Homemade Honey Cider Cranberry Vinegar

I decided to make my homemade Cranberries Honey cider vinegar, as when I found it is hard to consume in fresh, raw cranberries. Fresh cranberry is bitter and slightly sour in taste.
Cranberries provide many health benefits, it can be eaten fresh raw, or making into healthy fruit juice or making fruit enzymes, wine, sauce, and fruit jam.

Cassia Seed Hawthorn Stevia Slimming Tea

The effectiveness of this home made weight loss tea recipe, lipid-lowering dietary weight loss herbal drink by using Cassia Seed (Jue Ming Zhi) , Hawthorn (Shan Zha), and Sweet Stevia Leaves. It has diuresis and laxative effect to improve constipation problem, remove toxins to improve intestinal health and lower blood pressure.

Fatty Liver and Sea Bird Nest Herbal Recipe

Fatty liver ~ "triglyceride fat accumulate in liver cells" is common liver disorder today. it can be Alcoholic fatty liver and Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and the overweight or obese people tend to have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Fatty liver is refers to the liver disease, there are multiple causes to fatty liver like excessive of triglyceride fat, alcohol intake and toxic metabolite accumulation, excessive neutral fat, obese. Usually in the situation the fat only occupies the liver heavily 4%~5%, majority is the phosphatide, next is the neutral fat, then cholesterol. Excessive nutrient, quantity of calories intakes with excessive carbohydrate, may increase neutral fat stored in liver.

As in initial case, normally what I thought skinny person may not having fatty liver problem, or we think fatty liver only or maybe fall to obese people but not mean to skinny peoples. As on clinical discovered that some people maybe thin, they may have fatty liver when malnutrition, this is due to long-term malnutrition, lacks of protein and the vitamins, similarly it causes nutritional disorder type of fatty liver, as well as to those with chronic intestinal tract disease, loss of appetite, long term in vegetarian diet, malfunction in absorptivity, certain industry and foods poison chemicals may also cause the fatty liver. Many causes can also create low proteinemia and deficiency of choline ~ the essential nutrients in vitamin B family, amino acid thus this eventually causes in the liver’s fat stack, forms of fatty liver.

Many illnesses begins from bad eating habits, weak digestive tract system can also cause of bad bowel movement, as such, we may not aware of  bad bowel movement is the main cause to affect our whole body system and organs. First is to solve problem from improving the good bowel management, increases of fluid intakes and add bulks to your stools with high fiber foods, to improving of gastrointestinal system functioning well and maintains good diet habit. Regular intakes of Sea Bird Nest ~ this is natural food from the sea. It is very effective for constipation people, and it adjust the body weight, when after human body nonessential waste disposal, the body weight reduced naturally.

A simple herbal recipes as in alternative healing properties, I found Sea Bird Nest is good sort of material for treating colon syndrome, this will also help to reduce the fatty liver formation.

In short, Eucheuma / Sea Bird Nest Benefits :

• It adjustments body acidity
• Help to reduce cholesterol
• It is diuretic and good source of low caloric diet
• Good curative powers for neck pain and edema.
• It has antibacterial power, expulsion of toxin
• It helps to prevent thyroid and hair loss
• Prevent constipation
• Long term gastrointestinal disease, like stomach ache, ulcer, constipation, diarrhea, hyper acidity, dyspepsia and so on.
• improvement hypertension and the hypo-tension
• enables the thyroid gland function normalization
• to eliminates nephritis effectively, arthritis,
• Strengthens the blood vessel, promotion blood circulation.
• improves rheumatism
• Suitable supplement of natural collagen for joint cartilage, strengthens the physique and ligament, improves problem on joint ache and backache.
• natural organic sea plant for vegetarian and older age for its supplement in rich calcium and iron.
• Ideal weight lost diet for pre-menopause and obesity peoples.

