Coffee In Chinese Medicine. Yin, Yang, Blood and Qi
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- My Article on Coffee: www.acupunctur...
Coffee is delicious and fast-acting, puts a spring in your step, makes you want more and now science says it’s good for you, unlike virtually anything else with those qualities.
However, does it have nutritional value?
Because if not, it is a herb, with power to influence your metabolism but not feed it, a bit like beating a horse to make it run faster.
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Thanks so much for the explanation. Would love to hear a future video like this on green tea.
This is brilliant thank you so much! As a student of naturopathic nutrition and a recovering coffee addict who has suffered kidney stones and multiple baby loss this is very, very informative
Thank you Lucy. Very sorry to hear about the losses of your babies: what a terrible experience. However, I doubt if excess coffee, on its own, would trigger many miscarriages. I have written a page on miscarriages and their causes - www.acupuncture-points.org/what-causes-miscarriage.html. Thanks again for your praise.
Best explanation out there on the effects of coffee.
Thanks Bruce! Well, it took me a while to work out its effects on me. If how coffee works also makes sense to you, that's great! Best wishes - Jonathna
Rubbish. Drinking coffee is good
Love this. Just realising now i started drinking coffee in late20s i was more of a tea drinker before. Now im my late 30s coffee is life lol but rosacea has also become worse. I dont react to caffeine though it actually makes me sleep. I dont get jitters or any of that caffeine side effects
Thank you so much! I am grateful for this video. I needed to see this today. I'm addicted to coffee. This explains my health issues.
HI Canda, yes coffee addiction leads to all sorts of problems, fast ageing being one of them. There's much more on our page on coffee, at www.acupuncture-points.org/coffee.html. Thanks for your comment.
Great video; you described exactly how I feel when I have too much coffee, thank you for the insight.
Thank you. Very well explained. Regards South Australia 🌷
Thanks for getting in touch! It's good to know we have readers in Australia!
Very nice thank you
Thank you! I recently started getting quite irritable mid-morning, and I tried a bunch of theories to figure out why the sudden change. Now I realize that I stopped putting salt in my coffee. Salt is yin. So this gives me another idea to try. Perhaps I'll start feeling better soon.
salt is yang
@@DontSpySpying yin or yang, I did start feeling better after having salt with my coffee again. Hooray! Ain't life grand?
Thank you. I should not drink too much coffee.
Thank you for this information. Very interesting 🧐
very interesting
Christ this explains everything
Thanks for the interesting Info. I was visiting a Chinese doctor giving me Chinese medicine helping with Yin deficiency.
My question is: How much is too much? 3 good Espresso with boiled water per day is already too much?
Good question! But sadly, the answer is that yes, probably - if you're receiving treatment for yin deficiency - even one good Expresso might hinder improvement.
However, your body may crave coffee because it isn't getting enough foods represented by the 'bitter' taste.
If you think this might be so, read our page on bitter taste foods, at www.acupuncture-points.org/bitter-taste.html
What about green tea?
Thank you for information 🤗🤗🤗
Hi, thanks for the (good) question! We're doing a separate page on this. Jonathan
@@jonathanclogstoun-willmott3011 I believe if one is yang deficient, one should avoid it. It will make one colder. Opting for black tea with ginger is better idea caffeine plus heating properties inside black tea.
@@birbcoding Thank you for your comment. For most people coffee is yang, so heating - BUT! take too much or too strong or too often and you get the secondary effects which tend to make you age faster and deplete your deep energy supplies.
Then yes, you end up being colder and weaker. Check out our page on Primary and Secondary Effects at www.acupuncture-points.org/primary-and-secondary-actions.html.
Tea is less yang so its effect is slower.
Is it ok to drink small 2 cups (European size)a day if you have yang deficiency around the abdominal area? That area always feels a bit cold and stagnant.
I drink one black fresh ground pressure machine made coffee in the morning, to help extend the fast and its quite a boost, no symptoms but I think maybe its not such a good idea.. I did mix one green tea and one black coffee, eating window of 2pm-7pm I guess it would be better to not drink it at all than one every day?
I can't give you a general 'covers all situations' reply. Your metabolism is different to mine, and to everyone else's too. But over time, too much caffeine does have an effect, but what is too much for me might be easily within your limits.
