Theory macrobiotic food, which met Europe a few decades ago,
primarily due to the Japanese doctor Ozawa in recent years is more and more
fans in Western Europe and especially in America.
In this theory, supply all foods are systematized in the
form of scales in accordance with the concepts of Yin and Yang. At the same
time we have to reveal the origin and content ascribed to a combination of Yin
and Yang.
Ancient China has not escaped the period of domination
sotsioantropomorficheskogo mythological worldview. Among the myths it has a
founding myth of heaven and earth, and the organization of the universe. Myths
were influenced by Theosophy. According to these myths, the world emerged from
the primeval chaos by opposing the action of ordering the chaos of the cosmic
forces - heaven (yang) and the earth (yin). From the chaos of light particles
having the sky, and from heavy - land.
The theory of Yin and Yang is a philosophical concept, which
was formed as a result of observation and analysis
phenomena of the world.
Vknige "Shu-Ching" ("Knigaistorii"),
edited by Confucius, all natural phenomena depend on the behavior of the ruler,
and the wisdom of the head of state in the order
country. At the same time we have developed the most ancient
representations of the two antagonistic and at the same time collaborating
forces of Yin and Yang. At first they olitset-
Vorya light and darkness, lighting and shadow side of
mountains, heat and cold, persistence and compliance, male and female. These antagonistic
forces represented in the form of energy Yin and Yang, were further developed
in the book "I Ching" ("Book of Changes"). Her description
is associated with the name of the emperor of ancient China - Fu Xi, who lived
in the years 2900-2852. BC. e.
Application of the law of Yin - Yang in Eastern medicine.
Oriental medicine believes that the human body is a unified whole. Let us see
how to relate to Yin
and Yang with the structure and functions of the body,
pathological changes in it, and look at the Yin and Yang as a method of
diagnosis and treatment.
1. Yin - Yang and the structure of the body. 12th axiom: all
beings have a charge. In the 4th axiom says that the intrinsic nature of
polarized: one pole is charged positive (Yang) and the other - negative (Yin).
In parts of the body polarization as follows: top - Ian, low - Yin; the outer
side - Yang, domestic - Yin; right side - Yin, the left - Yan; back - Yang,
chest and abdomen • - Yin.
2. Yin - Yang and the functions of the body. By functional activity
"dense bodies" (heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs) belong to Yin,
as "hollow" organs (gall bladder, intestines, stomach, urinary
bladder) - to Ian. The functional activity refers to Yang, and nutrients - to
Yin. They can not exist without each other, nourish and support each other.
3. Yin - Yang and the pathological changes in the body.
The appearance of the disease is the result of loss
the relative balance of Yin - Yang, their excess or
deficiency.
It should immediately clarify two terms -
"authority" and "pathogen". The term "organ" in
traditional Chinese medicine to understand the structural and functional
units - the system is not so much on the combined anatomic
Cesky principle as the functional activity of generality,
that is, on the principle of functional systems. For example, the
"authority" to easily perform not only the function of breathing, but
also to "manage" the skin and hair. The heart is not only
"manages" the blood and blood vessels, but also controls human
emotions, and so on. D.
The term "pathogen" refers to the natural effects
on the body: the wind belongs to Yang pathogenic factor, cold - to Yin, heat
and light heat - to Ian.
Thus, the impact of the pathogenic factors leading to the
predominance of Yin Yin and Yang damage that manifested syndrome "cold
type of excess" (absolute
an excess of Yin and Yang lack of). Exposure to the
pathogenic factor is the predominance of Yang Yang and damage
Yin, which is manifested syndrome "such as excess
heat" (absolute excess and lack of Yin Yang). If any
Yang exhaustion occurs relative dominance of Yin, which is
manifested syndrome "such as a lack of cold", while the depletion or
damage there is a relative predominance of Yin Yang, which is accompanied by a
syndrome of "a lack of the type of heat."
4. Yin - Yang as a method of diagnosis and treatment of
disease. The main cause of the disease is the imbalance
between Yin and Yang. Acupuncture restores balance
between Yin and Yang. The above is difficult to interpret
from a scientific point of Western medicine, especially if the body have
occurred not only functional but also organic changes.