What is good about Sea Bird Nest ~ Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed > Go to this link for more information Sea Bird Nest 

Simply Senz's Mulberry Purple Perilla Pandan Leaves Sea Bird Nest Healthy Dessert:

(As in alternative healing remedies, this recipe is good for prevention of fatty liver, diabetes, improve constipation problem, help to reduce arthritic and painful gout.)

Ingredients:

• Pandan Leaves - 8 stalks
• Purple Perilla leaf - 30 leaves
• Mulberry Leaves - 20 leaves
• Sea Bird Nest - 200g
• Lo Han Guo - 2 (add sweet taste to soup)
• Red Dates - 20
• Goji berries - 20g

Preparation and soaking Sea Bird Nest 

Wash Sea Bird Nest with running water, soaking and changing water several times for at least 4 - 6 hours.

Cut it into shorter in length. Ready for use.

Method:

1. Wash all ingredients Mulberry, Purple Perilla and Pandan Leaves, Lo Han Guo, red dates and goji berries.Ready for use.
2. Bring water to boil, add in red dates, Lo Han Gou, goji berries, Mulberry, Purple Perilla leaves and pandan leaves to cook for 45 minutes.
3. Strain and remove the herbal leaves,  just keep the red dates and goji remaining in the herbal soup.
4. Now add in Washed Sea Bird Nest to cook for about 5 minutes, if you prefer chewy, do not over cooked the Sea Bird Nest. Or cook it till dissolved. Serve warm and take it as herbal soup. 

  6.  To cook in longer period, the Sea Bird Nest will totally dissolve. Keep in container. Serve it cool to keep in refrigerator and let it set in Jelly form as healthy dessert.

 

Mulberry Purple Perilla Pandan Leaves Sea Bird Nest

This recipe gives wonderful effect with alternative healing properties in treating of Colonial infection, gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, lower high cholesterol, arthritic and help in bowel movement management at ease. 

Benefits of Mulberry leave and Purple Perilla leaf 

With the uses of Mulberry leaves, Pandan Leaves and Purple Perilla Leave as herbal ingredients to treat fatty liver, HDL cholesterol, sore joints, body aches, rheumatoid arthritis and bowel management purpose, and my first choice is to combine and use of Sea Bird Nest, Euchuema Cottonii Seaweed with medicinal herbal foods like Mulbery, Panda and Purple Perilla Leaves to make into dessert in jelly form or healthy soup, this helps to increase of patient's appetite, and it looks tasty delicious for easy consumption without hesitating mood.

The benefits of Mulberry Leaves

Mulberry leaf has many medicinal effect for ailments to promote metabolism, strengthen energy and improves vision, to protect the liver and lower fatty liver, and help in lower Plasma triglyceride and non-esterified fatty acid levels. Use of Mulberry leaves, barks and stems to cook into extract, herbal tea, soup and dessert give significant result on fatty liver treatment, and prevents as well as maintains oxidization state. It further enhances fatty acid oxidation.

The mulberry leaf has biological active substances and the active ingredients of chemical 1-deoxynojirimycin, flavonol glycoside in reduce of blood sugar, blood pressure and glucose metabolism, this help in reduce of type II diabetes and reduce the absorption of sugar to suppress of insulin production in stabilize the blood sugar. It also has active cancer resistance effect.

Purple perilla Leaf, Perilla frutescens 紫苏

Purple Perilla Leaf or Perilla frutescens is an ornament plant also medicinal plant. It has many effective medicinal ingredients and consists of arginine, glutamic acid, catechin, Rutin and Apocynum prime A and B.It natures is warm and acrid in flavor. Meridian channel enters to stomach, lung and spleen.

Main function of Purple Perilla Leaf: 

This common home plant help to alleviate ailments like treating edema, water retention, shock epileptic seizures, supplement liver and calm nerves, relieve fever and internal heat, treat dizziness, improve stomach functions, moving Qi to ease stomach bloating and gas, lungs ailments and treating cough to expel phlegm and relieve cough, stuffy nose, asthma, lower blood pressure, lower blood fat, disperses depressed vital energy, improve coronary flow and circulation, Anti-allergy effect help to prevention of poisoning especially  foods allergy when taking seafood, flavonoid contains in Perilla leaf has the anti-inflammatory agent, anti-radiation used after post-chemotherapy especially mouth sore, anti-aging, natural expectorant for phlegm, soothing throat and sore throat.

