Any Food Can Be Healing

Author: Victoria Aly Time for reading: ~1 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

According to traditional Tibetan medicine, any food prepared in certain proportions has the properties to heal or at least have a beneficial effect on the body.

Tibetans have divided products into "hot" and "cold". However, this had nothing to do with the temperature of the food taken. According to ancient physicians, hot foods had the ability to "warm" the body and protect it from disease, and "cold" - destroyed the causes of disease.

To the "cold" products the ancient Tibetans referred mostly to fruits and some fruit juices, milk, cottage cheese, rice, pumpkin, cabbage, poppy and pork.

Most types of meat, Tibetan healers classify as "warm" products. Horse and bear meat were considered "warmer" than, for example, mutton. And human meat was considered the "warmest" meat, although there is no evidence that Tibetans practiced cannibalism.

As a remedy, traditional Tibetan medicine recommends the use of spices instead of meat: pepper, cloves, cinnamon, ginger and saffron.

Ginger is believed to warm the stomach and liver, increase sexual desire, but is harmful to the kidneys. White pepper protects against cough, warms the stomach and liver and enhances sexual desire, and black pepper helps with cough and warms the stomach, but exhausts the body.

Tibetan doctors believed that these three spices could be mixed in different proportions to obtain a natural remedy with a healing effect.

Any Food Can Be Healing

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