Spleen System Improvements, Yang Foods and Habits, Digestion and Blood Cleaning
I’ve been asked this question in my raw paleo diet forum journal:
“Your spleen healing, yang orientated and ayurvedic diet is super interesting. I also need to help my spleen, need more yang and I am far to much Vata in Ayurvedic terms. I would also love to gain some weight, build muscles and healthy tissue. Please tell me more about your new protocol.”
Here is how I answered it in the forum:
I’m driven to do this yang stuff and spleen improvement more for my 11 year old boy who is recovering from intestinal damage and has some eczema manifestations in his legs itching.
1. I get my ginseng extract above from my healer Sifu Jen Sam as he knows his suppliers will only give him authentic products. You probably need to find an honest supplier in your country.
2. I buy fermented ginger from a korean / japanese store, it comes in 1 kg bags and costs me some 7.30 US dollars.
3. My boy likes fish stock soup more than beef stock soup. For example I will make a stock using 4 pounds / 2 kgs of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_(fish) … it is for warmth. Spleen likes warmth. I give him soup every breakfast and dinner. Lunch he is in school. I get to eat the soup too.
4. My boy also gets a digestive aid, blood cleaning aid called Tung Shueh Pills Cow Head Brand. Again we got the authentic stuff. On the internet, the US FDA did a pretty good job of demonizing these herbs. But in my experience, and in my healer’s experience, they work well, without side effects. And yes, I felt it’s digestive powers and I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks from this entire regimen in combination. I just stopped taking this yesterday and see how it affects me. I guinea pig myself for my kids.
5. Avoid cold drinks. Avoid cold food. One mistake I seem to have made upon adjusting to raw paleo is eating meat and drink refrigerator cold. Call me lazy. Found out from TCM teachers on the radio that’s very bad. The energy we have to expend to raise the temperature of the food. And the shock our system gets from cold food is too much, in our language we call that PASMA… seems the english language has no such word that describes sudden temperature changes by ingesting cold food and drink.
So it pays to be more patient with our raw meat and wait for it to get to room temperature or body temperature. And eat the meat with some fermented ginger.
6. Avoid direct or too much air conditioning, accept the warm tropical weather.
7. Drink herbal teas throughout the day for more warmth.
8. Spleen responds to touch so touch and hug away.
9. Avoid fruit in the morning. Have warm soup instead. Warmth is important. Eat that papaya after dinner helps digest at night. There is an epidemic of YIN lately in the world. So concentrate on looking for and consuming YANG foods. Of course we are yin here, as I explained in the video of Panax Ginseng, I’ve never been too hot.
Here is my boy’s latest progress http://eczemacure.info/2012/11/09/child-eczema-cleared-with-tung-shueh-pills-cow-head-brand/