Purple Perilla Leaf is great herbal tea for infusion used in decoction, the soothing aroma taste help to relieve tension, as preventative for cough, flu, colds, expel phlegm and treat malaria.  The stem and leaves can keep in dried form or raw to make into decoction to treat distension, abdominal pains, and flatulence. The whole plant has warming, stomachic, antispasmodic, and diaphoretic properties. It is very common to use by Japanese as natural preservative side-dish, appetizer or to take it with Sea foods to avoid and help in preventing of food poisoning effect from ingestion of crabs or fish, especially the allergic reaction.

Perilla Frutescens or Purple Perilla (Zi Su in Chinese name, 紫苏), its essential oil from the extract has shown improvement of lowered of serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels to liver health. 

Pandan Leaves medicinal properties:

Many of us especially in Malaysia, Pandan leaf is very common plant also an old folk’s medicine, it is very useful for treating painful gout, arthritis, uric acid and lower cholesterol, hangover, and headaches etc. Also widely used for herb for cuisines, making desserts and culinary uses.

The medicinal value is great its not only give the nice fragrant and aromatic to taste, it has antioxidant properties, chlorophyll, and the Pandan root has anti-diabetes medicinal properties too.

Useful Tips:

Pandan Leaf is the great plant can use it as natural car aromatic perfume and insect-repellant to keep cockroaches away without harmful side effect.

Few important points I always have to keep in mind for my recipes:

• Creativity in making foods, juices and desserts and what materials to use, easy for digestion, harmless and most important, the ingredients and its nutrients give beneficial in treating ailments.
• As for liver cancer patient, who wish to try this recipe, try not to add any sugar, when feed the cancer cells with glucose and fructose...best is to try to cut down the sugar intakes, this help to starve cancer cells by feed off the glucose and fructose, normally cancer patient may becoming weakened, no energy and strength when sugar intakes is totally cut down. It is best ADD NO SUGAR to any drinks, desserts and foods for cancer patient. 
• Sea Bird Nest and herbs is cooling food. Adding Red Dates help to boost the energy and harmonize the other herbal efficacy, slightly give taste to the dessert WITHOUT SUGAR. Sea Bird Nest is consider high in fiber and it help to ease bowel movement. 

Note:  Some of the foods and herbs I used as natural medicine in my recipes as for alternative healing remedies only. Remember, if you wish to take it as for healthy purpose or healing purposes, for anti-cancer or any other reason, try to consult your physician before trying any of my alternative healing herbs recipes. 

Skin Deep Herbal Healing Therapy

 

Many symptoms appeared after going through a month of detoxification process and healing crisis to my brother, body has becomes weaken and whole body sores and aches, this progress is very common when one conducts such  detoxifying program. My brother suffered in pains and almost gave up the detoxifying program. I know it is hard for him to tolerate with it any longer. But what to do............

The thing is, he has to continue to fight against it and continue further alternative healing process, after all it has no harm to him.

Follow by the detoxifying, at the same time to solve his skin condition problem. The thickening skin layers had clogged the sweat glands, as this skin problem is more than 10 yrs.

This is the earlier skin condition I took this photo last month. 

 This photo is taken after 3 weeks of intensive herbal therapy:

An intensive skin re-conditioning by herbal bath, combined with internal and external application. This skin deep herbal therapy has shown tremendously changes in 3 weeks.

