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Little Tree Oriental Healing Arts Consultation Report for client seeking digestive wellness and optimal liver function

Objectives
Normalise digestion and elimination.
Optimize immunity and strengthen immune system.
Normalise skin function and sebum production
Increase energy levels
Increase resistance to stress
Promote restful sleep
Decrease pre-menstrual symptoms

Food
Emphasize
Whole grains (cook with 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon celtic sea salt per cup of dry grain).Try to soak overnight or for several hours to increase nutrient availability and ease digestion.
Chewing whole grains very well increases intestinal peristalsis.
Incorpotate the following whole grains:

• Brown rice

• Millet

• Buckwheat

• Barley

• Rye

• Oats - whole (long slow cooking) and rolled

• Corn

and wholegrain products

• Buckwheat pasta (soba noodles)

• Spelt Pasta

• Organic wholewheat pasta

• Brown rice pasta

Minimize
Wheat and wheat products especially those that are refined, made with bleached flour or hard baked.
White rice
Refined grains

Legumes (soak overnight. Discard soak water. Cook for ½ to one hour with kombu seavegtable to tenderise and add minerals. Then add 1/4 teaspoon of celtic salt towards end of cooking time)
Include the following legumes:

• Lentils

• Chickpeas

• Adzuki beans

• mung beans (especially cooling to the liver)

• Any other legume/bean

Minimize
Tofu

Seasoning
Use Celtic seal salt (unrefined gray moist salt) in all cooking.
Make a salt solution. 2 tablespoons celtic salt in one litre of water. Stir. Allow to stand 8 hours. Pour off liquid into a bottle and use in salads, pancakes, stir fries etc. Save gray sludge at the bottom for first aid for burns, cuts etc.
Brown Rice vinegar. Use liberally in salads and cooking.
Mirin (Japanese Rice Wine)
Flax Seed Oil
At least 3 tablespoons per day. Do not heat. Put on food after it is cooked and on salads. Does not contribute to weight gain. 3 tablepsoons or more normalise digestive function and speed up metabolism. An integral part of fat reduction plans.
Use grated ginger often in salads, soups etc
Cook with organic sesame oil, olive oil, rice bran oil.
Avoid cotton seed oil, corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil.

Miso soup
Unpasturised. Do not boil the miso. Add at the end of cooking.
Sea vegetables

Vegetables
All vegetables.
Emphasize
Carrots
Daikon (long white) radish. Grated raw to increase intestinal peristalsis. And cooked. Nice with carrots. Cut into thin strips and steam or stir fry with ginger.
Turnips
Cauliflower
Fennel
Dark leafy greens
Bok choy
Chinese Broccoli
Mustard greens
Asian greesns
Chicory
Broccoli
Radishes

Minimize
Eggs. Use free range and organic when needed.
Dairy, especially cheese. Try organic yoghurt in small amounts.
Refined salt
Sugar
Meat

Different sources of non irritating fibre
Rice bran. 1 tablespoon on breakfast, in soups etc.

Flax seed Meal (grind in a coffee grinder from organic seeds).

Avoid wheat bran and avoid psyllium.

Soaked almonds. Soak organic almonds overnight with a pinch of celtic salt. Drain and allow to dry. Eat at least seven per day as a snack.

Beverages
Boiled water with juice of ½ a lemon on awakening
Bancha twig tea
Peppermint tea
Chamomile tea
Dandelion tea
Burdock root tea
Aloe vera juice (small amounts) as a liver tonic.
Green Medicine Mountain Breeze tea
Green Medicine Clear Skin tea

Sweeteners
Avoid sugar
Use raw honey (not heated above 45 degrees.
Stevia
Rice and barley malt

Yoga
Sun Salutes 3-12 per day. Preferably first thing in the morning.
Cobra
Knees to chest
Pose of a child
Leg raises

Pranayama
4×4 breath
Alternate Nostril Breathing

Flower Essences
Australian Bush Flowers - Bottlebrush
Bach Flower - Crab apple

Chinese Herbs
Green Medicine
Victory Clear the Toxins
Free Restraint Clear Metabolism
Free Movement Clear PMS

Jade Pillow Clear Sleep
Renew the Vigour Clear Stress
Resist

Astragalus
Siberian Ginseng

Green Food
Spirulina 1-3 teaspoons per day
Barley Grass Powder - 1 tablespoon per day.

Friendly Bacteria
OMX probiotic

References

Seasonal Variation:WholeSummer Meals by Ilanit Tof
Healing With Wholefoods by Paul Pitchford 3rd Edition
Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin.
The Self Healing cookbook by Christine Turner.

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