06/16/2025
🪴 Foods & Herbs for Your Wood Element 🪴
🌳 Wood represents growth, vision, and movement, governing the liver, gallbladder, and tendons. Teachers have said to imagine tender bamboo - it is strong yet flexible! 🌳
Add these to your day to balance your Wood 😊:
Foods: 🥬 Bitter greens (kale, spinach, chard, etc), asparagus, and sprouts to detox and refresh - most green foods! 🍊🍋🍋🟩 Sour is the flavor of Wood, so sour foods like citrus fruits and vinegar are best in spring with all their new growth. Add in some other early harvests like radishes plus some sweet like grains (millet, rice, etc) and 🥕 carrots or beets. If you’re really adventurous, look into spirulina!
🌿 Herbs: Dandelion, peppermint, nettle, milk thistle, and chamomile are great herbs to soothe and move the energy of the liver while boosting clarity. 🍵 Green tea is another easy one to try! Chrysanthemum flowers (ju hua) and goji berries (gou qi zi) also make a nice tea blend 🫖 Use any of these as a tea or add to meals! Get creative - a squeeze of citrus to any of these would be a refreshing drink on a hot day ☀️
🌺 The Wood Element thrives with movement and purpose. Check back soon for more ways to harmonize your Spring energy 🌺
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(Pictured: Slide 1 - fresh greens in a sauté pan in front of apple cider vinegar, black vinegar, rice vinegar. Slide 2 - bag of organic nettle leaves, a bowl of loose nettle, a bowl of loose chrysanthemum (ju hua). Slide 3 - bag of organic spirulina powder, a bowl of spirulina powder. Slide 4 - a white ceramic mug and a green tea bag in front of it. Slide 5 - video of Swiss chard sprouts in a row.)
