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You’ll find that there are a lot of things that you have to do in a day. You don’t want to spend all day on dinner, but you also want to keep in mind that a good and wholesome meal can be served within an hour. You’ll find that there are a lot of ingredients that can be opted out so that you are able to keep things simple and easy.  It also depends on rather or not you are an experienced cook or a beginner. You’ll want to keep in mind that most people will struggle with some of the dishes, but you’ll be able to do a lot with just rice, veggies, and one type of meat.

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Yin and Yang are opposites which depend upon each other for their existence. There would be no Yin without Yang and Yang without Yin. Think of the Chinese symbol for Yin and Yang. Half is light, half is dark and the two curl around one another. In the Yang part of the symbol there is a spot of dark (Yin) and in the Yin part of the symbol there is a spot of light (Yang).

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One definition of Chi or Qi (they are one and the same) in the online dictionary is: “The vital force believed in Taoism and other Chinese thought to be inherent in all things. The unimpeded circulation of chi and a balance of its negative and positive forms in the body are held to be essential to good health in traditional Chinese medicine.”

Chinese herbalists ‘measure’ Chi in a patient by considering the conditions of:

Yin            Yang
Hot            Cold
Internal      External
Empty        Full

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For at least 4000 years the Chinese have used Green Tea as a medicine. They have used it to treat everything from headaches to depression. It has only been in recent times that the rest of the world has discovered the many health benefits derived from the drinking of Green Tea. More and more benefits seem to be found daily.

In 1994 the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published a study that stated, “Drinking green tea reduced the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by nearly sixty percent.”

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Three thousand years before the birth of Christ, the Chinese were establishing the foundation for the practice of herbal medicine as we know it today.

In the beginning all herbs were simply referred to as ‘divine herbs’ by the shamans who used them along with incantation and ashes to ‘heal’ people. There were no ‘doctors’ as we know them today and certainly no corner drug stores.

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