Traditional Chinese medicine turns our daily diet into a full-fledged tool for health. While our eating habits can be healing, they can also, when imbalanced and inappropriate, pave the way for diseases. Chinese dietary principles aim to restore the harmony of the energetic flow that ""nourishes"" and animates our body, mind, and emotions. The choice of foods, as well as temperature, cooking methods, use of spices and herbs, are all governed by this singular purpose: to restore circulation.

Marie Borrel, a health journalist, is the author of numerous health books, including ""Ma bible de la médecine chinoise"" published by Leduc.s.