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BATNAIRAMDAL, CH. — OTGONCHIMEG, B.
Seasons
It is highly recommended to adopt your lifestyle and diet habits to depend on the
changes of body functions according to the four seasons’ changes as taught in theo¬
retical root. Otherwise, it will cause diseases. The Mongols used to divide a year into
6 months: first month of winter, last month of winter, spring, balance or blossom,
summer, and autumn. They used to adopt their diet for the seasons.
The summer season lasts from the 16" of the sixth month to the 15" of the eighth
month of the lunar calendar, when accumulated gas in spring activated in summer
time due to raining coolness to correct soft essence. Blood circulation accelerate,
fine hairs of the body rise and open up skin pores allowing your body energy going
out causing degradation of stomach operation. In this season monks camp in the
countryside for dairy products such as fermented mare’s milk, milk, yogurt, water
with old honey, alcohol, cream, and curd so refraining to kill animals.
The autumn season lasts from the 16" of the eighth month to the 15" of the tenth
month of the lunar calendar, when jaundice fever is active. Therefore, they consume
diet with chilly properties, tasty, bitter, sour taste, boiled water, cold spring water
as drink and in autumn, Khailan congregation happen requiring monks meal only
midday between 11:40am to 1:40pm the so called Hour of the Horse by avoiding to
exposure sunlight.
The first month of the winter lasts from the 16" of the tenth month to the 15" of
the twelfth month, when one may be allowed to eat warm diet with tasty, sour, salty
elements to fill the stomach as its power is strong to digest food well when the body
heat reaches its peak and all the pores of the skin are closed along with by bending
fine hairs of the human body. Furthermore, they use more flour with milk in vege¬
tarian foods and use milk as drink.
The last month of winter lasts from the 16" of the twelfth month to the 15" of the
second month when people drink tea with oil, milk, barley flour, ginger, red pepper,
dried wild leek, wild onion, ramson, garlic, onion and drink steamed soup.
Spring season covers the period of the 16" of the second month to the 15" of the
fourth month when accumulated stomach diseases in winter start to be active in the
warm spring, so vomiting treatment works in order to cleanse stomach. This period
requires active body movement voiding to sleep day time by eating meat, fat, oil
of animals, drink soup with curd, barley flour with oil, buuds steamed dumplings,
bansh boiled dumplings with garlic, khuushuur fried dumplings, ginger soup, boiled
water, honey drink, tea flavored with oil. Moreover, eating flesh of goat that pastures
spring pasqueflower help balancing blood pressure of people who have anaemia by
refreshing strength.
Blossom (balance) period lasts from the 16" of the fourth month to the 15" of the
sixth month. It is recommended to consume tasty, light, chilly diet and refrain from
salty and sour foods and drink yogurt and milk.
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