What is vegetable yakuzen?

The basics of vegetable yakuzen

Vegetable yakuzen is a way of eating that draws on yakuzen thinking, grounded in Chinese medicine, and uses the power of vegetables and fruit to settle body and mind according to constitution, how you feel and the season. Yakuzen is often thought to need special ingredients, but vegetable yakuzen uses everyday ones, so anyone can practise it easily. Through food that is kind to the body, it aims at keeping you well and easing what is off.

Yakuzen you can do with everyday ingredients

Within yakuzen, eating built around vegetables and fruit is the easiest to bring into daily life. Choosing warming ingredients in cold winters and cooling vegetables in hot summers lets you eat in answer to the turn of the season. No special cooking or expensive ingredients are needed; getting yakuzen's benefits from supermarket vegetables is what makes vegetable yakuzen appealing.

What vegetable yakuzen gives you

Learning how vegetable yakuzen thinks brings these benefits.

• Easier to manage how you feel: choosing ingredients that suit your constitution and the season supports your health day to day.
• Practicable with everyday ingredients: it uses vegetables and fruit that are easy to get hold of, so nothing special has to be prepared.
• Better self-care: eating to suit how you feel makes falling ill less likely and helps keep you well day to day.

Who it suits

• People who think about their health but find special ingredients and cooking hard: vegetable yakuzen can be started easily with everyday vegetables and fruit.
• People too busy to look after their own health: making a point of choosing ingredients for the season and for how you feel supports your health without strain.
• People interested in yakuzen who find the bar too high: even without difficult knowledge, a small adjustment to everyday meals lets you feel what yakuzen does.
• People who value self-care: eating to suit your constitution and the season settles how you feel and helps keep you well day to day.

What learning vegetable yakuzen gives you

Learning how vegetable yakuzen thinks means first understanding your own constitution and what marks out the season, and then choosing vegetables and fruit to suit. Someone who feels the cold would choose warming ingredients such as ginger and spring onion; someone who runs hot would choose cooling ones such as cucumber and watermelon.

Settling the balance of the five phases and of yin and yang is among yakuzen's basic ideas, but in vegetable yakuzen the point is above all to understand the nature of ingredients and bring them into everyday meals without strain. Knowing how yakuzen thinks turns choosing what to eat into managing how you feel, naturally.

In summary

Vegetable yakuzen is a way of staying well that anyone can start easily, as one way of thinking. A small adjustment to everyday meals brings in nourishment suited to your constitution and the season. Even in busy days, learning about vegetable yakuzen and eating with body and mind in mind helps keep you well.