Frank,

Well first, I hope your TCM doctors has given you an accurate diagnosis.  It
is true that the traditional remedy in TCM is to avoid raw and cold
(temperature-wise like ice cream or iced-tea; as well as cold-natured foods
such as sea vegetables) foods if the diagnosis is "damp."

IMO unless you are very ill, you can eat all raw foods as long as you avoid
cold temperature foods (don't eat things ice cold) and cold nature foods.
Eat more from the "warming" side of the spectrum.  I think there was a post
I did earlier on the spectrum, see if the archives has my post.  Anyway to
do this you could try the following - eat more of the nuts, seeds, fish,
flesh foods, nuts, sprouts, and less of the sea vegetables, fruit, honey and
moist vegetables.  Do you eat all raw now?

The real answer is one step away from "I don't know" because the traditional
remedy for this problem includes eating soups made from "warming and drying
foods" that includes items such as adzuki beans, ginger, flesh foods and
brown rice.  I don't know of anyone other than myself who successfully
combines TCM and raw foods eating, and, damp is not really one of my own
problems now, so I don't have a ton of experience (at this point) on this
topic (but hope too in upcoming months).  Anyone who says they do combine
them is very unusual, because one of TCM's remedies that really works is to
eat warm, cooked foods for a while to alleviate certain conditions.  I have
tried that, and it really does work wonders for certain problems, but it is
done as a "course of treatment" for a brief period of time.

I hope this was some of help.

regards

roberta


Frank Wuts wrote:

> My traditional oriental medicine doctor told me I have too much Dampness
> so I need to avoid cold and raw foods. Could anyone with experiance with
> oriental medicine ( Roberta? ) comment on this. I try to eat mostly raw
> food. Is there another way to deal with Dampness.
>
> For those not informed about oriental medicine Dampness is related to
> what some people on the list refer to as Mucus. I don't need a towel.
>
> Frank.