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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Anti-cancer Herbs and Anti-inflammation Herbs Tea for Cough


A few of my friends diagnosed with breast cancer and some even passed away. Yesterday I visited one of my breast cancer friend, seeing her in good complexion and healthier than before. She said she has been using Chinese herbs therapy for cooling after high-dose chemotherapy by stem-cell breast cancer treatment. Therefore, She said clear the heat is the primary concern for those undergoing chemotherapy.

And her consistency and regular intake of some homeopathy natural raw herbs, just to prevent of further spreads of cancer cells to other part of body. She has even planted many medicinal herbs at backyard. By taking the herbs tea for 2 years regularly.

With the use of natural herbs has given her a relief from the feeling of thirst, coughing, sore throat and relief of chest congestion after the chemotherapy. Also combined with light and simple diets and “Qi” gong exercises, the result is great and she is grateful that with the scientific and alternative homeopathy natural healing way has saved her life and the breast too.

The cooling “Liang cha” - herbal tea with several herbs plant and is decoction 3 times a week. Combination of the raw herbs leaves in the formula such as:




Huo Tan Mu

(Polygonum chinense, Smartweed)


Black General
(Hei Mian Jiang Jin)


Yu Xun Cao
(Snake Plant)


Shang Ye
(Mulberry Leave)









T
hough she certainly still considered this as one of a fine herbal tonic that we can consume once a while to expelling of "dampness" and "heat", for throat infection and detoxifies the body in preventing cancer.

she added, each of every herb take a "different action" when making an infusion and herbs tea. Also depending on individual body condition to consume this herbs tea.



So I tried to cook the herbs tea with rock sugar as “Liang Cha” (herbs tea).


Oh my….the taste is so soothing and cooling. Nice taste anyway. No harm trying.



Herbs planting in our Asia country not only easier to get and we can find most of the useful herbs right here. My herb plants collection in my garden has increases after few years of collection and effort. It is quite handy to me and convenience for me to cook it at any time.

Some common and very useful Anticancer herb plants example like “Black General" - Hei Mian Jiang Jin (Strobilanthes Cripus), “Yu Xun Cao” (Snake Plant), “Huo Tan Mu” (Smartweed), Qi Xin Chen (Pereskia Sacharosa) and it is grown in Malaysia and many other Asia countries.


What is Hou Tan Mu


Scientific name: Polygonum chinense

English name: Smartweed


Chinese name: Huo tan mu


Huo Tan Mu (Polygonum Chinese) is one of the herbal use both in Eastern and Western herbalism, this herb does almost everything from “head to toe” and thus is great us to anyone who consumed it.




Example treating of bleeding, treats hot skin disease, diarrhea, menstrual problems, anti-infections effect and get rid of the dampness heat and the leaf is edible in raw or cooked form. In china, they cooked with egg in soup.

The whole plants of Huo Tan Mu (Polygonu Chinese, Smartweed) in its application of medicinal usages are anti-inflammatory, astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, styptic, stomachic etc.

  • Anti-inflammatory for sore throat, reduce dampness heat and treating skin itchy cause by toxic heat, for swollen and inflamed areas like tonsillitis and treating Diphtheria, tonsillitis can use the "Huo Tan Mu" fresh leaf about 100grams, squeeze or juicer into fresh juice, mixed with honey, take several times a day for 2 to 4 consecutive days generally.

  • Astringent extract of Huo tan mu to treat diarrhea, hemorrhoids. Cooked the leaves together with egg as soup.

  • Carminative like stomach ache, this herb or preparation that either prevent formation of gas in the gastrointestinal tract, or facilitates the expulsion of stomach heat and gas. Especially to treat skin rashes, itchy to get rid of “Wind” heat.

  • Diaphoretic e.g excessive sweating, diuretic, it has stimulant and diuretic for treating urinary tract system like bladder infection.

  • Emmenagogues which stimulate blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus, also stimulate menstruation, leucorrhea and hemorrhoids. For treating menstrual pains and menstrual complaints. Just add water to boil the leaves with brown sugar.

  • Stomachic is the herb serves to tone the stomach, improving its function and increasing appetite by using this herbal remedies claim stomachic effect.

  • Styptic Herbs that reduce external bleeding due to astringent action on blood vessels. Helps in strengthen fragile capillaries and prevent bleeding.


The seed: It is edible and sour in taste, the color of the sees is black in color, as it has the name of “Huo Tan” in chinese mean “Charcoal”.

Root of Huo Tan Mu: This raw herbal root in medicinal usage is to help and promote growing effect for their growing stage. or the lean meat gathers cooks eats for the children, in addition, its may also govern the lacking in vital energy to treat dizzy, tinnitus, ear problem, leucorrhea (whitish vaginal discharge), injury from fractures, mastitis and so on. The root can be cooked with lean meat or chicken to serve in soup. Its taste is slightly sour.

Contra Indication: Stomach hyperactivity is not suitable.



What is Yu Xun Cao


Chinese name: Yu Xun Cao
Scientific Name: Clinacanthus nutans(Burm.t.) Lindau

English name: Snake plant.

Meridian channel: liver and kidney


Yu Xun Cao (Clinacanthus Nutans Lindau) has been widely used in Malaysia and other Asia countries to treat uric acid, gout, urinates renopathies (disease of the kidney) and uterine fibroid.

It was quite popular and using of this herb with other herbal plant as medicinal preparation to treats uremia for kidney patient primarily, to reduce of urine toxic by decoction of this herb. The slightly stink taste but when mixed with other herbs it can be a very tasteful “Liang Cha” cooling herbs drink.







