Useful Herbs Garden and Creative Landscape Design

It was a truly enlightening way to have your own herbs garden at backyard and creating some beautiful landscape as well. That was my sister and friend brought me to a wonderful place lately near Penampang Apartments. 

Anti-inflammatory herb ~ Honeysuckle flower

One of my home grown herbs ~Japanese Honeysuckle in my herb garden is blooming with beautiful flowers. I noticed the white flowers bloom and then it turns to yellow flowers in 2 – 3 days. Then it falls off within a week. 

Detox Fruit ~ Calabash Gourd Herbal Cure

 
I bought a small shrub tree from the herbalist here, with the hard-shell gourds that I called it as "Giant Lo Han Guo" in my previous blog (link here). This Giant Lo Han Guo to me is a miracle medicinal healing herb plant that I took it as my lymph nodes detoxification fruit for many years.

Night Fragrant Jasmine Sea Bird Nest for Sluggish Liver

Here I come....another Simply Senz's Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed ~ Sea Bird Nest recipe for today's blog. After my long holidays in Johor Bahru, it's really a tiresome trip and then busy for the past few weeks....Now back to normal routine, and once again, I think I need something to unwind myself, and this is my refreshing Senz's Sea Bird Nest dessert of the day.....

For this time I am using the traditional medicinal plant of Night Blooming Jasmine Flowers to cook with Sea Bird Nest. Something fragrant and refreshing, to unwind, it’s cooling and full of natural healing properties with it. 

 

As usual, when making my Sea Bird Nest recipe into dessert soup, naturally I think of Red Dates, Goji, Lo Han Gou and Dried Longan fruit.  I like the natural mixture taste not just because of the taste help to cover the fishy smell of the Sea Bird Nest, it also give the warming and energizing effect in balance of Yin and Yang.

 

Adding fresh flora is the best choice in natural healing ingredient. Not other option, as this time, added fresh aromatic Night fragrant Jasmine Flora into Sea Bird Nest herbal soup is “the center of the attraction” of this dessert.

What is Night fragrant Jasmine flowers

• Scientific name: Pakalana Vine, Telosma cordata
• English Name: Night fragrant Jasmine
• Chinese Name: Ye Xiang Hua 夜香花
• From: Native west India. 
• Its nutrient Values: Rich in carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins A and C.

Note: There are few types of Night Jasmine Flower, make sure you get the edible type to prevent physical side effect. 


Night fragrant Jasmine flower is golden yellow blooms which have many medicinal uses for ailments such as liver syndrome like hepatitis, abdominal pain and headache. 

  

Commonly this edible flora is used in Chinese cuisine to make into herbal soup or dishes as alternative healing for rheumatism, sluggish liver, clear eye vision, irritating eyes, red and sore eyes, depression, relaxation, respiratory tract like cough and sore throat, muscle pain, most important thing is that it helps in toning the skin in natural beauty remedies.

The flowers containing heavy fragrance, it posses aromatic compounds, its essential oil is used for perfumery, cosmetics or skincare, aromatherapy essential oil in beauty and health products, for food and drink flavoring, like scenting beverage e.g herbal teas and drinks. Yet the root of Night Jasmine is sedative and calming effect to relax the brain. Especially in folk remedies and some of the Chinese culinary recipe, fresh Night Blooming Jasmine flowers is cooked with eggs as natural remedies herbal soup.

Now, this Sea Bird Nest recipe gives a refreshing taste with Jasmine flora aroma sweetening soup, it tastes great when combined with Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed ~ Sea Bird Nest.

Ingredients A:

• 30gm of Sea Bird Nest

Preparation of Sea Bird Nest:

1. Wash and rinse Sea Bird Nest with running water, then soak in the water for 5 to 6 hours, intervals change the water every 1 hour.

2. After 5 to 6 hours of soaking and washing. Rinse dried, cut into smaller in size and keeps aside for use.

Ingredient B:

• Fresh Night Fragrant Jasmine Flowers

Preparation of Fresh Night Jasmine Flora:

1. Rinse and wash Fresh Night Jasmine Flora thoroughly, then soak in the water for 1 hour.

2. After 1 hour of soaking, rinse dry and keep aside for use.

Ingredients C:

• 1 Lo Han Gou
• 20gm of Goji
• 20 Red Dates
• Rock Sugar (depending on individual sweetness).
• 500ml Water

Preparation for Ingredients C:

• Wash Red dates and dried Longan and cut into small pieces.

