Spring Health Soup

Author: Zhang Hude
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that dietary practices in spring should focus on nurturing yang, meaning consuming foods that have a warming and tonifying effect to enhance the body's resistance and protect against the invasion of pathogenic factors such as wind. For example, scallions, garlic, and chives are considered excellent vegetables and medicinal herbs for nurturing yang. "The kidneys store yang, which is the root of the body's yang energy," so nurturing yang in diet also includes nurturing kidney yang. Since in spring and summer, the body's yang energy is abundant on the surface while it appears insufficient internally, it is advisable to consume more foods that nourish kidney yang in your diet. As the proverb says, "Summer has true cold, winter has true fire," which highlights this idea.