What is Hei Mian Jiang Jin (Black General)


Usually herbs like “Black General” Hei Mian Jiang Jin is (Strobilanthes Cripus) is the primary herbs now used in Chinese herbalism for anticancer, which has been also used in Chinese traditional herbs as diuretic, laxative, and anti-diabetic which has been proven scientifically to posses high antioxidant active agents, anti-AIDS and anticancer properties in it. Example like fibroid, carcinoma of cervix, and versical calculi - bladder stones.

As for Indonesia, they usually used it for treating snake bites, and bladder stones.
The fresh leaves can be used alone or combined with other herbs plant, is to consume in the form of herbal tea or decoction with water for at least 3 to 4 hours, its nature is cooling, can also add red dates to it.



General to treat the breast cancer has been shown good result to certain case, its formula is “Black General” Hei Miang Jiang Jin, “Gou Jiang Teng” Phyla Nodiflora (L.) Greene and “Yu Xun Cao” (Snake Plant) in the form of herbs tea by decoction for 3 hours.





What is Gou Jiang Teng


The juice of the Gou Jiang Teng (Phyla Nordiflora L. Greene) is cooling, and this herb is used to relieve fevers, coughs and colds, skin disease, eczema, dysentery, menstrual disorder and
injury from fractures.












Use of Mulberry Leaf


Mulberry leaf can make into juice is broadly similar to wheatgrass. It makes a great food to cook with egg, as well as beverage to consume for good health. I had mentioned in my previous blog to use it for infusions or decoction for treating cough, sore throat, and late night person. This leaf invigorates the lungs.














There are many different types of cancers in vary form of treating each. And there are many hundreds of medicinal herbs may help in control of certain cancerous illnesses, usually it grown in temperate climate and they are edible and useful and as yet undiscovered. I have to look around and find out more in details with those common homeopathy medicinal herbs.


Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Replenishing Beet Herbal Tea

When think of the grey hair, first I think of “He Shou Wu”.

He Shou Wu (
Plygonum Multiflorum) is black in color.
Black in 5 elements is for “Kidney”.


What about Red in color Beetroot?
The red color beet is for Heart, blood and circulation.
Important for cardiovascular health to lower blood pressure.



This fancy “Black and Red in color” combination makes a simple traditional herbs drink to replenishing and invigorating the kidney to strengthen the “Yang”, nourishing the “Yin” by ways of improving the Kidney “Qi” and ”Blood”.

With the nature of “Yang” and “Yin” in this herbs tea to treat deficiency of the Kidney and blood, something like immerse a pot of “He Shou Wu and Beetroot” herbs tea come naturally and easily to prepare for health purpose.



This shocking reddish in color herbal tea is kind of aroma soothing and sour in taste yet not the least, it works wonderful kidney and hair tonic also as a “blood builder” and “youth preserver” to promote of blood circulation for skin plus good stimulates of hair growth. Help with keeping healthy arteries to prevent hardening of arteries.


Constrained flow due to stressful and emotional constrains that cause restricts the flow. If kidney “Qi” and “Blood” is insufficient this aspect will also influence to bad blood circulation. That will eventually affect to the skin complexion, not only which, it may also link to other illnesses. Certainly some due to bustle about stressful work lifestyle and it disturbs the hormone secretion, metabolism, insomnia and headache.


Ingredients:


He Shou Wu – 10g


• Beet – 14g


• Rock sugar – 1 tbs. (optional)


* Beet is high sugar content.



Method:

  1. Wash Beetroot and He Shou Wu. Peel Beetroot skin and cut into smaller slices.















2. Immerse both ingredients into tea pot or infuser with boiling water.


3. Simmer for about ½ hour. Serve warm.







Simple and yet it’s nutritious and healthy for:


Stimulates hair growth.

• Anti aging formula


• Improves insomnia


• decrease hardening of the arteries,


• Improve immune function.


• greatest estrogenic activity


What is He Shou Wu
(Plygonum Multiflorum)

He Shou Wu is a Chinese medicinal herbs and important longevity herb which is derived from the dried tuberous root of the plant Plygonum Multiflorum.

Nature is mild and slightly warm. It is painstakingly astringent and tastes a bit bitter and sour sweet.

Used to treat Alzheimer’s disease, stimulates hair growth as hair tonic, restoring hair color and preventing hair loss, this herbs contains laxative compound to treat constipation, menstrual and menopausal complains also it is a youth preserver.


Meridian channel: to the liver, the kidney, the heart, the lung.



"He Shou Wu" combination with other ingredients benefits:


• Boil with black soybean for strengthen kidney and improve vertigo.


"He shou wu" with mulberry leaf or fruit used for preventing grey hair too.




Caution when use of He Shou Wu:


• Skin Rashes and numbness may occurred to certain people if overdoses of "He Shou Wu".


• Not for Acute hepatitis and stomach inflation people.




About Beetroot


Beetroot is rich in folate and vitamin C, potassium, calcium, iron, beta carotene. A good colorants use as a natural food coloring or dye from the red pigment (Betacyanin) in beetroot. Its nature is cold, taste of aroma sweet. Good blood purifier for treating pimple and skin disease.

Beets are considered aphrodisiac and it plays an important role in human sex hormones. Good for treating menstruation and menopausal problem.


Beetroot combined with He Shou Wu (polygonum multiflorum) as therapeutically herbal drink, it is a stamina builder and helpful to kidney "Qi" and "Blood" which makes up the body to be insufficient with, and a tonic to increase vitality and energy, strengthen the blood, kidneys and liver.


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Please note that all the home remedies, traditional medicinal herbs usage are not alternatives for medicine. Although home remedies, alternative healing, natural healing or any alternative health articles are natural, all information I presented here is based on traditional usage and collected for informational purposes only. Results may not necessarily occur in all individuals. For severe illnesses, do not cease taking any prescribed medications. It is recommended that you must consult or seek your physician’s advice before starting any alternative healing with home remedies or herbs with caution.

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