NOURISHING YIN:

General Guidelines:

  • Avoid foods that stimulate energy use/are difficult to digest and/or processed
  • Consume cooling foods and dairy products (preferably fermented/aged/raw so that enzymes and probiotic strains are present)
  • More sweet, sour and salty foods, less pungent and bitter foods
  • Beneficial to consume some of daily food in a watery medium such as broth, soups, stews, and congees.

·      Grains: Barley, Spelt

·      Vegetables: alfalfa sprouts, artichokes, asparagus, seaweed  (kelp and nori), mung bean sprouts, plantain, potato, string bean, sweet potato, tomato, water chestnuts

·      Fruit: apple, apricot, avocado, banana, lemon/lime, mango, mulberry, pear, persimmon, pineapple, pomegranate, watermelon

·      Beans: Adzuki, black beans, kidney beans, lima beans, mung beans, black soybeans, tofu

·      Nuts/Seeds: coconut milk, sesame seeds, walnut

·      Algae: Spirulina, Chlorella, and Wild blue-green (grows wild in Klamath Lake, Oregon)

·      Fish: Abalone, clam, crab, oyster

·      Meat: Beef, duck, goose, kidney, pork, rabbit

·      Dairy: Egg, cheese, milk (preferably raw or pastured)

·      Herbs and spices: marjoram, nettle

·      Common supplements: ginseng (American), royal jelly