• Soak Goji for 15 mins, wash dried and ready for use

• Wash and Smash Lo Han Gou into 2 - 3 pieces, ready for use

Method:

1. Bring water to boil, place in red dates, dried Longan and Lo Han Gou to cook for at least half an hour.

2. After half an hour of cooking, add in goji, Sea Bird Nest to cook for 5 mins.

3. Remove the pot from stove; add in Fresh Jasmine Flora to the dessert soup. Stir well.

4. Serve warm as Dessert Soup. 

5. To serve as cold dessert, just keep the leave over dessert soup in the Tupperware or small containers, keep it in refrigerator and let it set as in Jelly form. (It tastes better after overnight in refrigerator.) 

This herbal Jasmine Sea Bird Nest soup is good for treating cough to get rid of stubborn phlegm, stomach blotting and constipation cause by stomach damp-heat, as the Night jasmine flowers has the cooling blood and detoxifying the liver medicinal effect, good for liver-heat that caused red eyes and sore. 

The aromatic fragrance of this flower is refreshing scent and has therapeutic uplifting effect, the essential fragrance is chemical complex with hormone-like, which can stimulate and perceived to our brain, as stimulant to activate the neurochemical e.g serotonin and endorphins are sending the message to our brain, and communicate with our body system, it help to change our moods and relief of tension, to give a calming and soothing effect for relaxation and refreshing. Its essential oil helps to ease stress and nervousness, tension and depression, muscle pain and cough. 

With the combination of Sea Bird Nest it further promote healing to invigorating and moisture the lung, to maintain and rejuvenating beautiful skin texture, it is best with regularly consumption of this herbal soup and dessert for better result. 

Note: Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed ~ Sea Bird Nest wholesale and supplies. In bulk or small quantity, washed and dried form of Sea Bird Nest is available. PM me ~ ongsenny@gmail.com

Why Sabah? Why Sabah Snake Grass~ Clinacanthus nutans

Sabah Snake Grass - Clinacanthus Nutans

 

Lately, I found my Simply Senz’s blog is getting more traffics through my follower’s recommendation to some forums in seek of Sabah Snake Plant, or Sabah Snake Grass ~ Clinacanthus nutans and other herbs. Thank you so much to those who posted my blog Simply Senz blog link in the forum for sharing. I hope that’s helpful link to all.

Shi Shang Bo herbal Home Remedies for Nasal Syndrome

In search of more herbal remedies, and to know more about the herbs, I usually visit the herbs plant nursery. Some of the herbal gardener or owner near me, they are quite helpful in recommending some useful folk prescription herbs to me.



I have been looking for several herbs for those allergic nasal problems, nose congestion, running nose, acute and chronic Rhinitis or hay fever. Rhinitis syndrome usually has mucus is dripping out of the back of the nose, and it makes the throat irritation and causes coughing.

Actually this herb grow quite well in pot that I planted for quite some time. Perhaps many know its effect in natural remedies of this medicinal plant, this herb is an anticancer medicinal plant, also antitoxin, stop bleeding and cleanse the impurities in the blood. It helps to cool the internal heat and detoxify the body. To be possible it moistens lungs, treating liver cancer, lungs cancer (pneumonia), pharyngeal cancer, help to relieve cough and nasal problems.

This herb has a unique Chinese name for it. It is known as “Shi Shang Bo” 石上柏or Pian Bo 扁柏. Scientific name as Selaginella Doederleinii Hieron, common name Selaginella, from the family species of Selaginellaceae. It is a fern plant and looks like chicken claw.

Its nature is sweet, acrid, bitter and cold, its meridian channel to stomach, lungs and liver, and it can be used internally as alternative herbal drink to disperse dampness heat, commonly used to treat throat, nose, liver and jaundice type of illnesses. Externally used to stop bleed and wound healing purposes as known.

From what I had researched online, this medicinal plant is already widely used in China as in dried herb and in capsules form to cure various illnesses, and treating tumor and cancer. Most used in Malaysia for alleviate of nasal problem and treating nose cancer.


