Yin, Jing & Yang conditions Flashcards
What foods are suitable for Yin conditions?
Generally cool or neutral
Flavours of sweet, salty or sour
What diet suggestions would you make for a Yin condition?
-Foods with a higher water and oil content (lubricating)
-Seeds and beans
-High quality protein
-Raw food that is refreshing - fruit, tropical fruits, sprouts
-Foods cooked using cooling and moistening cooking methods such as blanching, steaming, salting, boiling in water.
What foods are beneficial for Yin conditions?
Meat/Seafood: pork, oysters, mackerel, sardines, mussels, squid, duck, chicken, egg, bone marrow
Vegetables: cooling and refreshing such as spinach, beetroot, mung bean, tomato, squash, potato, seaweed, mushroom, fungus, blackens
Grains, legumes, nuts and seeds: spelt, millet, corn, rice, wheat, barley, almonds, peanuts, chia, flaxseed, hemp seeds.
Fruits: apples, pear, citrus, blackberries, strawberries, bananas, melon, mango, grapes
Dairy and soy: butter, cheese, milk, tofu, yoghurt, tempeh, soy milk, coconut milk.
Drinks: red fruit juice, citrus juice, wheat beer, honey
What foods should be avoided with Yin conditions?
Pungent spices and warm-hot bitters, chillies, curry and spices, cinnamon, garlic, ginger, onion, shallots, leeks, basil, clove, wasabi, lamb, prawns, veal, game, crackers, baked foods.
Coffee, strong tea, high proof alcohol.
Avoid low nutritional diet and irregular eating habits.
What is Kidney Yin Xu dietary requirements?
Eat a general Yin Xu diet but add Kidney nourishing foods
Avoid: drying foods, irregular eating
Beneficial kidney foods:
- Barley, millet, tofu, asparagus, dark-coloured beans, dark fruits, black sesame seed, all seaweed, animal products (fish, eggs, dairy, pork and duck)
Tonics: spirulina, kelp, wheatgrass, marshmallow herb, slippery elm
What culinary herbs can be used in Yin conditions?
- Gou Qi Zi - chinese wolf berry
- Ba He - lily bulb
- Hei Zhi Ma (black sesame seed)
What foods are suitable for Yang conditions?
Foods that are neutral, warm, sometimes hot.
Flavours of sweet, pungent and salty.
Suggest that clients make soups or stews with warming meat and vegetables.
Warming cooking methods such as grilling, frying, roasting, smoking, searing, baking, long simmering in liquid, cooking with alcohol, using hot or warm spices
What types of food are beneficial for Yang conditions?
Meat and seafood: beef, poultry, lamb, game (such as venison)
Grains and legumes: fennel, leeks
Vegetables: corn
Nuts and seeds: walnuts and chestnuts
What foods should be avoided for Yang conditions?
Yin products: dairy, tofu, raw foods and juices, foods straight from the fridge.
Poor eating habits: irregular, hasty eating, eating late in the day.
Foods to avoid: tropical fruits, frozen foods, denaturalised foods, canned foods, refined sugar or ice cold beverages, excessive hot spices.
What diet should be recommended for Kidney Yang Xu?
Eat: warming diet
Beneficial foods: onion family (garlic), chicken, lamb, lamb and beef kidney, trout, salmon, lobster, shrimp, prawn, mussel, black beans, walnuts, chestnuts, pistachio, raspberry, quinoa, rosemary, chives.
- Warming and pungent spices: dried ginger, cinnamon, cayenne, clove, fenugreek and black pepper
- Star anise and fennel tea
What are culinary herbs for Yang conditions?
- Ding Xiang (Clove)
- Rou Gui (cinnamon bark)
- Cao dou kou (nutmeg)
What are Jing condition foods?
- Seeds for growth
- Plants from the sea (rich in minerals
- Bone marrow (essence)
What diet should be suggested for Jing conditions?
cooling, neutral (moisture/yin promoting) cooking methods such as blanching, steaming and soups.
What are the two principles when treating Jing conditions?
The first principle is to conserve
The second principle is to nourish through food and drink
Beneficial foods for Jing conditions?
Meat and seafood: bone marrow, bee pollen, animal organs
Vegetables: seaweeds, nettle, wheat and barley grass, artichoke leaf.
Fruit: Raspberries
Grains and legumes: wheat and black beans
Dairy: ghee, clarified butter
Nuts and seeds: black sesame, almonds, seeds.
What poor lifestyle habits contribute to Jing conditions?
Inadequate sleep, overwork, excessive ejaculation, multiple births close in succession.
Chemicals: recreational drugs, chemicals and preservatives
Stimulating drinks: excessive use of alcohol and caffeine
What are Jing culinary herbs?
Lian Zi (lotus seed)
Bai Guo (gingko nut)
Gou qi zi (wolfberry/ goji berry)
Hei Zhi Ma (black sesame)
What are the herbal formulas for Yin, Jing and Yang conditions?
- Liu Wei Di Huang Wan
- Zuo Gui Wan
- You Gui Wan
What is Liu Wei Di Huang Wan?
- Shu di huang
- Shan Yu Rou
- Shan Yao
- Ze Xie
- Mu Dan Pi
- Fu Ling
What are the functions of Liu Wei Di Huang Wan?
Nourish Yin and tonify the Kidney
What are the patterns, signs and symptoms of Liu Wei Di Huang Wan?
- Insufficiency of Kidney Yin and flaring up fire, marked by soreness and weakness of waist and knees, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, deafness, hectic fever and night sweating, five centres heat, diabetes, seminal emission, dryness of tongue, sore throat, pain of heel, loose teeth, dripping urination.
- Tongue: red body with little coating
- Pulse: thready and rapid
- Soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees, sensation of heat in the palms and soles, tinnitus/vertigo/loss of hearing, night sweats, light-headedness, nocturnal seminal emission/frequent sexual dreams, overactive libido.
- T: red, dry w/ scanty coat
- P: thin, rapid
