These ingredients are generally suitable for all types of constitutions. By using various seasonings, you can adjust them to better fit your specific needs. For instance, those with a hot constitution might add some job's tears flour, while those with a cold constitution might incorporate ginger or green onions as seasonings.
Recommended Ingredients for a Balanced Constitution:
- Seafood and Meats: Clams, duck meat, pork, octopus, and scallops.
- Vegetables: Cabbage, asparagus, celery, potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, taro, lily bulbs, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, chrysanthemum greens, mizuna, broccoli, cauliflower, and wood ear mushrooms.
- Fruits: Lemon, plum, and grapes.
- Grains and Dairy: Brown rice, rice, soy milk, and milk.
Seasonings:
- Mayonnaise
- Most seasonings are suitable.
Herbal Ingredients:
- Daylily
- White fungus
- Yams
- Cordyceps
- Lily bulbs
- Korean ginseng
- Chrysanthemum
- Ejiao (donkey-hide gelatin)
- Bee pollen
Oolong tea, a semi-fermented tea, is recommended as it does not significantly affect body temperature.
These ingredients offer a very balanced diet. For optimal health, incorporating seasonal foods is recommended.
If you eat only these ingredients, there is a possibility of developing the opposite constitution. It’s important to maintain balance, so consider incorporating foods suitable for other constitutions as well.
