A beetroot in the dark

1 March 20259 September 2026

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\ Your result /

Guest, your constitution is...

A beetroot in the dark

Blood stasis (oketsu)

type.

Shoulders locked solid...A complexion that somehow lacks life...

If that sounds like you, you may be Blood not circulating well:
you may be the Shadow Beetroot type.

Stiff shouldersPeriod painDark spots and dullness

But it is all right.
A few small changes to how you eat and to your habits will
clear things and leave your body lighter.

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Eat ingredients
that get the blood moving

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Light stretching and deep breathing
settle the circulation

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Warm and pungent ingredients
warm the body right through.

The yakuzen way.

\ Ingredients worth eating /

If you are the Shadow Beetroot type, getting the blood circulating are the ones to eat.

Settles the circulation of blood

Black wood ear

getting the blood circulating

Eggplant

Improves the flow of blood

Pak choi

Gets the blood moving

Beetroot

If preparing fresh vegetables feels like too much work,

dried vegetables are the answer.

Fresh vegetables take a lot of preparation, which is hard to keep up in a busy life. With dried vegetables you simply add them to a dish or to instant food, and you get the vegetables that suit your constitution easily.

Here are the dried vegetables that suit your constitution

Purchases are made on the site of"OYAOYA", the dried vegetable brand that runs Yasai Yakuzen.

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From here on, this is not about how you feel. It is about your career after learning yakuzen. Some opened a school, some supervise recipes for companies, some launched their own yakuzen tea brand, some added yakuzen to the job they already had. We pick, from the eight practitioners registered with Yasai Yakuzen, someone whose path is close to yours, and you talk for 45 minutes online.

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This is coaching about how to use yakuzen and where to take your career. We do not diagnose illness, treat it or direct medication, or perform any other medical act. For symptoms or a diagnosis, please see a doctor or pharmacist.

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Author of this article

Asako Yamakawa

Representative of YAKUZEN TOKYO Inc. Born 1982. After working on a D2C apparel business across both digital and physical marketing, poor health led her to Chinese-medicine yakuzen. Struck by how much the properties of ingredients changed how she felt, she now runs corporate courses, supervises staff canteens and offers yakuzen services that fit everyday life, under the idea of yakuzen made for how people live now.