Spring Into Detox

By Maria Chah, DOM, AP & Jennifer Troyan

If you think about Springtime and what that means, it is a time for renewal, preparing for the new (you can see the best example - watch what nature does). Spring is the perfect time to clear your mind and clean your body. Detox can assist with clearing your lungs to take out excess pollen that is so prevalent in Spring.

Spring is all about preparing for the new. Detox wakes up new cells within your body. Letting go of the old to take on the new.

This is in line with even cleaning your home. We have all heard of spring cleaning. Well, detox is spring cleaning for your body which helps your mind too. At the bottom of this article, we share a link to access a free download for a 7 Day Detox. We recommend this detox for Spring & Fall.

I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Maria and she explained this in a straightforward way to understand.

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Think of Spring as all new blooms. In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) there are 5 elements and each element represents something specific. The Spring element is Wood. Think of it this way, in Spring there are all new blooms, new seeds breaking through the soil and little saplings following the sun to be a big tree or whatever it wants to be. It is ready to bear new fruit, new everything. So, when we detox, just like when a tree needs to grow, it has to push itself through the soil and push past things to break through. Think of your body full of blockages (like a sprout’s passage through soil) with all the winter build up and stagnation inside.

Most of us Americans, we don’t stay still, we drink more and party more during the holidays, we eat more, and we are more sedate, sitting down more. We are supposed to go within in Winter, retreating inside. Now, we are coming back out of our shells, shedding our old skin, shedding the excess weight and blockages. Now it is time to move.

The Wood element is about planning and doing, preparing for the new things in our life. You might be thinking about the new bathing suit you are going to wear in Summer or the new car you are going to buy or rent for your summer vacation. This is the time for planning new ideas. You want to do this with a clear mind and a clean body, so you have the energy to go into your Yang - moving up, out and forward; like the Sun, which is high in the sky, living its fullest expression. Spring is the Wood that feeds the Fire element (which is the heart) in Summer.

We are preparing for a time of high activities, fueling our bodies with new soil, and fresh soil (detox metaphor). The Spring Air and all the elements that are going to make us strong, ready and prepared to do what our Yang demands from us. Our super cells start to get charged. The detox is very important to make sure that when you have new blood forming, old cells being shed, and new ones being formed, you want to feed it healthy energy, so it works at its fullest vibration. Vibrational frequencies are important. The lighter we feel, the freer and more vibrant we are but if you’re eating heavy foods in the Summertime your body gets foggy and hot easily, wanting to sweat out the excess heat.

Then, you are collecting heat, which your body is holding onto because it is already accumulating internal food heat along with receiving external heat. Together, this creates a hot toxic internal soup of body heat. This can only lead your body straight to, what they call “swamp ass”, I mean excess heat. It’s not uncommon when people begin to experience sunstroke, nausea, sudden high blood pressure, pounding headaches, profuse sweating, and many other things due to this factor. When you drink too much alcohol, you get dehydrated, or you are eating things that will rob you of nutrients and vitality by eating fatty foods like cheeses, breads, and butter, particularly during summer season.

You know, the body really does not take kind pleasure in this type of excess heat and that’s why we start to grab a salad instead or perhaps even crave it! Our body naturally desires hydration and fruits bear in the Spring because it is time to eat food types that prepare you for the demands of Spring and Summer. Plus, fruits have antioxidants which help the human cells rid unwanted energy plus hold structured water to keep our body temperature at healthy hydrated homeostatic levels during extreme demands.

Fresh fruits and green leafy vegetables also have an important role in assisting internal organs to rid pollution and poisons in our foods such as processed foods or pesticides on produce, as well as added hormones and preservatives. These added elements do help us keep food safe but can overheat and/or stagnate proper energy flow that is vital to help us survive without extreme healing crises. They help your body get rid and secrete all the bad stuff.

So, however you can help your body, detoxing is one of the best ways to assist the body’s natural process of elimination. Once you clean out and detox all the heaviness, the sluggishness of the cells and you wake up new cells, you will feel invigorated, and less dense. Think of it like this, the earth is giving you nice, fresh fruits, new green plants, antioxidants, and veggies to help nourish and prepare us for the hot Summer where we can be our most alive and vibrant healthy self.

