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Blood-Detox Soup

It is good to focus on a health specific purpose for about a week duration.  One day is not enough.  The following information is recommended to be used as a 1 week long program for effective results.  Every 1 minute, one-quarter of the blood in your body, is filtered through the liver.  Most people know that supporting the liver is important but cleaning the blood is important too since it is continuously filtered by your liver.  Life is in the blood. Include the added food suggestions along with this soup as part of the program.  If you are a diabetic, you will need to eliminate the fruit meal and substitute vegetables, cooked or as a second salad each day. Certain vegetables are known to help cleanse the blood, just as certain herbs do.  When preparing a soup or broth, you can be creative and aware of the vegetables you choose, selecting specific foods for a purpose beyond a meal.  You can purposely choose a set of vegetables for the liver, gallbladder, urinary tract, blood, pancreas, etc. All of these natural vegetables are healthy and rich in nutrients. Many vegetables cross borders of being beneficial for a variety of organs, but some are just better than others for a particular organ. For example, take artichoke. Artichoke is excellent for the liver and gallbladder. If you are focusing on the blood, you may want to choose something different. All of the vegetables are rich in nutrition and delicious. For our purpose we are narrowing the selection to be specific.

Instructions

In a large pot, bring water to a boil. We suggest using either distilled water or fully filtered water from a Berkey, in order to avoid chlorine and fluoride in our public drinking water.

While waiting for the water to boil, cut up all the vegetables.  Clean but do not “over-clean” the vegetables or you reduce the mineral content in the peelings.

Add vegetables to the water and bring back to a boil.  Add 1 teaspoon of Himalayan Pink Salt and stir. Turn heat down to simmer and cover. Cook for 1 1/2 hours.

Strain juice and put into quart mason jars.

Puree the cooked vegetables in a blender and store in a container. The puree is used as a side dish for your meals.  After cooling, place the lid onto the mason jar and refrigerate.

Consume 1 quart daily or 3 cups, until drinking all of the broth. Drinking it between meals or 30 minutes before each meal is most recommended in order to support the liver with nutrients and minerals for cleansing.

Recipe No. 1–   Therapeutic Comprehensive Level

1 pound dried mixed beans, picked over, soaked overnight-rinsed-drained
1 cup fresh dandelion greens chopped

1 large bundle of radishes (tops if possible) chop up greens, slice radishes adding some to the soup and also set some raw slices aside for garnishing the finished soup

Fresh basil leaf- slice or chopped as a garnish on finished soup

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

2 handfuls of spinach

1 nori seaweed sheet, crushed
2 beets, chopped
1 bunch parsley, chopped
32 oz. organic chicken broth, or organic vegetable broth

5 quarts of distilled or filtered water (or more as needed)
2 carrots, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
Freshly ground pepper

The soup broth volume should be not less than 5-6 quarts. If vegetables absorb the water so it is less than this, add enough water and stir to mix. Fill mason jars and cool. Refrigerate and consume 1 quart of broth each day for 5-6 days. The broth is good for 6 days. You may elect to include more water or chicken/vegetable broth to your recipe if you prefer a thinner more brothy soup.  Liquid is adjusted as needed if soup is too thick.

Each day of this blood-detoxifying week, include a large fruit plate for lunch instead of your traditional foods. Fruits that are especially good for cleansing the blood include;  raspberries, melon, orange, pear, apple, black currants, kiwi, and pineapple. If preferred, you can choose from this grouping and prepare a juice instead.

Eat at least one salad each cleansing day and include side dishes–  with servings of avocado with fresh lemon juice, spinach and other dark greens, sliced radishes, red bell pepper, and cucumber.  Sprouts are always suggested. These contain enzymes and young plant nutrition not found in the same levels in mature plants.

Daily Protein–  whether you elect to include protein this week, if you do, eat light types;  oily fish, poultry

Recipe No. 2–  Leek & Radish–Simple Soup 

Leeks and radishes are excellent for cleaning the blood, especially radishes.  Here is a simple and delicious soup that can be made anytime as a meal or side dish

• 3/4 lb  radishes, halved
• 3 Russet potatoes, peeled and cubed, using both the peel and the potato
• 32 oz. (1 quart) organic chicken broth
• 2 oz leeks, chopped (white part) Bundle the greens an cook into soup, remove and discard when finished
• 1 nori seaweed sheet, crushed
• 2 tbs butter
• 1 cup organic whole milk or unsweetened organic coconut milk (canned is also good)
• Salt and pepper to taste

1. Separate the tops of the leeks and chop up the white part of the stalk.  Wash the green leaves thoroughly and bundle together with cooking twine or leave long and in tact so you can remove them from the soup at the end.
2. Add butter to pot turn up the heat.  Set the chicken broth, leek leaves, and milk aside.  Add everything else to the pot and bring up to a boil.  Reduce heat and simmer for about 1 hour or until the vegetables are soft.
3. Discard leak tops
4. Cream the soup with a blender. Mix in the milk or coconut milk, add salt and pepper.  Serve soup with slices of raw radish as a garnish.

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