Useful website:1. Fertilefoods
2. Acubalance Nutrition pdf.
3. Short cooking video
All of my patients will get homework to improve their food intake based on the oriental nutrition therapy. The following
is the part of information I give to you based on your pattern. Some people belong to just one some belongs to a
couple of patterns. The food intake influences your mood, the way you think, sleep quality and off course in infertility.
Also please check the article written by an acupuncturist/nutritionist in my link page "About Nutrition".
Kidney Yang deficiency pattern:
• Avoid eating cold food.
• Warm your feet
• Apply heating pad before the ovulation and period
• Do not over exercise but do moderately
• Supplement – Royal jelly and L-arginine
• Eat the following food:
o ginger root, black beans, adzuki beans, lentils
o oats, brown rice, quinoa
o walnuts
o dates, cherries
o parsnips, parsley, mustard greens, winter squash, cabbage, kale, onions, leeks, chives, garlic, scallions
o peppers, anise, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, fennel, basil, rosemary, dill, caraway, cumin
Blood Stasis pattern:
• Avoid refined, hydrogenated oils
• Avoid drinking cold beverages
• Use flaxseed oil
• Eat the following food:
o lemon and lime are excellent food for blood stasis !
o more soy products and fish than meats
o walnuts
o peaches,
o mustard leaf, onions, scallions, dark green leafed vegetables, cabbage, broccoli,
brussels sprouts, beets, turnips, cauliflower, carrots
o supplement/tea – bladder wrack, spirulina, cramp bark (western herbs) and
Chai Hu Shu Gan Tang (chinese herbal formulas)
• Apply heat pad on the abdomen if you experience the bad cramp.
Spleen Qi deficiency pattern:
• Do not exercise excessively before and during menstauration.
• Try not to worry so much.
• Avoid the following food:
o mangoes, watermelon, pears
o cucumbers, lettuce, celery, spinach
o dairy products – milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream – goat and feta are good
o fried food, food sautéed with a lot of oil
o ice-cold beverages
o food made with white flour
o sugar, sugar substitutes, concentrated sweets,
• Eat the following food:
o rice, oats
o yams, pumpkin, pumpkin seeds, shiitake mushrooms
o cherries, dates, figs, grapes
o molasses
Dampness pattern:
• Avoid daily products (goat, feta are good substitute)
• Avoid fried food
• Avoid white sugar, sweets, fruits juices, refined carbohydrates
• Go easy on soy products
• Avoid wheat and eat more rice, barley
• Food to avoid:
o bananas,
o chocolate
o nuts
o alcohol
• Eat the following food:
o Food which has more diuretic effect –alfalfa, parsley, radishes, celery, carrots, cabbage, cranberries,
cucumbers, lettuce, kelp
Blood deficiency pattern:
• Eat the following food:
o apricots, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, mulberry
o eggs
o spirulina
o turnip, watercress, spinach, any dark leafy greens
o take enough rest during your period
Liver Qi stagnation pattern:
• Get moderate physical exercise
• Eat frequent small meals rather than having three big meals
• Sit down when you eat and chew food !
• Find the method to get rid of stress, any stuck feelings, anger.
• Laugh more often –watch comedy than serious drama.
• Breathe deeply from stomach “slowly” three times while you close eyes
• Apply peppermint oil (I recommend sombra cream) on your temples, neck and shoulder
• Avoid the following food:
o Heavy, hard to digest food (nuts, animal fat, big portion of meat and bread)
o Foods contains preservatives
o High contents of white sugar
• Eat the following food:
• Supplement – zinc, Xiao Yao San (Chinese herbal formula)
Kidney yin deficiency pattern:
• Do not over exercise
• Do not take sauna or do bikram yoga
• Supplement – chlorella, spirulina, royal jelly, Chinese herb- Dang Gui (Angelica)
• Cut down the amount of coffee and energy boost drink intake
• Food to avoid:
o horseradish, curry, pepper
• Eat the following food:
o more soy, seaweed, and flaxseed oil
o wheat, wheat germ, barley, rice, millet, amaranth -
o asparagus
o black beans, kidney beans, red beans, string beans, mung beans, pea, chick peas
o apples, bananas, raspberries, blackberries, grapes, lemons, mangoes, pineapple
o eggs
References: "The Infertility Cure" by Randine Lewis Ph.D. 3/2005 Page 92-99) and
"The Chinese Nutrition Therapy" by Joerg Kastner M.D. 2/2009