careful not to eat meat, fruit cold drink before you go to bed.

Health tips-when your bowl motion is loose, salad could be bad for you

27 Oct 2010

The fruit and salad are always good for every one of you?

No. Any good food need to be observed in your body help you to get more energy and stay strong and healthy.

How to you know you have observed the food? Watch out your bowl motion. The good bowl motion need to be looks like sausage and move once a day .your stomach like a pot and your intestines like a oven to process the food you eaten. If your motion is loose that indicate your oven is cold and the food has not been processed properly and just running out from your body. Regardless what enzymes in the fruit and veges, you never benefit from it.

If your bowler loose What you should eat: cooked and warm food, no haven protein food and too much fat, especially at evening meal. When you able see the sausage shaped bowel motion. That means your digestive energy is better. You can start the fruit and salad you love and you will benefit from it.

The ideal time to go to bed from ancient Chinese wisdom

27 Oct 2010

What time Chinese ancestors say we need to go to bed?

In ancient Chinese calendar every only 12 hours each hour is equals today two hours. From 9-11pm is the last hour of the day and called HAI. The ancient Chinese character is picture .the top line is yin energy and second line is yang energy and that was two people under , one of them with a half circle . That means HAI time is yin and yang together to go to bed and make baby.

Health tips-deep breath from your nose to your heel

11 Oct 2010

Chinese ancestor believes the breathing deep is sighing of good health. All babies have refine and deep breath. More unhealthy we are become the breath become heavier and shallower, specially the breath-in deep is most important. When a person dying, the breath-in become shallower, till no breath-in can take the life to end.

The healthy breath how deep should be? Ancient Chinese book said: take a deep breath to your heel. Because the heel can connect with earth energy. If you wear high heels certainly not good for health and not help you to breath deep.

Spring season health care for liver

13 Sep 2010

At TCM the season of spring corresponds to the liver and wood is a time especially suited for the treatment or prevention of liver disease. At spring season aggravation of certain conditions strongly associated with the liver, such as hypertension and migraine headaches and .asthma, eczema.

The best treatments for spring are Liver Detox and Implant Acupuncture see link...

Daily routine care for liver: You need to get up early and go to the bed early , keep warm when the weather changes, eating less sour tasted food that is bad for liver and eat sweet food at spring good for liver.

10 Health mistakes people make in the Modern western world

23 Aug 2010

1 Drinking ice cold drinks straight from the fridge it can Cool the blood is bad for digestion bad for blood circulation and weakens the immune system especially bad for asthma patients.

2 Over eating protein food, makes the body too acidic and undigested protein can become toxic in your body.

3 Eating big meals at night, it goes against the bodies natural time table and is bad for digestion and bad for sleep.

4 Over exercising when the body is tired. Good health means good energy when the energy is low exercise will drain energy.

5 When you are sick or tired an over indulgent sex life can deplete energy not good for healing.

6 Believing emotional health and physical health are separate from each other.

In Chinese medicine all organs hold emotions. Physical health and emotional health are one..

7 Valuing independence and privacy over family and social connection. The human connection makes us feel safe and loved. This is the best medicine

8 Believing you only need a doctor when you have medical conditions. In Chinese medicine the best doctors treat people before they get sick.

9 Overvaluing the power of medicine and medical surgery. Not looking at the side effects.

10 Believing anti-aging is reducing wrinkles and improving sexual power.Using creams, surgery and Viagra. The best anti-aging is to heal chronic health problems