Chinese medicine practitioners (CMP) believe in preventing disease and regulating the body through eating certain foods.
Ever since I was a child, when I got sick, my parents always consulted Western doctors. I did the same as an adult, and didn’t think about seeing a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner. However, an experience I had made me realize that the TCM principles of the medicinal properties of food are true. At the same time, I was amazed. The “homology of medicine and food” I found, also made me feel that the concepts behind TCM are really broad and profound.
During my first pregnancy, I miscarried at 10 weeks gestation. I was living in Canada at the time, and at the clinic, the doctor told me that my cervix had dilated and I had definitely miscarried; but she did not approve of the usual practise of immediately undergoing Dilatation and Curettage (D&C). She suggested that I pay attention to the bleeding situation. As long as it wasn’t abnormally heavy, I could wait a day or two before deciding what to do….