Week 4: Treating Excess

Question 1

Feeling hot, aversion to heat, prefers cold, red face, red eyes, nose bleeds, canker sores, halitosis, inappropriate or incoherent speech, convulsions, delirium. Local inflammation, swelling, rashes, skin eruptions, and sores with redness and heat. Constipation, yellow urine, desire for cold liquids. Tongue: red with yellow coat. Pulse: rapid and overflowing.

Answer 1

Excess Heat

Question 2

Dietary causes of Excess Heat

Answer 2

Prolonged overconsumption of heating foods or substances.

Question 3

Lifestyle causes of Excess Heat

Answer 3

EPF invasion, over activity, over work, prolonged exposure to hot environment, emotional stagnation.

Question 4

Diet Therapy for Excess Heat
Temperature of Food:
Cooking Method:
Flavour:

Answer 4

Temp: Cool

Cooking Method: Cooling

Flavours: Cool or Cold - sweet, sour, bitter, pungent

Question 5

Moves with difficulty due to contractions, pain that is intense and fixed, feeling cold, aversion to cold, preference for heat and warm food and drinks. Body excretions are copious and clear, pale, white complexion. Tongue: Pale with thin or thick white coating. Pulse: Tight, full, deep (full interior cold). Tight and floating (exterior cold).

Answer 5

Excess Cold

Question 6

Dietary causes of Excess Cold

Answer 6

Over consumption of cold foods or liquids.

Question 7

Lifestyle causes of Excess Cold

Answer 7

Cold penetration into the body from the environment.

Long-held unexpressed emotions.

Question 8

Diet Therapy for Excess Cold
Temperature of Food:
Cooking Method:
Flavour:

Answer 8

Temp: Warm

Cooking Method: Warming

Flavour: Warm-sweet or pungent

Question 9

What flavours should one use for chronic cold and acute stages of cold?

Answer 9

Chronic - Warm and Sweet

Acute - Warm and Pungent to drive the cold to the body surface even to the extent of causing sweating.

Question 10

Lack of drive, fatigue, slow movement and speech, cold hands, feeling of heaviness in body and limbs, dull headache or tight band around forehead, loose stools, diarrhea, bloating, edema, melancholy, depression, obesity. Tongue: white sticky (cold), yellow sticky (heat). Pulse: slippery (cold), rapid slippery (heat)

Answer 10

Dampness and Phlegm

Question 11

Dietary causes of Dampness and Phlegm?

Answer 11

Too many foods that are:
Raw
Cold
Sweet
Mucus-forming
Refined/Processed
Rotten
Stale
Chemically treated
Parasite-infested
Too many ingredients (poor food combos)

Question 12

Lifestyle causes of Damp and Phlegm?

Answer 12

Overeating
Late-night eating
Overexposure to damp environments

Question 13

Diet Therapy for Damp-Heat
Temperature of Food:
Cooking Method:
Flavours:

Answer 13

Temp: Cool

Cooking Method: Cooling

Flavours: Cool-bitter, sweet (sometimes), pungent, salty

Question 14

Diet Therapy for Cold-Phlegm
Temperature of Food:
Cooking Method:
Flavour:

Answer 14

Temp: Warm

Cooking Method: Warming

Flavour: Warm-bitter, pungent