Defined

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Defined

• Chinese medicine holds that the whole of nature
  is composed of yin/yang
• Every being and every thing . . .
• Simultaneously opposed, yet complementary
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Symbols of Health

• In the body, Yang is warming and enlivening . . .
• Yin refers to our capacity for stillness and rest
  . . .
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Health as Harmony

• To be healthy, one must be in harmony with
  nature- BALANCE
• Integrative mind/body health

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Overview Four Main Aspects

• Yin and Yang are opposites
• Inter-dependent can not exist without each other
• Mutual Consumption of Yin and Yang
• Inter-transformation of Yin and Yang
• Tsou Yen of the Yin Yang School in the
  (476-221B.C.)

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Acupuncture and Yin/Yang

• Flow of Qi along Meridians

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• 2000 years ago Yin/Yang was introduced to TCM
  explaining pathological changes/treatments
• Stresses psychosocial harmony
• Health is state of physical/spiritual harmony
• Disease and sickness is a disturbance of Yin and
  Yang in nature, society, human beings.
• Yin and Yang is holistic homeostasis of human
  mind, body, and individual's own social,
  spiritual, environment circumstances (Lu,
  2002)

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Acupunture pointsa stimulation tuning
mechanism

• Acu-points are high electric
• conductance points on meridians
• Points emit protons, or light particles
• Meridians are streams of light
• energy flow (qi-Yang)
• Effect circulation of blood and
• fluids (Yin) (www.nccm.nih.gov.)

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Two Meridian Examples

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Pain and Yin Yang

• Increased blood flow (Yin) to the thalamus (pain
  relay center) Excitation of neurons (impulse/qi)
  from thalamus (Yang) (www.acpuncturedoc.com)

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NIH Panel on Acupuncture

• Clear evidence that needle acupuncture treatment
  is effective for post op nausea and vomiting,
  pregnancy nausea, post op dental pain
  (www.nccam.nih.gov)

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Yin Yang Foods

• Combine foods that are classified as yin as well
  as yang
• Do not consume an excess of any one food
• Eat according to season, and area

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Yin Foods

• Foods in this group are considered cool or cold
• These are thought to relieve illness associated
  with heat (i.e. fever or inflammation)
• But an over indulgence in the Yin food group
  could lead to cold related symptoms (i.e. weak or
  faint, or spleen problems)
• Some examples of Yin foods are apples, crab,
  lettuce, sweeteners, and alcohol

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Yang Foods

• These foods are considered warm or hot
• They can help alleviate cold symptoms
• When eaten in excess they could contribute to
  heat related illness
• Some Yang foods are bell peppers, chestnuts,
  chicken, garlic, eggs, and salt

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Creating balance in your diet

• As simple as eating a variety of foods
• Balance can also be achieved through methods of
  cooking food.
• -cooking with heat is considered yang,
  
• whereas cooking with water is more
• yin
• -for example take a piece of chicken
• and by boiling it rather than baking
  or frying
• it, you have combined the two
  elements
• Excess in one areas causes deficiency in
  another
• -eating equal portions of yin and yang
  foods should
• eliminate cravings and binge eating
  since the body is
• comfortably balanced

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Nature will help with a Yin Yang Diet

• Certain foods are available according to season
  because that is when they are intended to be
  eaten
• Local environment will also play a role in what
  foods should be eaten and when, for example
• -Places that have very cold, snowy
• winters will not have cold food
  readily
• available at that time. Hot foods
  would be
• eaten to balance out the cold.
• -same goes for hot humid areas that
  would
• need to have cold foods to subdue the
  heat

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Food for thought

• Yang is considered more masculine . . .
• meat and potatoes are more yang. . .
• like the old adage Meat-n-potatoes-kind-
• a-guy, foods can take on masculinity
• VS.
• Yin being more feminine . . .
• salads considered more yin . . .salads
  have become
• associated with femininity

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