Seasonal Healing: Food Choices For Winter

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Seasonal Healing: Food Choices For Winter

 

When eating along with the seasons, there are two elements that should be taken

into account. The " nature " of the food and the " flavor " of the food. The nature

of the food refers to the foods innate temperature ie: cold, hot, warm, cool or

neutral. Eating a moderate amount of all flavors sweet, salty, pungent, bitter

and sour can help to keep your body balanced and regulated.

 

Salty taste is attributed to the kidney and urinary bladder, therefore adding

some salty foods in your diet during Winter can improve the kidney and bladder

function. Consider burdock root, eggs, fish, miso soup, nuts, tofu, and sea

vegetables such as arame, hiziki, kelp, kombu and wakame.

 

In winter, it is important to eat foods that warm the body’s core and keep it

nourished. Use cooking methods such as steaming, roasting, stir frying or

poaching in order to heat the food all the way through.

 

Avoid raw foods, which are cold in nature such as salads, cold fruits, ice

(especially in drinks), ice cream and raw vegetables as these tend to cool the

body.

 

Consider eating these food for Winter:

 

1. Warm hearty soups and healthy lean meat and root vegetable stews, whole

grains, and roasted nuts.

 

2. Cereals, grains, and legumes: brown rice, corn, millet, oatmeal, sorghum,

soybeans, black gram, adzuki bean, red kidney bean, broad bean.

 

3. Meat, poultry and fish: chicken, turkey, shrimp, carp, eel, chicken eggs.

 

4. Root vegetables such as yams, sweet potatoes, yucca, potatoes, beets,

turnips, ginger, ginseng, taro, burdock, carrots, parsnips, as well as, onions,

chives, scallions, garlic, leeks, common mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, mitake

and reishi.

 

5. Herbs, spices, condiments, oils such as perilla leaf, peppermint, dandelion,

honeysuckle flower, basil, parsley, wolfberry (gou gi berries), fleece-flower

root, licorice, astragalus, rhubarb, ginger, pepper, honey, sesame oil.

 

6 Fruits and nuts: (at room temperature) apples, clemetines, cranberries, red

grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, kumquats, passion fruit, persimmons, pomegranates and

rhubarb.

 

 

In happiness,

 

Andrew Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac

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