Eating for Health — Chinese Style

Charlie Buck
8 min readJan 27, 2022

Eating lunch in our clinic reception Dr Liu winced

What’s the matter? we asked.

Oh, my food today is very bitter — it tastes horrible!

Why are you eating that if it tastes so bad? Are we not paying you enough?

No, I need to balance the tastes my diet and so I sometimes eat bitter things.

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Charlie Buck

Charlie Buck is a practitioner, educator and published author in the field of acupuncture and Chinese medicine with almost four decades experience.