Winter health tips the winter season is about rest & retreat! It is a time of yin water energy and kidney health. A time to nurture and build kidney and organ strength to build blood and get ready for the spring.
The kidneys are the gate of vitality - weakened kidneys will deplete your jing and depleted jing accelerates aging!
It's a time to rest the body and go inward. To calm & relax the mind and emotions.
Contributing causes of depleted jing are prolonged stress, lack of sleep, working long hours, excessive behavior, drugs, drinking, sex, late nights.
Other contributors are excessive salt, inadequate water, great natural diuretics that will build strength are dandelions greens, celery, parsley, cucumber
Kidneys affect ear health, knees, lower back, controls water in the body, hair health, willpower!!
TOP 5 TIPS
# 1 Value your sleep
#2 Hot/Cold Therapy
#3 Bone Broth, Soups, Stocks
#4 Go Inward
#5 Protect neck from cold & Build Immune
Great food to support kidney health and the body during the winter are walnuts, celery, asparagus, quinoa, watercress, dandelion greens, daikon radish, escarole, seaweed, warm soups & stews, sweet potatoes, warming herbs and roots like ginger root, garlic and bitter herbs, bone broth, black beans, squash, potatoes, root vegetables like turnips & rutabaga, kidney beans, cranberries.