In the previous post , I talked in extremely great detail about the important role the Yin and Yang diet plays on your digestive system health and how your skin health is a reflection of digestive health. I also highlighted the most important factor with regard to a healthy eating routine is to understand the cooking process of foods and how they also play a role in minimizing symptoms of intestinal heat constipation especially for people who suffer from acne prone skin, a symptom that a lot of popular colon cleansing products on the market don’t address. In other words, eating steamed foods are a lot healthier than eating grilled foods with steam foods being the Yin foods (cooling) and grilled foods being the Yang foods (hot) which is the entire basis behind the Yin and Yang diet plan. So the principles of accelerated detoxification solely rests on your ability to develop a healthy eating balance of both Yin and Yang type food in your diet and using a Chinese tongue diagnosis procedure to check for signs of potential acne-causing internal heat symptoms reflected in the color of your tongue coating. And that is what I am going to talk about today.
If you suffer from any type of skin ailment ranging from acne, pimples, Rosacea, excessively oily skin, oily acne prone skin, dry skin, dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, you need to implement the Yin and Yang diet into your healthy eating plan. Let me go into great detail about Yin and Yang foods. Although I talked about it briefly in the previous post, I never gave you a detailed comparison of what they are.
I spoke about how excessive intake of Yang foods (like fried foods) causes all kinds of skin problems. And not only that, it also affects your overall health. In case you didn’t know, your skin health is a reflection of the Yin and Yang balance of all your organs: Liver, Lungs, Spleen, Heart, and Kidneys. And the foods you eat in terms of the Yin and Yang elements associated with it has a tremendous impact on your overall health. In case you didn’t know, a Chinese herbalist can look at your face and can diagnose your symptoms pretty accurately and determine what type of minor health problems you may be suffering at the moment that is not considered serious.
For example, let’s say you are currently feeling sluggish. An herbalist, such as my dad, can look at your face and determine that you are suffering from lack of Kidney chi. What? Kidney Chi? I am just using this as an actual example. As a matter of fact, my sister occasionally suffers from Kidney chi deficiency. And in the previous posts, I told you how she watches her diet carefully and eats what I consider to be an almost perfectly healthy diet that reflects the principles of daily detoxification. But still to this day she suffers from that kind of digestive health ailment.
Let me give you an example of what I am talking about. As you should be aware that I talked about my sister’s healthy diet routine in the prior posts and right now you are probably scratching your heads wondering how on earth can what appears to be a very healthy woman suffer from minor symptoms of Yin and Yang imbalance. That is exactly what my sister suffers from constantly, and I told her about what types of food in diet she needs to include to offset those minor side effects of kidney chi deficiency. But she still ignores me because she is so obsessed with maintaining beautiful skin that she is so worried that the slightest intake of Yang foods will ruin her perfect complexion. Don’t get me wrong. That is what overconsumption of Yang foods tend to do. And when I tell my sister to include Yang foods in her diet, I don’t mean fried chicken!
Let me give you an example of what types of Yang health foods to eat. In the previous post, I mentioned that Yang foods reflect the cooking process of FRIED, GRILLED, ROASTED, PAN FRIED, AND BAKED. And Yin foods reflected the cooking process of STEAMED AND BOILED. An obviously you can draw your own conclusion that steamed and boiled is the healthy cooking method because the Yin elements in food (water content) are retained. And the Yang cooking methods (Fried, grilled, roasted, pan fried, and baked) strip water out of the food. Now you can see why eating too many Yang foods can cause inflammation if you don’t balance it with Yin foods. The Yin and Yang that I am talking in this paragraph only relates to the Yin and Yang cooking method and NOT the Yin and Yang characteristics of the actual food itself. I am going to cover that now.
My sister suffers from kidney chi deficiency because she consumes a lot of vegetables. And vegetables regardless of how they are cooked are considered Yin foods. Vegetables cool the body. Whereas meats like chicken (even steamed chicken) warms the body. Chicken is technically still a Yang food regardless of it’s Yin cooking method of steaming. These are the natural Yin and Yang characteristics of the food itself that mother nature gave it before you even talk about how to cook it with all the methods I have disclosed.
When I told my sister that she needs to include more Yang foods to offset her Yang deficiency conditions, I meant including more natural Yang foods like Ginger spices that she can add to her salads to balance the Yin and Yang conditions of her body. I will go into detail about that in the future posts.
In the previous post, I emphasized that eating too many Yang foods can cause skin related problems and a host of other biological health disorders such as intestinal heat constipation. But you are now probably shocked at the fact that you can also suffer from other common types of illness by the overindulgence of Yin foods, like vegetables. While eating too many Yang foods will send you in a heating uproar, eating too many Yin foods can have you feeling cold on a hot day.
Now let me go over Chinese tongue diagnosis as it relates to Yin and Yang symptoms. If you tend to eat a lot of Yang foods and suffer from indigestion as a result of not eating a properly combined meal or high fat meals which are hard to digest, your tongue coating will appear yellowish in texture. The thickness of your yellow tongue coating is a reflection of the amount of excessive Yang conditions in your body coupled with digestive dampness. Digestive dampness? What the hell are you talking about, Billy? Don’t worry. I will go into greater detail in future posts. But briefly, digestive dampness is a form of indigestion based on the principles of Chinese traditional medicine. It is just another digestive symptom that can worsen the underlying problem of excessive Yang conditions. Like I said, I will go in more detail in the future posts.
If your tongue coating reflects the appearance (Yellow and thick) I described in the above example, it means that you have consumed way too many Yang foods and have poor digestion. On the other hand, if you consume too many Yang foods and have good and easy digestion, your tongue will be a very bright red color with no coating at all. A normal tongue is supposed to be pink with a thin transparent white coating. As you can see, the redder your tongue, the more Yang (or fiery) you are internally. Your tongue is the barometer of digestive health in terms of Yin and Yang balance.
My recommendation is to eat more vegetables at every meal, eliminate high fat foods in your diet, and reduce your meat intake until your tongue returns to the normal pink appearance. Just remember that the redder your tongue, the more Yang you are and your need to include more Yin food in your diet.
And if your tongue is really red and has a thick yellow coating, you need to really stay away from foods that are hard to digest especially fatty foods. An excellent remedy is to maintain a starch free diet for one day. In other words, you are allowed to have moderate amounts of meat with vegetables and soups.
Due to the length of this post, I am going to continue where I left off. See you on the next post
Billy Loi
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