Excess caffeine affects people in different ways. For example, what it does to me (pressure in the ears and tinnitus, together with poorer sleep) might be quite different for you. If I'm on holiday the extra sleep and relaxation means I cope with it, but were I working, it might quickly become a problem. Also, as people age, their tolerance reduces. Jonathan
@@jonathanclogstoun-willmott3011 Thank you very much for your reply, I was walking earlier thinking about your video and realised I do have some rising yang/heat. I am about to start a degree course in acupuncture so its an exciting time, thank you for sharing :)
You have a great energy/demeaner, I would love to see more videos, very easy to watch, thank you.
Me watching this while drinking my instant Folgers coffee. ❤😅
I usually have coffee 4-6 times a day
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I wish I seen this 10 years ago.
Yes, and the same occurred to me when I worked out what coffee did!
In my twenties I drank plenty of it, not that I really liked it much, but (in the cold offices of the 1960s and 1970s) it was warming and kept me awake. However, as explained on the page, although it depletes yin energy, when we're young we have plenty of this so we don't notice.
It's only later that it starts to catch up with us. so ... thanks for your comment!
What about black tea? Does it do the same? Is it safe to have in the daily? Thank you.
I read that aging occurs once the death hormone is secreted as the kidney life force is so drained
What do you mean by death hormone
@@kevinklein6872 aging or known as cortisol
Is this just for coffee or caffeine as well?
It what sort of situation would coffee be medicinal? I’ve been experiencing a severe clenching in my right gluteal muscle around the hip causing what I believe is likely intense sciatic nerve pain. I’ve been taking magnesium to try and help with this but it doesn’t seem ready to release. Could coffee perhaps help a bit?
Hi Sylvan, as you'll have read on our page on coffee (www.acupuncture-points.org/coffee.html) it is possible that coffee may help if your symptoms require dispersal of Qi stagnation; dispersal of Blood stasis; warming and dispersal of yin excess. If that is not the case, coffee probably won't help.
@@acupuncture-points Thanks so much!
what about decaf? does it make a significant difference? I have yin deficiency but I love coffee :(
Most decaf still contains some stimulants so its effect is milder than 'real' coffee.
However, if you read our page on coffee (www.acupuncture-points.org/coffee.html) and go right down to the bottom of the page, below even the links to and images of related articles, you'll get to the responses readers have made to the page.
Amongst these is a response from one reader (Violina) who says she's found a decaf coffee made without any chemicals which claims to remove 99.9% of caffeine. I haven't tried it, not least because for me the point of drinking real coffee is its taste and effect.
“Don’t drink coffee I take tea my dear…”
Ok.. be yourself, no matter what they say
Tea also dries you up and is a cold energy
Caffeine is a drug no matter how you ingest it!
What about some substitutes like coffee out of carobs, chicory, is it ok though they are a sort of bitter?
If the food from which the coffee substitute comes is bitter your body should benefit though too much processing to get from food to coffee probably isn't good.
So if we don’t get jittery then we are balancing how much we can handle right. I get zero symptoms or side effects from caffeine unless I drink over 5 cups . But if o have it with a meal I am okay
That's right, but if you get ill, or as you age, this may change. Jonathan
@@jonathanclogstoun-willmott3011 so then continue drinking however much as I want unless things change ?
@@conisalgado1294 Only you can give yourself that permission!
You sound like a drug addict rationalizing your addiction, because you are!
What about decaffeinated?
Hi Sol, I did reply to this - good - question in the answers to questions at the bottom of our page on coffee (see 26 july 2020) when I said:
"No decaffeination process is perfect. There will always be some caffeine left in the beans, but if there’s less of it, the effects will be less too.
The BBC has a good page on this here: - www.bbc.com/future/article/20180917-how-do-you-decaffeinate-coffee.
Tea and chocolate also contain caffeine, mostly at lower concentrations and chocolate contains fats and milk solids which slow caffeine absorption.
But if you need to avoid caffeine, take no coffee, even if it’s de-caffeinated!"
Remember, also, that coffee is bitter, an important taste for health when foods with that taste are eaten. There are five main tastes in Chinese medicine, and all foods fall into one or more suvh categories.
Long before we discovered food classes such as protein, carbohydrate, fat, the ancient Chinese observed that for health we should eat - daily - foods from each of five taste categories.
If we omitted one or ate too much of one of them, we got ill in predictable ways.
