Eczema Diet – Seven Chinese Food Secrets That Will Change Your Life
Eczema can be a miserable skin disease with horribe red, dry, thick and scaly skin that’s constantly itching. Eczema is often triggered by an allergic reaction to specific foods and by avoiding these triggers, symptoms are relieved.Chinese dietary therapy, part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is an holistic system of treatment that look at diet in an entirely different way from our western diets. Here you will discover how to cure your eczema by incorporating my seven Chinese food secrets into your diet.
1. Avoid cow’s milk
Cow’s milk, a common food fed to children, can often trigger off a flare up of eczema. Because cow’s milk is very damp in nature, this can place a burden on your child’s immature digestive system causing itchy skin rashes and oozing and weepy lesions. Milk is an ingredient that is not used very commonly in the Chinese diet. However, in the West we tend to over consume milk which is why more and more people are experiencing an allergic reaction to it. If your baby has eczema then you really need to think about an alternative to milk. Less damp forming alternatives are soy or goat’s milk.
2. Avoid damp forming foods
Cow’s milk not the only damp forming food, but there are many other common foods that cause damp as well.Some of these foods, interestingly, include those that are common eczeam triggers such as wheat and peanuts.Foods such as bananas, cheese, sugar, concentrated orange and tomato juices also have a tendency to cause dampness.
3. Stop the greasy food
Greasy fried foods are extremely damp forming and warm in nature. Eczema is a Yang (warm) disease which means that there is too much heat in the body that manifests itself in the skin as redness and inflammation. Cooking methods such as roasting, grilling, baking, deep frying, stir frying and sautéing are all yang cooking methods. It’s preferable to boil, simmer, stew, braise or steam your food as these cooking methods are more yin in nature. Foods that are cooked this way are cooler in more nature and thus more nourishing to the body and skin.
4. Eat more cooling and nourishing foods
In order to treat eczema, you need to reduce the redness, inflammation and itchiness by clearing heat. As well it’ important to moisten dryness as well as strengthening qi (vital energy) and blood. Cooling and moistening foods include grapefruit, lettuce, seaweed, watermelon, cucumber, celery, barley, beancurd (tofu), pears, strawberry, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini and tomatoes.
Excellent foods to strengthen qi and blood are dark, leafy green vegetables, dark red fruits and vegetables such as beetroot, kidney, aduki beans and blueberries. Eating meats such as chicken, liver and kidney help strengthen qi and blood. A fantastic start to the day would be to have a bowl of oat porridge sprinkled with a few dates.
5. Avoid raw and ice cold foods
Too many raw and chilled foods (as opposed to cooling foods) can damage the digestive system. The digestive system requires warmth or digestive fire to function and a prolonged and excessive use of raw or ice-cold foods will eventually weaken this digestive fire. For this reason you may have noticed that the Chinese don’t tend to eat too many raw or chilled foods.
6. Balance your flavors
Have you heard the saying that too much of a good thing is bad for you, well this is true in a Chinese diet.Most Chinese recipes have a balance of the five flavors – salty, sour, bitter, sweet and pungent. For example, salty foods (seaweed, pork, fish) regulate moisture balance, drain excess moisture and stimulate digestion. Too much salt in the diet, however, can dehydrate the bdoy and cause dryness. Sweet foods have the benefit of mildy stimulating the circulation of qi and blood as well as moistening the body and benefiting dryness. Sweet foods include sugar, honey, nuts, potatoes, rice, meat and dairy products. Eating and excessive amount of sweet foods, however, can lead to formation of damp and heat which an cause an eczema flare up. It would be beneficial to eat a balanced diet which includes all the five flavors. You can balance your flavors according to your requierments.
7. Chew slowly and enjoy your food
Eczema is quite often caused by emotional stress. When we are stressed we tend overeat, under-eat or not enjoy what we are eating. Do not eat when angry because this affects the movement of qi and can cause it to stagnate.Over time, qi stagnation can cause a build up of heat in the blood which can manifest itself as skin rashes and inflammation.
The Chinese have always known the benefit of chewing food slowly and with concentration. Forget television or reading while eating and just focus on your food.You should chew every mouthful thoroughly in order to help our digestive system work more efficently.
By incorporating these Seven Chinese food secrets as part of your eczema diet, you will not only be able to keep your eczema at bay, but enjoy your food. Find more about alternative eczema cures at my Clear Skin Guide website.
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