Useful Home Plant Medicinal Herbs for Alternative Healing

My home-plant useful Medicinal Herbs for Alternative Natural Healing

 

 

Scientific Name:  Stevia Rebaudian Sweet leaf

Chinese Name:  Tian Ju  甜菊

The natural sugar for good health.  

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.

Herbal Chuan Xin Lian Mung Bean Barley Therapeutic Mask

When I was young my granny used the home remedies to treat my pimples skin. Her ways of ancient beauty therapeutic method is really fantastic, when I recalled it back. 

It is really to the extreme of wanting to cure my inflammation skin problem, she even used rice water as facial cleanse, cucumber juice extract as face toner, green bean powder and home made dried potatoes powder, mix and match to make it as facial mask in thick paste form, simply pasted on my face. Surprisingly that kind of home remedies really works to reduce the redness and outbreaks of the pimples. 

Due to my previous experiences of curing pimples with her traditional methods, the greatest benefits to what I had gained not only clear away the serious pimples and cure infection acne skin. Thus, by getting all sorts of her ancient home remedies into my present beauty therapeutic method I learned and experimented. Some of granny’s home remedies into making my own herbal mask are really great. 

Now what I like to share on this blog, the wonderful and natural beauty home remedies by using the traditional Chinese herbs, the dried herbs leaves of Chuan Xing Lian (Chinese Name). Botanical name is Andrographitis Herb

This inventive herbal mask was created in an anti-bacterial therapy way, for which I had tried on several pimples and acne skin cases has shown great improvement. 

It is quite easy to make, affordable and provided you can find the herbs of Chuan Xing Lian ~ "King of Bitter herb" Andrographis.

Firstly, the herbs of chuan xin lian need to be air dried or room drying, when dried finely blended into powder form.

Follow by mixing Mung bean powder and barley powder (can buy the ready made powder form type.). This helps in soothing, whitening and removes of excessive clogged oil on face. Barley powder is wonderful skin whitening and helps to lighten the dark spots, pimple marks and hyper-pigmentation. Green Bean or mung bean powder gives setting effect to mask, it is great anti-blemish ingredients. It exfoliates the dead skin cells, calming effect, natural antiseptic to acne prone skin type. 

For severe eczema problem on body, try to apply this herbal mask on to infected areas or body part, it has very cooling and soothing effect, relieves of itchiness, anti-inflammation and naturally relieves the outbreak infection areas and reduces redness.

To save time making the Mung Bean powder, you can find this Mung Bean Powder in the grocery shop.

Chuan Xin Lian Mung Bean Barley Therapeutic Scrub and Mask

Ingredients: 

• ½ tsp. Chuan Xing Lian Powder
• ½ tsp. Green Bean Powder
• ½ tsp. Barley Powder
• Toner or distilled water – 5 to 10 cc 

Method:

1. Washed and air dried the Chuan Xin Lian - Andrographis herb, till it’s totally dried. Blend it into powder form. 

2. Barley and Green beans blended into powder form too. 

3. Mixed all the ingredients in small bowl, pour in the toner or distilled water. Mix slowly into thick paste form.

4. Apply on clean face wait for 10 to 15 minutes. 

5. Wet the face and scrub lightly in circulation movement for 1 minute. (Not applicable to serious acne skin type, skip this)

6. Rinse off with lukewarm water.

Extra Benefits: 

Additional tips: 

Use it as herbal healing mask and exfoliation scrub, after application, uses it as whitening scrub for oily skin, before rinse off the mask paste, lightly wet face with water, and scrubs the face in circle movement for about 1 – 3 minutes. Rinse off thoroughly with lukewarm water.

This herbal mask and scrub can be used 1-2 a week. Try it for a few time if any adverse reactions, stop using it. 

After every application of this mask and scrub, instant result shown on lightening of scars, pimples marks and blackheads is being soften, clear and clean....It is amazing for glowing skin scrub and whitening facial mask of the day.

What is Chuan Xing Lian for:

Chuan Xin Lian

Chuan Xin Lian also known as Andrographis herb is common herbs that used by Chinese herbalists to treat inflammation and infected problems, digestive problems and clearing heat, expels toxicity, herpes and most effectively to treat the formation of pus and eczema, boost immunity system, snake bites and throat infection problems. As for me, this is my wonder herb for my occasionally tonsillitis problem, a capsule of Chuan Xin Lian just relieves my painful sore throat. (more informations read here)

According to the researches and studies indicate that this herb is traditional Chinese herbs has the antibacterial and antiviral effect, non-toxic, it is natural anti-biotic for treating urinary tract infection, It resolves inflammation and swollen glands, clearing lung heat, diarrhea and dysentery, and digestive cardiovascular removing dampness and cooling blood too.

