““Foods to restrict in deficient qi or fire of the spleen-pancreas: excessive raw vegetables, fruit (especially citrus), sprouts, and cereal grasses; cooling foods such as tomato, spinach, chard, tofu, millet, amaranth, seaweeds, wild blue-green micro-algae, and salt; too many very sweet foods, liquids, and dairy products; and vinegar. Care must be taken not to push the liver to a state of excess. Large meals and rich foods are avoided; nuts, seeds, and oils are eaten in small amounts to nullify the Destructive Cycle activity of an excessive liver on the spleen-pancreas. Liver excess is perhaps the major cause of””
