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.

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

Healthy Drinks? Fungus? It's Kombucha!

I love vinegar. Especially fruit fermented vinegar of Mulberry.

I found myself drinking weird stuff just to get healthy. I also got more interested in healthy food in general.

But the truth is I am one very health conscious person just because I was unhealthy previously. Now I need to boost my immunity system by ways of taking organic Vinegars from A to Z types.

Someone gave me a weird stuff like this….a type of Red Tea enzymes or fungus. I think I seen this before when I was young girl that my mom is doing this YUKKY stuff all the times. So as I went through researched and get more info about it. Quite interesting and I begin to make my own Kombucha.

What is "Hai Bao" or Kombucha

This is so called the “Hai Bao” or “Sea Treasure” in Taiwan, “Hong Cha Ku” in chinese, “Black Tea Mushroom” . In English it is called “Kombucha”.

This fungus culture starter is given by a friend of mine. He taught me how to made with the culture start and fermented by multiplying it. And he claimed it is good for my cough and irritating throat. So I just try it ....

This is what I got after 15 days of fermentation process in the bottle.

During fermentation period cover with a loosely-woven cotton fabric, is to help allow air to get in through the weave also keeping out of insects.

I learned how to duplicate more with the culture starter piece that floating on top of the jar.

This is how the duplicated kombucha culture starter looks like......Like jelly huh?

Before I take this healthy drink I feel afraid, and so yukky to see the floating agent inside the bottle.Now I am so used to it.

How it tastes? Hmmm…it tasted like prune juice or cider vinegar taste of sweet and sour.

Well, I did tried and its taste not too bad. Just like taking fruit vinegar.

At first I am not sure where it comes. What is that actually and I surfed through internet before taking it. So I surfed through internet found out there are 3 types of healthy enzymes like yogurt culture, Kefir and this one of them is “Kombucha”.

The tea fungus puts in the healthy drink which ferments in the same place, it is said most gets up early the source from country of Eastern Qin Dynasty time.

What is Kombucha made from?

Kombucha is a fermented beverage prepared from a mushroom (Fungus japonicas). It is fermented by tea, sugar and black tea culture or starter whatsoever.

When the fungus is fermented in a mixture containing water, black or green tea, sugar, and vinegar (or other fermentation source), the microorganisms combine into a complex fermenting culture.

One kind of complex tea which ferments with the bacterium and the saccharomycetes (kombucha, also said that Red tea mushroom).

This tea fungus is one kind of saccharomycetes and the bacterium (contains acetic acid bacteria and lactobacillus) Paragenesis organism, is native to area the Northeast China, as well as used in Russia, in 1971 a Japanese saw in Caucasus many longevity's old people drank this kind of drink, therefore brought it back to Japan to raise becomes famous.

Although this kind of drink said that was one kind of healthy drink, but the clinical research had not demonstrated that it had promotion its health valve, once some people drank it and had acidosis, symptoms of liver poison, including dead, therefore it is best to consult your doctor before taking this “Black tea mushroom”, that was only then good for your health concerned.

Since my friend claimed it is good for health. Because it's such a wonderful "natural healing" stuff, Oh...once I heard it is natural healing..hmmm, must be good stuff as I treasure it so much.

It is said to work wonders for the black tea fungus is one kind the family who spreads from the Dynasty pre-Qin period, the benefits is as it stimulates and detoxification. Also as general health tonic drink.

In year 1925-1950 it carries on the medical research indicated that this Red tea fungus has the antibacterial function, adjusts the stomach, the intestines and gland's function, can alleviate the rheum arthritis, arthritis and hemorrhoids' symptom, also lower the cholesterol, atherosclerosis, the poison excretion, diabetes and has the improvement function sensibly.

It is taken to strengthen the immune system after an illness, stimulate hair growth, improve arthritis and skin conditions, and as a health tonic for cancer and autoimmune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients. There is no large body of scientific evidence that supports the strong claims yet to discovery which carries on 1951, every day drinks the Red tea fungus is good to enhance the immunity and the promotion interferon production.


However how good or bad for health it depends on the further research to discover more.

The preparation and how fermentation process

The fermentation of kombucha tea takes 12–14 days. After fermentation, new batches can be easily made from the existing culture.

According to him, he said this is very good for cough and sore throat. For the sake of irritating throat, I took that in the morning or after my meal…hey…it works!!

And I feel good as I taking it every morning like taking fruit vinegar. Vinegar is always just an ingredient for my tonsillitis, and nothing more, nothing less. Just for prevention purposes.

I don’t care how yukky about the taste. What I tasted I blog for the purpose of sharing with others.