Traditional Chinese Medicine nutritional therapy dates back over 6,000 years ago and it focuses on the principles of balance and harmony. The goal is to apply traditional healing properties of foods to repair disharmonies within the body.
Chinese nutritional therapy is different from Western nutrition in the sense that it does not go into the biochemical nature of food. Chinese nutritional therapy deals with the energetic properties of food. The energetic properties of food refers to qualities such as warming, cooling, neutral, drying, or lubricating.
With the intakes that are done during each visit, acupuncturists can pick up on imbalances within the body. Based on this, we will provide nutritional guidance to help address the current state of health within the body and work towards bringing it back into balance to preserve health and promote longevity.