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☯ What is Allergy?
When foreign substances come into the body, immune response occurs to protect the body. This process is called normal immune response. However, an allergy is a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system.
☯ Types of allergy
The symptoms of respiratory allergic diseases are bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis. The symptoms of digestive system allergic diseases are stomachache, diarrhea, urticaria even a state of whole body shock and bronchial asthma. There are healthful eating and harmful eating depending on constitution.
☯ Symptoms of allergy
Allergy rhinitis, the most common allelic disease, causes the symptoms of spasmodic sneezing, lots of mucus, nasal congestion, itchiness of eye and nose.
☯ Treatment
1. Patients need to be active participants in their care.
Continuous outpatient treatment, improve daily life, remove the antigen.
2. Avoid antigen that causes allergy.
- Vacuum the carpet, sofa and so on more than once a week.
- Throw out the old dolls, pillow, and bed clothes. (Cover with plastic upholstery for prevention mite)
- Try to get rid of carpet, fabric sofa, stuffed animal, doll, curtain and so on.
- If patient has animal antigen, patients should not raise animal inside the home or even in the neighborhood.
(It takes 6 months to remove animal antigen.)
3. Herbal medicine
Herbal medicine is helpful in not only treatment of symptoms but also minimization of allergy outbreak
by improving immune system.
4. Acupuncture therapy
Strengthen the self-healing capacity of the body by improving human body’s ability to recover.
5. Aroma therapy
Treat allergy through disinfection and immune cell activation using aroma oil.
6. Psychological stability & Positive thinking
Impatience breaks down in health. Psychological stability and positive thinking help patients stay healthy.
☯ Dietary treatment based on constitution
1. Taeeum physiological type
- Healthful eating –
· Grain: sorghum, Job's tears, bean, sugar
· Meat: beef, milk
· Vegetable: radish, balloon flower
· Fruit: chestnut, walnut, ginkgo nut, pear, apricot
- Harmful eating –
Taeeum physiological type people should avoid spicy foods or fatty foods. Therefore, chicken, pork,
ginseng tea, honey, alcohol are the harmful foods.
2. Soyang physiological type
- Healthful eating –
· Grain: adzuki beans, mung beans
· Meat: pork
· Vegetable: Chinese cabbage, eggplant, cucumber, burdock
· Seafood: a raw oyster, sea cucumber, sea squirt, shrimp, crab, crawfish, snakehead
· Fruit: oriental melon, strawberry, banana, pineapple
· etc: beer
- Harmful eating –
Soyang physiological type produces lots of body heat, so foods with warmth nature should be avoided.
Spicy foods such as pepper, ginger, green onion, garlic, mustard, curry, coffee and chicken, goat meat,
orange, honey, ginseng, alcohol are harmful food for soyang people.
3. Soeum physiological type
- Healthful eating –
· Grain: glutinous millet
· Meat: chicken, goat meat, honey
· Fruit: tangerine, peach, orange, lemon
· Vegetable: green onion, pepper, garlic, mustard, black pepper, water parsley
- Harmful eating –
Fatty, cold and raw foods are not good for soeum physiological type people because those foods
are not easy to digest. Especially, oriental melon, cold milk, ice cream, beer, pork, flour based food are harmful.
4. Taeyang physiological type
- Healthful eating –
Cold nature foods are better than warm nature foods. And, Foods that have low fat and are not spicy
are appropriate. Particularly, sea foods and vegetables are good for taeyang people.
· Grain: buckwheat
· Sea foods: shrimp, shellfish (oyster, abalone, turban shell, crab, sea cucumber
· Vegetable: watershield plant, pine needles
· Fruit: grape, persimmon, cherry, quince
- Harmful eating –
Spicy foods, foods with warm nature and fatty foods are inappropriate dietary for taeyang physiological type people.
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