Food Remedies

Traditional Chinese food therapy looks at the energetic qualities of food, including temperature, flavor, movement, seasonal fit, and the TCM patterns a food may support.

Use this guide to explore foundational principles, tonic foods, and foods traditionally selected to clear or move specific patterns.

  1. Energies and Flavors of Foods
  2. Actions of Foods and the Balanced Diet
  3. Body Types and the Yin-Yang Principles
  4. Preventing and Treating Ailments
  5. Chinese Diet for Weight Loss
  6. Deficiency and Excess Diseases and Chinese Foods
  7. Immune Excess and Regulating Foods
  8. Deficiency and Excess Diseases and Aging
  9. Energy Tonic Foods
  10. Blood Tonic Foods
  11. Yin Tonic Foods
  12. Yang Tonic Foods
  13. Lung and Liver Tonic Foods
  14. Heart and Stomach Tonic Foods
  15. Spleen Tonic Foods
  16. Foods for Eliminating Toxic Heat
  17. Foods for Eliminating Damp Heat
  18. Foods for Eliminating Sputum
  19. Foods for Promoting Energy Circulation
  20. Foods for Promoting Blood Circulation
  21. Miscellaneous Useful Foods

How to Use These Guides

Begin with the whole pattern rather than selecting a food from one symptom alone. Consider digestion, appetite, energy, thirst, stools, sleep, temperature preference, season, and medical needs.

Food therapy is educational and complementary. It should not replace appropriate diagnosis or treatment.