qi cultivation and vital foods

[blackstar212]

What are some of the vital foods or ones that you have experience with increasing your qi? Are there some foods to avoid that would hamper qi cultivation.

 

Any help is appreciated.

[Geof Nanto]

What are some of the vital foods or ones that you have experience with increasing your qi? 

 

Fresh wholefoods cooked or uncooked as appropriate, and eaten in appropriate amounts. Feel it, taste it, chew it well, and connect with its qi. Eat it with love and appreciation for the plant or animal life that's been surrendered. 

 

 Are there some foods to avoid that would hamper qi cultivation.

 

Heavily processed foods, refined foods; indeed factory made foods in general.  Overeating. Eating quickly with no attention to the food....taking our life-giving foods for granted.

[Fa Xin]

I find that Kombucha gives me great energy.  It's one food in particular that I feel really energetic and happy after taking.

 

I've also noticed too much meat - especially red meat - will make me feel dull and mentally sluggish.

 

I've known alot of vegetarians to say they feel alot more energetic without meat.  I haven't quite given up meat, but I don't eat it very often.

 

I work at a health food store, and food is a huge part of staying healthy... we in the west are just starting to realize this and figure things out.  that's why your seeing a push for more organic, fair trade and healthy options (albeit pricey.) in your super markets and things.

 

more fresh produce ... such as vegetables, fruit, raw things.

 

Start reading the labels for the things your eating.  Stuff like cottonseed oil, artificial colorings, and things that sound like they're out of a science book are probably not so good for you.

 

Many of the large vendors of frozen foods are garbage, high in sodium and mass produced. I won't get into the whole thing of energy being attached to your food, but it's something to think about ... where it comes from, how it's prepared.

 

Lately I am big on Aloe - drinking it, using it as a moisturizer.  Also greens such as wheat grass, kale, good old lettuce and spirulina are nutritionally awesome.

 

Chlorophyll, antioxidants, and alkaline promoting things.

 

Avacados...

 

I could go on...

 

Just listen to your body, how does it make you feel?

Edited August 9, 2016 by Fa Xin

[blackstar212]

Fresh wholefoods cooked or uncooked as appropriate, and eaten in appropriate amounts. Feel it, taste it, chew it well, and connect with its qi. Eat it with love and appreciation for the plant or animal life that's been surrendered. 

 

 

Heavily processed foods, refined foods; indeed factory made foods in general.  Overeating. Eating quickly with no attention to the food....taking our life-giving foods for granted.

One thing I notice is I eat far too fast and I need to slow down so thank you for that.

[blackstar212]

I find that Kombucha gives me great energy.  It's one food in particular that I feel really energetic and happy after taking.

 

I've also noticed too much meat - especially red meat - will make me feel dull and mentally sluggish.

 

I've known alot of vegetarians to say they feel alot more energetic without meat.  I haven't quite given up meat, but I don't eat it very often.

 

I work at a health food store, and food is a huge part of staying healthy... we in the west are just starting to realize this and figure things out.  that's why your seeing a push for more organic, fair trade and healthy options (albeit pricey.) in your super markets and things.

 

more fresh produce ... such as vegetables, fruit, raw things.

 

Start reading the labels for the things your eating.  Stuff like cottonseed oil, artificial colorings, and things that sound like they're out of a science book are probably not so good for you.

 

Many of the large vendors of frozen foods are garbage, high in sodium and mass produced. I won't get into the whole thing of energy being attached to your food, but it's something to think about ... where it comes from, how it's prepared.

 

Lately I am big on Aloe - drinking it, using it as a moisturizer.  Also greens such as wheat grass, kale, good old lettuce and spirulina are nutritionally awesome.

 

Chlorophyll, antioxidants, and alkaline promoting things.

 

Avacados...

 

I could go on...

 

Just listen to your body, how does it make you feel?

I will try the suggestions. I have been trying to do a nutritarian diet. Almost all veggies and fruits with beans and nuts. I do eat fish though.

[smallsteps]

I will try the suggestions. I have been trying to do a nutritarian diet. Almost all veggies and fruits with beans and nuts. I do eat fish though.

 

Me too, that's a great diet. I am on it for a year or so. It took me some time to find the right diet for me. I stopped drinking coffee and put myself on green tea. No more ups and down, stable energy during the whole day.

[blackstar212]

Me too, that's a great diet. I am on it for a year or so. It took me some time to find the right diet for me. I stopped drinking coffee and put myself on green tea. No more ups and down, stable energy during the whole day.

Yeah I am doing green tea also. I still have some coffee here and there but I do not feel as good as when I do not. The coffee amps you up too much and the green tea is more steady energy. I am weaning myself from coffee altogether.

[Miffymog]

Yeah I am doing green tea also. I still have some coffee here and there but I do not feel as good as when I do not. The coffee amps you up too much and the green tea is more steady energy. I am weaning myself from coffee altogether.

