The Green Diet

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam,

Please, I would like some advice/tips from practitioners who have done the green

diet, ie

eating only green food for 10 days. Things like, what did you eat! Effects,

things to watch out

for or to make sure you include, etc.

Many Thanks

 

Sat Nam

Blessings

 

Har Hari Kaur

Cambridge England

[Guest guest]

From Karta Purkh Singh, Eugene,

Oregon, USA

 

Green vegetables are widely regarded

in natural medicine as the most cooling, anti-inflammatory treatments.

They also happen to be detoxifying, so they work for healing and

to treat symptoms. Wheat grass is especially good, but broccoli, cucumber

and dark leafy greens will do the trick. Juice is the best way to get enough

green vegetables in you—after all, how many cucumbers or celery stalks

can you eat? If you can drink a quart of vegetable juice a day, you

will rapidly detoxify. Cooling cucumber has a history in yoga for curing

drug intoxication.

Green vegetables treat inflamed

skin with their cooling energy, which is even cooler when they are used

raw. Use any green vegetable, including pea pods, celery, lettuce

and sprouts.

It

may be the high magnesium content in the chlorophyll, which is known to

cool inflammation, or some yet to be identified constituent, possibly bioflavonoids,

but high amounts of green vegetables will bring acute acne, psoriasis,

and dermatitis under control quickly. Because it is easy to fill up quickly

on fibrous raw green vegetables, juicing is a good choice for getting in

large amounts of the active ingredients. Try a couple of tall glasses

of cucumber or celery juice per day.

 

Celery

Celery is profoundly detoxifying

and widely considered to be the most cooling food available. Naturopathic

pioneer Dr. Bernard Jensen specifically recommends it many times. Yogi

Bhajan has lauded its praises for years. It is very rich in alkaline organic

sodium (not sodium chloride). It is powerfully anti-inflammatory and relaxing.

 

Since it is very fibrous, it is

hard to munch down very much at a sitting. Steam it as a cooked vegetable,

or better yet, juice it. Celery juice was one of our main treatments for

anxiety and insomnia in Yogi Bhajan’s health teaching. Eight to sixteen

ounces will put you right to sleep. It is so cooling that a 10 ounce glass

will abort a hay fever attack. Believe it or not, Dr. Jensen combined prune

juice with celery juice to build the nervous system.

 

Parsley

Usually discarded, that parsley

is one powerful herbal medicine.

While the seeds, leaf, and root

of this plant are all used for food, the main herbal uses come from the

leaf.

This medicine has a long history

of use with the urinary system. Research shows that it is diuretic, and

it has a long history of herbal use in treating bladder infection. It prevents

and treats kidney stones.

Parsley is a treasure trove of

vitamins and minerals. It is a rich source of boron and fluorine, critical

minerals for bone health. It contains 3.5 times as much vitamin C as oranges,

and twice as much calcium as broccoli.

A dose of about 2 ounces per day

of parsley juice treats edema very well.

[Guest guest]

Sat nam,

 

I did the green diet for 7 days and had a very positive experience. I

think it's probably one of the easiest cleansing diets you can try, so

it's great for someone who is new to mono diets.

 

I ate pretty much whatever I wanted and as much as I wanted, provided

that the food is naturally green on the outside or inside. This is a

pretty broad rule, so everything from broccoli, cucumbers, edamame

(boiled soybeans) and watermelon was fair game. Since my ayurvedic

dosha is primarily vata, I need warm foods at least once a day to keep

my digestive fire in balance, so I included a bowl of split pea soup

and/or spicy mung bean stew, which I created by simmering ginger and

onions with zucchini and celery and various spices (salt, cumin,

coriander, turmeric and a touch of chili powder). Asparagus sauteed

with a bit of olive oil, salt, and lime juice is also a great side or

main dish.

 

The first few days of the diet were a bit challenging because I was

coming off my carbohydrate addiction, but after that I felt like I had

plenty of energy. The sugar cravings came and went, but they weren't

overwhelming. It was especially nice to not experience my afternoon

blood sugar drop, where I would normally be reaching for chips or

cookies to tide me over until dinner. The green diet really opened my

eyes to how my body metabolizes fuel, and which foods are better than

others for sustainable energy. In fact, even now I realize at times

that I have unwittingly been eating green all day, simply because I

like the taste of the foods.

 

I think I lost about 4-5 pounds while on the diet, but I wouldn't go

on it specifically to lose weight. Make sure you drink lots of water

or yogi tea throughout the diet to flush out the toxins.

 

One more thing -- and this is purely anecdotal so I make no promises

-- but my friend went on the Green Diet for 10 days and soon

afterwards conceived her daughter. She had been trying to conceive for

several years so it was truly a blessing.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Nimrita K.

 

 

Kundalini-Yoga , " kaurharhari " <harharikaur

wrote:

>

> Sat Nam,

> Please, I would like some advice/tips from practitioners who have

done the green diet, ie

> eating only green food for 10 days. Things like, what did you eat!

Effects, things to watch out

> for or to make sure you include, etc.

> Many Thanks

>

> Sat Nam

> Blessings

>

> Har Hari Kaur

> Cambridge England

>