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During my adolescent days one of my philosophical relative gave me a discourse on the importance of five elements. Since then my mind asks several questions regarding our human body taking a close look at the scientific skeptic view along with energy point of view regarded by ancient scriptures. Vedic scriptures talk about our body being a compact combination of FIRE, EARTH, WOOD, WATER and METAL which builds us and at the end goes back to nature making a perfect cycle. Whenever we hear about our relatives getting sick, the first thing comes in mind is food. Was it the eating habit? Was it the food that he had eaten that day the cause of illness? The next solution is to cure it by fixing the eating habits. Therefore I strongly believe in Chinese thought of consuming food balancing ying and yang. Today the maximum Nepalese suffer from pressure, uric acid and other dangerous diseases. This is one fact; other is our food not being accepted in arena of world cuisine like Thai, Chinese, Mexican, French or Italian. The problem is not seeking the unique selling point of it and making a maximum utilization. Today we can even break our food as per tantric practices, Vedic thought and surely there is lot more to talk when you have such a rich history of food culture that dominates our daily life. However the perfect example would be Momo being loved by all and even the first timer foreigner loves it. Yet it is adopted dish from neighboring countries our style of preparing and rich in spices make it special.

Few years back I made a deep study on elements of food and found that it actually holds lot of secret. It makes one ponder over balancing all the elements within our body by consuming right food. Lets say, when your fire element in body is high that means you are angry or suffering from acidity. It provides the solution by consuming right food which will bring it down and balancing your body. The simplest article of mine so far makes me believe that it will make everyone’s health better and live a good life.

To understand this, we have to look at our five vital organs that play a big role to keep our machine functioning are Liver, Heart, Kidney, Lungs and Spleen. Taking a closer look at each ones with connection to elements will provide a meaning to your questions.

1.    Liver as Wood

Liver is governed by wood which has a character to grow and shrink. The high consumption of protein may not be beneficial to your liver. Liver, actually by shrinking and growing allows your body to adjust to extreme environment within the body. Like the wood it resists extreme weather conditions. Liver represents spring represents a season, wind as a climate and sour as a taste. Remember wood promotes the fire and definite wood is controlled by earth. In simple language if you take care of your liver it promotes heart which represents the fire. This will lead to balance between spleen as earth which is responsible to repair damaged blood cells and create new ones.

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