Blood Deficiency Diet

Blood Deficiency, Helping Ourselves

Supporting our blood through food.

Blood is very easily improved through diet.  A diet rich in fresh vegetables is essential.  In particular, dark green leafy vegetables and chlorophyll-rich foods are helpful, especially when combined with grains.  Adequate protein is also necessary.

All meat, fish, beans and several seafoods will strengthen the blood.  In severe cases of Blood depletion, animal organs may be helpful.

As all food forms the basis of Blood, we may simply say eat well and widely.  The overuse of fatty foods, denatured foods and sweetened or salted foods will tend to weaken the Blood.  Foods which especially tonify Blood are listed below.

• Fruits

  Apricot
  Cherry
  Fig
  Grape

• Vegetables

  Beetroot
  Spinach
  Leafy Greens
  Parsley
  Longan
  Watercress

• Meat

  Beef
  Bone marrow
  Chicken egg
  Cuttlefish
  Mussel
  Octopus
  Sardine
  Oxtail
  Squid
  Liver

• Beans and Grains

  Aduki bean
  Black soybean
  Kidney bean
  Tempeh
  Sweet Rice
  Stout

• Plants and Algae

  Dandelion
  Dang Gui
  Nettle
  Micro algae
  Seaweed