

Nourishing Blood Through Nutrition
Nurturing the blood starts by nurturing our qi, which is “the mother of the blood". So whatever is t rue for a diet designed to tonify the spleen is also true for tonifying blood. The following rules should be emphasized though. Since blood is tightly linked to the liver, and the live serves (among other things) as a filter, the purity of the food is particularly important for blood deficient people. Therefore eating industrialized food, or eating contaminated food is particu


Foods to strengthen Kidney Yang
Recommended Foods rains: quinoa, sweet (glutinous) rice, wheat germ Vegetables: leek, mustard greens, onion, radish, scallion, squash, sweet potato, turnip, watercress Fruit: cherry, litchi, longan, peach, raspberry, strawberry Nuts and seeds: chestnuts, pistachio nuts, walnuts Fish: Sea fish, anchovy, lobster, mussel, prawn, shrimp, trout, fish broth, or better still fish bone broth Meat: Bone marrow, chicken, kidneys (both beef and lamb- Needs to be organic though) H