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Don’t Be Left Out! Get Rid Of Allergies At The Core!
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.