Start with warming foods. Both Western nutritional approaches and traditional medicine systems recognize the value of warm, easily digestible foods for supporting spleen function.

It helps turn food into energy, and along with the spleen it acts as a filter that flushes harmful wastes. But if your liver is injured or diseased, it can have trouble doing its job.

The spleen is a key component of the immune system. It filters old blood cells, bacteria, tumor cells out of the blood and breaks them down. ... The 19 foods you CAN eat past their expiry date.