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薬膳教室
薬膳で使われる漢方理論と薬膳料理を楽しむ会です。
日時：12月19日木曜日、１０：００から１４：３０
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Hatomugi Cha (Job’s Tears Tea)
Hatomugi Cha, also called as Pearl Barley, Job’s tears, Adlay, Coix, is known as a healthy tea in Japan.
In fact, this tea is very good for your skin.
Hatomugi (Job’s tears) is a member of the grass family and popular in Asian cultures as a medical food stuff.
This plant has also been used for centuries in folk medicine to treat dozens of conditions from arthritis to smallpox.
It has a lot of Protein, Calcium, Iron and Fibers.
A lot of Vitamin B1 & B2 of the tea speed up the skin metabolism.
Its speciality in a Chinese medicine is to control fluid inside the body; if swollen, reject water. if dried, keep adequate water.
Here are some examples about benefit of Hatomugi Cha.
Allergies
Cholesterol
Cancer Prevention
Endocrine Disorders
Gastrointestinal Benefits
Osteoporosis
Weight Loss
This is not medicine, it is a non-caffeine tea. All ages can drink.
If your little kids have warts influenced from swimming pool,
If you have swollen legs,
If you want to have moisturizers skin,
why don’t you try 2~3 months and feel differences?
Hatomugi Cha (Job’s tears tea) – Japanese medicine standard level-
10packs for $15.
Medical Foods③Case1：Heart Disease
●Case 1 ： Haert Disease●
According to Ministry of Health, one of major causes of death of New Zealand is Ischaemic heart disease.
“Heart disease” is known as a lifestyle-related disease; smoke experience, exercise habit, blood pressure, how much you drink alcohol, and stresses..
Especially in winter, it is the highest rate to die due to heart disease.
Because of coldness, our blood circulation wall gets shrink to keep warmth inside the body.
What happens next is poor blood circulation.
When slow blood goes through narrow, fatty, firm blood walls, it lets stop a clot of blood at any cost.
Then it can cause heart attack.
Ages is also big matter.
It is hard to cure Heart disease, however, the daily diet is the essential key to prevent when you decide to change your heart disease.
●How？●
In general, do not be overweight.
Obesity is the big reason of heart disease.
In Chinese medicine, heart disease is normally caused by Blood stagnation (瘀血) and/or phlegm (痰湿).
For blood stagnation type people, such as having tingling headache, bloodshot eyes, sore shoulder.
Please do not stay up until late. (Several symptoms go worth)
Celery, safflower tea, and cinnamon can help you.
Phlegm type people, who has dull head and body, nausea, a lot of phlegm.
You would be better to reduce oil, alcohol consumption.
And take Ma-yuen(Adlay, Coix) tea, Vermicelli(Mung bean), and blue-skinned fish (mackerel, sardine) are good for you.
Any of your unsure feeling which one is yours, please visit us for counseling.
We are pleased to help you.
Medical Foods② Four Seasons
In Chinese/Japanese theory, the basic attitude of healthy life is that how we harmonise with nature.
Nature has regular, repeated pattern. And so do we; in the wake of changes in ages and seasons.
●Seasons and Humans●
Classify roughly, we have four seasons.
Spring : the season of bud.
Our hormone systems change dramatically during spring.
Besides, the disorder relating blood, such as a rush of blood to the head, high blood pressure, hemorrhoid, menstrual irregularity, happens more often.
Imagine that our body also get ready to bloom. Inside the body, a lot of energy is stored.
Summer : the season of flourish.
We cannot stop moving during this season because our body has full of energy. However, humid and hot weather can damage your digestive system and muscles/joints; dull limbs, leg cramps, bowl pains and so on.
Automn : the season of harvest
After tough season, our body get better with clearer air, and we have more apetite in automn. But please be carful if you have weak respiratory system; dryness causes cough, asthma. Coldness causes muscle tense and sometimes leads migraine, shoulder pain and eyesight damages from slided neck vertebrae. (This is relating to the season!)
Winter : the season of store.
It is apparently cold which occurs quite strong stress to your body.
Against this cold weather, our heart needs to push more blood out though the body to keep warm. It means more burden to your heart. (Heart attack happens in winter the most)
Dryness can let you have less immune system because nose/throat/rungs should be wet with mucus to protect from germs/viruses.
For example, Daikon radish is very tasty in winter.
From the view of traditional Chinese/Japanese medicine, Daikon is good food in winter as it quenches a mucus membrane.
Apple, Kiwifruit, Mussel are also good foods. (Very New Zealand foods. We are lucky!)
So I could say
Tasty seasonal foods = Good for your health!
We humans have nature skills to adjust these changes. When people defy seasons, it would be one of big reason to get sick.
In other words, follow the changes of nature, take seasonal foods can lead you healthier life.
Mother’s Day
Mothers are busy every day to work, do house chores, give warmth and kindness to children. Mother’s Day is the day to spoil your mums! Kampo Health Centre offers you to make your mums healthier and more beautiful with our range of treatment menu.