In Chinese Medicine, a pathogen can be anything the wind blows your way. A pathogen does not refer to cancer which is caused by years of a buildup of toxins. It’s about eating the wrong things during the wrong seasons or not doing the same things in the right seasons, like the right types of exercises. Sometimes we overdo exercising in the Winter time when we are supposed to be resting. There is a reason and season for everything. When we are talking about our detox, we are letting go of the old to be prepared to take on the new. The new also brings irritants sometimes. Some people are not genetically prepared for it and a lot of times our bodies are not being properly prepared for the seasons. Like the saying, April showers bring May flowers. The wind roars when March comes in. That is because the earth is pollinating, it’s shaking up all the trees, getting it ready for things to blossom and pollinate.

Things are pollinating and our lungs are taking this in, which is good (think of using flowers, honey, and essential oils as a natural defense for allergy season). Essential oils can prepare you for these external pathogens. When you detox, you are going to detox not only your gut, but you are also helping your five major organs: liver, heart, kidneys, and GI tract (large intestines, stomach and spleen) and lungs. These organs do most of the work. There are also a lot of assistant organs like your pancreas, gallbladder, and appendix (which help keep good flora in your gut). We have two kidneys because it is a major filtering system and plays a role in eliminating salt, metals, and all the fluids we take. Everything is structured in water, particularly in fruits and vegetables, so this is the most important time to eat them.

Let’s speak into the importance of Structured water which hydrates 60% intracellularly, and 40% extracellularly. Most of us are drinking dead chlorinated water that just passes through our body. It’s know wonder why Many people say they are drinking lots of water, but it just gets peed right out of their body. Why is this?

Your intra- cells are not drinking it that’s why. It does not recognize it as structured living water. Fruits and vegetables primarily consist of hydrated live structured water best for all living cells especially for your organs. Which, by the way, love it and need it for optimal detoxification processing.

And, You poop better too.

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Here is a little more information to add to what you have learned so far and educate yourself with some helpful tips:

DID YOU KNOW? Your body loves structured water. What is that? Structured water is water naturally found in fruits and veggies, such as watermelon, celery, cucumber, strawberries, spinach, raspberries, carrots, cabbage, grapefruit, to name a few. Your liver loves that kind of water. It gives you nutrients that drinking water does not. Also, if you are drinking a lot and still feeling thirsty it might be that your body is craving structured water. Structured water is absorbed more slowly and can stay in your body longer which is why it is a major source of water and hydration. It is found in nature as well, such as untouched mountain springs, streams, glacier melts, water running over rocks and the like.

Spring is the right time to detox your body because it will support your liver health. We are going to talk about your liver a lot because it is a very important organ in TCM. In Chinese Medicine, your liver regulates your Qi or life force, blood going to your organs (especially your digestive tract) and helps the flow of energy throughout your body. It reduces inflammation, breaks down drugs, and detoxifies chemicals in your body. Your energy needs to flow freely otherwise it causes imbalances and can lead to many health issues and cause sleep issues. Our livers get rid of what we don’t need. You can think of it like the processing unit of our bodies, much like the CPU (central processing unit) of a computer.

Your liver likes sour things and green foods. Healthy greens nourish the blood, store nutrients and help your liver’s energy. It is also responsible for the regulation of emotions. It nourishes and stores your blood.

As you can see, the liver is a particularly important organ. Incidentally, the liver helps your eyes too by maintaining your vision - literally and figuratively.

Check out this blog post, Preparing for Fall Detox. It contains an excellent 7 Day Detox. You can download the PDF (for FREE here!). I have done this detox myself. It is a wonderful aid to detoxifying your body and certainly helps clear your mind as well. It is nice to focus on the detox and dedicate yourself to something different for a week. You feel so good when it is done!

Listen to this audio clip from Dr. Maria to get you started with this detox program:

May you feel inspired to try this or to do it again. Your body will thank you.