Function:

To clearing heat and detoxification, it’s an anticancer herb, to relieve lungs congestion and mainly with Antineoplastic action for treating Lung cancer, liver cancer, pharyngeal cancer, acute and chronic rhinitis, chronic tonsillitis or tonsil inflammation, oppressed breathing and copious phlegm, restraining hematischesis. Malignant Chorionepithelioma of the uterus, pharynx / larynx swollen and pain, lungs heat cough, pneumonia, Nasopharynx like sinusitis, pharynx and larynx is swollen and painful, lung heat cough, external disease factors, pneumonia, live heat, acute icteric hepatitis B, acute cholecystitus (in gallbladder), cirrhosis of the liver, urinary tract infection cause by damp heat.

Doses and Usage:

Use of dried whole plant or raw herbs, the usage is to use the entire herb approximately 15~30 grams, it can be added with or without red jujube or red dates. Some preferred to cook with lean meat as culinary herbal soup or herbal broth. Added with lean meat is nourishes yin and help to boost blood. Especially to anti-tumor cases, continue drinking this herb drink for 1-2 times a day, and it has had its inhibitory action.

Ingredients:

Pian Po herbal – 20 grams

Honey Rock Sugar (Shi Feng Tang)

Red Dates (Optional)

Method:
· Clean and wash the herbs in runing water
· Boil water, add in herbs and red dates (optional) to cook for at least 2 hours. (for raw herb).
· Remove herbs, add in honey rock sugar (honeycomb type)
· Serve warm.








This soup added with honey rock sugar has clearing heat, treating cough and detoxification effect, to invigorate the blood and blood stasis you can add red dates to it. It is suitable on own initiative in treating pharyngeal cancer, nasal mucus with blood, simple cooling herbs drink for headache, smooth and regulate the bowel movement.

Caution:
· When using raw herbs in decoctions, this herbs cooking period for at least 2 to 4 hours.
· Do not overdoses, suitable doses: 15 – 30 grams.
· Only to be taken for real damp-heat problem or when needed.

According to these symptoms like nasal congestion and sinusitis, chronic rhinitis in meridian system, to treat nasal problem, first is to strengthen the spleen and stomach, large intestine and lungs meridian. When stomach and spleen meridian is weakening, dysfunction of spleen meridian cause phlegm and mucus stored in lung. It affects the lung meridian. As the lung meridian and large intestine are in pair meridian. Its opening is to the nose. Coughing and nasal problem is the primary symptoms.

Spleen (Yin) and Stomach (Yang) meridian, these two meridian is in paired and correspond to the earth element, earth element is stillness, usually the nasal syndromes and asthmatic problem is due to phlegm-damp condition, phlegm damp-heat can obstructing the nasal passages, damp heat also can cause difficulty in urination and scanty urination, combining with the damp resolving food to disperse the dampness, is to eat pungent flavors, pungent foods normally are bitter, acrid and sharp in taste. Adding to your daily diet like Onion, garlic, ginger, peppermint, mustard , wasabi , pepper etc...to increase stimulation of circulation system, moving Qi, invigorating the blood and it will nourishes the lung, help in dispersing, cleanse and get rid of the dampness in the body.

What causes the dampness heat to the stomach and spleen? I notice to those who like to eat sweetening foods has more tendency to create damp-heat to the stomach. Likewise, eating too much of flour products like pasta, crackers and bread can cause stagnation and dampness to the spleen, and it will affect the transforming of fluids and food nutrients, this eventually creates more mucus and dampness to the stomach and spleen, this pathogenic factor will then lead to the formation of damp-heat, that’s how the mucus and phlegm heat is produced. And causes the nasal problem like sinusitis, irregular of menstruation cycle, and stomach bloating, other than that, irregular eating and too much of snacking also the main reason for that.

 

Alternative home remedies for nasal problem.

The simple way to relief the mucus and phlegm, sinus and reduce of cough with this home remedies, use of the raw onions slices soaking in apple cider vinegar or white vinegar. Onion is pungent food, simply taking it as raw salad regularly, as the onion and vinegar or apple cider vinegar has the anti-inflammation effect and powerful anti-bacterial properties, and help to thin the mucus and loosen the phlegm from the nasal cavities.

