Apparently your tongue speaks volumes…. about your health without you saying a word. And, as you already know, she examines the tongue. She showed me several photographs of tongue types. A white coating and its thickness — she said, pointing to a really unattractive picture — reveals the level of toxicity in the body. This formulated from January 30, 2013 Article |Dawn Turner Trice.
And this is why Dr. Lisa , a Chicago herbalist, has her patients saying “Ahhhh.” A few minutes after any “Ahhhh” moment, Lisa Lau will tell you that Eastern medicine focuses on strengthening the immune system. This makes sense to me, especially since there’s a new strain of norovirus that has just recently arrived on our shores.
Lisa Lau is a fourth-generation herbalist in her family, after her father, grandfather and great-grandfather. There are also pictures of each in her office. Lau hadn’t planned to be an herbalist but she wound up taking over her father’s business. She said, “she’s lucky in that she grew up eating this way. While watching her father wrap leaves, seeds and herbs in butcher paper for customers who visited his store for decades.”
Most of what she learned came from watching her father but also school in China. She said that during an exam, she’ll check a patient’s pulse — which reveals information about the heart, the circulatory system and how well the kidneys are doing their job. She checks the lungs, the stomach and the spleen to determine how well they’re functioning.
She said, most people who come to her have ailments that have persisted through many visits to Western doctors. Also that patients are hoping for a second opinion and to supplement their previous care. “We like to bring out the symptoms and not suppress them,” Lau said. “You get well quicker.” She said that with some cases, such as cancer or fertility problems, the best care may be a combination of Western and Eastern approaches.
“In Eastern Medicine we also believe the immune system is the base,” and she’s not fond of diets that are either solely vegetarian, or heavy on the meat. Lau recommends that her clients avoid foods that are spicy and deep-fried, because she believes they weaken the immune system. Balance, she said. “The yin and the yang.” Add to that: moderation.
However, Lau does avoid foods heavy on preservatives, additives and food dyes. Food and chemical sensitivities are what is wrong with Western Diets. Therefore, when I look at differences in cultures even from a trip taken to Indiana’s Amish Country (Iridologist) Solomon Wickey. Note: cancer rates differences in China where there incident rates are much lower than in the United States (the Chinese Mortality Rates Are Higher.)
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