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nervous system
vertigo/dizziness
nutrition
dietary guidelines
therapeutic foods:
foods that dispel Damp
increase foods rich in Calcium, Phosphorus, Manganese, Sulfur, Iodine, tryptophan (Jensen, p. 63)
egg yolk, kale, celery, fish, raw goat's milk, veal joint broth, cod roe, rice polishings, brewer's yeast, nutritional yeast (Jensen, p. 63)
therapeutic foods:
» Xue Xu (Blood Deficiency) or Stagnant Liver Qi or Stagnancy in the Liver channel type:
foods that nourish the Xue (Blood), soothe the Liver, tonify the Kidney
sesame seeds, honey, tahini
therapeutic foods:
» Liver Fire:
foods that clear Heat, Cooling foods, soothe the Liver
fresh juices:
celery, carrot, prune (Jensen, p. 63)
prune and rice polishings (Jensen, p. 63)
raw goat's milk and 1 tsp. sesame, sunflower or almond butter, 1 tsp. honey and sliver of avocado (Jensen, p. 63)
black cherry and egg yolk (Jensen, p. 63)
carrot, celery, spinach, and parsley (Walker, p. 134)
carrot, beet, and cucumber (Walker, p. 134)
carrot (Walker, p. 134)
for Liver Fire: celery juice mixed with honey (Lu, p. 87)
specific remedies:
take 15 g fresh longan fruit, 30 g lean meat, 2 slices of fresh ginger and splash of rice wine or sake, Steam and serve per day Or, eat 250 g of fresh longan fruit per day
(Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 27)
for vertigo from orthostatic hypotension, low blood pressure: take 250 g of peeled pineapple and stir-fry with 60 g of chicken, oil, salt and pepper (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 79)
avoid:
meat, alcohol, hot sauces, spicy foods, fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, salty foods, coffee, caffeine, sweet foods and sugar, cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods, catarrh-forming foods: tofu, ice cream
supplements
Magnesium
Vitamin B-complex, especially , B6, B12
Vitamin B5
Manganese (Smith, 1983)
footnotes