Springtime cleansing

Well, it's March now and the nights are getting a bit longer each day as we move toward the spring equinox on the 21st of the month.

It always amazes me how the body just starts to do it's own thing around this time of year with liver cleansing in mind. Desire for food is less and there's a move towards eating nice light fruits and salad even although it is still a bit cool. Seeds and nuts are minimised as the body adjust to a lighter cleansing diet.

I also enjoy saunas this time of year and especially infra red at the moment as it's like getting sunshine into the body when there may be snow and hail outside.

Useful tips for cleansing the body of it's winter excesses is to do the following.

Take lemon/ginger water in the morning with a little honey.
Follow an hour later with a teaspoon of milk thistle seeds sucked and chewed.

Then have a nice light breakfast of juicy fruit like blueberries, strawberries or apples. If you prefer have a smoothie.

For lunch, have a nice kale salad with onion, corn, courgette and carrot. some grated beet is good too and good for the liver. A light dressing of flax oil and lemon juice is good with some pressed garlic. A soup is a good option too as you may find salad and fruit a little cooling.

I made a really nice noodle soup yesterday which I enjoyed eating with chopsticks.

NOODLE SOUP

1 courgette, 1/2 of which is grated
1 large tomato
1 tsp slippery elm or flax seed
1 tsp miso
knob of ginger
1 clove garlic
1/2 tsp oregano
pinch turmeric
sea salt
sea spaghetti or thongweed or strip of nori

Half the courgette and grate half of it and place in your soup bowl. In another bowl put a handful of sea spaghetti and 1/2 chopped onion in it. Pour on just boiled water to blanch. After 5 minutes strain the liquid from the sea veg into your blender and add the other half of the courgette with the tomato, herbs, spices, elm powderand miso with enough warm water to cover. Blend until smooth. Pour over the grated courgette, blanched sea spaghetti and onion. Eat with chopsticks for fun.