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Wake up your digestion - nudge the liver

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SVA recommends starting the morning with stewed fruit - cooked with cloves.  Cloves are gently heating and help open channels.  So cooking apples or pears with 5-6 cloves until the apples are gently cooked and steamy and delicious is a great way to start the morning - it wakes up your digestive fire.  Then when you feel hungry you can have your warm breakfast meal - cooked oats is a good start to the day. You can make then delicious with raisin or other dried fruits and a bit of milk added to the cooking water.  A gentle start for your digestive tract first thing in the morning. Also both apples and pears contain malic acid which is wonderfully beneficial to the liver. You might already have in your routine drinking warm water with lemon or lime first thing in the morning to cleanse the liver. Adding cooked apples and pears with cloves is also beneficial. This is mostly recommended for those who are not hungry when they wake up - that means the digestive fire is not ignited. Howeve

Clogging foods

According to Shaka Vansya Ayurved there are certain foods that are clogging and also block the vibrational channels.  The subtle channels or nadis are vibrational (like meridians in chinese medicine) and the physical channels are arteries, veins and micro-channels in all the cells and tissues. If these get compromises, clogged or shrink then toxins cannot get out and nutrients cannot get in.  So we see all kinds of problems develop - cysts, lumps, swellings, etc. So what to eliminate that might contribute to this problems: large beans - garbanzo, kidney, lima etc. The only beans recommended are Mung, Red Lentils, French Lentils. These are easy to digest and not clogging and they best be cooked with Turmeric, coriander, fennel and cumin. all soya products nights shades - potato, tomato, bell peppers and eggplant bananas - all except the tiny baby ones You might have to look at the kind of grains your are eating. If using milk products they must be used according to certain