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Allergy Foods to Increase & Avoid in Your Diet

The foods below are recommended because they alleviate excess mucus production and obstruction in the channels (energy and circulation). As a result of this obstructing function, disturbance presents in detox organs and additional channels in the body which eliminate food and toxic excess. This dietary regimen and Chinese herbs for allergies will help to alleviate the condition.These foods are non-allergy causing. The foods thereafter have been shown to result in allergy conditions.

• Foods: bee pollen, honey, citrus seed, protein foods (small amount, often), onions, sprouted wheat, sprouted legumes, sprouted seeds, micro-algae, chlorophyll-rich foods, cereal grasses, liver support foods/herbs,
• Drinks: Almond milk, Herb teas (no lemon or orange), Pure fruit juices without sugar or additives (dilute 50:50 with water), Roasted grain beverages may be used as coffee substitutes, Seltzer (salt free), Soy milk without corn oil, Spring water in glass bottles
• Cereals: Oatmeal, Oat bran, Cream of rye, Puffed rice and millet, Diluted apple juice, apple slices, and nuts go well on cereal. Use soymilk that has no corn oil added or almond milk.
• Grains and flour: Bean flour, Buckwheat flour, 100% buckwheat soba noodles, Cooked whole gains, such as oats, millet, barley, buckwheat groats (kasha), rice macaroni, spelt (flour and pasta), brown rice, amaranth, quinoa, rice, or millet breads (that contain no dairy, eggs, sugar, or wheat), Potato flour, 100% rice cakes, Rice crackers, Rice flour, 100% rye or spelt bread with no wheat, Rye crackers, Soy flour
• Legumes: Black beans, Chickpeas, Kidney beans, Lentils, Navy beans, Peas, Soybeans, String beans, Tofu, Dried beans should be soaked overnight. Empty off the water and wash just prior to cooking. Canned beans frequently include extra sugar and/or additional likely allergens. Some varieties of cooked beans, packaged in jars, while sold in health food stores, contain no sugar.
• Nuts and seeds: Nuts and seeds, either raw or roasted, without salt or sugar, Nut butters from health food stores or from fresh ground nuts (such as almond butter, cashew butter, walnut butter, sesame butter, and sesame tahini)
• Oils: Use cold-pressed or expeller-pressed oils (available from health food stores), as they are safer for the heart and blood vessels. Do not use corn oil or “vegetable oil” from an unspecified source, as this is usually corn oil. Flaxseed (edible linseed) oil, Olive oil, Peanut oil, Safflower oil, Sesame oil, Soy oil, Sunflower oil
• Protein: tuna, salmon, and other Fresh fish, Lamb, Poultry and fowl
• Vegetables: All vegetables except corn are generally acceptable. Tomatoes can cause imbalance for some individuals and in this case should be avoided.

Some people suffer from specific areas of congestion (Chinese herbs for allergies) such as post nasal drip, ear wax build-up, excess throat phlegm, etc. Herbal formulas will augmnent the recommendations above, so relief can be achieved. But in the long run, food diet, primarily, is how the congestion developed and a healing diet is the way out.   

AVOID THE FOLLOWING FOOD:

• Peanuts are a common food allergen and should be avoided, along with peanut butter
• Canola oil (rapeseed)
• Lack of dietary changes will yield allergic conditions
• Excess consumption of food, This variable is determined by the individual’s current detox function.
• Glucan sensitive foods based on wheat (not every has this issue)
• Deadly Nightshade plants (tomatoes, egg plant, potatoes) minority suffer from this sensitivity.
• Sugars
• Excitotoxins (most sugar replacements except stevia, Agave nectar, etc.)
• Incomplete foods or Non-whole foods
• Breads made from flour as opposed to complete whole grain bread

As an individual becomes more toxic or builds up excess obstructive components in the body then the allergic conditions tend to increase unless you reverse the toxic pattern. You have to give your body a break until it finds its equilibrium. When this diet does not move the body quick enough into balance then Chinese herbs for allergies for elimination may be of benefit.

It seems like every sneeze in the office these days is followed by some kind of witty swine flu remark and general guffawing. I suppose that’s a good sign, since if the pandemic really had taken off there would have been general panic and nobody would dare joke about it. As yet we’ve only seen minimal deaths and indeed cases for a pandemic of this scale. But it would be stupid of us to get complacent about this. The risk of the spread of this virus is far from dying away, and a flare up could happen suddenly and unexpectedly. In the UK the health service recently distributed a leaflet to every household in the country about how to prevent the spread of swine flu germs.The basic message of the pamphlet is this: “if you sneeze, do it in a tissue, then throw it away, then wash your hands, then wash your body, then cover yourself in paraffin and let it evaporate off your body”. (ok ok the last part was a lie). But the point being, if government officials are willing to take things this far and risk general panic, they must be really concerned about this spreading.

Well, tissues aside, a UK company that specialises in air conditioners has come up with a novel and potentially important way of preventing swine flu. According to JS Humidifiers’ blog, an air purifier could be effective in trapping and removing particles of swine flu virus from the air before it has a chance to spread.Usually, people use air purifiers to prevent allergic reactions and cleanse the air of pollutants.  However the HEPA filters fitted on many air purifiers are able to trap particles of as small as 0.3 micrometers. The swine flu virus particles, just like ‘normal’ influenza particles, are aroun 80 to 120 nanometers in diameter, and therefore within the range of what a purifier would pick up.  Even more effective are those air purifiers fitted with a UV lamp, which fire ultra violet light at the air particles that pass through them, killing airborne viruses in the process.

This is really a remarkable discovery. Imagine if, rather than counting on people to make sure they don’t spread their germs to others, you could take the germs out of the air altogether with some strategically placed air purifiers in schools and workplaces! Perhaps the UK government could consider this as part of their strategy for dealing with the spread of the virus. And maybe this summer when you are considering buying a portable air conditioner for the home or workplace, you might think about cleansing the air as well as cooling it.