Side Note: You can help your pets live their best lives by doing a little detox for them too. You must research this or consult your veterinarian first but there are many fruits and vegetables you can incorporate into their diet too. It helps them in the same ways it helps us. Wheatgrass is a great example of a good detox food for your cats and dogs. It is something to do together! 😊

In fact, invite your family and friends to join too! This is a wonderful way to encourage you to all stay on track and support each other during the process. You got this!

Additional Resource: This article is a great starting point for learning about The 5 Tastes in Chinese Medicine and it is a nice companion piece to this article.

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By Jennifer Troyan & Maria Chah, DOM, AP

It is helpful to understand your body in conjunction with nature. A good way to do this is through the 5 elements in Chinese Medicine: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water & Wood. These elements correspond with 5 “flavors” as well: Bitter, Sweet, Spicy, Salty and Sour. We’ll break this down easily for you.

The 5 elements theory is about the relationships between the different elements in nature and the life force (or “qi”) that flows through them. There are a couple of handy charts below in this article so you can “see” what we are talking about.

The main point of the 5 elements is about creating (or generating) and conquering (or overcoming) favorable processes - the yin and yang if you will. By doing both, you can harmonize and maintain balance in your systems.

The elements also play a part in your organs. Elements are subject to climatic influences as well. The idea is everything is connected and when you learn or know more, you can better manage your body, mind, and heart processes.

How do the elements work together or against each other?

Each of the five elements has a certain relationship with the other elements, based on their nature. These relationships form the laws of nature. Some elements are enemies, in that each blocks the expression of the other. Fire and water, for example, will “destroy” each other if they get the chance. To co-exist, fire and water need to be separated. Too much fire in the body will create inflammation, while too much water can dampen fire and cause indigestion. Go back to the image above and you can see the green and red arrows showing the associations or connections to each and how they work together to generate or overcome opposing elements. This information can be a guide for you to keep in mind. The awareness of this will help you learn to stay in balance, plus it will help you honor the elements and remain harmonious.

Within these elements are characteristics that can be a guide for understanding as well - how everything flows together. There are tastes or flavors associated with the elements.

The 5 flavors are:

• Bitter (Fire)
• Sweet (Earth)
• Spicy or Pungent (Metal)
• Salty (Water)
• Sour (Wood)

In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) these 5 flavors correspond not only to the actual taste but to the properties of those flavors and how they interact with the body.

How to balance your life through the five elements:

Cleanse and clarify an imbalance using this key.

1. Fire - Joy. Be Grateful. Embrace the attitude of gratitude and this will right your joyous emotional element.

2. Earth - Worry. Release worry. Know your strengths and weakness.

3. Metal - Sadness. Release perfectionism.

4. Water - Fear. Recognize danger.

5. Wood - Anger. Adjust your attitude.

How do you know your element? It’s very simply about your natural inclinations. Your tastes (life preferences or tastes in certain foods), response to taste, smells, your five senses, your thoughts, etc. Look at the table below and see what resonates with you.

Here’s a couple of examples:

Your parents wanted you to be a lawyer, but you know being a musician is your path. This may be a sign to embrace the Earth element. There are a couple of others that may help as well such as Fire and Metal. Honor who you are and what your body, heart and mind are telling you. You can still know and appreciate that your parents want the best for you.

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You were raised vegetarian, yet you want to eat meat. You can tap into the Earth element and let your sensory organ of the mouth guide you in addition to the Direction of Center (staying centered in this example).

It’s about what your body naturally and instinctively gravitates is and how you find your element(s).

We found a nice explanation from a blog article written by Fercility Jiang titled, Chineses Five Elements Philosophy and Culture on China Highlights regarding generating and overcoming interactions that breaks this down for you:

Generating Interactions

The generating interactions of the five elements are like the conception, gestation, birth, and nurture relationship between a mother and a baby. Such element pairs are deeply attached, and together imply success and luck.

The five generating interactions are fueling, forming, containing, carrying, and feeding:

• Wood fuels fire.
• Fire forms earth (volcanoes, ash, etc.).
• Earth contains metal.
• Metal carries water (buckets, pipes, etc.).
• Water feeds wood (trees, plants, etc.).