 

I've been caffeine free for two months now. It started when I had this stomach pain that wouldn't go away for month. I decided to look at my diet and the first thing I did was remove coffee and tea. I had three days of cold turkey, with head aches and mad fluctuations in temperature. I then broke the back of it and felt quite a bit better. It didn't solve my stomach pains though. They were later traced to an inflamed appendix which, thank god, sorted itself out without needing an operation. I like to think doing ZZ helped with this, but I've really no idea.

 

As for caffeine, I don't have a stressful or hard life, so I don't miss it. But, if I have just one cup, I then want another for the next 3 days, so I completely exclude it from my life. Green tea, fruit teas, cup-a-soups, Bovril and Ovaltine have been the replacements. I do feel better, but I also miss coffee on a weekend morning.

[C T]

Moringa Oleifera

 

super nutritious & immensely beneficial to health

 

http://www.purehealingfoods.com/moringaInfo.php

[Aeran]

I've been caffeine free for two months now. It started when I had this stomach pain that wouldn't go away for month. I decided to look at my diet and the first thing I did was remove coffee and tea. I had three days of cold turkey, with head aches and mad fluctuations in temperature. I then broke the back of it and felt quite a bit better. It didn't solve my stomach pains though. They were later traced to an inflamed appendix which, thank god, sorted itself out without needing an operation. I like to think doing ZZ helped with this, but I've really no idea.

 

As for caffeine, I don't have a stressful or hard life, so I don't miss it. But, if I have just one cup, I then want another for the next 3 days, so I completely exclude it from my life. Green tea, fruit teas, cup-a-soups, Bovril and Ovaltine have been the replacements. I do feel better, but I also miss coffee on a weekend morning.

 

But doesn't Green Tea itself contain caffeine?

[Miffymog]

But doesn't Green Tea itself contain caffeine?

 

What? Are you sure? Damn it!!!

[smallsteps]

But doesn't Green Tea itself contain caffeine?

 

Green tea contains caffeine (2/3 less than coffee) but it seems that it comes from tea tannins not from chlorogenic acid. Tea has amino acid L-Theanine which regulates the liberation of caffeine within the blood. Hence, no ups and down.

At least this what I understood.

[vonkrankenhaus]

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"What are some of the vital foods or ones that you have experience with increasing your qi? Are there some foods to avoid that would hamper qi cultivation."

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Pretty much all of modern lifestyle, food, and medicine are systematically counter to most human functionality.

 

Processing, canning, and other industrial process applied to foods are stripping away qi from form.

 

Chemicals and monocropping disturb natural growth of food plants, and thus also the natural growth of the person eating.

 

Genetic engineering also.

 

Fluoride in water, food, drinks, and medicines kills neurons and makes cells unable to process qi.

 

As does mercury in flu shots and other medicines.

 

It just goes on and on.

 

So this means person studying cultivation now has been engineered into an entirely different human being from those who developed the cultivation methods.

 

Statistically, many who would study now are diabetic in some degree, or autistic.

 

About 50% developing cancer as they practice.

 

Any wonder why modern results are most often slow and incomplete?

 

 

 

 

 

-VonKrankenhaus

[beingnature]

Fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, and greens.What i recommend most are hempseeds, sprouts, and ripe fruit.

[idquest]

Green tea contains caffeine (2/3 less than coffee) but it seems that it comes from tea tannins not from chlorogenic acid. Tea has amino acid L-Theanine which regulates the liberation of caffeine within the blood. Hence, no ups and down.

At least this what I understood.

 

Caffeine from black tea affects me the same way as caffeine from coffee which is bad. Caffeine from green tea less so; but if I make a strong cup of green tea I'll feel caffeine there. I have some condition with which I feel detrimental effects of caffeine in a very direct way; so I'm talking from my personal experience rather than from food labels %% content.

[smallsteps]

Hi idquest,

 

You are right, nothing beats personal experience.

[Taomeow]

Moringa Oleifera

 

super nutritious & immensely beneficial to health

 

http://www.purehealingfoods.com/moringaInfo.php

 

 

 I've never tried it.  Is it traditional?  And if it is, where?  For how long? 

[C T]

 I've never tried it.  Is it traditional?  And if it is, where?  For how long? 

Hi Taomeow 

 

Its very traditional in many parts of South East Asia. 

 

The bean-like fruits, affectionately called 'drumsticks', make a delicious addition to Indian curries like dahl, for example. As for the leaves, they taste wonderful in meaty, Chinese soups with some not-so-pungent herbs. The leaves are widely consumed in many parts of the Philippines and also all over India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Both leaves and fruit are reputed to boost virility in men, with some claiming its many times more efficacious than any viagra-like pills. 

 

Many Indian families in the suburbs where i grew up have these trees planted around the house. 

We had one growing in our garden too. Thinking back makes me yearn for a nice curry with them drumsticks lol

Edited August 14, 2016 by C T

[Taomeow]

CT,

 

thank you!  I think I'll explore.  

