Common Cold, Swine Flu, Immunity and Diet

You catch cold because you are cold. The body is naturally warm. It needs to maintain a certain temperature (98.6), energy production to stay healthy. Below that temperature, the body gets colder, making it environmentally attractive to cold natured diseases, including the common cold and flu. Correct diet maintains the correct temperature, the incorrect, worsens, [...]

Hot and Cold Health and Disease

                 Do you really need a doctor?       
           

 Health and disease are simple. The body builds up  and breaks down largely according to food, nutrients, to which there are only two: building (hot, yang) and cleansing (cold, yin). The correct balance produces health, the incorrect, too much or too little building or cleansing, in the extreme, tends [...]

Kidney yin, jing, blood and Traditional Chinese Medicine

The kidneys are located on the rear wall of the abdomen in the small of the back on either side of the vertebral column and have many different functions. The meridians (energetic pathways) of the kidneys pass into the ears.
The kidneys store jing (sexual essence, DNA). Jing is the fundamental, material substance of life governing [...]

Liver, Blood Cleansing and Traditional Chinese Medicine

          Ninety percent of most disease is curable via simple diet and herbs,  but it takes an education not a website, one article, 10 minutes of your time.
 The following is an excerpt from Hot and Cold Health (available on Amazon  by R. G. Heft (Acupuncture Physician FL 1992- 2002).
       The liver  (large, thick, blood rich [...]

Spleen, Digestion and Traditional Chinese Medicine

         Ninety percent of most disease is curable via simple diet and herbs,  if you know what yiou are doing. It takes an education, book not a website, one article, 10 minutes of your time.
       The following is an excerpt from Hot and Cold Health (available on Amazon  by R. G. Heft (Acupuncture Physician FL 1992- [...]

There Are Only Two Diseases

        The following is an excerpt from Hot and Cold Health (available on Amazon by R. G. Heft (Acupuncture Physician FL 1992- 2002).
       The body digests, transforms food, nutrients into blood, structure and function. There are only two kinds of food, nutrients: building (hot, yang) and cleansing (cold, yin). The correct amount of building and [...]

Ask Richard

There is no diet, herb, condition, symptom, disease, etc. that I do not know. I have questioned and counseled thousands. 
There is only one body, planet, sun, etc.  therefore only one way to eat, exercise, sleep, etc.  Everyone has the same maintenance manual.  
One diet (central theme plus two variations and herbs) can prevent and or [...]

Cellulite, diet, coldness and traditional Chinese medicine

The following is an excerpt from Hot and Cold Health (available on Amazon) by R. G. Heft (Acupuncture Physician FL 1992- 2002).
                Cellulite is excess water and fat weight that tends to accumulate in pockets around the abdomen and thighs, more so in women than men. Many women tend to eat cold, damp diets: low [...]

Candidiasis, Yeast Infections, Cold, Damp Diets and Traditional Chinese Medicine

The following is an excerpt from Hot and Cold Health (available on Amazon) by R. G. Heft (Acupuncture Physician FL 1992- 2002).
      Candidiasis is a yeast-like infection caused by the proliferation of a normally occurring yeast-like fungus, Candida albicans. It is a cold, damp pathology with a variety of symptoms, primary and secondary. Poor diet, antibiotics, [...]

Edema, coldness and traditional Chinese medicine

The following is an excerpt from Hot and Cold Health (available on Amazon) by R. G. Heft (Acupuncture Physician FL 1992- 2002).   
       Edema is the accumulation of fluid in the soft tissues and can occur anywhere in the body: head, arms, legs, etc. It is generally caused by poor diet and or weak digestion. Edema [...]