Overcoming Interactions

The overcoming interactions of the five elements are like the acts of hostility between two sides in a war.

The five overcoming interactions are melting, penetrating, separating, absorbing, and quenching:

• Fire melts metal.
• Metal penetrates wood (chopping, sawing, drilling, nailing, screwing).
• Wood separates earth (tree roots breaking up soil/rock).
• Earth absorbs water.
• Water quenches fire.

We like to mention our pets in this as well. You can use the 5 elements to help them be in balance too. They want to be in harmony, just like we do. A small example is this, in the Summer the Fire element is strong and it is Hot so we want to give them Water because it quenches Fire.

There are many ways to think about and use the 5 Elements. We figured we’d start with this introduction article and stay tuned for more to come on this topic as well as others pertaining to TCM, Acupuncture, Detoxing and more.

Image courtesy of rawpixel. Table & Chart courtesy of Jennifer Troyan.

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Today’s topic is all about the trilogy axis. What is that you ask? I didn’t know either but then realized I did but was unfamiliar with the terminology. We say this because we want to remind you that you know more than you think you do. We want to help you with this. For me, I am learning as we go along, just like you. We all are.

The trilogy axis is mind - body - spirit. We are all healers but of our own bodies. Practitioners facilitate the natural healing of our bodies. The truth is, we do all the heavy lifting. We are all responsible for ourselves and we get to do the healing work. If you think about it, the human body is quite remarkable and when you add in the mind and spirit connection, now we are getting somewhere.

Our mind, body and spirit are linked, and they work together or against us at times (or you could say out of harmony). It is up to us to do what we can for our own health. As you see in the diagram above, we are at the center or heart (pun intended) of it all. When all are working together in harmony, we are at peace and able to experience good health among many other benefits.

How to Feel Less Stress, Refresh Your Thinking and Develop a Self-Awareness Healing Lifestyle...with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)...

Traditional Chinese Medicine has been around for about 3,000 years and has some of the oldest medical writings on herbs and healing that exist. These days, more people are realizing this approach to a self-awareness healing lifestyle and all the benefits that go along with it. A big component of any self-healing involves self-assessing.

How to Self-Assess symptoms and signals of the body and what they mean...

1. Changing Roles as a Healer...Begins with YOU! Learning is key to developing a less stressful (or dare we say stress-free) life. You can Upscale your health practice with ancient clinical wisdom and learn to Cultivate a TCM perspective approach for Self-Care healing. There are so many ways to educate yourself:

• Working with a practitioner that is “all in” with your well-being is a great option (HINT: Call Dr. Maria! She’s a great resource and a wealth of information and healing tips. Time with her is well spent.).
• Read books, articles, or blogs (like this one!). There are some great books on Chinese Medicine/Self-Healing. There are other styles of course and today we are talking focusing on this one.
• Documentaries, videos, shows online/streaming/TV. There are even Apps on your phone to use.
• Take a class (see end of this article for a good option) on health, wellness, healing, Yoga, Qigong, Tai Chi, learn about herbs, etc.
  Tai Chi is considered a martial art while Qigong is considered a system of wellness. Both involve movements promoting energy flow throughout your body.
• Find what resonates with you because that is when you know you are on the right track.

2. Generate New Habits of Awareness. This is where we recognize unbalanced energy patterns that keep us stuck in deficient and/or excessive Wellness habits.

• What are the wellness habits you want to create? What is your overall goal?
• Start a list of what you want to be aware of, beginning by STARTING SMALL! Make a few small changes to start so you don’t get overwhelmed and give up. It is not too hard; maybe a bit of the unknown, which is okay.
• Think of what you can do differently. For example: if your “go to” for lunch is pizza every day, what if you had a nice salad once or twice a week? What if you found out that you actually like it and how it makes you feel? What about starting with a really good detox to kick start your self-healing? Check thisarticle out (There is a detox you can try in this article). Trust us, your body will thank you.

