Apple is perhaps the most system friendly of all the fruits. It is neutral by TCM nature and therefore the only recommended fruit for people in recuperation by some TCM doctors. If you like your newly found apple-ginger soup recipe, it’s a good start.
I am not sure about the idea of chewing on raw ginger, but ginger is a great ingredient for making a drink with. Boiling thin slices of it in water for a few minutes, and then pour the water into a cup with raw cane sugar or rock/sea salt and you have a great all time ginger “tea”. Or use the water to brew a wuyi or phoenix oolong. Feel free to put raw sugar or other healthy sweetener in it. It’s a great humid-evil dissipator.
There are a few tea recipes in the Tea Guardian site, do look them up in the Tea Preparation section. And about sugars too. Never use white sugar, esp in your situation.
If you have no time to prepare a veggie dish, very thinly julienne ample ginger to toss into the salad to balance off the coldness and “humid evils” in some raw veggies.
Ginger is such an indispensable item in the kitchen that I cannot imagine one day without it.
Enjoy life! You don’t know how lucky you are living in the food basket of the world!
