Are You Missing This? The Right Diet For Anxiety!

The cause of anxiety is well established. When enough stress is presented to the physical-mental-emotional body, nervous behaviors are likely to surface. Too much mindfulness can obstruct the begining steps of sleep. Internal organs deficient of energy will present with a long list of imbalancing symptoms such as high blood pressure, spasms, palpitations, restless leg and insomnia, etc. affected by deficient energy.Regard yourself, eliminate waking activities during rest time, add exercise, allow only sensitive people in your personal space until you are sustain the challenges. Eat nutritious food and take natural herbs that don’t add to the imbalance but rather help in re-establishing your center. Consider working with a counselor/pychotherapist to find alternatives to your current anxiety management strategies. 

Here is one piece of the puzzle. Beneficial foods which diminishes characteristics of anxiety. 

ANXIETY FREE DIET 

Foods to Counter Anxiety: Apricot, Cherry, Date, Fig, Grape, Grapefruit, Olive, Papaya, Peach, Strawberry, Tomato, Beet, Button mushroom, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Chard, Cucumber, Eggplant, Kuzu, Lettuce, Potato, Shitake mushroom, Spearmint, Squash, Sweet Potato, Yam, Almond, Chestnut, Coconut, Sesame seed/oil, Sunflower seed, Amasake, stevia, Agave nectar, Ganoderm, Dill, Basil, Mulberry, Lemons, Brown rice, Oats, Ghee, Green tea

Foods to Avoid: Beef, Tofu, Tempeh, Soy milk, Spinach, Miso, Asparagus, , Millet, Salt, Seaweed, Tangerine, Pinenut, Persimmon, Pear, Honey, Sugar, Oyster, Clam, Mussel, Pork, Peanut

Processed Foods to Avoid: Artificial Sweeteners, Coffee, Wine (beyond 1 oz. per day), Baked Beans (sugar), Baked Goods (doughnuts, cakes contain excess trans fats, sugars), Breakfast Cereals (sugar, processed grain, low nutrition), Campbell’s Condensed Soups (hi sodium), pot pies (hi calory/fat), Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) foods, Hotdogs (unknown ingredients, sodium nitrate), Luncheon Meats (too many additives, sodium nitrate), Margarine (highly toxic), Ramen Noodles (no nutrients, excess sodium), Refined Vegetable Oils (corn, cottonseed, soybeans, safflower seeds and canola), Saltines (excess carb & sodium), Sausages & cured meats (too many additives, sodium nitrate), White & Wheat bread (no nutrition), White Pasta (extremely hi carb & sodium), White Potatoes (solanine-calcium depletion & arthritic pain), Chips & French fries, Cocktails (excess sugar/liver toxicity), Fruit Juice (loaded w/ sugar), Fruit Smoothie (loaded w/ syrup, make your own), Dairy products except goat’s milk (pure mucous), Sodas (removes rust from metal, excess carbon dioxide, imbalances digestive system), Excessive Protein (loss of calcium, damages kidneys)

When I had an anxiety attack, I didn’t know about nutrition and herbology and at that time, I could not imagine that traditional Chinese herbs would have been effective with other modalities of treatment. In a stressed-out condition, there is a need for quick and strong relief. But in the long run, healthy foods and natural approaches to health are very useful in reaching balance.

Individual Constitution will affect outcomes from all foods. Accordingly, a cold body type person needs to avoid cold foods that makes you cold. Continued ingestion of cold food will make it hard to ignore the painful cold spots. Body functions will slow in pace. But in general the above selection benefits most people. If you want to get customized then I would suggest contacting, specifically, an Asian Medicine Herbalist. Notice I didn’t say accupuncturist. It is very important to find someone who specializes in Chinese herbs or herbology  and food therapy regarding customized food and herb strategies.   

Anxiety relief can be found naturally with food therapy & traditional Chinese herbs.
  

Food Remedy For Prevention and Relief of Constipation

What is constipation?

There are 4 basic types of constipation described are:

• infrequent stools
• hard stools
• difficulty passing stools (straining)
• sense of incomplete emptying after a bowel movement.

The rationale following each one of these “types” of constipation is dissimilar, and the method for each requires customization. Constipation can be followed by diarrhea. This pattern has been associated with the more serious condition of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Also, for the most part, severe cases of constipation happens where total obstruction occurs, where stool solidifies in the rectum and passage of stool is near impossible.

As we get older, our bowel movement lessens. Whereas, the majority of people have a bowel movement, daily, a little less than 50% of the grown-up population, have the benefit of regularity. The other half are irregular and do not have bowel movements every day.

Quick Constipation Assessment 

• Healthy bowell movement: regular daily bowel movement.
• Constipation is considered a real problem when there are fewer than three bowel movements per week.
• At what time, constipation is critical; people will experience less than one bowel movement per week.

Medical specialists embrace the point that there is no medical explanation to having a bowel movement daily. Additionally, they have determined not having a bowel movement for 2-3 days does not cause discomfort, only mental concern for some people. Medical researchers and doctors support there is no evidence that “toxins” accumulate when bowel movements are infrequent or that constipation leads to cancer. This statement is contrary to natural and Chinese herbs practitioner(s). However, the discomfort needs be resolved and the most effective source of relief and correction comes Chinese herbs for constipation.

It is important to discern acute (recent onset) constipation from chronic (long duration) constipation. You need to approach your health practitioner with your constipation concerns regarding the following:

• Acute constipation needs immediate assessment because a serious medical illness may be the underlying cause (e.g., tumors of the colon).
• Additionally, constipation needs to be assessed if it occurs with serious symptoms such as rectal bleeding, abdominal pain and cramps, nausea and vomiting, and involuntary weight loss.
• In comparison, the assessment of chronic constipation may not need attention, especially, if simple aid brings relief.

OK! THE NATURAL MEDICINE EXPLANATION 

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF CONSTIPATION & WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO CORRECT THE IMBALANCE?

While the medical model describes and defines the condition of constipation, it is not clear what the underlying causation is. To declare there is inflammation or infection underpinning constipation may not be the whole story. Though there may be inflammation, its important to understand the precondItion and unseen phenomena creating this toxic condition.

The anology of weather and environment will serve us to understand what is happening with constipation. When its hot and dry, we have dessert conditions. What occurs is that all elimination dries up. When the environment is cold and damp then the condtions are boggy-everything is moist. Once these conditions happen in the elimination channels, then our bowel movement is malformed. If our descending colon and rectum are too warm then it dehydrates our elimination. The result is that it becomes dry and hardened. It also makes the colon sluggish due to increased friction and deficient lubrication. Chinese herbs for constipation will counter the above conditions.

FOOD THERAPY FOR CONSTIPATION

To counteract this drying process, ingest cooling food and herbs. Nutritional Food therapy such as: salads, green beans, spinach, etc. and cooling fruit like melons,pineapple, etc. 

 Chinese herbs for constipation and eating a diet that cools the lower colon will change the sufferer back to a regular status within 24-72 hours.