Warm, cooked food

“Warm or cold. Warm water on waking and warm food are the old way: Ekiken wrote that food should be warm in every season, even summer, and to avoid much cold water (Yojokun vol 3). Kampo and Chinese medicine hold that cold food and drink chill the belly. Warm water also invites slow sips. Cold mugicha in summer is fine too. Miyagi's day: warm water on waking, green tea in the morning, barley tea later, miso soup at one meal, water when thirsty. Alcohol is not water.”

“Tiredness. Kumazasa (Sasa veitchii) extract: a Japanese class 3 OTC drug for fatigue recovery, poor appetite and mouth ulcers, approved on Japanese OTC standards. Midsummer eel for summer fatigue. Food first: regular warm meals, not too much. Doctor signs (Thuisarts): tired plus night sweats, weight loss without trying, changed bowel habit or blood in stool, breathless with little effort, very thirsty and passing a lot of urine, palpitations, low mood with no interest in anything.”

“Warm food, sitting down, no screen. Soup if there is soup, a boterham met kaas if not.”

“A bad day. Pain: "Alles ging mis." Reframe: "Then it was a bad day. A day. Not a bad life, not a bad you. Days end, that is the one thing you can count on them for." Step: a warm meal, a shower, bed before eleven. "Morgen is 't anders."”

“How Liang uses it. Never "you are a cold type". He asks, as the old cooks did, whether someone feels chilly or hot, and answers with food: "If you are always cold, the old kitchen would choose ginger, a warm soup, cooked food rather than iced. If summer makes you heavy and hot, mung bean soup, cucumber, green vegetables, less fried food."”

“Regular warm meals, a bowl of congee in the morning, an early night.”

“The body. Warm food, even a little. A walk, even a short one. Sleep when it comes. Grief is heavy work for the body.”

“Free and safe for nearly everyone. Warm cooked meals, soups and porridge, regular days, rest after lunch, walks, warmth in the cold months, good company, stories and music, sleep at a fixed time, a slower day. "This is the part of my tradition that crosses every border without papers."”

“Warm food. The mothers ate kachi (a soft, warm sweet pudding), meat broth, chicken soup, a mix of pistachio, walnut and pumpkin, and a preparation of flour, animal fat and sugar. They avoided cold food, cold water and ice cream, "because it causes cold in the mother". Some avoided garlic and onion so that the breast milk would not smell. Some mixed rose water into their cold water. Fennel, aniseed, watermelon, offal and dates were taken to increase the milk.”

“The household. Regular warm meals, dates and walnuts, sleep, movement, company: the six essentials.”