Ingredients:
1 onions
½ cup of white vinegar or apple cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of sugar (optional)
* I prefer to use Honey cider vinegar.






 



Method:

1. Peel Onion and cut into thin slices
2. Add in salt to let set aside for 15 minutes.
3. After 15 minutes, add in Honey cider vinegar (1/2 cup)
4. If use white vinegar, add ½ tsp of sugar to add taste. (Optional)

5. Let it marinade for 15 minutes.
6. Remove Onion slices form the marinade honey cider. Serve it as salad.

7. The remaining used Honey cider. Keep in refrigerator. Or take approximate 2 tbsp. of it and mixed with warm water, drink it.
* This helps to relieve of thick phlegm or mucus. For severe hay fever case, to ward off you can add a little bit of ginger juice to it.






* Try to take it regularly and this home remedy is really effective.
* Simple home remedies for improving the respiratory function.

Alternative Herbal Soup for Postpartum Abnormal Bleeding

After child birth some women may face the lochia problem. Lochia discharge is postpartum virginal discharge commonly continues for 4 to 6 week after childbirth.

What is Lochia

Red Date Longan Black Bean Wine

Usually many Anemia people do not hesitate in buying high-quality tonic “to build” up the blood, some of the Anemia best food to make up the blood which can be obtained conveniently from home remedies or our own kitchen. To build up the blood, for Anemia syndrome with iron-deficiency, pregnancy Iron-deficiency is quite common. From the Chinese medicine viewpoint, no matter how they treat the illness or keeping in good health, their main principle has focus on “to be coordinated and to be balanced” the blood and Qi is related in alternative natural healing applied in Chinese Medicine theory.

Green Papaya Ku Ding Tea Cure Painful Gout

Ku Ding Tea

Chinese name, as “Ku Ding Cha’, Ku means 'bitterness', Ding is its appearances is twisted rolled leaves into a narrow spike like, like a nail. literally as 'bitter-nail tea'.  

Ku Ding Tea is the wax tree species Ligustrum Robustum, and the holly species of llex. Grown in the Sichuan and Guangxi Provinces and Japan.
It is a traditional Chinese health Tea or the beverage consumed in china And its taste particular distinctive bitter and with a bit of sweet taste undertones.

In Chinese medicinal properties its ability is to disperse wind-heat, to resolve toxin, eye ailments for itchy eyes and red eyes, it also alleviate thirst, invigorate stomach and as for slimming and beauty herbs tea to control obesity. It promotes blood circulation and increase blood flow, detoxifying and has anti-oxidant effect similar to tea.



Using Green Papaya with Ku Ding Tea for Gout cures.


Papaya is a wonderful fruit in medicinal usage. Papaya contains an enzymes called 'Papain', papain is a good source of protein digestive enzyme to helps in dissolve and break down protein to form amino acid, it also in aiding the body upholds better overall health to alkaline condition. It has been proven its medical benefits, it is an active anti-inflammation agent.

As using food as medicine, this Papaya herbal tea drink has the certain medicinal properties to put off the uric acid that accumulated and build up in the body. This simple alternative home remedy can help in alleviate joint pain, body aches and pains, rheumatism, so as to alleviate the digestion problem, try Papaya Ku Ding Tea.


Using an unripe Green Papaya with Chinese Tea or Ku Ding Tea to cook it as herbal drink or brew into herbal tea for treating painful joints and gout. Ginger is also a good home remedy for gout and digestive tract problem, to relieve of stomach gas and body aches, you can add in 1 or 2 slices of ginger into the infusion.

Method of how to brew Green Papaya Ku Ding Tea:

• Use one unripe Green Papaya to act as a tea pot. 
• Cut open the top portion of the papaya and removes all the seed, 
• place in your Chinese Tea or Ku Ding Tea, add hot water into it.
• Open a small ventilation hole to the top cover of the papaya, covers back the top portion of the papaya, and brewing the tea.
• Steep the Ku Ding Tea leaves in the Papaya with the hot water at the 80°c to 90° for 15 minute. 
• Increase the steeping time after the second brewing. You may add more water if the Ku Ding Tea is too bitter.
• Drink the tea.