[silent thunder]

If it grew in, or on the earth and looks like it did when it came from where it grew, then I consider it real food and trust that it will act in my body like medicine and will provide long endurance energy and will prevent illness if not sick and when sick, it will provide the phytochemicals that fuel the immune system the body uses to restore its natural healthy state, rather quickly. 

 

Real food is medicine in my experience, pure and simple.  Roughly four years ago, I was able to rewrite my health, alter my blood chemistry in 90 days and keep myself off of a lifetime of pharmaceuticals using simple produce.

 

Our digestive system developed and refined in a long dance with natural foods.  I'm not a vegan, nor a vegetarian, though as I age, my meat consumption has all but dropped off and I can readily tell very quickly, sometimes just by holding food in my hands, how I will feel when I consume it.  If not, then within a few minutes of eating it, it is quickly apparent whether I'm garnering benefit from it, or if it's just filling the hole and making work for my system.  My body and mind resonate in response to the frequencies of what I consume and not just with food.  What I put on my skin is just as important to me now as what I put in my mouth and what I choose to dwell on in my mind...

 

Processed food was developed very quickly and very recently and while cheap, mass produced highly processed food can be a viable source of staving off hunger.  It seems evident that our digestive systems are not equipped to deal with many of the components present in highly altered processed food like stuff.  Over the long term, the continued introduction of highly processed food is well proven to have many toxic effects on the body.  

 

If it comes in a box, is frozen, preheated, precooked, conveniently pre-prepared, I generally stay clear.  I tend to stick to the outer sections of the grocery stores.  Those center aisles are usually full of demi-food and while they will keep your body alive and when I was dirt broke, I ate my share of Ramen and was very glad to have it, but it's not what I call food now.  That demi-food will allow my body to continue, but under a stressed and in a reduced functioning capacity. 

 

I would love to have a pair of glasses that would analyze my body when I looked at it and relay what parts of my body were formed by what food I consumed at the time the cells were being formed.  I bet I'd never touch ice cream again if I had those.

[Aetherous]

I bet I'd never touch ice cream again if I had those.

I'm really glad to have myelin sheaths.

[Taomeow]

I'm really glad to have myelin sheaths.

 

Me too.  And these days they are thick enough to isolate my neural dendrites from food discussions, which are usually even more pointless than political and religious combined.  But regarding ice cream, I have to tell you how my great-grandmother made it.

 

It was believed to be a summer treat, you didn't eat it until June and you didn't eat it later than September.  The milk was at the peak of its fragrance and fat content then because the cows grazed on green pastures instead of eating hay (yes, hay, not corn once the fresh grass was gone, and not soy and not dead cows ground into their feed -- 12% is the FDA standard these days), young grass and especially all those fragrant flowers in the meadows made the milk smell of summer paradise, clover and chicory and camomile and forget-me-nots by the river.  So, the cow would be milked and the milk sold that very morning at the market, and my great-grandmother (in a class above keeping her own cows but in a place surrounded by pastures and forests) would get a whole lot, a bucket -- she had seven children looking forward to the treat. 

 

Some of those children, including my grandmother who was the youngest, would in the meantime go to the forest and gather a basket or wild strawberries.  The milk would be cooled off on ice (they kept huge, thick blocks of ice in the earthen cellar throughout the summer -- the cellar was as cold as a fridge, and the ice worked as the freezer) and the cream would separate, forming a thick cap on top.  This would be scooped up into the ice cream maker, the wild strawberries combined with it in abundance, along with some linden honey which was considered quite medicinal and counteracted the coldness of the treat (cold food was approached as very precarious, and no kid with sniffles or the tiniest cough or a sore throat could hope to get any ice cream until a week in the clear.)  Then it took a long time for the whole bunch of whoever was interested in ice cream to take turns turning the handle of the manual ice cream maker, which consisted of an inner vehicle for the ice cream and then outer for ice and the outermost for rock salt that provided thermal isolation, I think that was the design.  So, it was something you ate only on weekends -- who has the time to make ice cream on busy weekdays? -- and only in season.  And my grandmother remembered that treat into her nineties. 

 

I'm pretty sure that ice cream was jam-packed with qi. 

Edited August 14, 2016 by Taomeow

[Aetherous]

That sounds so good.

[vonkrankenhaus]

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"I would love to have a pair of glasses that would analyze my body when I looked at it and relay what parts of my body were formed by what food I consumed at the time the cells were being formed."

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You have those already.

 

They can be calibrated by studying facial & body diagnosis.

 

 

 

 

-VonKrankenhaus

[silent thunder]

I no longer drink milk, but you brought back some amazing similar resonant experiences at my Aunt's dairy farm in Iowa when I was growing up.  Whenever we visited Wow!... there was no food on that farm that wasn't as Master Zhou would say "Big Qi!" 

 

Though there should be a disclaimer in my diatribe response above and that is...

"In my experience, far more harm has been caused by what comes out of my mouth, than any that came from what I put in it."

 

edit: grammar goblin

Edited August 15, 2016 by silent thunder