Summer is normally the time of year that is most yang. High yang means heat, maximum activity, and moving outward with our lives and into nature. So I’m going to write a bit about how this season is perceived in Chinese medicine.
In Chinese medicine, every season has an element associated with it. Fire is the element of summer.
This includes many other connections to summer, the fire element and Chinese medicine:
- The color red.
- The emotion of joy.
- Bitter tasting foods.
- The body organs are the heart, small intestine and it relates to the tongue.
