One of the things many of my patients ask me about, is how they can do a fast or a cleanse.
So, one of the things we often times recommend, in Chinese medicine, is not fasting but a
very simple diet. So we have a thing called a Congee or a less appealing sound, the rice
gruel. What we do is we get, brown rice and we'll put a cup of brown rice, to eight to
ten cups of water and cook it, for about three hours, just over a low simmer, the way you
would normally, any other pot of rice but with much more water. We can add to that,
some very simple things that are easy on our digestion. One favorite that we like to add
to it, is some ginger. We can add just a couple of pieces of small chopped up ginger. If you're
trying to detoxify or cleanse, we often times, recommend adding Mung Beans. We just throw
that right on in, with our eight to ten cups of water and our cup of rice, put about a
half a cup of Mung Beans in there and we could eat that actually for our meals, throughout
the day and it provides us enough nutrients to keep our chee alive but simple enough that
our digestion doesn't have to work too hard and we can slowly and quietly cleanse our
body, while us providing nutrients, for our bodily functions.