The Macrobiotic born to early twentieth century in Japan and aims to alleviate a number of disease through food. Besides being used as a medicine it is also used as preventive programs or better yet, some people use it as a healthy and balanced on life. Macrobiotics for many health problems stem from poor selection and assimilation of food and its poor quality. Our bodies develop processes to compensate and we call diseases. Knowing in detail how they work foods in our body as a whole, taking into account even its energy aspect, is one of the objectives of the Macrobiotic.

In our culture, this energetic aspect is still unknown, and this is the reason why there are a number of foods that today we continue to consume without knowing that we provide more imbalances benefits. In our Western tradition more old, many of the foods we use today were excluded was considered unbalanced our health. Even today, some Doctors, aware of such knowledge, when someone has accumulation uric acid, cholesterol, triglycerides, etc, provided the individual with a list of such forbidden foods.

The yin and yang, opposites and complementary

The most important foundation of macrobiotics is found in Eastern philosophy and the five elements, which is based in the two opposing natural forces that complement each other and form a whole, a single principle of yin and yang. Yin means yang expansion and contraction, i.e. are the two opposite poles most influential in the universe. Yin and yang are continuously alternating an eternal flow, while one contains the other and vice versa.

The disciplines or methods orientals are based on deep knowledge and precise cycles of nature. The intention is always the same: to foresee imbalances of the human and natural environment.

An entire energy cycle has duration of ten years. It is the time it takes the energy circulating around the planets. A cycle is shorter than a year. It is time that energy makes a journey around the sun cycle still the most important day in his twenty-four hours. Oriental medicine during the day discovered that our body has other clock, which has to do with the energy meridians amending every two hours and mark the changes that produce energy in the organs. This watch tells us which body is giving the danger signal, knowing the time that hurts us or presenting a specific type. So we know also how to counter it. Furthermore, it should be mind that each body has its share yin and yang side (e.g. speaking of liver yin and yang of the liver). Hence, intervene when we always looking at the two forces are present in each of the organs of our body and that in turn are opposite and act separately.

As an analogy, we would have electricity flowing through the cables. This is divided two poles, positive and negative. In the terminal or outlet, with both phases separately and if he fails again not no light.

Autumn

The annual cycle is divided into four seasons. They are the energy runs periods when it passes from one phase to another, transformed. The year begins with the spring which is the ascending energy. When it reaches a maximum level of increase goes to expand. This process begins the summer. After great expansion process of contraction begin which is the fall. And finally, begins a process of descent into the interior of land that is winter. The ancient Eastern philosophy had such respect for these cycles of energy that when condemned death of a prisoner waiting for the fall to run it. This was done not to go against the energy process. If they had done in spring, when energy is in full ascent, suffering of relatives and friends of the prisoner for witnessing this fact had broken the energy process so that a year then would have become a disease.

Therefore, expecting that nature would produce contraction lung energy is what causes sadness and suffering so that this negative experience coincides fully with natural energy process. Thus, any organ was damaged or irreparable deficiencies occurred.