Sunday, November 07, 2004
THE YING & YANG OF DIET...
A few articles that I picked up along the way: http://www.asianweek.com/051399/ae_food.html http://neuro.vetmed.ufl.edu/neuro/courses/vem5208/tcm-food.htm
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~yzhao/yinyang.html
http://www.bubishi.com/tcm/five_elem_foods.html
http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/shen-nong/article/functional03/functional03_1.htm http://www.annieappleseedproject.org/talbygeorwon.html
Taken from one of the articles above, an example:
Foods:
Rice and grains tend to be neutral
Wheat or barley may be too cold for some women
Beans are good. Soybeans are neutral, cooked is best (otherwise can cause gas).
Tofu is more cold in nature and should be cooked with spice
Nuts are neutral, agreeable
Potatoes are nightshades which he does not recommend for survivors, although baked is good. Frying gives yang energy
Mangoes are very yang, promote fire, (good), recommends peaches, cherries, plums, coconut, pineapple. If yin deficit, oranges, tangerines, pears (hot), red delicious apples, especially cooked.
Grapefruits, figs and olives are neutral
Bananas are nightshades and very yin. Suppresses appetite if yang deficit.
If you have a cold nature, he suggests garlic, ginger, mustard greens, scallions, onions, carrots, pumpkin and squash (yang deficit).If yin deficit, eat asparagus, broccoli (well cooked), spinach.
Avoid cucumber, tomato, eggplant if yang deficit.
Corn, mushrooms are neutral.
Eat whole eggs-the yoke is yang and the whites are yin. Scrambled eggs were recommended.
Bitter melon and cactus are very yin.
After cancer treatments, a patient is usually very yang deficit and therefore should have (organically raised) lamb chops, venison and wild game birds once per week.
Chicken is neutral but too much fat is found in most US chickens. He recommends (free-range) chickens.
Rabbit is cold, pork is neutral.
Oysters, shrimp, mussels, clams are warming in nature as is non-farm raised salmon.
Other fish is neutral
Seaweed is good, salty and cold, add ginger or spices
Green tea is less good than black tea (in his system). (Studies show that black tea offers benefits in cancer prevention. Recommends oolong and fermented green tea.
Jasmine has a lot of caffeine
Dairy is very acidic and yin in nature. Goat milk might be easier to metabolize, soy milk is somewhat hard to digest and rice milk is more neutralRecommends: cinnamon, pepper, curry as very yang in nature.
Red wine promotes yang energy but only ONE glass per week.
White wine is very acidic and has sulfides which are not good.
Chocolate and coffee can be good since they promote yang energy. If constipated, a cup of hot chocolate (cocoa) or Brazilian coffee is recommended to raise the yang energy
Flowers-rose tea if organic would be good and warming.
Chrysanthemum tea is a little coldSalt is considered neutral to yin but too much can be a burden on kidney energy
Bee products (in response to a question) can be good but make sure they are from organically raised bees
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This is something I have known about for some time, but I would like to add this into my diet system... Back to reading on the topic.
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~yzhao/yinyang.html
http://www.bubishi.com/tcm/five_elem_foods.html
http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/shen-nong/article/functional03/functional03_1.htm http://www.annieappleseedproject.org/talbygeorwon.html
Taken from one of the articles above, an example:
Foods:
Rice and grains tend to be neutral
Wheat or barley may be too cold for some women
Beans are good. Soybeans are neutral, cooked is best (otherwise can cause gas).
Tofu is more cold in nature and should be cooked with spice
Nuts are neutral, agreeable
Potatoes are nightshades which he does not recommend for survivors, although baked is good. Frying gives yang energy
Mangoes are very yang, promote fire, (good), recommends peaches, cherries, plums, coconut, pineapple. If yin deficit, oranges, tangerines, pears (hot), red delicious apples, especially cooked.
Grapefruits, figs and olives are neutral
Bananas are nightshades and very yin. Suppresses appetite if yang deficit.
If you have a cold nature, he suggests garlic, ginger, mustard greens, scallions, onions, carrots, pumpkin and squash (yang deficit).If yin deficit, eat asparagus, broccoli (well cooked), spinach.
Avoid cucumber, tomato, eggplant if yang deficit.
Corn, mushrooms are neutral.
Eat whole eggs-the yoke is yang and the whites are yin. Scrambled eggs were recommended.
Bitter melon and cactus are very yin.
After cancer treatments, a patient is usually very yang deficit and therefore should have (organically raised) lamb chops, venison and wild game birds once per week.
Chicken is neutral but too much fat is found in most US chickens. He recommends (free-range) chickens.
Rabbit is cold, pork is neutral.
Oysters, shrimp, mussels, clams are warming in nature as is non-farm raised salmon.
Other fish is neutral
Seaweed is good, salty and cold, add ginger or spices
Green tea is less good than black tea (in his system). (Studies show that black tea offers benefits in cancer prevention. Recommends oolong and fermented green tea.
Jasmine has a lot of caffeine
Dairy is very acidic and yin in nature. Goat milk might be easier to metabolize, soy milk is somewhat hard to digest and rice milk is more neutralRecommends: cinnamon, pepper, curry as very yang in nature.
Red wine promotes yang energy but only ONE glass per week.
White wine is very acidic and has sulfides which are not good.
Chocolate and coffee can be good since they promote yang energy. If constipated, a cup of hot chocolate (cocoa) or Brazilian coffee is recommended to raise the yang energy
Flowers-rose tea if organic would be good and warming.
Chrysanthemum tea is a little coldSalt is considered neutral to yin but too much can be a burden on kidney energy
Bee products (in response to a question) can be good but make sure they are from organically raised bees
_____________
This is something I have known about for some time, but I would like to add this into my diet system... Back to reading on the topic.
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