Healthy Eating for COVID-19 Prevention

Influenzas and Natural Medicine

George Oshawa’s book Shizen Igaku (Nippon CI Kyokai) published in 1938 included a chapter on natural medicine for influenzas. Coronavirus (COVID-19) did not exist then, but all influenza symptoms are very similar to Coronavirus (COVID-19).

I think that what George Oshawa was saying has some truth. His idea of sickness all boiled down to what a person ate.  If they ate organic, locally grown, seasonal, traditional whole foods they would be healthy. Also, if they paid attention to yin and yang, acid and alkaline balance.

Acid foods will make blood thick and sticky, clogging up arteries, muscles, and organs. Alkaline foods make blood clear.    

Yin foods have a sweet sugary taste. Yang foods have a salty test.

Our body is more than 70% saltwater.  Bacteria and viruses cannot live in salt water. Bacteria and virus can grow in sugar.

We can protect ourselves with food therapy.

The influenza virus is yin acid, so yang alkaline foods are used to treat it.

Yang alkaline foods are whole grains, beans, root vegetables, daikon, lotus root, garlic, ginger, mushrooms, sea weeds, fermented vegetable foods (miso, tamari, tekka miso, natto, tempe, pickles, umeboshi), fried tofu Kuki cha tea, Himalayan pink salt, sesame salt, kudzu, and soba.

Warm foods are recommended, not cold foods or drink.

Avoid yin acid foods: sugar, fruits, dairy products, ice cream, soft drinks, beer, wine, any artificial sweeteners, MSG, spices, tomatoes, potatoes, salad, eggplant, coffee and black tea.

Humans belong to the animal kingdom which is yang while plants are yin.

Yang humans that eat yang animal foods become sick.

Yang humans that eat yin plant foods will become healthy.

Avoid Yang acid foods, meat, poultry, red fish, hard cheese, egg and table salt.

Influenza Food Therapy

Main Dishes

·      Hot miso and brown rice porridge with daikon and fried tofu.

·      Sesame salt brown rice porridge.

·      Brown rice and miso porridge with mochi.

Side Dishes

·      Miso soup with daikon, green onion, fried tofu, kombu, tofu, mochi.

·      Kombu with tamari. Tekka miso, green onion miso, roasted hijiki and lotus root, tororo kombu soup, kinpira burdock roots and lotus root, vegetable tempura, cooked vegetable, umeboshi, takuan (daikon pickles) and  miso pickles.

Drinks

·      Salted brown rice soup

·      Salted brown rice tea

·      Salted Kukicha tea

Food to Avoid

Any meat, red shell fish and red meat fishes, meat soup, butter, fruit, sweets, vinegar, all potatoes, soft drinks, ice cream, ice, spices, salads, tomatoes, eggplant, white breads, beer, wine, coffee, black tea and coco.

Hands-on Treatment

Mouth wash with salted Kuki cha tea.

For high fever use a hot daikon drink.

For weak people, older people, or children, make a drink using a handful of roasted brown rice and orange peel, ginger, and one dry persimmon with three cups of water.

Headaches/Cough

Put ginger oil on the forehead and wrap grated apple and daikon in gauze and place it on the forehead.

A tofu plaster will also work.

For the cough, drink lotus root tea.