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Traditional Chinese Medicine: Bullshit or Brilliance? You decide...
A lot of people think that diseases are caused by humoral imbalance, and if you get too much yin (dietary or otherwise) such as sugary foods or alcohol, your body lowers its defences on purpose so that you can catch a minor bacterial infection, and let the toxins inside of you escape as mucus. That's what a cold is supposed to be.
The way to speed up the process would be some yang. Starches and poultry are considered dietary yang, and yang is also associated with heat. So there you have the wisdom of the ancients-- the best thing for a cold is to just have some chicken soup :-p
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f-e-r-n-w-e-h is actually a gross misspelling of the name "gregory"
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