Chinese medicine can help with food intolerances

Chinese medicine helps against food intolerances
Intolerances to certain foods are already almost common diseases - and the trend is rising. Gluten intolerance alone affects five times as many people today as it did 50 years ago. The affected person only remains to consistently refrain from the incompatible nutritional components, since there is no cure according to orthodox medicine. By contrast, with Chinese medicine, the diet can gradually be expanded again.

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Feeling of fullness, nausea, distended abdomen, restlessness in the abdomen, frequent wind, as well as pain and diarrhea are among the most common symptoms when the wrong thing is eaten. When the reactions go deep, sufferers usually additionally suffer from fatigue, depression, circulatory disorders or joint pain. The unequivocal allergic reaction forms may include tingling, burning and itching of the oral mucosa, wheals, eczema, swelling of the neck and face or even asthma.

Whether a food intolerance is present determines a provocation test reliably. For this purpose, only tolerated food is consumed for three days and then the suspicious food is eaten. If symptoms occur, they should disappear after three days of light diet. But why do such incompatibilities arise? The chief physician of the clinic at Steigerwald, Dr. med. Christian Schmincke, has an explanation: "If you compare our current diet with that in former times it becomes clear that today it is more about 'too much'. The former, economical diet with regular hunger phases keeps the body healthy. Such an ebb and flow diet leads to a regular recycling of stored reserves and keeps the dynamics of the up-and-down metabolic processes on trot. "Our modern consumer society overwhelmed by the view of Chinese medicine by quantity, questionable quality and exaggerated diversity, the digestive and metabolic organs.

For this reason, Chinese therapy focuses first and foremost on cleansing processes. Chinese herbs, mostly herbal ingredients that are drunk as a decoction, rid the body of superfluous nutrients and their breakdown products. So the body learns again to differentiate between good and bad substances - Chinese as clear and cloudy energies. "In the next therapeutic step, it is about building and regeneration of the mucous membranes," adds Dr. med. Schmincke. In the case of allergic or autoimmune intolerances, the focus is also on the gift of medicinal plants, which help the body to eliminate inflammatory contaminated sites via productive respiratory infections. "Every well-received bacterial infection brings the immune system back a bit from the allergic 'wrong track', Dr. makeup.

Despite good success in treating food intolerances with Chinese medicine, therapy requires patience. Whoever applies them can at the end of the treatment delete the phrase "I can not eat that" from his repertoire. (Pm)