Spices of Life - Are You Yin or Yang?

Nina Simonds: This is Dr. Chun Han Zhu, my Chinese physician and Dr. Zhu, I've been seeing you for a quite some time correct. Dr. Chun Han Zhu: Oh! Yes. Nina Simonds: Yeah, many years you help me, teach me about traditional Chinese medicine for "A Spoonfull of Ginger" and you're from Beijing and I think you are saying that I have a tendency to have a deficient, in did you think? Dr. Chun Han Zhu: That in the past, that in the past I saw you several times and that sometimes you indicate you have indeficiency such as some time you have like a night sweat or little few hot during night. So that indeficiency and in Chinese medicine if the in deficient then you said you're water, moisture and that also even that's also deficient. So when this thing thing deficient they are in dry season, which is a fall, autumn. Now that a fall. During dry season just to make that deficiency even worse, that's why it may create more symptoms, because the heart control spirit. While you have a better heart, spirit better, you'll have better sleep, but this heart even -- so when the -- is deficient the heart become additive that disturb your sleep. Nina Simonds: So, you would recommend maybe some acupuncture? Dr. Chun Han Zhu: Yeah, acupuncture that can help and try to strengthen your kidney, strengthen your heart and even strengthen your liver and, but also some herbs, which has to increase body fluid, increase the -- some herbs still have this effect and this herbs also help your lung, because of lung during dry season easily you'll catch cold, catch, and develop a cough. Nina Simonds: What about for foods that you suggest for the season and for my condition? Dr. Chun Han Zhu: As a food, so the food can be like a summer food, or summer fruit they provide the more moisture fluid, like pears that's good and -- Nina Simonds: Now someone that suggested Tianjin pears is that good or it doesn't matter. Dr. Chun Han Zhu: Tianjin pear that's a typical pear from a China Tianjin seeding that around that area. That kind of pear is a pear is fair and crispy while you'll just bite-in the juice just dripping come out that's why that provide a lot of juice. Nina Simonds: I see. Dr. Chun Han Zhu: And nourishing your lung and that pretty good fruit for nourishing in. Nina Simonds: What about as far as soups you really talking about possibly black chicken soup. Dr. Chun Han Zhu: Yeah, black chicken soup and also cooked as black chicken with some of herbs together and that will help for the dry season. Especially, after the dry season will be cold and winter time. Cold and wintertime back to the winter in the cold is a strong evil in China, they called the evil, this is unseasonal factor will damage your lung. That's why the winter time more people get cough, sore throat, stuffy nose. So at before that comes we should strengthen your lung -- just use some herbal medicine cook your food. This way while you eat your food daily and also you can get benefit from a certain Chinese herbs, so then - one stone two birds. Nina Simonds: Got two birds with one stone, that's great.