{"id":6328,"date":"2025-05-22T02:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:59:52","slug":"drama-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/column\/drama-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Foods that warm the body, and foods that cool it"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yakuzen\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yakuzen through the drama: today, the five natures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday's episode was packed with yakuzen ideas again.
Today I want to pick out one of them, the five natures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the five natures? How yakuzen sorts foods into warming and cooling<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yakuzen holds that food has a temperature quality, warming or cooling the body, and sorts it into these five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Hot: warms the body strongly
    e.g. ginger, Chinese chives, chilli<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Warm: warms gently
    e.g. kabocha squash, chicken<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Neutral: balanced, in the middle
    e.g. rice, cabbage<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Cool: cools gently
    e.g. tomato, lettuce<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Cold: cools the body firmly
    e.g. watermelon, green tea<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    How to use the five natures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    When you notice the cold, make a point of bringing in warm and hot ingredients.
    The other way round, when hot flushes, skin inflammation or a flushed feeling are on your mind, cool and cold ingredients are the ones to choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For example, when you have been eating nothing but cold things and feel vaguely off, just adding a warm soup or some root vegetables already adjusts things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Celery is a classic cool ingredient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Celery, which turned up in the last episode, cools the body gently and draws qi downwards.
    When I feel short on moisture or irritable, I make a point of eating celery myself.
    That is yakuzen in practice: settling things by eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The vegetable yakuzen course is now open<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Our vegetable yakuzen course, on settling the body with vegetables, is now running.
    It is easy to follow for beginners and an easy way into yakuzen. Do take a look if it appeals.
    About the Yasai Yakuzen course<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Inside the house, town and country are the same.\" What a line<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    The last episode is next week, which is far too sad.
    Uzura's line stayed with me: inside the house, town and country are the same. It made me think again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Where you live matters, of course, but the environment inside the house matters just as much.
    That line got me working through two busy years' worth of cleaning lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    See you next time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What are the five natures in yakuzen? How to use warming and cooling ingredients such as celery and tomato.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":"","ssp_meta_description":"\u85ac\u81b3\u306e\u300c\u4e94\u6027\u300d\u3092\u308f\u304b\u308a\u3084\u3059\u304f\u89e3\u8aac\u3002\u98df\u3079\u7269\u304c\u3082\u3064\u4f53\u3092\u6e29\u3081\u308b\u30fb\u51b7\u3084\u3059\u6027\u8cea\uff08\u71b1\u6027\u30fb\u6e29\u6027\u30fb\u5e73\u6027\u30fb\u6dbc\u6027\u30fb\u5bd2\u6027\uff09\u3068\u4ee3\u8868\u7684\u306a\u98df\u6750\u3092\u3001\u85ac\u81b3\u30c9\u30e9\u30de\u306e\u8a71\u984c\u3068\u3042\u308f\u305b\u3066\u7d39\u4ecb\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002"},"categories":[168],"tags":[169,178],"class_list":["post-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","tag-column","tag-eat-sleep-happy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions\/6336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasai-yakuzen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}