Word: yanging
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...expanded and dilated," Whittaker explained obligingly. "Yang is constricted and solid, Yin is purple; yang is red. Yin is cold; yang is hot. Yin grows up; yang grows down. Which do you think is more yin, a tomato or a carrot...
...Right. And parts of the same object are more or less yin or yang. Fruits are yin; so are vegetables, but they can be made yang enough to eat by cooking under high pressure; yangization. Eggplant is too yin to eat at all; you can tell it's yin because it's violet. Red meat is too yang. Brown rice contains yin and yang in almost perfect proportions for the human system. All you need to live is a little brown rice...
...Just what is yin and yang?" we asked desperately...
...yang are the thesis and antithesis of the monistic cosmology of the Orient; you might call it a polarizable dialectic monism. Everything in the world is yin and yang. The principle of yin-yang applied to biology becomes the art of longevity and rejuvenation in Far-Eastern medicine. Disease is proof of the violation of universal order expressed through the neglect of the body...
...safer than drugs. Drugs destroy the nervous system, he said. One Harvard Macrobiotic had taken so much LSD that his nerves became insensitive to starvation pains. Mr. Kushi had tried to save the young man from starving, our friend said; he had diagnosed the student's condition as extreme yang and fed him yin foods. When he died at the Institute a week before Christmas, he weighed 90 pounds, although he was nearly six feet tall. Our friend seemed to accept his death with calm resolve...