3. Nourishing Connections. A valuable skill that teaches you how to Self-Assess the signals of the body and what the signals are wanting you to know so you can live and generate a vibrant healing life.

• TCM offers many ways to help you strengthen your connection with your body. Modalities such as acupuncture, moxibustion, and other preventative measures which may include Chinese herbs.
• Self-acupressure. Regular massages. Reflexology.
• Meditation. Breathing techniques. There are many forms to try.
• Lifestyle, diet, and exercise based on your TCM diagnostics and health intention.
  Try Tai Chi and Qigong you may discover an amazing experience of a renewed yet calm sense of energy.
• We will be addressing this topic specifically in our next article which will talk about body memory and immersive guided meditation for Nourishing connections and its pivotal part of your self-care.

Consider keeping a journal for your health. Write down your action steps to apply the principles shared above. Keeping a journal or notes is also very helpful when meeting with your practitioner. Giving them information on what is going on with you and your trilogy axis (mind-body-spirit) is valuable information you can give so they can provide you with the appropriate treatments at that time.

The trilogy axis is the nourishing connection that plays a key to self-care. Having these components in harmony gives you the highest opportunity to live your best self. This is the body’s innate need and what our soul truly wants.

Our body is our vehicle, so the more we can learn about it and its basic function; Like what it needs to thrive and maintain harmony to better assist our mind and spirit parts of the axis as well. There is much for us to learn and there’s plenty to research on health. Begin by connecting with any good practitioner that feels safe and open to alternative health options. Share and be curious with knowledgeable people on topics of interest, and go to Dr. Maria’s website Events page. Here you will discover her available courses and community events.

Most importantly, ask yourself, go within and pay attention. You have all the power. We can also take lessons from our pets and observe them. They live in the present moment. Pay attention to them. They honor their bodies all the time. Check it out and see. They stretch when they need to, eat when they need to, groom when they need to, play when they need to, rest when they need to, and on.

They even go to the bathroom when they need to. Let that be a lesson for the people holding “it in” to go at the right time. No! Go when you need to! 🙂 I’m just saying, we can learn from them in many ways.

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These ideas are just the beginning to take your health practice and your life to the next level. Stay tuned for more in next month’s blog.

Please pay this forward by sharing with your family, friends, colleagues, and your clients!

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The Five Tastes

The following article is based on the first classics dedicated to materia medica, “the Divine Farmer's Classic on Materia Medica written in the Han dynasty (25-219 CE), lists the basic tastes and qualities of herbs in its introductory chapters:”:

"Herbs come in five tastes of sour, salty, sweet, bitter and pungent, along with four natures of cold, hot, warm, and cool..."

Its contemporary Qin and Han dynasty (221 BCE-220 CE) classic, the Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, or Huangdi Neijing, is the first work to fuse herbs into the mix:

"The entering of the five tastes: sour enters the Liver pungent enters the Lung, bitter enters the Heart salty enters the Kidney and sweet enters the Spleen.

These five [tastes], respectively pungent, sour, sweet, bitter, and salty each possess their respective benefits, either through dispersing, astringing, moderating, tightening, firming or softening. Depending upon the four seasons and the five main organs, In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practice, diseases are to be treated through the indicated five tastes..."

According to the energetics of flavors; Ming dynasty Zhang Jingyue'sComplete Works of Jingyue, elaborates:

"Pungent governs dispersion therefore it releases the surface. Bitter governs purging and its movement descends, therefore it expels excess.

Sour governs collecting and its nature astringes, therefore it treats drainage. Bland governs percolation and its nature disinhibits, therefore it clears by separation.

Salty governs softening and its nature sinks, therefore it leads out stagnation. So, if one wishes to disperse the surface, one must move away from sour and cold."

Pathology of Flavors -> Healing Actions

Here are Pathologies that TCM practitioners notice when making inquiries about the types of food and diet the patients may be most engaged in consuming:

“When the taste is overly sweet, there is fullness in the chest with panting.

When the taste is overly bitter, Spleen energy is not nourished and Stomach energy grows dense.

