Healing Wisdom for Everyday Life
Sweet Mung Bean and Barley Breakfast Treat
This combo was inspired by a Puerto Rican breakfast porridge. Enjoy alone, with raisins or even sauteed bananas or mango!
It’s All in There Fennel Soup
It’s All in There Fennel Soup: supports the Liver, Lung, and Kidney:
The oil you use within a recipe is another way of supporting your seasonal or organ energy. I suggest using Add enough grape seed, walnut, or sunflower oil. See what intuitively calls out to you. It may be a clue of the organ function needing support or you can connect to the energy of the season. Sunflower is used in the autumn. Walnut supports the Kidney. Trust your intuition.
This particular soup will support your Liver, Lung and Kidney function.
Butternut Squash Soup
You’ll love this Butternut Squash Soup recipe that supports the Liver, Lung, and Stomach!
Daikon Pear Radish Soup Recipe
This creamy Daikon Radish and Pear Soup is packed with the essence that supports the Lung and Kidney.
How to Cook Mung Beans
Oh, humble mung (moong in Ayurveda) bean. Tiny and green but ooooohhhh so mighty. Your Liver loves them. They help detox your Liver, and clear “heat” from the body (such as a fever, rash, or itching). Mung beans help your body separate what it needs from what it is ready to let go of.
If you only cook to the Lentil state you can add to soups, make into a spicy “mung bean hash” (scallions, cajun spice, I’ve even added in avocado!) or if a mushy soup it mixes well with the barley for a breakfast soup.
How to Cook Chinese Barley
Barley supports the Stomach, Heart, and Kidney energy. It is especially excellent for building up Stomach energy and releasing a challenging condition known as dampness that can reduce the function of many organs. Chinese Pearl Barley also is empowered with anti-cancer properties and is the current subject of much research in China.
Barley can be added to any soup, spiced up as a grain side dish or a “salad," and eaten with mung beans or alone as a breakfast meal. Make it sweet, make it spicy. Add cooked fruit, fresh fruit. Get creative.
Chinese Super Foods
Make Chinese Pearl Barley, Mung Beans, and Daikon Radish your new best friends! For thousands of years, the Chinese have used food for its healing properties, these three give you the most “bang for your buck!” In general, barley and mung beans have a neutral flavor and can be seasoned/spiced in any which way to stand alone or accompany other fruits and veggies.
My Favorite Healing Foods
Here are some of my Favorite Foods / Teas / Spices / Oils you can find on Amazon!!!
Spring Dragon Tea
This highly concentrated Gynostemma leaf tea boosts the Kidney energy. One bag is enough for an entire pot! Pairs well with Magical Berries. It has a green tea taste without the caffeine. Click to get the recipe!
Warming Ginger Tea
This tea is similar to Harmony Tea but adds cinnamon to nurture the Kidney essence.