Category: Diet

Foods which strengthen deficient spleen: Well cooked rice, spelt, barley, sweet rice, mochi, winter squash, carrot, rutabaga, parsnip, turnip, garbanzo beans, black beans, sweet potato,yam, pumpkin, onion. leek, black pepper, ginger, cinnamon, fennel, garlic, nutmeg, small amounts of cooked fruit, rice syrup, barley malt, molasses, cherry and date. If deficiency is severe small amounts of […]

Foods which dry dampness: Rye, amaranth, corn, aduki beans, celery, lettus, punpkin, scallion alfalfa, turnip, kohlrabi, white pepper, raw honey. chamomile, pau d’arco, and micro algae dunaliella and wild blue-green. Raw goats milk is the only dairy product that will not add to damp condition. AVOID: raw, cold, sweet, and mucus forming food. Sushi. Limit […]

Building The Imune System In oriental medicine, the concept of blood includes understanding the inherent energy within the blood. Blood is created in part from nutrients derived from the digestive tract (spleen, stomach, pancreas, small intestine). Blood is formed when these nutrients are combined with the kidney jing. The body’s jing is stored in the […]