Today I am going to talk about a time tested and proven detoxification principles involving tongue analysis to help you determine the quantity of toxins in your body. I will also reveal what types of foods you should avoid when you have a specific type of tongue coating. Oily acne prone skin sufferers will definitely benefit tremendously from today’s post. Whether you suffer from Rosacea, eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, dry skin, excessively oily skin (my skin type), skin rashes, persistent acne, mild acne, or any other irritating skin conditions, you will be very well educated on how to reverse these irritating skin problems that reside in your body by performing your very own routine tongue examinations to help you diagnose skin infections or toxins in your body. I will show you how to stop it in it’s tracks before it gets worse. It is considered to be an ancient Chinese preventive medicine protocol and a method of Asian skin care. This is based on my strong belief in the concept that an ounce of prevention is always worth a pound of cure.
You can engage in a very healthy eating routine and still occasionally suffer health problems relating to everything from allergies, colds, physical discomfort, and skin problems. I know we all have heard the saying that if you eat a healthy diet, it is very hard to get sick. It is true to the extent of what types of foods you are eating. If you are eating a properly balanced diet consisting of, for example, vegetarian whole wheat pasta, you may feel fine and notice much better improved health. But another person can eat the exact same dish like yours and develop mild digestive discomfort. This is due to the fact that we were all born with different digestive systems. Some have stronger digestive systems than others. That is just mother nature that we cannot change. That is why we all have hereditary diet problems that are passed on from generations. Let me give you an example.
My dad suffers from jock itch and he was battling it all his life until now he finally got it under control. I suffered from occasional jock itches a couple years ago and other types of body rashes. Thank God that I now have it under control. This is mainly due to allergic reactions to foods of certain kinds and how our bodies inefficiently process those types of foods. Now let me talk about the way how your body processes food differently.
Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimming champion with 8 gold medals, is a classic example of how he can process all kinds of foods very well. If you had watched the Olympics intensely like I did, you would have become acquainted with his unorthodox diet routine. Did you see all those huge servings of heavy foods that he downed in one sitting? I am a big eater myself but not like him. And plus tall people tend to eat more than short people because they have bigger stomachs. And given the strenuous swimming activities he engages in, he needs those calories anyway despite the moderately healthy foods he’s consuming on a daily basis. The reason I say moderately healthy is because despite his consumption of foods high in fat, high in starchy carbohydrates and low in vegetables, he manages very well to refrain from eating hamburgers and fried foods which are the most difficult to digest. And as long as he stay away from fried foods, the food he is currently eating is considered a mildly healthy meal given his energy needs.
Even though hamburgers are not fried like chicken, but from a Chinese medicine standpoint, they are considered fried because the hamburger meat is pan fried in not only oil but enormous amount of animal fat. The Chinese herbalist take into account the way the food has been cooked.
These are the types of foods that cause acne and pimples. And I am not surprised that Michael doesn’t have any at all. As a matter of fact, he can get away with this type of daily eating routine without suffering any side effects due to the extreme physical exertion of his swimming activities. Please note that I am not trying to say that if you are very active like Michael Phelps, and eat like him, you are not going to suffer from acne. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of athletes who have developed acne. That is because they follow a diet high in fat especially fried foods which makes those foods incredibly hard to digest.
One thing I noticed about Michael Phelps is that he rarely eats fried foods. I am pretty sure his nutritionist advised him to stay away from hard to digest fried foods that would impair his physical performance. And also he doesn’t stuff himself either. Despite the huge servings of food he wolfs down on a regular basis in each sitting, he only eats to be satiated. He never under eats or overeats. And that is the key to be acne free. It is the most misunderstood concept that acne sufferers take for granted.
And there are acne victims who have dramatically reduced their acne symptoms by simply quitting their habit of overeating. Instead they just eat to be satiated. And by doing that, they reduce the possibility of digestive impairment that can aggravate acne conditions. And that is without any drastic dietary changes.
A good rule of thumb to practice is that if you are going to eat foods like pizza and you know that pizza slows digestion due to it’s hard to digest nature, just don’t eat so much of it. If it normally takes two slices to keep you full, just eat one slice instead. The purpose of this exercise is to teach you not to eat until you are full. My father have given me these words of wisdom given his herbalist background. He said to eat until you are about 70% full. That is the healthy way of eating. I know it is hard to quantify “stomach fullness.” The best advice I can give you is just eat when you are hungry. And stop eating when you are not hungry anymore. The whole purpose of eating is to eliminate hunger.
Body builders eat six meals a day or more and they are able to stay lean because they are eating smaller meals for optimal digestion and physical performance. And they rarely suffer from skin ailments. The ones who do are most likely taking steroids or consuming too many calories in their quest to gain muscle. I personally know skinny people who were once acne and blemish free all of sudden developed severe acne because they started taking supplements and ingesting high calorie meals in their desperate attempts to gain weight on a muscle building program. And I have been there and done that.
People who suffer from bad breath symptoms are people who love to overeat. In other words, they will continue to finish everything on their plate regardless of how full they are already. I know we were taught to eat everything on our plate and don’t waste anything. This type of mindset that was instilled in us from the day we were born until now is the main factor behind the rising epidemic of obesity, digestive disorders, sluggishness and skin problems.
In the prior posts, I talked about the rising epidemic of a particular bad habit. And that is studying or reading after eating a big meal. Blood that is needed to digest your food is drawn away from your stomach to your brain when you engage in reading or any other kind of intense mental concentration. As a result, you will suffer from lack of proper digestion. And as a result, bad breath will follow.
Now I am going to go over the tongue analysis exercise that you can use to effectively diagnose your current symptoms. All acne sufferers should follow this protocol in attempts to eliminate the symptoms that are causing their acne flare ups.
The best time to perform a tongue diagnosis is early in the morning after you rise. The appearance of your tongue should be pink with a thin white transparent coating on the back. This is a sign of healthy digestive system.
Acne sufferers tend to have a tongue with a thick yellow greasy coating. That represents a sign of digestive disorders that cannot be felt in terms of side effects. It manifests itself in the form of bad breath odor. There are a combination of factors that causes this type of tongue coating. Pigging out, eating fried foods or oily foods, or any slow digesting foods (excessive meat ), and Yang foods.
Yang foods refer to spicy foods or any food cooked at a very high temperature. This refers to these styles of cooking: roasted, barbecue, fried, grilled, pan fried, and baked. These particular cooking processes are extremely high in temperature.
Boiled food (and steamed food) do not have as high a temperature as foods that are roasted, barbecue, grilled, fried, pan fried and baked. Foods that are boiled and steamed tend to retain water. Remember in the earlier posts, I talked about the principle of eating high water content fruits and vegetables. Well that principle also applies to method of cooking. For example, when you boil a chicken as opposed to baking a chicken, which one would you say retains more water? Of course, the boiled chicken. And technically from principles of Chinese Medicine, eating a boiled chicken is much healthier than eating a roasted chicken.
Due to the extreme length of this post, I will continue where I left off. I strongly feel that in order for me to really help you fully understand how to properly perform a tongue diagnosis to eliminate skin disorders and other unfelt digestive disorders that causes many types of health problems, I strongly believe it is important for you to first understand all the important points of how your body assimilates food differently so you can have an even better understanding of tongue diagnosis in Chinese Medicine.
See you on the next post.
Billy Loi
