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. 

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.

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.

Home Remedy for Sore Throat and Influenza ~ Raw Mung Bean Licorice water

Use of Chinese Herbal medication to treat H1N1 has received expected good result in China hospital. And many herbal prescriptions are from Chinese herbal medicine, which was released online by most Chinese Herbal Medicine Hospital to treat some other flu-related illnesses and viruses such as H1N1. The natural prescriptions with traditional Chinese herbs by decoction into herbal medicine has gained popularity as well.


I know some of the herbal raw materials for decoctions might not easily obtained in western countries. Other than using the prescription from traditional herbs, I found this is most simple alternative healing formula is quite a good one for common flu, cough and sore throat, skin disease and anti-inflammation.

This herbal drink can also helps to combat as preventative and control of influenza and coughs, sore throat, mouth ulcers, reduces of liver heat and fever. Prolonged in coughing and flu may cause of throat inflammation and sore throat as well as fever. One of the most popular anti-inflammation, anti-oxidant and anti-allergenic properties used by Chinese medicine is Licorice root.


Licorice root knows as “Shen Gan Cao” in Chinese. This herb has many ailments including asthma, common Use for viral infections, treating bronchitis, inflammation, coughs, Liver problems, suppresses the gastric juice secretion, lowers stomach acid levels, treat ulcers, improve constipation and arthritis.

The Licorice root has powerful detoxification effect and detoxify the liver toxins by dispel poisonous substances from the body. It has aspirin kind of effect in relieving of fever and soothing pains. Also as a flavoring herbs for pickles and its taste is sweet, soothing herb that protects liver.



Licorice root commonly mixed with certain Chinese medicinal herbs to prevent toxicity and alleviation medicinal properties for detoxifies purpose, also as a flavoring herbs for various pickles and its taste is sweet, soothing herb that protects liver, used for chest congestion and cough, cold, flu, especially in treating mouth ulcers.

Additional sweetness from Glycyrrhizinic acid and it is sweet in taste. Glycyrrhizinic acid of Licorice root has inhibited action in control the growth of bacteria and viruses such as influenza A.

The taste of this drink is cooling, soothing and sweet to try. This herbs drink is easily given to children who suffered from cough, sore throat and flu. Something like this is quite easy to prepare instead of cooking.

What I found it is a real good home remedy, lately, due to plant contact skin dermatitis, I used this formula to wash the affected areas, and drinking this drink has shown rapid improvement to my sensitive skin problems. Once a while I used it for preventing of tonsillitis and throat inflammation, a few cups of this Mung Bean Licorice extract drink is a must for me thought. How good about this herbs drink, you have to try it by yourself to find out.



Raw Mung Bean Licorice Herbs Drink
Mung bean and licorice root has anti-virus's auxiliary curative effect for influenza prevention.

The formula is simple, just using raw mung bean (Lu dou in Chinese) and Licorice root.

Ingredients:

• Mug beans 200grams

• Licorice 50grams

• 1000cc of water


Method:

1. Bring water to boil, pour boiling water into a pot or bowl and soak licorice in hot water. Simmer or Set aside and let it cold.











2. Put in Green Mung bean into the cold licorice extract and submerged in licorice extract water to soak for 6 – 8 hours.












3. Strain soup through a fine mesh strainer and drink the water only.













The benefits of this natural remedy.

Mung Bean has cooling properties help in dispel pathogenic heat and toxins from our body. Based on its effectiveness, and well known as medicinal effect used for food and drug toxins poisoning, heat rashes, and dyspepsia.


The effect of after drinking this Licorice Mung beans extract, you may feel stomach wriggle, and sign of gastrointestinal motility, it will exhaust and breaks wind, stimulant bowel movement, enhance bodily immunity system after expulsion of toxins. As such, the extract of Licorice mixed with mung bean can be used to treat skin disease, acne, boils and psoriasis too.


Why used raw mung bean instead of cooking it

As why using the way for which without boiling the mung bean, is to prevent the enzymes of mug bean destroyed by heating, with cooled boiled Licorice water immersion, mug beans enzymes infiltration slowly into the Licorice extract will make the therapy effectiveness.


Other benefits of taking raw mung bean drink

Taking raw mung bean water it helps in control of diarrhea. Just soak the mung bean in water for 4 to 6 hours. Add a little bit of salt and drink the water. That's it.


Note: Even if according to the Chinese medicine theory, Licorice root usage is not multi-purpose, even though its has many powerful medicinal effects. Many forbidden of usage, prolong in consume and dosage measure need to be caution to certain people. For high blood pressure, it may cause blood pressure raised. For kidney disorder patient have to be caution in taking Licorice, it may cause adrenal glands stimulant. Its effective component similar to hydrocortisone and other corticosteroid hormones function and anti-diuresis function related.

Senz's pickles - Lo Bak

I discovered this dish by one of my Korea friend. I realized I seldom meet fat person in Korea. Maybe the pickles stuffs that makes them slimmer?

The most pleasant thing for me to observe is they eat white carrot (Turnip) and seaweed every meal. I can see this dish in their every meal. That kept the Korean trim and slim.

So I did my own concoction. In every meal I must add this dish even traveling. They love it very much. It is not difficult to do.

Method

1. Skin off the white carrot skin and cut it in small cube.
2. In a big bowl, add Vinegar, Sugar, salt and light sauce.
3. Marinate the carrot and added celery pieces with the sauces till well blended.

4. Marinate for 2 hours minimum before serving.
5. Serve cold

It is refreshing dish and good appetizer. Try it today!