Internally intakes:

Skin Deep Herbal Drink

Ingredients:

• Bai He Ling zhi 白鹤灵芝 ~ Rhinacanthus Nasutus (L) Kurz,- 100g
• Guo Jiang Teng ~过江藤 Phyla Nordiflora L. Greene - 20g
• Huo Tan Mu ~火炭母 Polygonum chinensis Herba - 80g
• 20 Red Dates (For blood circulation boost) *optional

1. Cook with 5000 ml of water and keep boiling for at least 2 - 3 hours till 1000ml of herbal drink. Strain the herbal drink and remove the leaves and stems.
2. Drink the herbal drinks 2 glasses a day for 3 consecutive days and stop for a week then continue again.

Note: For those with stomach energy weak, can reduce the amount of Guo Jiang Teng ~过江藤 Phyla Nordiflora L. Greene herb. 

 

For external application:

Herbal Bath Ingredients used:

• Bai He Ling zhi 白鹤灵芝 ~ Rhinacanthus Nasutus (L) Kurz,- 1 kg
• Guo Jiang Teng ~Phyla Nordiflora L. Greene - 1 kg
• Bathtub 

(* Use leaves and stems or branches)

Method:

• Place all herbs to boil for about 1 hour. Strain the herbal water and remove the leaves and stems.

• Pour the herbal water into the bathtub.

• Soak the whole body for about half an hour for at least once daily, till the skin has improving and reconditioning to soften and smooth in texture.

The useful herbs info:

‘Bai He Ling Zhi’ 白鹤灵芝also known as white crane herbs

in Chinese name: ‘Xian he Ling Zhi or ‘Bai He Ling Zhi’ (white crane grass), Yun nan bai yao 白鹤灵芝

Scientific name: Rhinacanthus nasutus (L.) kurz

Its nature is cool

Meridian channel enters the lung, the liver, the stomach, the big and small intestine.

Toxicity: slightly (do not overdoses)

It has the anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-allergic and cytotoxic activities. Invigorating liver, lower blood pressure and treating diabetes. 

 

Scientific Name:  Phyla Nordiflora L. Greene

Chinese Name: Gou Jiang Teng 过江藤

This herb is used to relieve fevers, coughs and colds, skin disease, eczema, dysentery, menstrual disorder and injury from fractures. 

Taste: bitter
Functions: cooling blood, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and expels body heat.

 

Using its raw juice healing for external use to heal diabetes foot, skin rashes and wound healing,  boils, herpes, chronic eczema, psoriasis problem, the potiential effect as anti-cancer, anti-tumor and antifungal alternative healing herbs.

Scientific name: Polygonum chinensis Herba

Chinese name: Huo tan mu 火炭母

Huo Tan Mu (Polygonum Chinesis Herba) 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 to anyone who consumed it.
 

The name of "Huo Tan" in Chinese is Charcoal in meaning. The seed is edible and sweet in taste. Its black is color, that's how its name as "charcoal" come from. 

Huo Tan Mu can treat flu, mumps, tonsil inflammation, tinnitus, pharyngitis,  rheumatism and bone ache, liver infection, digestive tract problem, enteritis, dysentery, dermatitis, eczema, injury from fractures, mastitis boil, this herb is known as "Natural bird nest for beauty skin". Treat women Leucorrhea (whitish discharge)

 


Its taste: slightly bitter, the nature is cool. 
Functions: Help in disperse damn heat, cooling blood, and stagnate damp-heat.
External use: draws out pus heal skin eczema and treat skin inflammation, and anti-fungal effect.  

Skin is considered as the first defenses to body and immunity health. With my alternative healing method, it helps a lots to rid and detoxifying the metabolic waste through sweating, enable healthy sweat glands and flows for promoting better skin texture. It also help in prevention of further metastases to other complicated skin problem.

Gallbladder Carcinoma and Lymph Cancer-Fighting Journey with SSG Raw herbs

  Sabah Snake Grass (SSG), Clinacanthus Nutans, 优遁草 in Chinese pronounce as You Xun Cao

 

 Sabah Snake Grass with Apple Green Juice

Be Beauty? B-Beauty Tea for beauty & weight loss

To help in stimulating the body metabolism for losing weight, get rid of extra pounds, to beautifying the skin, many people drinking detox herbal tea with green tea, green tea adds to its benefit can aids in weight loss, green tea content healthy polyphenol catechins help to increase and raise thermogenesis. With the combination of some Chinese herbs formulas, ready to use herbal tea for slimming in teabags. You can find them in the market booming and increasing tremendously nowadays.

