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Dec 1, 2020 Vol. 21 Hani Times Acupuncture

Constitutional Acupuncture

Immunity Foods for Sasang Four Constitutions

Foods can prevent COVID-19 cytokine storm

medicine for one person
and poison for another.
Consuming wrong food
ingredients can lead to a
delayed recovery, or even
an aggravation into cytokine
storm. That is why we need
to differentiate for whom
△ image©davidlee, adopted from www.chehyung.com certain foods are beneficial
or harmful.
Sasang diet is a practical way
Thankfully, foods for the of providing an individualized
By David Lee L.Ac.
Sasang four constitutions is treatment. Then the person
a way of differentiating so can reduce, not eliminate,
SARS-Cov-2 that causes that appropriate foods can the harmful foods to make it
COVID-19 is selective on be applied for the individual. nutritional, but not enough
those who are immune- Patients should know to be medically impacting.
compromised and their body type to utilize Everyone being only one of
unhealthy. The key is to the beneficial foods while four types makes it straight-
delay the death-causing minimizing the harmful ones, forward to diagnose and
cytokine storm by reducing especially in winter season. apply. Although the list is
inflammation and pre- Food is subtle but strong. It not long, these foods are
existing disease. In another has an ability to compromise commonly consumed and
words, make the patient or to build up the immune therefore will have a strong
healthier and there will be no system. Knowing the impact on health over time.
complication. Correct foods beneficial content of the Below is a list of beneficial
can provide an opportune foods is not enough. Because and harmful foods for each
time for the immune system people have variance in the body type along with how to
to develop antibodies. But way they respond to foods, diagnose yourself so that you
there is no one set of foods constitutional differentiation can implement the practice
that apply to everyone. is necessary. Food can be right away.

Do not eliminate harmful utilizing plants for nutrition
foods but reduce them by and health with processing
70-80% of current intake. and fermenting. During the
Small amount can be helpful holidays, it is important to
as nutrition and variety. If a minimize eating too much,
small amount threatens your especially a combination of
life or health, you need to heavily sweet and oily foods.
completely eliminate them For most people, whole-
from your diet. food-plant-based promotes
Neutral foods are avocado, and maintains a long-term
carrot, chlorella, spirulina, health. If you are vegan or
chia seed, fermented foods, vegetarian, Sasang body
fern (fiddlehead), hemp seed, type diet still applies to you.
quinoa, legumes, sea plant, The third way of eating
soybeans (processed), turkey, healthy is to eat clean.
spinach, asparagus, legumes, This means as organic
parsnip, turnip, cassava, taro, as you can. Nitrates,
carrot, and squash although nitrites, artificial coloring,
there is always a small monosodium glutamate,
minority that have problem high-fructose corn syrup,
with any of these. Vitamin C, artificial sweeteners,
D, and K are also helpful. trans fatty acid, and other
additives stress your
In addition to consuming physiology. Meeting the
specific foods for the three criteria of a Sasang,
constitution, we also need balanced, and clean diet
to observe a balanced will promote your organs,
diet and cleanliness. A glands, nerves, and immune
balanced diet is composed system to function well. The
of whole-food-plant- concern of complication
based ingredients. Asian from COVID-19 or other
food is a good example of cold/flu will be reduced.