Knowing how to apply the basic five elements and colors of feng shui to food means you can direct healing energies and nutrients to specific organs in your body. This application of feng shui principles to your diet follows seasonal eating choicesm as well as compass sectors.
Feng Shui Elements and Your Organs
You can use the feng shui theory of five elements to determine which foods your body needs. Each element correlates to a specific organ in your body. These are:
- Fire: Heart and small intestines
- Water: Kidney, bladder, adrenals, and sex organs
- Wood: Liver and gall bladder
- Earth: Spleen, pancreas and stomach
- Metal: Lungs, colon and large intestine
Seasons and Feng Shui Elements
The seasons are also tied to the elements. In addition to each colored food group associated with the element, the foods harvested during each season are considered excellent choices for the associated organ as well. These include:
- Summer: Fire
- Winter: Water
- Spring: Wood
- Late Summer: Earth
- Fall: Metal
Feng Shui Elements and Food Colors
Certain foods are beneficial to specific organs. A simple guide of the colors associated with each element can help you choose the best foods. These include:
Fire Element Foods
Those suffering from heart problems are often found to be deficient in fire chi energy. Your fire energy can be strengthened by consuming red foods that are known in feng shui as fire element foods. These include:
- Beef hearts and all cuts of beef
- Shrimp, crab, lobster, and salmon
- Red bell peppers, red peppers, tomatoes, kidney beans, beets, swiss chard, and red cabbage
- Strawberries, red cherries, cranberries, and red apples
- Hot rice tea, grain teas and tomato juice
Water Element Foods
Kidney problems and ailments are believed to be the result of deficient water chi. In feng shui, it's advised to consume a diet of dark or black colored foods. It's believed the chi energy in these foods can remedy the lack of water chi energy. These foods include:
- Blueberries and blackberries
- Miso soup, seaweeds and soy sauce
- Spinach, Brussels sprouts, dark greens, pak choi, eggplant, and various cabbages
- Kidney, Aduki beans and black beans
- Lamb, pork and bacon
- Oysters and clams
Wood Element Foods
In feng shui, it's believed anyone who suffers from liver ailments can benefit by consuming wood element foods. Some of these foods are often sour tasting, such as fermented foods. The feng shui foods that can increase the liver chi include:
- Green tea, lemons, limes, and sour green apples
- Pickles, vinegar and leeks
- Chicken and beef liver
- Halibut and cod
- Oats and grains (barley and rye)
Earth Element Foods
Feng shui practitioners often advise clients desiring ways to strengthen their spleen, stomach and pancreas to eat yellow colored foods. These include, but aren't limited to:
- Yellow squash, yellow potatoes, sweet potatoes, yellow banana peppers, yellow peppers, and tomatoes
- Trout and other freshwater fish, such as bass and perch
- Eggs
- Hot apple cider, apple juice and herbal teas
Metal Element Foods
A lung ailment may be improved by consuming foods specific in feng shui theory to increase the metal element within your body. Many of these foods are white in color. These include:
- Onions and leeks
- Irish potatoes and white rice
- Garlic (fall harvested)
- Dairy milk, egg whites and soymilk
- Vegetables that include turnips, raw bananas, daikon (white winter radish), and white asparagus
- Sardines, white fish, lung meat, turkey and chicken white meats
The Yin and Yang of Food
In addition to certain foods being paired with feng shui metals, foods can also contain more yin energy than yang or vice versa. It's believed when these foods are consumed, you can bring the chi energy in your organs back in balance.
Too Much Yin or Yang Energy
If you find yourself constantly tired, you can add some yang energy foods into your diet to restore the yin yang balance in your body, or certain organs. If you have too much yang energy (overly active) you can eat yin foods to bring your energy back into balance.
Fire
- Fire yin foods: Beets, tomatoes and olives
- Fire yang foods: Coffee, beef and lamb
Water
- Water yin foods: Sardines, Brussels sprouts and black beans
- Water yang foods: Blue cheese, caviar, salami, and seaweeds
Wood
- Wood yin foods: lettuce, peas and green beans
- Wood yang foods: Lime, pickles and jalapeno peppers
Earth
- Earth yin foods: Pumpkin, mushrooms, squash, and mangoes
- Earth yang foods: Beef, honey, eggs, and chocolate
Metal
- Metal yin foods: Radishes, onions and potatoes
- Metal yang foods: Peppers, garlic and chicken (white meat)
Activate Luck Sectors to Optimize Health
You can ensure the health feng shui offers by activating the compass sectors that rule specific organs in your body. You can activate the elements for the correlating compass sectors to attract beneficial chi energy.
How to Apply Feng Shui to Food
It's easy to learn how to apply feng shui to food and capitalize on the yin and yang energies these foods hold. When you understand how to balance the chi energies of the foods you eat, you add a layer to your healthy diet choices.