 Easyfit B-Beauty Tea

B-Beauty Tea is a Herbal detoxifying tea for slimming detox beauty tea, I named it as "the beauty in a cup of tea", its ingredients consist of ~ Flos Lanicera japonica “Jin Yin Hua”金银花, Prunella Vulgaris L “Xia Ku Cao”夏枯草, Folium Camellia sinensis, in chinese name as "Cha Hua" 茶花, also Green Tea, 绿茶. Chrysanthemum Indicum L “Ju Hua”菊花, Herbal Lobelia Chinensis in chinese name as "Ban Bian Lian"半边莲"

I like honeysuckle “Jin Yin Hua”金银花, as knows as a natural anti biotic herbs and has anti-inflammation medicinal properties.  B-Beauty Tea is one of the finest detox tea for weight control, beautify skin and liver cleanse herbal tea, most of all, the great benefit is really good in preventing constipation. Some of my clients had experienced the hypertension and high blood pressure, partly due to the constipated problem. After consumed this Beauty detox tea, they feedback the improvement to me,  the result is great as it has slightly reduces the blood pressure after taken for several month, with regular daily intake of a cup of B-Beauty Tea after meal. I personally quite like this herbal tea, and find it is helpful to regulate healthy bowel movement.

B-Beauty Tea has the features of natural healing:

Burns extra fat

It helps in loosen the hard stools, for those who having difficulty in bowel movement or constipated, as constipation may also link stomach bloating, discomfort, and weigh gain as well. This B-Beauty Tea assists in digestive system, induces detoxification and reduces fat contents, lowers cholesterol, mainly for beauty, aging and fat reducing healthy herbal tea.

For skin Deep

It reduces acne, beautifying skin and soothing effects to induce better sleep, how this works, the main ingredients of honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica flowers, in chinese name as “Jin Yin Hua” 金银花which has high medicinal value in TCM, commonly used in Chinese medicine to help in dispelling the toxin heat, fever, sore throat, skin rashes and ulcers. It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.

My beauty tips:

Internal taken and external usage of B-Beauty Tea

The beautiful part of it, it reduces body heat, especially those with acne prone skin may experienced the redness on face and feeling warmness. After drinking a cup of B-Beauty tea, I used the remaining tea to soak with cotton, place them on the acne skin areas. It reduces the redness on face and its anti-inflammation effect is great to tonify the skin texture. In natural therapeutic healing method, using of raw herbs and natural healing for skin problem like acne and rashes, this soothing method is read effective to skin from inside out.

 Excellent Eye Treatment with used herbal tea bags

Other than this, the used tea bag has its great usage, do not throw away the used teabags. I recommended my clients to keep the used tea bag in a clean container, and then place them in freezer to keep cool. When needed, use them as eye bags treatment pad, it helps to sooth the tired eyes, reduces redness due to late night sleep, especially good for refreshing and to those with dark circles under the eyes. .

Chrysanthemum "Ju Hua"菊 花and Prunella herbs "Xia Ku Cao"夏枯草

The tea has a rejuvenating effect, with the ingredients of Chrysanthemum, chinese name as "Ju Hua"菊花,Prunella herbs "Xia Kua Cao" 夏枯草has the effect of drain the liver heat and clears or brighten eyes. chrysanthemum is good for liver cleanse, reduces body heat, to treat eye ailments and migraines. With the combination of Chrysanthemum and

Prunella Vulgaris L "夏枯草"

Prunella herbs “Xia Ku Cao” is added to help in promote weight lost, with this weight loss formula in Chinese herbs, Prunella herb "Xia Ku Cao" it has many names, it also called "heal-all" or "self-heal", it contents of antibacterial properties and help in lower blood pressure, which is good for liver cleanse and brighten the eyes, reduce hypertension symptoms, red sore eyes, liver heat and headache. Added Prunella "xia Ku Cao" in this formula no doubt it has medicinal effect to stop diarrhea, but it also works well to help in relieve constipation and diarrhea effect.