Chinese doctors believed that human life is the result of
cooperation between the two great principles - Jan - radical heat of the active
principle or active liquid masculine and Yin - perfect moisture passive
principle or passive fluid, feminine. Only with the full harmony of a person is
healthy. If
Jan principle prevails, that there is excitement and
If Yin - depression.
The philosophy of the ancient East with the general laws of
interaction of two forces is more consistent practical dialectics. In fact, the
yin and yang is not only contradictory, but also vzaimopopolnyayuschie force.
This philosophy is simple - it is necessary to acquire only two concepts: Yin
and Yang. They are useful in all occasions. All the phenomena of the material
world can be attributed to Yin or Yang.
All these states are antagonistic and contradictory.
Eastern medicine, in fact, is only the application of the
philosophy of Yin and Yang, which explains any
phenomenon.
Thus, the universal law governing all
phenomena polarizable monism Yin and Yang - is the compass
rule applicable to any science and method to any art.
The purpose of the macrobiotic medicine of the East - the
establishment of equilibrium in the body between the two opposing forces - yin
and yang.
Looking from the perspective of the law of yin and yang, the
disease may be characterized as having a qualitative and quantitative changes
(more or less intensity) in the life of the organism as a whole or its
individual systems and organs. The disease represents a new qualitative state
authority system, the body, which appears inside the "struggle" for
the restoration of homeostasis. The
During this "struggle" and in the
"fight" the body gradually
adapt to new conditions of existence, or
dies.
According to the law of Yin and Yang, the disease - a
violation of equilibrium relative physiological balance.
Yin and yang are interdependent and closely related, yin and
yang are not in a fixed state, and constantly support each other. If such
relationships are violated, it changes the balance of Yin and Yang - and there
is a disease.
According to the philosophy of the East, there is nothing in
the world is the Yin and Yang. Speaking of the law of physics, Yin and Yang -
the centrifugal and centripetal forces. Centrifugal force - to expand, it
brings peace, tranquility, cold and darkness. Centripetal force - compression
and makes the sound, action, light and warmth.
According to the law of Yin and Yang, Ozawa food and
drinks presented as a macrobiotic table.
Remarks:
All of these foods and drinks should be natural, not
artificial or industrial cooking. Chickens, turkeys, ducks, feed in which
chemicals are used, as well as their eggs should be avoided.
Fertilized eggs from which hatched chicks
Chicken can be demolished only after her fertilized cock,
but it can carry and carries the eggs and without the intervention of a cock.
Such eggs - unfertilized. They can be found in many stores, they eat a lot of
people. In the language of biologists, these eggs are not viable and are not
applicable in the macrobiotic diet. Fertilized eggs
can be identified by their small size and the shape - they
are rounded at one end and pointed at the other.
Today it is very difficult to find water, salt air, and even
in their natural, unadulterated form. Fortunately, as soon as the health of the
body is restored, it becomes able to defend against a variety of toxic
substances entering the food at the stage of industrial production and trade.
Yin and Yang vary depending on the climate, location and
time of year. Naturally, the performance of Yin and Yang in the diet greatly
change the way of cooking and eating way. That is why it is so important
cooking and serving. (In ancient Japan, drinking and eating were the ceremony,
which had a double meaning - the creation of life and thought.)
Open fire (without which we can not prepare meals) was of
great importance, since it began the separation of man from all other animals.
A feature of the macrobiotic diet is a requirement that at
every meal maintains an appropriate balance of Yin and Yang. This balancing
must be guided by the objectives, which is the meal. This means that it is
necessary to consider the appropriate external environment.
1. On hot days, I get a lot of energy from the outside Yang.
Therefore, I must behave, to strike a balance
Yang and Yin. And I can achieve the balancing of intensive
work, thus giving energy
Yang, swimming in cold water or cold drink. Naturally, there
are other possibilities for establishing a balance between Yin and Yang.
However, if I do not work physically on a hot day, do not swim and, in
addition, take foods rich Yang, t. E. Foods rich in protein, then an excess of
Yang, and equilibrium is established.
2. On a cold winter day dominated by Yin, which deprives me
of the heat, but instead gives the cooling energy. In those days, I feel bad if
I eat only raw foods, such as diet also carries the energy of Yin, so do not
set the balance between Yin
energy environment and energy supply. If I
I want to achieve a balance with the help of food on a cold
day, I need food, carrying Yang.
