Spring Health Soup: 100 Healthy and Nourishing Soups You Can Make Yourself

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