Yingpan Zhao - Detox Your Body: A Holistic Approach to Health with the Wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Toxins can leave traces on the surface of your body, such as ridges on your nails, mood swings, and facial acne. This book will help you identify these poisons, and will teach you how to use natural detoxification therapy from traditional Chinese medicine to dispel them and improve your overall health in a simple way. You will learn:

How to identify toxins in your environment and body.

How to check for toxins in your body through observing surface-level changes or symptoms.

How to detoxify your heart, liver, lungs, spleen, and kidneys through TCM food therapy and self-massage. The massage methods and detailed recipes include pictures and text, and are simple and easy to follow.

Targeted detoxification methods such as beauty and slimming for those concerned about their appearance and weight, enhancing longevity for the elderly, healthy growth for children, reducing health hazards for those who drink and smoke, and healthcare tips for working people.

Practical and effective suggestions for daily detoxification.

Through easy-to-follow text and useful illustrations, this book offers an accessible and informative way of ensuring health and vitality for you and your family, using tried and trusted detoxification methods from traditional Chinese medicine.

Copyright 2023 by Shanghai Press and Publishing Development Co., Ltd.

Chinese edition 2022 Phoenix Science Press, Ltd.

All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction, in any manner, is prohibited.

Text by Zhao Yingpan

Translation by Shelly Bryant

Design by Wang Wei

Editor: Cao Yue

ISBN: 978-1-93836-896-7

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The material in this book is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. The information contained in this book should not be used to diagnose or treat any illness, disorder, disease or health problem. Always consult your physician or health care provider before beginning any treatment of any illness, disorder or injury. Use of this book, advice, and information contained in this book is at the sole choice and risk of the reader.

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A ccording to traditional Chinese medicine, the human body contains many toxins. A toxin is any substance that cannot be discharged quickly and has adverse effects on bodily systems, such as blood. When they accumulate in the five zang organs (the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys) these toxins accelerate the aging process of these organs, causing the skin, muscles, bones, and nerves they nourish to age at the same rate. Although they are hidden deep inside the body, toxins leave indications of their whereabouts on the surface in various forms such as hyperplasia and acne. It is important to identify where the toxins are hidden, and expel them from the body as quickly as possible.

Effective detoxification methods involve maintaining a regular diet and healthy living habits, as well as massage, diet therapy, and tea therapy recommended by TCM experts. If you make adjustments to your diet and follow the methods recommended in this book for a period of time, you will find that although youre not dieting, your body feels lighter. Although youre not having beauty treatments, your complexion is rosy, and although youre not taking supplements, your vitality is restored.

The substance that is controlled by the pulse and circulates throughout the body. It is a red liquid with nutritional and moisturizing effects. Blood belongs to yin, so is also called yin blood.

The name of an ailment, referring to a symptom of the bodily constitution, which is often caused by improper diet or disease. Phlegm here also refers to abnormal accumulation of bodily fluids, which is a pathological product. Dampness is either internal or external. External dampness refers to humidity in the air and living environment. It will invade the body and cause disease. Internal dampness refers to dysfunction of the digestive system, an uncontrollable flow of water in the body that leads to the accumulation of bodily fluids, or the accumulation of bodily fluids due to excessive dietary water, alcohol, cheese, and cold drinks.

In TCM, qi is the subtle, fundamental substance that constitutes the body and maintains life activities. This term also includes physiological functions. In TCM terms, qi has different meanings when combined with other words.

A TCM term, meaning that the yin and yang of the body have lost balance and the endogenous fire is vigorous. Fire describes some hot symptoms in the body. Getting internal fire is also an internal heat syndrome that occurs with an imbalance of yin and yang in the body. Specific symptoms include red and swollen eyes, sores at the corners of the mouth, yellow urine, toothache, and sore throat. It is either excessive fire or deficient fire. Excessive fire refers to the syndrome of excess heat due to hyperactive yang heat, which is mostly caused by the internal invasion of pathogenic fire-heat or the result of spicy food. Excessive mental stimulation and dysfunction of the visceral functions can be another cause. Deficient fire is mostly caused by internal injury and strain, such as long-term illness, depletion of vital energy, and excessive strain that leads to visceral imbalance and weakness, resulting in internal heat, which then turns into deficient fire.

T CM and Western medicine have their own definition of poison or toxins. Although there are differences, there are also similarities. In TCM theory, poison includes an imbalance of yin and yang caused by the five endogenous evils, the six exogenous evils, internal injury caused by the seven emotions, as well as inappropriate diet, overwork, and lack of physical activity. The five endogenous evils refer to internal wind, cold, dampness, dryness, and heat caused by an imbalance of yin and yang and the qi and blood in the zang-fu organs; the six exogenous evils are the six external factors of wind, cold, summer heat, humidity, dryness, and fire that invade the body; internal injury refers to the seven emotional changes: joy, anger, anxiety, overthinking, grief, fear, and fright.

TCM regards all ills as poisons or toxins. They can be divided into the following categories: