Foods For Healing Excess Weight

For many centuries, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have passed down their knowledge of the healing property of foods. This aspect goes beyond calories, nutrition, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and other scientific or physical properties. Again, it has to do with the very real, yet intangible aspect, of Qi or healing essence of a particular food. These foods specifically address the organs related to weight problems: the liver, kidney, spleen, and lung.

It is important to know that the healing energies or essences of these specific foods will actually travel to a specific organ to help strengthen it and help it rebalance and heal itself. As the organ heals, its ability to communicate with other organs is improved as well. These foods can also help your body cleanse itself and your palate so it will be better able later to tell you what is good, fresh, and nourishing.

These foods can be eaten in any combination. I suggest you to follow our recommendations for quantities but the issue is not about counting calories, or giving up everything you like. If you feel you need to eat more, then go ahead.

Fruits

  • Kiwis
  • Mangos
  • Oranges
  • Papaya
  • Pears
  • Persimmons
  • Red apples
  • Red grapefruit
  • Red grapes (about 1 cup)
  • Strawberries (about 1 cup)
  • Tangerines
  • Watermelon (about 1 cup)
  • (Note: There is a healing purpose to choosing red fruits.)

Vegetables

  • Baby corn
  • Bamboo shoots
  • Bean curd
  • Broccoli
  • Broccoli rabe
  • Carrots
  • Cauliflower
  • Celery
  • Chicory
  • Eggplant
  • Fennel
  • Green pepper
  • Lotus
  • Mushrooms
  • Parsley
  • Plum tomatoes
  • Scallions
  • Seaweed (all kinds)
  • Water chestnuts
  • Yellow squash
  • Zucchini

Nuts/Spices/Oils

  • Black and white pepper
  • Black and white sesame seeds
  • Cashews
  • Chestnuts
  • Chili pepper
  • Cinnamon
  • Cloves
  • Garlic
  • Ginger
  • Lotus seed
  • Mint
  • Olive oil
  • Pine nuts
  • Safflower oil
  • Salt
  • Sesame oil
  • Soy sauce
  • Walnut oil
  • Walnuts

Others

  • Bee pollen
  • Coffee
  • Egg whites, cooked
  • Honey
  • Pasta (any kind)
  • Rice (any kind)
  • Tea (preferably Chinese herbal tea)

RECOMMENDED MEALS

Breakfast

Toasted walnuts (10 halves) and one of the following:

  • One glass of watermelon juice (including some of the white and green parts of the rind). You can make watermelon juice with a juicer or in a blender. For a blender, you will need to cut up the rind into smaller parts.
  • Apple juice.
  • Orange juice.
  • One piece or serving of recommended fruit.

Lunch

Two pieces or servings of recommended fruit; for red grapes and strawberries, eat a cup of fruit or more if you feel hungry. In the beginning, before you build up your energy of life reserves with Wu Ming Meridian Therapy, you may need a little extra food in the Morning. You can add more roasted walnuts and more fruit if you like. If you feel you are hungry (not think you are), there is a special breathing exercise that you can do to alleviate this feeling, more on that later.

Dinner

Two or three portions of recommended vegetables from the list. Try to eat a variety of recommended vegetables at each meal. See if you can prepare three different-colored vegetables. Each color belongs to and can help heal a specific organ in The Five Element Theory. For example, baby corn is yellow and is good for your stomach and spleen; celery is green and is good for your liver; fennel is white and is good for your lung and kidney. These vegetables may be steamed, sautéed, stir-fried, braised, roasted, grilled, or prepared as soup. Do not fry, deep fry, or barbecue and eat more of them if you feel hungry.

You can also add a half-cup of any kind of rice or pasta. If you feel the need to snack between meals eat more fruit, or have a cup of  of tea with walnuts or pine Nuts.

Breathing Exercise

1. Stand or sit in any position that makes you comfortable. Close your eyes and slowly breathe in with your nose.
2. While you breathe in, pull your stomach in. Slowly breathe out from your mouth. When you breathe out, push your stomach out.
3. Count each breath in and out as one. After four or five breaths, breathe in slowly and deeply and hold your breath. Count to five as slowly as you can. Then exhale slowly. Do another set or two of these reverse breathing exercises. They should help you manage any hunger feelings.

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