Week 11

Question 1

At what season should your diet be the lightest all year and only consume foods that emphasize yang?

Answer 1

Spring

Question 2

What 4 foods are good for emphasizing yang in spring?

Answer 2

Young plants
Fresh greens
Sprouts
Cereal Grasses

Question 3

What sweet and pungent foods are recommended in spring?

Answer 3

Concentrated sweetener with pungent herbs ..Honey/mint tea

Pungent cooking herbs..Basil, fennel, rosemary, dill

Complex Carbs ..Grains, legumes, seeds

Question 4

What flavour of food should be limited in spring and why?

Answer 4

Salty foods such as soy sauce, miso, sodium rich meats because they sink energy

Question 5

What happens if you eat too many heavy foods in spring?

Answer 5

They clog the liver and result in spring fits and fevers

Question 6

Things to do to help heal the liver

Answer 6

1. Eat less
2. Eliminate of greatly reduce foods high in saturated fats, hydrogenated and poor quality fats, excess nuts and seeds, highly processed of refined foods and intoxicants

Question 7

Foods the stimulate the liver out of stagnancy

Answer 7

1. Moderately pungent foods, spices and herbs
   watercress, all members of the onion family, mustard greens
2. The Brassica genus veggies
   cabbage, turnip, cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts
3. Raw Foods
   sprouted grains, beans, fresh veggies/fruit especially
   strawberries, peach, cherries and nuts

Question 8

What food can damage the liver if its stagnant?

Answer 8

Extremely pungent foods in excess such as hot peppers

Question 9

Foods that harmonize the liver

Answer 9

Usually sweet in nature

Grains, veggies, legumes, complex carbs

Honey mixed with apple cider vinegar is a great detoxifyer

Stevia powder, unrefined cane juice, licorice root, barley malt
molasses, rice syrup

Not to be used in cases of heat or heat generated wind conditions

Question 10

foods to reduce excesses of the Liver

Answer 10

Sour and bitter

SOUR: Unrefined apple cider, brown rice, red wine

BITTER: Rye, romaine lettuce, asparagus, quinoa, amaranth

• If liver is stag with accompanying depression you can mix one of the above sour foods with honey.
• Substitute with lemon, lime or grapefruit for those with heat signs

Question 11

Foods for Cooling and Detoxifying the Liver

Answer 11

Mung beans, celery, seaweed, kelp, lettuce, cucumber, watercress, plum, chlorophyll rich foods, mushrooms, diakon radish

Question 12

Foods for Nourishing Liver Yin/Building Liver Blood

Answer 12

Fresh cold pressed flax oil, evening primrose, black currant seeds

Spirulina

Dark grapes, blackberries, huckleberries, raspberries, blackstrap molasses

Mung beans, celery, lettuce, cucumber, daikon radish, mushrooms, chlorophyll rich foods

Question 13

Foods and Spices to reduce Liver Wind

Answer 13

Celery, basil, sage, fennel, ginger, anise, oats, black soybean, black sesame seed, pine nut, coconut, flax oil

Question 14

Foods to avoid for Liver Wind Symptoms

Answer 14

Eggs
Crab meat
Buckwheat

Question 15

Foods to accelerate Liver Rejuvenation

Answer 15

Chlorophyll rich foods and micro algae

*Spirulina and other chlorophyll foods supplies the liver with immune enhancing essential fatty acids specifically omega 3 and gamma lineolic acid (GLA)

Question 16

Whats the season for “Rising early with the sun and take brisk walks”

Answer 16

Spring because its a new beginning