Week 9

Question 1

Autumn Food and Prep

Answer 1

Stimulate the activity in the body
Focus mentally
Begin process of contraction

1. Add more sour flavour foods: sourdough, sauerkraut, olives
   limes, grapefruit, rose hip tea, plums
   aduki beans, apples, grapes
   Cautious of extremely sour foods
2. Cook with less water, lower heat for longer periods of time

Question 2

Flavours to use when fall progresses into winter

Answer 2

Bitter and Salty flavours to move energy inward and downward

Question 3

Dryness

Answer 3

Reasons dryness can affect the lungs:
     Excessive Activity
     Imbalances in Diet
     Adverse Climate
     Organ malfunction

Inadequate yin fluids in body and therefore remedies for nourishing the yin and treat dryness

Using a little salt in cooking can help moisten dryness

Question 4

Autumn

Answer 4

Season of Harvest
Time to pull inward and gather together on all levels
Time to store up fuel, food and warm clothing
Everything in nature contracts and moves its essence inward and
downward