Water & Earth Asian Diet Plans & Recipes
         Letha Hadady, D.Ac.:Asian Health Secrets

Weak Water Element Diet Plan & Recipes-

Choose One Combination for each meal:

Breakfast & Lunch Options-

Teas-
One pot of hot Oolong, Green or Bojenmi tea (With no sweeteners)

With-
1) Rye toast, a baked or boiled potato with olive oil, tarragon, sage, or rosemary:
    add lots of parsley, cumin.
2) Rye toast, steamed asparagus or broccoli, a few blanched almonds or sun flower
    seeds.
3) Four Ingredient Barley Soup with fresh parsley.
4) Rice cakes, a few sheets of nori seaweed, raw tofu with Braggs Amino Acid Sauce
   (Or Soy Sauce), vinegar, lemon juice, parsley, scallions, and sesame seeds.
5) A can of tuna, sardines or salmon (packed in spring water), rice cakes, and nori or
    dulse seaweed. 6) Two boiled eggs, a dab of mustard, rye toast or sprout bread,
     and green salad (spinach)
7) 100-percent egg-white protein powder in vegetable of pineapple juice (half juice,
    half water)
8) Cooked vegetables, grains (barley, millet, quinoa, basmati rice), salad: candied
    ginger or lemon.
9) A fish simmered in lemon juice (no butter); salad or cooked greens with a
    vinaigrette.
10) Enchiladas with vegetables, beans (no meat or cheese), a mild green sauce,
      rice, salad, mixed vegetable juice.
11) A soup of vegetables, chicken of fish (no cream sauce).

Mid afternoon Snack-
1) Sunflower or pumpkin seeds
2) Fresh popcorn made with a dash of turmeric oil
3) Bee pollen or royal jelly
4) Sprout bread, rice cakes, nori seaweed
5) Plain or vanilla yogurt (add cumin, coriander, or parsley - not fruit)
6) A cup of ginseng tea if you have a large, pale tongue.
7) Cloves or thyme tea if you have shortness of breath with a pale tongue.

Afternoon Supplements- Take an evening primrose oil, chromium picolinate, and chickweed capsule with or with out food.

Dinner-
Try to eat heavier meals earlier in the day, when you have better energy, and foods that require less digestion later. Eat lightly when fatigued.

Choose one of the following along with a calming (non caffeine tea).

1) Fruit or vegetable salad
2) Watercress or spinach soup made with half water, half soy milk
3) Pasta cooked with fu ling, a non-fat sauce, and salad
4) Tofu cooked with vegetables (no grains).
5) Steamed dandelion greens (add ginger, stevia, lemon salt, and pepper.

Evening Snack (Optional)-

1) Raw or baked apple
2) Steamed spinach with a pinch of turmeric
3) Yogurt with turmeric, rose oil, and cumin
4) Warm almond milk

Recipes-

Almond Milk-

Make almond milk by boiling a handful of peeled almonds for a few minutes. Blanching the almonds or soaking them overnight removes excess acid. Discard the water, then whip the almonds in a blender among with one cup of each- spring water and soy milk. Add a dash of turmeric and store leftovers in the refrigerator for only a day.

Four Ingredient Barley Soup-

1/2 cup Chinese dried barley
1/2 cup fu ling
1/2 cup fox nuts
1/2 cup Chinese white yam (dioscorea)
1/2 cup fresh parsley

For each serving use about a handful of each of Chinese dried barley, fu ling, fox nuts, and white yam. Simmer these in a glass or ceramic coated pot until all the ingredient are soft, approximately one hour or more. Ass fresh parsley, a little salt, and black pepper. Use spices according to your tongue color- If you have a whitish color, then add orange peel, cloves, or ginger and pepper to taste Garnish with sliced radish and parsley. If you have a yellowish color, use cumin, coriander, tarragon, and fennel.

Watercress or Spinach Soup-

1/2 pound fresh watercress or Spinach
1 cup soy milk
1 dash cumin powder

Steam the greens until they are tender but still green. Use enough spring water to cover them. Turn off the heat and whip in a blender with soy milk. Season with a dash of cumin powder, salt and black pepper.