I had planted this raw herbal plant "Xia Ku Cao" and it's in my herbal collection as for anti-cancer alternative healing herb, as in TCM this is an alternative as medicine, it helps to resolve the hard lumps, blocked lymph and tumors in the neck and breast. But it is most commonly used by Chinese as in dried form herb, by steeping in water and serve as Chinese herbal drink, we called it as "Xia Ku Cao Liong Cha" for cooling the body and fever heat, sore mouth and sore throat as well.


Herbal Lobelia Chinensis acts to cause diuresis, and it is diuretic and astringent effect, to remove the toxic heat from the body. In folk remedies, this herb is uses for treatment of inflammation, reduces of fever or body heat.

My personal experiment of taking B-Beauty Tea with Lemon

Making my homemade herbal tea is fun, sometimes, ready made in a teabag like this B-Beauty Tea, I like to mix a few slices of lemon to the warm tea, the taste is great like lemon tea. The herbal tea bag combines well with vitamin C like lemon. Lemon has the ascorbic acid that help in cleansing process, purifies the blood, adding Lemon to this B-beauty Tea as it contains of other ingredient o the green tea, as green tea and ascorbic acid combined together gives a great boost of antioxidant effect, and gives the taste in comfort sipping for refreshment. The lemon slices also added great refreshing taste to this B-beauty Tea. As we know green tea aiding in digestive system. Green tea and lemon are both high in antioxidant beneficial to our body also for beauty skin and cleansing purposes

Note:

Serve and take it warm. This herbal tea has laxative effect. Some may feel general or a minor discomfort or stomach pain when first taking this herbal tea. (Especially for those having hard stools and constipated people may feel this symptom for 3 – 5 days after drinking the tea). Some may end up or having diarrhea-like of bowel for a week or more. After continues drinking for a week, no other side-effect or adverse reactions of diarrhea-like of bowel problem. It slowly regulated the healthy bowel movement.

For better result, taking this B-Beauty Tea once or twice a day after your meal if necessary, to prevent going to washroom several times in a day, it is best to serve warm and you have to finish the whole cup in one go.

Caution:

For those taking medication, do not serve an hour before or after medication. Not suitable for pregnant women.

Quote ~The body is an instrument, the mind its function,

      the witness and reward of its operation. 

~George Santayana

Mugwort Lemon Grass Red Dates Wine

Herbs in culinary can be medicine and it also add tastes to our cooking. Other than that used of herbal to make herbal wine, enzymes or vinegar, making mugwort wine is quite an easy job. Again, herbal wine in holistic healing, more and more women are now become awaken on using herbal wine, tonic and herbal vinegar in rejuvenating, and give warming effect to promote the energy flow, and boost blood circulation to improve their beauty care ~ “the inner health and outer beauty”, to maintaining and strengthen our body immunity in keeping good health. 

Mugwort is one of the famous women’s herbs. Do it yourself a herbal wine with mugwort is the best feminine food. Mugwort is commonly use as herbal infusion, in cooking for confinement food, making into herbal and fruit enzymes, or air dried the mugwort leaves, it can be air-dried as tea leaves or making into powder form as healthy drinks for convenient in keeping.

Mugwort benefits and nutrients:

Mugwort besides content of chlorophyll, it also rich in fiber, simultaneously have the massive vitamins and mineral substance, like vitamin A, B1, B2, C and the mineral substance iron, calcium, Phosphorus and other micro nutritive elements which enable the chlorophyll or other ingredient multiplication effect, therefore mugwort is most ideal food for natural healing, as a sedative herbs traditional to nervous system, medicinal usage to balance hormones to improve the woman’s menstrual pain and menstruation cycle health problem, as well as in treating infertility. It is a digestive stimulant herb, even good for treating malaria. 

