Miso Soup

[alabaster17]

First let me say that miso soup is deeeeeeeeeelicious! I love it. It tastes like a really good mouthful of ocean water. I was wondering, is traditional miso soup yang or yin compared to brown rice? It has a high water content so that leads me to think that it's yin comparatively but I'm not sure. I read somewhere that it's very yang so I'm confused.

Anybody know?

[kristina]

It would depend on what you put in it i would think. I eat miso for breakfast and i change it everyday depending on how i feel. I put both yin and yang foods in the soup. Hope that helps.
Kristina

[connie]

I know it can become confusing. I try to keep in mind a continuim--that is think of a long straight line that has balance at the center and foods to the left of the center on the line get more and more yang as you reach the end of the line and things become more and more yin as you move to the right of the center on the line. Foods and their forms in other words are not stagnant--they are ever changing. So Liquids as in soup may be to the right of the center and yin; and rice is yang and to the left of the center. But the soup may be made of a yang food so in a sense it's the perfect balance a yin substance with a yang formation. Lol! It takes a while to figure it out. I think the important thing to remember is that no food is just yin/or yang. For example if a vegetable is yin it can be cut so that it has a more yang impact when you eat it. Then when you heat it--it will be yangatized from the heat....and so on. If I didn't totally confuse I hope I was a bit helpful.

[Bruce Paine]

Hi,

Read Macrobiotic Book Excerpts: Yin and Yang from Healing Ourselves: A Book to Serve As a Companion in Time of Illness and Health by Naboru Muramoto with Michel Abehsera) and Food For Thought by Saul and Joanne Miller, Ph.D. to better understand yin and yang, and also about the expansion and contraction of foods.

Does that help?

Thank you, very much.

Bruce Paine

I know it can become confusing. I try to keep in mind a continuim--that is think of a long straight line that has balance at the center and foods to the left of the center on the line get more and more yang as you reach the end of the line and things become more and more yin as you move to the right of the center on the line. Foods and their forms in other words are not stagnant--they are ever changing. So Liquids as in soup may be to the right of the center and yin; and rice is yang and to the left of the center. But the soup may be made of a yang food so in a sense it's the perfect balance a yin substance with a yang formation. Lol! It takes a while to figure it out. I think the important thing to remember is that no food is just yin/or yang. For example if a vegetable is yin it can be cut so that it has a more yang impact when you eat it. Then when you heat it--it will be yangatized from the heat....and so on. If I didn't totally confuse I hope I was a bit helpful.

[connie]

Aloha Bruce Paine
I got your thread in response to "Miso Soup." Mahalo (thank-you) for reply however Alabaster 17 has the question not myself.