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Read here about the array of therapies we offer and how they work for various disorders.
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Dietary Counseling
In a dietary counseling session we take a comprehensive look at what dietary factors may be influencing your disease mechanism or pattern of disharmony.
Specifically, using the guidelines of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic Medicine, we examine what foods and modes of food preparation and consumption are currently having a negative effect on your health and specific ailment; we determine your five element and dosha types, and suggest to you specific foods, modes of food preparation, eating times, and beneficial food types that would positively affect your bodymind type and specific disease pattern, and finally, review foods that are specific for your condition.
Dietary Counseling is an integral part of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic Medicine.
It is based on the concepts of seasonal eating, eating according to your bodymind type, general guidelines about the relationship between foods, eating styles, and healthy digestion, and specific foods for specific diseases and patterns of disharmony.
Traditional Dietary Counseling is also based on traditional understandings of the role of good digestion in health, ergo the old Chinese medical folkway, "Good digestion, good sleep, good prognosis." In Ayurvedic the central element of good health is the efficient conversion of foodstuffs into energy by the healthy digestive fire, or Agni. Without this process, Ama or toxins pollute the body, leading to disease formation according to your individual doshic imbalance.
As you can see, good digestion and transformation of food into energy is, along with oxygen and a healthy mental outlook, the source of health.
For more information on how dietary analysis and counseling can help you, please call Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. at 619.296.7591, or
email eyton@bodymindwellnesscenter.com. We offer a free 15 minute conultation by in
person, by phone, or email.
For more information on Ayurveda or Traditional Chinese Medicine, please refer to those sections of this website. Thank- you!.
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