Mugwort ~ Women health

Since mugwort is the best remedy for women health, adding red dates and lemongrass to immerse with rice wine gives the warming effect especially good for cold feet and hands, the mugwort is famous Chinese medicinal plant which has the close relationship to women health. Especially to confinement women help to get rid of blood stasis in the womb, help to improves of blood circulation, reduces menstrual pain, also to regulate the menstruation cycles for those having irregular menstrual problem. After giving birth, taking this healthy mild tonic will strengthen the nervous system and boost potent energy.

Lemongrass

By adding few stalks of Lemongrass to release its mild taste of lemony fragrance and citrus flavor, this therapeutic and versatile herb gives the stimulant effect to treat cold, anti-depressant, and expels excessive body wind, it works wonderfully to skin and nail, get rid of water retention during confinement, alleviates indigestion, reduces stomach fat after birth.

The ingredients, Red Dates, rich in Magnesium and Iron, its boost energy metabolism, as blood tonic ingredient adds medicinal effect to mugwort, and lemongrass, using the rice wine starter which allow the ingredients or herbal properties to draw out by the alcohol solution. Rice wine starter are mixed up and the immersion process to certain period, it becomes a healthy herbal wine which can be taking it solely as wine to drink. It is a slightly sweet bitter tonic, after 3 weeks or a month of immersion in the rice wine; it turns into sweet bitter herbal wine.

I reckon its therapeutic benefits are imparted from the herbs, or to those confinement women. Something for a change; mixing some of this aromatic taste of herbal rice wine to cook with chicken or chicken feet, or use the concentrated herbal wine to steam with chicken. Other than the taste is refreshing and makes the confinement food much more nutritious, for which strengthen the immunity system and help to regulate the menstrual cycle back to normal after birth.

Now ready to make your homemade herbal wine.

Ingredients you need:

• Mugwort dried herb 30g
• 10 dried Red dates
• Lemongrass 5 to 6 stalks
• Rice wine starter 1000ml
• Brown rock sugar 100g

Preparation:

Wash and air dry the mugwort, red dates and lemongrass, let it totally air dried first before use.

Method:

1. Place all the ingredients into a glass jar
2. Pour in the rice wine over it
3. Cover lid.
4. Let it immerse for at least 10 to 15 days. 

Sip a glass of herbal wine before bed time, in additional, this Mugwort Lemongrass Red Dates wine may help to eliminate halitosis or unpleasant odor exhaled in breathing caused by digestive system problem. Have a good try.

Enjoy this herbal wine.

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.

Tibetan Xue Lian Hua Milk Kefir DIY

The milk immersion with Tibetan Xue Lian Hua Kefir grains ~ 雪莲花乳酸菌 or mother culture is quite similar to the traditional milk kefir, it is the lactobacillus bacteria and yeast formation like kefir we made. It is said this can treat various illnesses. Although this maybe only the rumor as claimed, but this folk alternative prescription has been cultured for centuries in Tibet.

Tibetan Xue Lian Hua Kefir Grains 雪莲花乳酸菌母

According to the experts and scientific researches on this Tibetan Kefir Grains have made the appraisals and tested that this is one kind of Lactobacillus Acidophilus bacteria, at present can only extrapolate this kind of friendly bacillus bacteria, and actually is like yogurt Lactobacillus. This friendly bacterial also the microflora is found in fermented daily product which profits lives bacteria through fermentation process and turn dairy milk into yogurt or kefir. This Tibetan Kefir has a greater number of live microflora and beneficial yeasts than yogurt and common kefir.

Before I move on further, making of Tibetan Xue Lian Hua Milk kefir is quite simple. You do not need any yogurt maker or warm water in making this Tibetan Milk Kefir. 

The taste is very mild, slightly sour, compare to Yogurt and Kefir. 

The longer the period it turns sourer like yogurt.

 It is rich in protein, calcium, vitamin B12, thiamine B1 , niacin, and folic acid.