Note:  This Tea can be infuse at least 3 - 4 times continuously by adding hot water in steeping. The water temperature is very important for brewing this herbal tea. Repeating adding hot water to keep it warm for drinking.

As this recipe helps in treating arthritis, uric acid, lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure. Also helps to reduce the body weight naturally and effectively.






Disclaimer:
Most important is to understand what is right for your health condition, although herbs are safe for some people, if you wish to try it is advisable for you to consult with your holistic health practitioner or doctor first. When taking medication try to consult your doctor before taking any of the alternative healing herbs.

No matter what type of healing herbs or alternative healing method, we still have to be careful in consumption, start off slowly and minimize it to prevent overdoses with it.

Flora Sea Bird Nest Jelly

Making a cup of flora tea just come easily to me.  The dried strawberry kiwi fruity infusion with a handy glass tea pot or tea infuser. That's it. 

Brews a cup of flora tea seems a bit boring. Try out this Flora Tea with Sea Bird Nest how's it? Not yukky at all.

I have got some good flora tea of Strawberry and Kiwi, hibiscus blossom flavor which is given by one of my dearest friend from New Zealand. I really feel grateful and thanks to my friend's generosity and kindness for supplying this flora tea to me from far. 

Now it is about time for me to give a refreshing dessert to unwind myself to fuel my day.

Make it a bit unique, cups of flora tea can be created into a healthy soup or drink with Euchuema Cottonii Seaweed or sea bird nest. As usual, brews the flora tea of your choice, like adding this Strawberries Kiwi Flora tea to flavoring and covers the fishy taste of Sea Bird Nest, it really gives a great blend of fruity undertones and refreshing tea dessert. Plus a real soothing benefits of its flora scented flavor to this Sea Bird Nest flora tea Jelly.

A few of the flora scented flora tea like chamomile, chrysanthemum tea and goji berries also great choice of mixtures into the Sea Bird Nest for making dessert Jelly or Soup.

There are many health benefits of taking flora tea, as well as sea bird nest, it relieves digestion problems, improve proper bowel function, anti-stress activities to  refine stressed skin, and natural healing to pimple skin, for maintaining a youthful skin, healthy glowing skin complexion may try this recipe. 

In additional, try more variety of options like using Dried longan and Rosebuds, it helps to boost and improving of blood circulation, dried longan is the best blood tonic. Rosebuds and dried longan is great for ladies to regulate the monthly menstruation cycles and boosting energy level. 

There are a couple of good blend for dried longan, try to add rosebuds or rose petals, red jujubes and dried longan flora fruity tea with Sea Bird Nest which is really good for ladies. That does make you feel more energetic and boost your immunity system.

How to make Flora Tea Sea Bird Nest Jelly

Ingredients:

(Steeping flora tea for 15 - 20 minutes)

• Strawberry and Kiwi Flora Tea – 2 tbsp.
• Rock sugar – 2 tbsp.
• Hot water - 1 tea pot 

Ingredients B: 

• Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest) - 100g
• Water - 2 glasses of water

Preparation:

1. Add in 2 glasses of water to boil.
2. Add in Sea Bird Nest and boil it till dissolve. 
3. Done, let it cool down for about 5 minutes.
4. Stir in the flora tea and stir well. Pour it to the jelly mold or small container with cover. Keep in refrigerator to chill and serve.

Healthy Tips:

Adds to your favorite fruit of choice - green apple, red beet juice or mango and honey into fruit blender, blend them together for healthy drinkable juice with raw Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest). It is a great 'Energy boost drink' is especially good for teenager and menopause woman. 


caution: if you are pregnant, nursing women, or taking medication. It is important to prevent any complication or reverse side effect when trying any alternative natural healing. Always consult your healthcare practitioner before use. 


If you are interested to know more about Sea Bird Nest/Eucheuma Seaweed, please contact me for more information:

We supply unwashed / Washed Sea Bird Nest (see photo)

Contact: 

Person in charge: Senz

email: senzfates@gmail.com

Pink Herbs Drink for Kidney problems

 

In Traditional Chinese medicine believed that deficiency of vital health of kidney yin or yang imbalance, by using holistic approach of alternative herbal healing is quite common nowadays.

Kidney is the root to diseases.

