Chinese Nutritional Strategies

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"The middle jiao and food has always been of central importance in the Chinese quest for health. Hopefully all practitioners realise the potential of this area and view the legacy of traditional information available from China with respect and awe; this app is a good avenue to access some of this information."

Peter Torssell
Journal of Chinese Medicine
February 2014

"People who practice medicine must first thoroughly understand the source of the disorder and know what has been violated. Then, use food to treat it, and if food will not cure it, afterwards apply herbal medicine."

Sun Simiao (Tang Dynasty)

The Chinese Nutritional Strategies (CNS) app is a tool designed to allow practitioners of Chinese medicine convenient and complete access to centuries of nutritional insights.

The heart of the CNS app is the database of more than 300 common foods, along with their temperature, flavor, actions, indications, notes, seasonal recommendations, and differential diagnosis categories. The database is searchable by any of these criteria and sorting through it allows the practitioner to compile a list of recommended foods, and then share those recommendations via email or as a hard copy with the patient.

In addition, all aspects of the database may be altered by the practitioner. For example, this is the data set for watermelon:

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Temperature: Cold
Flavor: Sweet

Actions: Enters the heart, stomach and urinary bladder channels, clears heat from heart, stomach and urinary bladder, relieves summer heat, augments yin fluids, drains damp, moistens the intestines

Indications: Thirst, mouth sores, palpitations, overheated during the summer with inability to urinate, edema

Notes: "Nature's Bai Hu Tang" - Chinese medical saying

Wood (Spring): Avoid
Fire (Summer): Moderation
Earth (Late Summer): Seek out
Metal (Fall): Seek out
Water (Winter): Avoid

Lu Qi Deficiency: Contraindicated
Kid Yang Deficiency: Contraindicated
Urinary Bladder Damp Cold: Contraindicated
Urinary Bladder Damp Heat: Indicated
Heart Yang Deficiency: Contraindicated
Heart Fire: Indicated
Spleen Qi Deficiency: Contraindicated
Spleen Yang Deficiency: Contraindicated
Stomach Fire: Indicated
Stomach Qi Deficiency with Cold: Contraindicated
Stomach Food Stagnation: Contraindicated

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Any of the above characteristics may be altered and saved to the database. For example, the Chinese dietary tradition that you follow may consider watermelon to have a neutral temperature and be indicated for cough. Simply change these characteristics in the database and any future searches for neutral temperature foods or cough will include watermelon in the results.

An especially unique feature for the CNS app is the seasonal recommendations feature which addresses the "When" of prescribing Chinese nutrition. Again using the watermelon example, if the practitioner diagnoses urinary bladder damp heat and has the seasonal recommendation feature switched on in the winter then watermelon will be moved from the seek out to the avoid category. This seasonal recommendation feature allows the practitioner to emphasize the local climate and growing seasons when dispensing dietary advice.

Compiled, edited, and translated by Toby Daly, PhD, LAc. Toby Daly received his undergraduate degree in Food Science from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. He began studying Chinese medicine in 1997 with Sunim Doam a Korean monk trained in the Saam tradition. He earned his master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2001 upon completion of Chinese medical training in San Francisco as well as China. During his four years of training in San Francisco, he interned with the prominent San Francisco acupuncturist Dr. Angela Wu famous for her treatment of infertility with Chinese medicine. He has recently completed his PhD in Classical Chinese Medicine under the guidance of 88th generation Daoist priest Jeffery Yuen.

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Amazing TIME SAVER!

I absolutely love this app... it is the quickest way to get a guide to my clients/patients on dietary restrictions and helpful nutrition without having to compile it myself... Which saves me so much time and the ability to focus on other treatment aspects... I appreciate the time that was taken to create this app and that it exists!!! amazing... great work! Thank you!

Great clinic aid

Helpful to pair diagnosis with food recommendations for patients. Thanks Toby!

Helpful Clinical Reference

Very cool feature that you can edit the database. User friendly. Thanks for making it.

Fantastic app!

This is a great app for any practitioner of TCM. It contains a very extensive amount of information and it is very easy to use. Thanks for creating this. It could use a friendlier design, with color coding for the phase of each food and that sort of stuff, but its still a wonderful app as is.

Great Clinical App

Great quick reference for TCM food info. I also use it to send dietary plans directly to my patients.

So helpful and user friendly

This app is great at putting together Chinese nutrition in an easy to access format. It is very thorough, and well thought out. Some may think that this is an expensive app, but consider all the time that went into compiling the information here. I’m glad that it’s all done for me, and I think it is well worth the price. Very useful clinically.

Great

Love it!!

Great potential! One of a kind

I feel there is still a a lot of developing that needs to be done in regards to general interface. Also the list of foods and drinks need to be expanded, especially some western foods. A introductory or basic guide would help users understand some terminology. I found this app because I was looking for cooling/heating foods. Its the only app of its kind. The other app I found was terrible. I look forward to seeing future versions of the app. Keep up the good work!

This app is a comprehensive resource for learning about and prescribing food for health according to Chinese medical theory. I found the variety of ways to search for foods (by diagnosis, season, food, etc.) made it very user friendly. And the ability to personalize and print out individualized recommendations for my clients has benefitted my practice - my patients appreciate the information and it saves me time. I also like that I am able to alter information (flavor, temp, indications, etc.)

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