You could also confuse the process - we now realise - by taking a tiny amount of the taste. So you could mess with your system by saying, Ok, I'll take a grain of salt for the salty taste, a grain of sugar for the sweet taste, a pinch of spice for the spicy taste, a drop of vinegar for the sour taste and a grain of instant coffee for the bitter taste, and that's all the food I'll need because the ancient Chinese said I should take something from each taste category daily to remain healthy - when of course they said no such thing!
We crave coffee partly because we don't eat enough foods with the bitter taste in our normal diets. See our page on foods with a bitter taste at www.acupuncture-points.org/bitter-taste.html
If I drink one coffee a day. Is it ok?
It depends on your health - your balance of yin, yang, Blood and Qi.
If you are young and fit (though being fit is different from being strong), then more than one coffee a day might be fine.
But if you are unwell, out of balance, sleep badly, are weighed down by illness, stress, tension, age or exhaustion, all of which suggest your balance of yin, yang, Blood and Qi is poor, then even one coffee might not be a good idea.
im so addicted to coffee. i really need to cut back.
Once addicted it's hard to stop! If you can find an acupuncturist, she or he may be able to help you with the withdrawal symptoms. Likewise a good homoeopath. Eventually, try to enjoy just the very occasional cup, maybe once a week!
@@acupuncture-points yeah for sure ive been wanting to go to get Accupuncture. So im always trying to quite taking Kratom everyday I stimulates opiate receptors similar to morphine its a plant from Thailand. I believe it mind be too Yang I burnt out on it similar to coffee. its warming on my body and also extremely bitter plant. I read this interesting article that theorized that negative ions in the air in nature like for example tons of ions in the air by a waterfall or ocean. Are actually Prana in the body that's how breatharians survive in theory off of air well the air has ions and they are electrically charged ions. so he was saying negative ions are Prana energy or Qi
Arabs always server coffee with a glass of water.
Is one cup of decaf a day okay?
De-caff contains less caffeine, obviously, so that reduces some at least of the yang effect. But I understand that even de-caff contains other stimulants, albeit in small quantities.
Also, some methods of removing the caffeine apparently add other chemicals in the process as they flush out the caffeine.
So really, the question is whether and how you respond to it. If young and fit, probably little harm. When older or not so fit, perhaps better avoided.
@@jonathanclogstoun-willmott3011 thankyou I'm obsessed with Chinese medicine and I'm loving your videos 🥰
@@starrymoon2734 Thank-you! It's good to know you're enjoying them. Of course, a short video gives just the gist of the matter and my colleague has to keep pushing me back on-topic when I wander off into interesting but extraneous detail! Most people love coffee, but it's really not good for some of us.
Fantastic overview
For anyone who is ready to reduce coffee addiction, listen here. Paul Chek: How to get OFF coffee
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This is the first time I've heard of such a 'death hormone'. The nearest Chinese medicine to kidney life force is jing-essence (www.acupuncture-points.org/jing-essence.html)
Death Hormone?
Someone asked about this 'death hormone' some time ago - can't remember who or when but if you dig down through replies to this you should find it.
Of course, coffee isn't a hormone and it doesn't kill you but for most people, taken too often or in a too concentrated form, and all the more so as you age, it will dry you out (depletes yin) and gradually over heat or over stimulate you making it harder to relax in stressful situations.
When you are young and 'healthy', you have plentiful supplies of jing, yin and blood (yin substances) so you don't notice the downside of coffee but as you age these naturally deplete making you more susceptible to the stuff.@@gonova8412
Gotta stop drinking this stuff
everything you say is explained by one phrase in real medicine, "CNS stimulant".
And no....just because something is a stimulant, doesn't mean you *age faster* jesis christ. by that logic alcohol would make you age slower since its a CNS depressant 😂
True, but that requires you know what CNS means, and the ideas of yin and yang are universal whereas CNS is not. Also, alcohol is indeed regarded in Western medicine as a CNS depressant, but in Chinese medicine it is regarded as heating so better avoided or reduced if you suffer from a yang excess condition (www.acupuncture-points.org/yang-excess.html).
What about decaffeinated coffee?
Hi! I replied to someone else who asked the same thing, which you can see on page www.acupuncture-points.org/coffee.html, right at the bottom of the page among the responses: see mine of July 26 2020.