Heavy rains have brought Makuru.
The local people moved inland to take shelter, and ate meat instead of seafood. We should also avoid the cold and wet as much as we can, and eat warming, nourishing foods. Roasts and braises, soups and stocks.
My favourite Traditional Chinese Medicine cookbook is Food for the Seasons by Professor Wong. He suggests eating anchovies, bay leafs, capers, chestnuts, chicken, coriander, dill, fennel, leek, mussels, mutton, nutmeg, pine nuts, rosemary, spring onions, prawns, sweet potatoes, and walnuts. Try poaching quince with star anise, cardamon, and cinnamon.
Once more about avoiding the cold. It is important to protect our vital warming energy or 杨 yang. While young people have plenty of it and can indulge in winter sports, even neglect to change out of sweaty clothes, it taxes their 杨 to do so. This can affect their health later in life, and their reproductive health sooner. Young men may be concerned that a foundational text foresaw limpness as an outcome.
Blue is the colour associated with Makaru.
More on Winter Health.
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