It's not just your home that can use some spring cleaning. There are some paths of health that use the natural rhythm of the seasons to help the body or assist the body's own natural systems to cleanse. For instance, in traditional Chinese medicine, each season is associated with a different organ and spring is the season of the liver.  Other systems teach that certain foods or plants assist in this process of cleansing the body.

And what do we want to be getting more of in our diets? Plants, in all the colors of the rainbow and lots of them. Benefits…too numerous to mention such as increases in energy, less digestive issues, “feeling better and lighter” etc. Plants are loaded with things called antioxidants which are basically like pac men gobbling up things called free radicals which left to their own devices cause cells to break down. All these antioxidants also help reduce inflammation (see previous blog) and creates a strong immune system.