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Have you come across the word yakuzen? In fact, eating the vegetables and fruit already around us to suit your constitution and how you feel can settle both body and mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yakuzen, put simply, is food that settles the body. It is built on the thinking of Chinese medicine. It may bring to mind special ingredients, but you can in fact make proper yakuzen dishes with everyday vegetables from the supermarket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese medicine has an idea called mibyo senbo, heading off illness before it takes hold. It means caring for yourself before you fall ill, and it sits at the foundation of yakuzen. I broke my own health through overwork, and it was then that I first met yakuzen and was moved by the idea of settling the body through what ingredients do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember thinking, from the heart, that if I had known sooner I could have looked after myself before things went wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That thought is what drives the services and the advocacy work I now do, settling body and mind through yakuzen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I want to share yakuzen recipes anyone can make easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The basics of yakuzen, and approaching it by constitution<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yakuzen looks at ingredients and at the body from several angles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of them is the idea that ingredients either warm the body or cool it. This is called yin and yang. Ginger and garlic, for instance, warm the body, while cucumber and tomato cool it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What matters is bringing these in, in balance, to suit your constitution and how you feel now. When you notice the cold or that circulation has slowed, reach for warming ingredients. When flushing or a hot feeling is on your mind, make a point of cooling ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theory may sound hard, but in practice it is surprisingly simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another important idea in yakuzen is the five zang organs. Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lung and Kidney each carry a function of the body, and each has ingredients that correspond to it. For tired eyes and stiff shoulders, for instance, green ingredients that act on the Liver are said to be good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yakuzen has more than 2,000 years of history behind it, wisdom drawn from long experience. Modern nutrition science says bean sprouts are 95% water and hold almost nothing, while yakuzen prizes them as an ingredient that cools heat. That is how yakuzen looks at things: by how an ingredient acts on the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three easy yakuzen recipes with everyday vegetables<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are yakuzen recipes you can easily make at home. None uses special ingredients; they work with everyday vegetables from the supermarket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Ginger and onion soup, for recovering from tiredness<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ginger and onion warm the body and warm a tired one from the inside. It is good if you feel the cold, or when a cold is coming on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ingredients (serves 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n