In Traditional Chinese Medicine, food therapy is the intentional use of foods for their therapeutic effects. For instance, simply focusing on deeply nourishing and whole foods can greatly enhance your health. The use of food as medicine is an age-old concept that harkens back to Hippocrates. While moving away from highly processed foods to consuming whole foods can strengthen the body and provide the nourishment it needs, with TCM food therapy, foods have energetic qualities that can lessen and heal very specific complaints and symptoms, and strengthen the immune system, by maintaining healthier red and white blood cell levels.
“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates