The anti-heat diet according to Traditional Chinese Medicine

In China, even the four seasons have characteristics Yin and Yang (the opposites that characterize Traditional Chinese Medicine) and in this perspective summer represents the maximum of Yang, synonymous with warmth and warmth, associated with the fire element and the organ of the heart.

In China, reference is also made to the assumptions of Traditional Medicine to set up a correct diet in the hottest season (and more generally in all seasons), when heat and high pressure strongly affect everyone’s psychophysical state.

Heat is in fact an important element as long as it is absorbed carefully: if we do not sweat in the summer we risk not eliminating the internal humidity present in our body that we have accumulated in the winter months. The risk is that in the autumn months there may be pathologies of humidity, such as phlegm, accumulation of mucus, etc. “In this regard, nutrition is the fundamental fulcrum for maintaining the right balance, thus mitigating the excessive heat of summer temperatures but also allowing the elimination of this” harmful “humidity for the organism that would cause pathologies in the future months” explains the Master of Taoist philosophy, Marco Montagnani. “For this reason, in Chinese dietetics foods of a fresh nature are recommended, so as to mitigate the excess of summer heat, but also to allow a part of Yang necessary to heat and dissipate the humidity we were talking about to penetrate into the body ».

THE IDEAL DIET TO STAY GOOD IN SUMMER (BUT ALSO IN AUTUMN)

For Traditional Chinese Medicine in the summer it would be better to avoid food and drinks from the fridge and freezer, but rather prefer lukewarm or room temperature drinks with elderflower or mint leaves with refreshing properties. The green tea and the lemon. Always to be avoided, but for reasons of opposite characteristics, crustaceans and the river fish, l’garlic and the onion, alcohol e wine. All these foods and drinks in fact, they have characteristics that bring excessive heat which in the summer becomes harmful. As well as even grilling and oven cooking, which give the food a surplus of heat, which we do not need.

FOOD YES

There are instead some “ideal” foods to orient ourselves on in summer, aimed at maintaining this balance. As for meat for example rabbit e duck; for cereals instead mile, barley e whole wheat; for dairy substitutes there are soya milk e tofu; then blue fish, ostrica, vongola, sepia e squid; among the vegetables the chinese cabbage, artichoke, chard, spinach, celery, zucchini, salads, cucumber, tomato and like fruit mela, strawberry, blueberry, pineapple, watermelon, melone, banana, Orange. “It is therefore appropriate to say that in the context of energy medicine, food is truly considered a therapy: you eat what your body needs and not what your throat desires – continues Montagnani – and one of the main errors in fact power supply is undoubtedly that of gulp down anything without worrying too much about its organoleptic and energetic qualities, and consequently therapeutic and this does not mean giving up the pleasure of the table, you can eat everything, with the reservation of doing so at the time and in the period
correct “.