Oldal 430 [430]
OCR
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 theoretical 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 vegetarian 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. 428