3. Along the coast of the North Sea, where the climate is
cool and windy annoying when heavy physical work or in the cool climate of the
mountains I need food, richer Yang, than in warmer climates. After heavy
physical work, particularly in the fresh air, I am not satisfied with food,
consisting of cakes, ice cream and coffee. On the other hand, I will be very
satisfied with this, if will lie all day in the hot sun on the beach and take
the sun a lot of energy Yang.
4. There are many people who, from the point of view
naturopa-Democracy, powered completely wrong. These people eat too much, eat
too much meat and fat, and sometimes smoke, drink a lot of alcohol and despite
this, are often healthier than those who are more concerned
about healthy eating. You can talk about injustice, because
they are not making any effort to somehow take care of a healthy diet. Despite
this, they are often practically healthy, long-lived, hardy, cheerful and often
get the joy of his life.
Blue and purple. Roasted coffee seed dry, black or
black-brown, bitter, and thus contains a lot of Yang. Lemonade from the
refrigerator - a sweet, cold, liquid, and thus contains a lot of Yin.
According to this classification all the dry foods are
yang-containing and all wet - more belong to Yin. Foods containing a lot of
Yang are dried coffee beans. A cup of coffee contains a significant proportion
of Yang share Yin prevails only because of the large amounts of liquid and for
the drug - caffeine. The varieties of coffee "mocha" Yin and Yang is
almost balanced. And coal is dry coffee Yan-containing conductive medications
that successfully treat Yin diseases such as diarrhea or local inflammation.
Fresh grapes is strong Yin-containing products, slightly dried state it
significantly increases the content of Yang. If the grapes to dry, it will be
Jan-containing products.
Art food is to balance
The Yang and Yin-products, thereby achieving adaptation to
climate, time of year, temperature, human predisposition (constitution) and
health (condition). The establishment of such a balance, in my opinion,
It is the most important factor. Therefore, Jan Products
It can be represented not as a scale and as a seesaw. If you
use extreme Yin and the Yang-products in equal proportions, these scales will
remain in the center. If outweigh Yang or Yin, then eventually there is the
Yang and Yin disease. This may happen because both extreme opposing foodstuffs,
and in the case when equilibrium is reached.
This is undoubtedly the reason that there are people who are
fed totally wrong and, despite this, practically healthy, balanced and
workable. At the same time there are people who eat properly, following the
instructions, adhering to the raw, high-grade,
fresh, separate diet or other shape and despite
this, sick remain sick, and sometimes even get sick even
harder. In this group, as a rule, "outweigh the" Yin-containing
products. It can be seen from the following examples.
1. Young woman with severe diabetes who is not
adjusted dose of 100 units of insulin per day. Blood sugar
fluctuated between 400 and 500, it could not take any food and had to receive
parenteral nutrition. Thanks to homeopathic treatment and ultimately a
one-sided diet managed for 3 months so ease for diabetes, she was able to lead
a normal active life, receiving 25 units of insulin per day. What foods are
allowed to? Over three months, she used to eat almost exclusively fat and beer.
Through use of these strong-Yang or Yin-containing foods at the maximum power,
set the one-sided balance. Anyway
with a combination of medication and diet therapy was able
to return to her normal state of health otnoststelno.
2. People who eat a lot of meat, in our climate compensate
for its consumption is often high alcohol consumption. Meat and alcohol on the
scale Yan Yin
far removed from each other. When instinctively correct
dosage for some people, apparently, unable to find an adequate balance.
Naturally, it can
only happen thanks to the personal intuition. However, in
most cases violated instinct and intuition is wrong, so as a
result of this error in the diet are pre-programmed. Ultimately, most of the
diseases of civilization are due to errors in the regular diet, which can be
avoided.
3. A child with a high fever brings only a few drinks. Most
conventional beverage they do not
perceived. In my experience, the best drink is unsweetened
cherry juice. It is presumed the drink, which is closest to the middle of the
scale, so it acts trimming and well tolerated.
4. Children, even in winter willingly eat ice cream or drink
cold drinks from the refrigerator. Why is this happening?