Kidney plays a major role of storage essence, governs birth, growth and reproduction, control reception of essential qi, produces and control of bones, engenders marrow and governs water transformation, and kidney "open up into the ear". It is water element and also source of fire for the body. As the kidney is the primary also basic of Yin and Yang for all other organs.

Kidney Yin governs the birth growth and reproduction,Kidney Yang governs the physiological processes of the movement and momentum of activities, transformation of water and hormone, metabolism of the water and urination, Suppose to warming process.

Deficiency of Kidney Yin and Yang, in general it affects the vital health.

How to know when Kidney Yang Deficiency, the following symptoms may occur like:

• Water retention and swelling legs

• Pale complexion

• Feeling cold limbs and back,

• Back and knees pain or soreness

• Infertility in women and impotence in men

• Clear urine

How to know when Kidney Yin Deficiency, the following symptoms may occur like:

• Dark urine

• Ringing in the ear or loss of hearing

• Backache

• Night sweating, dry mouth at night

• Thirty most of the time and constipation

• Overactive of urination

In the concept of the practitioners of TCM used the theory of traditional medicine healing to treat the internal organs of 5 zang 6 Fu of human body, as for treating disorder of the kidney, usually started with invigorate of Yin and Yang energies, blood and fluid flows to the kidney first, the patient’s physical and psychological state to recommend what type of herbs, the usage of herbal remedies or alternative healing with homeopathic remedies to most common kidney failure in advance. To treat ailments and adjust the imbalance and corrected the root of the problem for improvement.

In TCM main theory to cure the common ailments in response to these:

The liver disease adjusts the kidney first, the nephrosis

The kidney disease adjusts the lung first, pulmonary tuberculosis.

The lungs disease adjusts the spleen first, splenopathy

Any disease of the spleen adjusts the heart first,

For worry, emotional or depression adjusts the liver first.

Safely usage of herbal remedies in alternative healing may sound complicated, some maybe simple. Some of them content toxic and it may have posses reverse reaction too if not carefully used.

There are many types of medicinal herbals are quite similarly in its curative effect and usage.

Such as invigorate and treat kidney problems or kidney syndrome, common use of clinacanthus Nutans herba or Yu Xuan Cao (Sabah Snake Plant), Snake plant mean to use in treating “snake bite”, also named as “Shen Cao” 肾草 in  Chinese name that’s “kidney grass” commonly used in Malaysia for kidney syndromes and kidney diseases.

Another useful herb has the similar effect of treating the kidney problem. This herbs is “Shui Gui Cao”, 水龟草.  Shui Gui in Chinese name come from the shape of ovate looks like "a turtle" so as it resembles the water turtle (Shui Gui) Cao. It can be found here in Malaysia, which has possessed medicinal properties and it said to treat the kidney syndrome or kidney infection problems too.

                                     Shui Gui Cao ( Wandering Jew)

What is Shui Gui Cao:

Chinese botanical name: Diao zhu mei (meaning as a hanging plant)

Common name: wandering jew,

Scientific name: Zebrinae Pendula Herba, from the striped leaves it refers to zebra, Pendula means “hanging” in Latin.

Shape and illustration of this medicinal herb:

It has upper surface in dark green to purple and silvery green striped leaf blades with hairy petioles that sheath the stem. They are many species of this plant. It can be an ornamental plant as a hanging plant, considered as non-toxic and not poisonous so far no known record of toxicity. Avoid touching the watery sap of this herbs, as its irritant properties may cause skin inflammation or allergy.

Nature: Nature is cool.

Taste:

The taste of this herbal drink is slightly tasteless with the light herbal aroma; nice looking in purple pink color after boiled for few hours.

Medicinal effect:

This medicinal plant has been widely usage in traditional herbal cures for treating ailments like swelling and inflammation, used as natural herbal tea to treat Nephrities (kidney infection), engender liquid, lung heat cough.

It has the benefit of clearing heat and detoxication, cooling blood, diuresis effect.

Mainly treats:

Pulmonary tuberculosis cough, hemoptysis (coughing up blood or blood-stained), treat painful pharynx and larynx swollen, acute conjunctivitis, the bacillary dysentery (blood in stool), nephritis dropsy (swelling or accumulate of water) and nephrities (kidney infection), urinary infection, leucorrhea (white discharge or vaginal discharge) and poisonous snake bite. 