This herb is making into capsule form as herbal supplement commonly selling in the Chinese medical shop.

This herbs is very bitter, it is quite hard for those never like bitterness taste. To make an easy way of ingesting this bitter herb, purchase the empty Gelatin capsules, you can make your own Chuan Xin Lian capsule; I bought some empty Gelatin Capsules fromthe Chinese medicine shop. 

My home made custom blend Chuan Xin Lian Capsules. 

Most important, hygienic preparations come first, a pair of surgical gloves, facial mask, empty Gelatin capsules must be in clean and hygienic condition to make your own herbal capsules. 

As a way of my health purposes, this is my tonsillitis cure herbal capsules and Tea for years into my own hands. Also some feed back from my friends,after taking the capsules or tea for about 2 to 3 days, it really good for curing dry cough with sore throat problem effectively. 

Decoction of Chuan Xin Lian Tea has Anti-hypertensive effect. The whole plant can be used for making tea, for better effect add in the stems as well.

Caution:
* Pregnant women may not advisable to take Chuan Xin Lian
* Do not over doses as it may injure stomach Qi and function.
* Doses to take 500 - 3,000 milligrams, 2 to 3 times/ day. 

* Stomach ulcer person may not take this herb.

Note: 

Please consult your health care practitioner before using any of the herbal or alternative home remedies. 

Chuan Xin Lian - Bitter Herb

Due to my tonsillitis problem, I need to safeguard myself with several home remedies herbs. From A to Z if that is alternative way of natural healing, So I have to plant some of the useful herbs at my herbs garden. 

This herb looks quite similarly to Sabah Snake Grass (SSG). But this is not SSG. It also has its other name known as "Snake Grass". You can easily found this herb nearby or beside of the flower pot, or it grows like wild weed at your garden. 

I like this bitter taste herbs, it is known as "Chuan Xin Lian" or "Ku Cao" 

Common name in English: "Herbs Andrographis paniculata". 
Also know as "King of Bitters". 



The whole plant is very useful and quite popular in capsule form that sold in China and Asia.


Its meridian channels to heart and lung. 



It claimed to be good for detoxification, anti-bacterial, removes pharynx and soothing painful sore throat, traditionally used to treat colds, diarrhea, fever, tonsillitis, diarrhea, liver disease, inflammation, herpes, cough, respiratory tract and lung infection, liver infection, and the poisonous snake or insects bite.


Andrographis, as its anti-tumor activity in the study of traditional medicine in recent concern. According to the recent and latest researches found Chuan Xin Lian or Andrographis paniculata plant extracts and compounds with antiproliferative activities or tending to suppress tumor cell growth to most colon carcinoma cell, and Colorectal cancer treatment with andrographolide as a future alternative treatment of colon cancer by andrographolide is worth more research.   

It also produced a strong anti-angiogenic activity in tumor tissue and immunomodulatory active agents, and effects on cancer cells in addition to its cytotoxic effect. Likewise this herb is also applicable to treat of breast cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, cervical cancer, leukemia, and prostate cancer. Such a fact by using of alternative herb in treatment, this may requires certain combination therapy, through one or more compounds as it affects in multiple pathways. Although many plant molecules exhibit miraculous effect of chemotherapy, but there are also many herb compounds can act as potential anti-cancer drugs, which need to conduct a lot of research and further to work better in way of improving of immune regulation to fight against tumor cells.  
 
And I found with my own testimonial by using of Chuan Xin Lian dried leaves, as this herb is real bitter, so I dried the leaves and blended it into powder form then insert it into capsule form. So that it's easier for swallowing or consumption.

I used Andrographis or Chuan Xin Lian capsules to a friend who suffers with dermatitis type of skin problem (herpes-like pimple) around the corner of his mouth area, by taking this "Xuan Xing Lian" capsules for 2 weeks and surprisingly it healed and solved that skin problem. For here it proven this herb has highest anti-inflammation treatment result.

Chuan Xin Lian is rich in amino acids, flavonoids, polyphenols ingredients, important phytosterol and choline, it is good home remedies for cooling the blood, diarrhea, urinary tract infection, soothing the throat and solve inflammation. Especially good to use on sinus and nose syndrome too.

Instead of taking it raw I used to make it as detox tea "Ku Cha" (bitter herbal tea) whenever I am having sore throat or tonsillitis infection.

 
How to make "Ku Cha" Bitter Tea



It is very simple, just simmer 3 - 4 Chuan Xin Lian Leaves into hot water in a pot. Simmer for 1/2 an hour or more, then serve it warm.

Taste like bitter gourd juice....but nice to soothe the swollen tonsils and sore throat.

Must try..... :P