Spring Chinese Medicine Health Tips

Spring – Liver – Gallbladder – Wood

The Spring Season pertains to the Liver and Gallbladder and is of the Wood Element.

Here are some tips to follow during the spring. This is a general list, and you may require a different set of rules depending on how your body is presenting.

1. Rise Early with the Sun

2. Take more brisk walks

3. Your appetite will likely decrease.

4. In Chinese medicine, Wind dominates in spring, which is why colds are common at this time. Your skin pores easily open wide due to the warmer temperatures, which allows pathogens to enter. Such signs as cough, stuffy and runny nose, headaches, dizziness and sneezing.

5. Eat lighter

6. Eat less fats, which are more required in Winter to keep you warm

7. Limit Salty foods, heavy salty meats, miso which sends energy downwards. This is a time for energy to go up and outwards, like the trees blooming.

8. Cooking methods for this time of the year include steaming, using water, and less cooking.

9. Some people like to have acupuncture at the change of the season

10. Eat more young greens and sprouts, which in Chinese medicine match the upward energy of spring.

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