 Shui Gui Cao Herbal Drink

It is quite simple to prepare and decoction into herbal extract or herbal drinks. 

As usual to increase warming and promote of blood circulation effect, adding red dates, honey dates or black dates. Black beans can be added to increase the energy flow to the kidney. Cook it for at least 2 hours together to achieve good result in healing.

After drinking effect:

Increases of urination may occur. Refreshing and cooling.

A Stimulating Blend ~ Raisin Rosebuds Jasmine Herbal Infusion

Earlier in my blog I wrote about apple cider vinegar soaked with raisin. Raisin is wonderful home remedies and alternative healthy snack and dessert. It has many benefits and with rich amount of iron and calcium, especially it is good source of health and blood tonic to bone health and anemia.


It is brilliance to take raisin regularly. For those who suffer from cold always, and women always in cold hands and feet condition, plus the potassium and magnesium 2 popular constituents of antacids which is very effective in neutralize and reducing body acidity. Raisin is considered as warming food in traditional Chinese medicine.


The great combination of pink rosebuds, dried jasmine flowers, dried stevia leaves and raisin tea gives the beneficial of the effect to ease ingestion and relief constipation too. This natural sweet scented flora herbal infusion is very good alternative natural anti biotic to fight against bacterial infections when you have fever, it helps to bring down the fever and treating flu, sore throat as well running nose.


When feeling fatigue and stressful, The wonderful part of making this infusions comes easily for working people, it restoring nervous system and soothe irritability. Good home remedy for women especially to the menstrual problems.


Ingredients:

• 12 Rosebuds 
• Jasmine Flower1 tbs.
• Dried Stevia leaves 1 tbsp
• 2 tbsp. of Raisin
• 3 bowls of Water 

Serve 4 cups


Rosebuds or petal is common flora herbs for vital energy circulation, ease abdominal pain, chest stifling, not only for beauty to smoothen skin complexion, it dispels blood stagnation and relief menstrual pain, also common use in home remedy to stimulate and regulate irregular menstrual. It has slimming and alleviates anxiety relieves tension effect. 


Infusions of dried rosebuds have cooling effect and vitamin C content with mild laxative and diuretic effect, relief ingestion and bloating stomach also for weight lost. Drinking rosebuds tea may help to reduce headaches and induce sleep, also blood purifier to clear toxins and heat from the human body. Rose tea is great in decongestant action help to induce menstruation cycle when the cycle is irregular, heavy flows and menstrual pain, and liver remedy for cleansing and stimulating the gallbladder flow in Chinese herb practice.




Dried Jasmine Flower is a sweet highly scented flower; in home remedy it is good for treating inflammation, treat chronic stomach upset to prevent infection, good for gastrointestinal health to promote and increase the probiotic bacteria in the stomach and intestines, relieve anxiety and headache, it cool the blood and calming in Chinese medicinal herb. For women it solves the women menstrual disorder, it helps to stimulate and regular the menstrual disorder, relax the uterus menstruation cramps and pains, jasmine flower can help to relieve the pain and it is uterine tonic herbs.


Dried Stevia leaves are natural sweetener in alternative herbs. It has natural sweetness, calories-free sweetener to taste instead of using sugar, it is a herb plant that use for diabetes and high blood pressure. 
Please refer to this link: Natural sweetener Stevia Rebaudianna Sweet leaves in my previous blog.




Method:

1. Cut raisin into small pieces, cook in hot water for 3 minutes.






















2. Add in dried rosebuds, dried jasmine flowers, and dried stevia leaves to the pot, continue cooking for 3 minutes.

3. Remove and place in infuser to keep warm and simmer for 3-5 minutes, strain and serve warm.

Optional: 
If you prefer to add smooth taste to it, mixture of fresh milk will give you the milky taste also to boost vital energy, very soothing in taste and can relieve insomnia, dispel fatigue. 


This can be a very nourishing tea for beauty skin indeed. If you have milk lactose intolerance tries not to add fresh milk to it.
















A real healing magic to relieve stress and nourishing to beauty herbal infusion. Try it yourself.


Note:
It should be taken with caution for breast feeding woman, and during pregnancy, due to the jasmine flower reduces milk production while weaning, it has stimulant effect to uterus.