Apartments are heated excessively, t. E. There is the Yang
climate. Children have relatively little room for movement,
t. E., They can not reduce the number of Yang. They listen to a lot of pop
music, which further increases the number of Yang. For the balance they need or
more movement possible in the open air, or food containing Yin, so a balance is
established. If you manage to achieve this balance, the
children become cheerful. If you can not achieve balance,
they become aggressive. I do not want to advise giving children sugar to reduce
aggressiveness, I just want to show that people constantly instinctively seeks
balance between Yin and Yang. The excess of Yin in the diet can be balanced in
a climate of increasing Yang, and vice versa. All factors influencing the
Yin and Yang, apparently interchangeable. Therefore, the
daily nutrition needs to be adapted to the respective conditions.
These few examples are sufficient to
clearly show the importance of a differentiated approach to
our food. Unfortunately, this is not enough to provide any
scheme in which the correctness
one would believe and which could then be extended to all
people, all terrain, all weather conditions. Very great importance should be
given to the individual in matters of food if we are to achieve our goal -
optimal health for each person. The more balanced daily diet, the easier it
appears, the organism easily assimilate and convert it into energy.
Experience confirms this theory of macrobiotics. A balanced
diet should consist of high-grade foods, to the extent possible, to avoid
mistakes.
Since the number of errors increases with the removal of Yin
and Yang of the middle axis (and near the axis are only a few of the usual now
food), so there are so many errors in the diet, with disastrous consequences,
such as heart attack infarction, diabetes, gout, rheumatism, cancer and many
other diseases of civilization.
But good nutrition can be applied correctly if consciously
or instinctively do not use essential basic concepts of the theory of polarity
of Yin-Yang concept. This is a situation where now there are many people who
for years lived on the right and still remain sick. This is the mistake many
naturopathic and nutrition theories. Unfortunately, this fact is still little
known. So in theory, every mistake can be covered if this theory is not
sufficiently adapted to the specific conditions. Theory with a minimum of errors
seems to me the theory of macrobiotics with a balanced ratio of Yin-Yang.
infarction, diabetes, gout, rheumatism, cancer and many
other diseases of civilization.
But good nutrition can be applied correctly if consciously
or instinctively do not use essential basic concepts of the theory of polarity
of Yin-Yang concept. This is a situation where now there are many people who
for years lived on the right and still remain sick. This is the mistake many
naturopathic and nutrition theories. Unfortunately, this fact is still little
known. So in theory, every mistake can be covered if this theory is not
sufficiently adapted to the specific conditions. Theory with a minimum of errors
seems to me the theory of macrobiotics with a balanced ratio of Yin-Yang.
Thus, along with the classification adopted today by groups
of food protein-, fat- and carbon
levodsoderzhaschih there and came from ancient China to the
classification of the Yin and Yang groups - supports the warming or cooling
energy. In Eastern medicine the balance between these two forms of energy,
corresponding to the constitution of man and his original state at the moment
(eg disease), climate, location, time of year, plays a special role. Reaching
such a balance in the diet, you can achieve much more stable health than giving
it little importance.
All peoples and every particular person instinctively attach
importance to balance the Yin and the Yang-groups in power. However, in certain
serious errors which could then result and often lead to disorders and
diseases. At the same time, apparently, there are a number of people who
correctly use their instincts, not paying attention to the special rules of
healthy eating. They again and again serve as an example that is not important,
that is, if the same amount of calories. On the other hand, considering the
ratio of Yin-Yang and the corresponding pattern of violations of the so-called
macrobiotic food, you can often achieve better flow even serious illnesses, and
sometimes their complete disappearance.
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Thus, along with the classification adopted today by groups
of food protein-, fat- and carbon
levodsoderzhaschih there and came from ancient China to the
classification of the Yin and Yang groups - supports the warming or cooling
energy. In Eastern medicine the balance between these two forms of energy,
corresponding to the constitution of man and his original state at the moment
(eg disease), climate, location, time of year, plays a special role. Reaching
such a balance in the diet, you can achieve much more stable health than giving
it little importance.
All peoples and every particular person instinctively attach
importance to balance the Yin and the Yang-groups in power. However, in certain
serious errors which could then result and often lead to disorders and
diseases. At the same time, apparently, there are a number of people who
correctly use their instincts, not paying attention to the special rules of
healthy eating. They again and again serve as an example that is not important,
that is, if the same amount of calories. On the other hand, considering the
ratio of Yin-Yang and the corresponding pattern of violations of the so-called
macrobiotic food, you can often achieve better flow even serious illnesses, and
sometimes their complete disappearance.