When the taste is overly sour, Liver qi spills over and Spleen qi wastes.

(qi is the circulating life force whose existence and properties are the basis of much Chinese philosophy and medicine.)

When the taste is overly salty, the qi of the great bones is taxed and muscles shorten and there is oppression of Heart qi. Salty enters the Kidney and Kidney governs bones, so an excess of salty damages the Kidney and taxes the qi of the great bones. (Tax here means to severely bind). Salty goes to the blood, thus when the blood is damaged the flesh of the muscles shorten and contract. Salty is the taste of water; excess water damages fire and therefore Heart qi is oppressed.

When the taste is overly pungent, tendons and vessels become lax, and the spirit becomes sullen.

Pungent enters the Lung and excessive pungent causes Lung qi to invade the Liver.

The Liver governs tendons and so tendons and vessels become damaged and lax. Pungent disperses qi and the spirit is used up and is referred to as 'sullen'.

Thus it is important to carefully balance the five tastes, because bones must be upright and tendons supple, qi and blood must flow freely and the skin layers must be dense..."

Chapter 10 of the Neijing Plain Questions mentions similar path mechanisms along the five-element control cycle:

"If one eats excess salt then vessels coagulate and change color; if one eats excess bitter then skin becomes dry and hair falls out; if one eats excess pungent then tendons tighten and nails become brittle; if one eats excess sour then muscles become rough and wrinkled and lips chap; if one eats excess sweet then bones ache and hair falls out since these are the damages of the five tastes. Therefore, it is said that the Heart desires bitter, the Lung desires pungent, the Liver desires sour, the Spleen desires sweet and the Kidneys desire salty, since these are the gatherings of the five tastes."

Clinical Methodology

Knowing the five tastes for treatment is valuable because it provides the acupuncture clinician with a clear methodology that determines what herbs to use for restoring their patient's imbalanced organs’ energy. Flavors are also important with seasons because TCM diagnosing also factors states of temperature and environmental elements being or not being properly consumed.

FOR EXAMPLE: if someone has heart disease due to extreme summer heat, then this is a "proper evil" meaning a natural phenomenon (feel free to substitute the term “proper evil” as “not good”). But, if due to a poor diet, excessive stress from lack of sleep, or emotional shock then this would be considered "excess evil" (again, “not good”) and would require a different specific treatment protocol.

By establishing which of the five flavors and types of pathogenic "evils" (“not goods”) is or are responsible for an organ's impairment the clinician can conclude from which direction and with which taste to address the pathology.

In Chinese medicine, anything regarding the elements of our surrounding environment is factored either excessive or deficient "Evil” (“not good”) and is considered pathogenic obstructions that cause invasion of the natural "Qi" flow of life.

Conclusion

Although we have only touched the surface of reasons for seasons, we feel this article to be more helpful in understanding why acupuncture physicians include intake history of their patient's diet and lifestyle. Our brief discussion on the five tastes is intended to improve understanding and rationale behind the use of many common herbs and the importance of treating food as medicine.

It is clear to all licensed acupuncture physicians that when we acquire a deeper understanding of our patient's living habits, the better the diagnosis which creates a sounder treatment protocol. Understanding what quality of food, lifestyle, seasons, and Chinese herbs as therapeutic actions to the organs gives less doubt to the practitioner as to which herb and food therapy best to prescribe in each clinical situation.

We can’t end this without mentioning our beloved pets. In our last article,Preparing for Fall Detox, we mentioned them as well. Have you thought about the foods for your dog or cat? Consider changing up their food with the seasons.

Some final examples:

Lamb & duck are good for the winter but should not be given in the summer. It could cause dogs to pant so if nothing is wrong with them and they are panting you, can look at their food.

Wheatgrass for a cat, while good all year round, it’s great in the summertime. It has cooling properties and is good for the liver, plus it helps with hairballs.

To learn more about our services, please contact our office at 561-249-04447 for a consultation on how to start your annual wellness optimization. During the consultation, we can provide guidance on the best treatments or healing modalities to improve or enhance your wellness.

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