Cooling and Drying

The recipes appearing here are primarily light, cool, and crisp. The food materials used in the recipes usually appear in light colors such as white and green. These recipes promote a feeling of coolness, cleanliness, freshness, and dryness. They are primarily suitable for heat and humidity, heaviness, and stickiness. These foods are part of the classic “cleansing” diet commonly used in the treatment of obesity, acne, cancer prevention, and inflammatory diseases, and also for the treatment of some forms of diabetes and high blood pressure. Such a diet is practiced mainly in summer and at the end of summer in coastal plain areas, where the climate tends to be humid, but it can also be used in the spring, depending on each person’s condition.