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Fire – Cool down with cucumbers or watermelon
 
Balancing Your Heat: Top Cooling Foods for Vitality
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), optimal health relies on the balance of Yin (cool, moistening) and Yang (warm, activating) energies. When your body accumulates excess heat—whether from stress, hot weather, or spicy foods—you might experience symptoms like acne, irritability, dry mouth and skin, or constipation. To restore harmony, TCM recommends consuming “cooling” (Han) and “cool” (Liang) foods to clear internal heat and generate fluids.
Here are five essential TCM cooling foods to add to your diet:
  • Cucumber: Clears heat, detoxifies, and promotes fluid production. Excellent for relieving thirst and cooling the blood.
  • Watermelon: Known in TCM as natural “White Tiger Decoction” due to its powerful ability to clear extreme heat, ease restlessness, and promote urination.
  • Celery: Clears stomach heat, lowers blood pressure, and benefits the eyes while promoting urination to remove dampness.
  • Pears: Moisten the lungs, clear phlegm, and generate body fluids to soothe a dry throat or dry cough.
  • Green Tea: Clears head and eyes, resolves thirst, and aids digestion. Perfect for clearing midday sluggishness and heat.

Incorporating these foods helps clear excess fire without damaging your digestive system. Enjoy them lightly cooked or at room temperature, as ice-cold items can weaken your digestive Qi.

Easy Watermelon & Cucumber Refresh Salad
This ultra-crisp salad combines TCM cooling powerhouses to clear internal heat and boost hydration instantly. 
 
Ingredients
  • Watermelon: 3 cups (cubed, de-seeded)
  • Cucumber: 1 large (cubed)
  • Mint leaves: 1/4 cup (fresh, chopped)
  • Feta cheese: 1/3 cup (crumbled, optional)
  • Dressing: 1 tbsp lime juice + 1 tbsp olive oil
 
Instructions
  1. Prep: Chop the watermelon and cucumber into bite-sized pieces.
  2. Toss: Combine them in a large bowl with the fresh mint leaves.
  3. Dress: Drizzle with lime juice and olive oil, then toss gently.
  4. Finish: Top with crumbled feta cheese right before serving.
]]> 5601 Soup Cleanse – Shopping list https://drsaritaelizabeth.com/soup-cleanse-shopping-list/ Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:52:16 +0000 https://drsaritaelizabeth.com/?p=5311 … Continue reading →]]> Use this shopping list for your Nourishing Soup Cleanse.  You can shop for the complete 7 soup cleanse to support your entire 12 organ network (meridians) or just one or 2 of the soups to support specific organs. As available shop local or our farmer’s market. Spoiler alert:  you may just find a favorite new soup.

Base for 7 soups:

Onions: sweet, white or yellow – 7 medium

Garlic: 2-3 heads

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Alternate base:

Bone broth, Vegetable stock. favorite tea bags: chai, ginger, etc

 

 

7 days of soup (Fresh Vegetables)

Lung/Large Intestine

  • 1/2 head Cauliflower
  • 1/2 head Green Cabbage

Stomach/Spleen

  • one large Butternut Squash

Heart/Small Intestine

  • bunch Asparagus
  • 5 Turnips

Bladder/Kidney

  • 1 cup Lentil
  • 1 bunch Cilantro

Gallbladder/Liver

  • 3-5 Parsnips 
  • 3-5 Beets 

Triple burner/ Pericardium

  • 1 large bunch Kale, Spinach or Chard

Lung/Large Intestine

  • 5 Carrots
  • 2 Leeks
  • knob Ginger

Liver/Gallbladder 

  • 3-5 Parsnips 
  • 3-5 Beets 

Spices:

Sea Salt, pepper, chili, cardamon, rosemary, nutmeg, etc

Optional toppings: miso, almonds, ground flax seeds

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