Sveltie Italian Pasta-

1 package of pasta
1 handful slice or 1 square of fu ling
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar 4 cloves minced garlic
1/4 cup Italian extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup of more fresh chopped parsley
1 teaspoon of peperoncino
1/2 teaspoon cumin powder

Cook the pasta until al dente, adding wither a piece of fu ling or a big pinch of cream of tartar. While the pasta is cooking, steam the minced garlic in a litter water. When the garlic is soft turn off the heat and ass the oil. Toss the pasta while it hot in the garlic oil, shopped parsley, and dried hot red pepper called peperoncino. This recipe is spicy so you can opt not to use so much pepper.

Slimming Sesame Noodles-

1 package pasta
1 tea bag Bojenmi Chinese slimming tea
1/2 teaspoon of cream of tartar
1/4 cup humus beaten with
1/4 cup water
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1/8 teaspoon fresh black pepper
1/4 teaspoon of turmeric powder
2 tablespoons raw sesame seeds
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley

Boil the pasta as you would ordinarily, but add a bag of Chinese slimming tea during the last few minutes. Add a dash of cream of tartar to the cooking water. Thin the humus with water, Whip the mixture until it is light. Add black pepper, salt and a big pinch of turmeric and cream of tartar. Garnish with sesame seeds and chopped parsley.

Vegetable Soup-

5 pounds of raw vegetables
3/4 cup peanuts
1 cup dried slices or 3 squares of fu ling
2 tablespoons juniper berries
1 tablespoon fennel seeds
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon coriander seeds
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
Chopped fresh parsley
Hungarian paprika
1/2 cup dried dulse seaweed

Use lots of vegetables of all colors including carrots, onions, white potatoes, spinach, yellow squash, green beans, and peas. Avoid turnips and cabbage as these slow the metabolism. Add raw peanuts for protein. Add fu ling, juniper berries, fennel, cumin, and coriander seeds to speed digestion. Season and simmer in spring water until done (approximately half and hour). Then add fresh parsley and Hungarian paprika to taste. Serve warm or cold along with leaves of dried dulse, which provide a pleasant salty taste and are a rich source of potassium.

Weak Earth Element Diet Plan & Recipes-

The best way to change your diet is not to drop all of your favorite "bad-for you" foods all at once. Instead, let your body get used to gradual changes. This is a lifestyle change not a diet.

Begin your with the following changes-

Morning-

One teaspoon of flaxseed oil (use gel caps or the pure oil.)

Afternoon-

Have 1-2 teaspoons of bee pollen as a sweet energy boost

Start with one cup a day of tea- Drink Chinese slimming teas or green tea with no sweeteners. These help to balance blood sugar, and are mildly diuretic and laxative, which eliminates toxins. Their bitter taste reduces cravings for sweet and high fat foods. They continue little or no caffeine.

Names of Chinese slimming teas-

Bojenmi Tea
Well-Known Tea

After a week of these additions to your diet, begin substituting a meal with a healthy one, and so on until over a month your entire diet has changed.

You can try some of the following recipes-

Earth Slimming Soup Stock-

You can cook a large pot of this mild-tasting stock, refrigerate it, and simmer raw soup ingredients in two soups of it daily, or cook grains with the liquid.

1 cup Chinese pinella
5 sticks of magnolia bark
1 piece of chen pi (dried citrus peel)
1 handful of dried licorice root or one level teaspoon of dried licorice powder
1 teaspoon of raw sliced ginger

Simmer all the ingredients in a ceramic coated pot in one gallon spring water for about an hour, or until the pinella is soft. The magnolia bark is very bitter, and is used to stimulate the flow of bile. You can sweeten the stock with fennel seeds.

Slimming Fish

4 six ounce skinless fillets of salmon
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons of fresh lime juice
3 slices of raw ginger
1 chopped scallion
2 tablespoons minced lemon peel
1/8 teaspoon salt freshly ground pepper Sauce
2 cups fresh cranberries
1 tablespoon of fresh orange peel
Juice of 1/2 orange
1/8 teaspoon clover powder
1/4 teaspoon fennel seeds
2 fresh rosemary springs for garnish

Steam the salmon fillets for about 10-15 minutes in a glass pot with lemon and lime juice, raw ginger, scallion, lemon peel, salt and pepper. The sauce- bring all ingredients to a boil turn off the heat let stand for 5 minutes. Serve with boiled small red potatoes and lots of fresh parsley.

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