Foods for the Liver and Spring

Foods eaten during the Spring season should be young and tender, lightweight, slightly spicy, slightly sweet, perhaps sour, and best if green or yellowish in color. The goal is to eat in a way that will create a spring inside our own body.

Liver supporting Foods: increase

These foods will help during a liver cleanse and will themselves clean the liver and can be added to a liver detox regime. Also, in general, eating these foods raw will have a stronger cleaning and detox effect than cooked or even steamed. Whenever a food benefits the liver like this, it will also help to clean the Gall Bladder out, since they work as a pair. Depending on how dirty your liver is, you may notice that the main route of detoxification for the liver is the colon, you will not more bowel movements when eating these foods.

Apple Cider Vinegar

Argula

Beets

Blue-Green Algae

Carrots

Chard

Collard Greens

Cucumber

Dandelion greens

Eggs

Flaxseeds

Grains……………………..

Garlic

Ginger

Green Tea

Honey, esp with mint

Kale

Legumes………………

Lemons

Limes

Mints

Mustard Greens

Raw Foods- increase as it gets warmer. Caution with weak bowels.

Seeds………………..

Sprouts………

Vegetables- young, tender, slightly sweet

Culinary Herbs to encourage

Basil

Fennel

Marjoram

Rosemary

Caraway

Dill

Bay leaf

Foods that should be eliminated, or that should be kept in moderation are heavy, rich, oily, greasy, fried, overly processed, overly spicy foods. Red meat and most white meats are too heavy for this season and can lead to unhappy livers that result in irritability, disorientation and infections. Constipation can impair liver function and make the body very toxic very quick. You will notice most of these foods will produce phlegm causing a need to flush the liver later on.

Liver antagonizing Foods: lessen

Alcohol- (moderate light wines ok)

Caffeine- coffee, black tea (green tea ok)

Creams

Dairy products

Fried foods- potato chips, chicken, etc

Heavy sugar – corn syrup

Intoxicants

Lard, Shortenings

Miso

Nut butters

Chemical preservatives

Salt

Hydrogenated or refined oils

Soy sauce

Turkey

White flour

Do walking meditations such as this one: Go for a walk. Each time you take a step say something positive to yourself, either silently or out loud. Start to notice the beauty (colors especially) all around you. Or say something to yourself like, I”‘m getting better and better every day in every way” or “I’m a divine perfect spiritual being.”

 

by Robert Luna