2024 Ep10 Food for Healthier Liver and Gall Blader

Hello! Welcome to the “You are your best healer podcast”

This is Dr. Haizhen Yang. I am an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist.  I am also a certified reiki healer and advanced Metatronic energy healer. 

In today’s episode, we will discuss the topic of the therapeutic diet for the Liver and Gall Bladder organ, which is mainly referencing master Jeffrey Yuen’s teaching. 

The liver meridian and organ is classified as the wood element among the five elements. The wood element is associated with two organs in the body including the Liver and Gall-Bladder. The following body parts are classified as the wood element as well including: eyes, tendons, and ligaments. 

If your lifestyle tends to be stressful, you may want to consider to take better care of your liver organ. It is important to go to bed before 11 PM, and try to do the following diet that is beneficial for your liver organ. 

Try to eat various legumes. We differentiate legumes based on their color and size.  

The small size of legumes can be useful to drain heat/inflammation from your liver meridian and liver organ, because they have the draining effect. small beans: peas, lentils, mung beans, aduki, black eye peas 

• They could help to drain heat/inflammation from your liver organ
• If you have stagnation in LR, use pea soup. or sauté, or stirfrying peas 
• big beans: (Big legumes can help the liver organ to consolidate energy and blood).  are good in tonifying or nourishing the liver organ, 
  • For example, broad beans, Lima, soy, chickpeas, are good for someone who lost a lot of blood after menstruation or surgery. 
• If your lifestyle is stressful, and you constantly get bloating, gasy after meals, you may have the considered called LR invading spleen, you may want to eat yellow lentils with black beans. Yellow lentils could help to drain the liver from invading the ST/SP. The black beans help to drain the kidneys and liver, to help support the function of the liver organ. 

Ex: if you have sluggish liver, you want to regulate liver functions, use aduki beans. 

If you want to nourish the liver, you could use kidney beans because they are big and red color. They make a connection between liver and heart. They are good for nourishing the heart and liver. 

These are for your reference in terms of self-care. If you experience any liver disorders, please seek proper medical treatments and use diet as supplements. 

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