Things to prepare:

• Fresh Milk
• Tibetan Xue Lian Hua Kefir Grains     
• Glass Jar

The making of Xua Lian Hua Milk Kefir version:

How to culture Tibetan Milk Kefir:

Ingredients:

• 2 spoons of Xue Lian Hua Kefir grains
• 1 small bottle of fresh milk
• Glass jar
• Clean cloth or Gauze

Method:

1. Rinse the kefir grains, Use a glass container and fill in the Xue Lian Hua kefir grains into the glass jar or container.
2. Fill in fresh milk (Not powder form).
3. Use a clean cloth or cling film lightly covers loosely, to allow the air flow and avoids dust. Do not cover completely.
4. Keep in temperature of 18º - 28º C is good; about 25º is optimal. It turns into kefir drink within 24 hours.
5. Strain the Tibetan Kefir grains; use a mesh strainer to sieve the Milk Kefir into the glass or container, sieve to retain the kefir grains for next use.
6. Drink it or store remaining drink in refrigerator for not more than 2 days. (it becomes more sour if keeping too long) 
7. Repeat No. 1 to 6 to make another milk kefir.

* Do not wash the Milk Kefir grains for the next use.

Tibetan Xue Lian Hua Milk Kefir is Done.  雪莲花乳酸菌

Take Note:

• If you want to make 2 Tablespoons full of Tibetan Xue Lian Hua Milk Kefir grains, the fermentation period is within 24 hours.
• If you need more to prepare like more than 1 gallon of Milk kefir grains, your culturing period maybe longer than 24 hours to set. 
• Timing to set faster, it depends on the ration of grains and milk

Example: 

• 2 spoons of grains + 1 cup of milk will be ready within 12 hours
• 1 spoon of grains + 2 cups of milk, the kefir will be ready within 36 hours.

The ratio:

• Tibetan Kefir grains-to-fresh milk ratio of 1: 10 should be achievable.

Culturing temperatures:

at room temperature or between 65ºF – 80ºF.

The Tibetan Kefir grains will continue to grow and multiplying more.

If you are lactose intolerant people, try to use soy milk to make Tibetan Soy Milk kefir. It grows well in soy milk.

You can keep it in frozen or give it to somebody who needs it. Anyway, the kefir grains can be eaten or mixed them into the cooked food.

The choice of making this Tibetan Xue Lian Hua Milk Kefir into delicious pro-biotic beverage, if you don't like the plain taste milk kefir, you can add some honey, or mix in the blender with the fruits of your choice to make into smoothies or yogurt drink. 

Tibetan Xue Lian Hua Milk Kefir with honey and banana.

There are many benefits of taking it, to help boost your mood, it’s feel-good beverage, to coat your intestinal lining with beneficial microflora to populate your intestinal system for health. If you are Yogurt or Kefir lover for sure you can tolerate with this similar sour taste of fermenting milk drink.

In fact the Tibetan Kefir's lactobacillus enhanced by omni-directional protection to the body is complete. It boosts your stomach to improve your digestive system, then the effect is naturally simple, it has the advantage to intestinal and stomach gastric system by adjust in the human body intestinal tract's microorganism balance, which may eliminate the intestinal tract's toxin, this kind of effect to those who contracts with chronic stomach trouble is helpful, which is harmless to the human body, while immune system is stronger, this will naturally given enormous help to all chronic illness by improves the immune system and enhancement consolidated viscera.

The Essence of Life ~ Porcupine Dates

For the past one week I had been away and spent my days in Hospital to look after my sick dad. The whole family is so exhausted and so hopeless seeing him in coma condition to brain dead condition. He was admitted Intensive Care Unit in coma and critical condition due to food poisoning and highly uric acid foods ingestion. The intestine containing e-coli (Escherichia coli) bacteria and which went into his blood, urine and brain cells. Plus his constants vomiting caused dehydration and lost of fluids. After heavy vomiting and the stomach acid have destroyed his esophagus becomes inflamed and sore.