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. 

Ma Chi Xian 马齿苋 Portulaca oleracea L.

When I saw this herb is selling in the market, I remember when young, my granny used to cook it as delicious dish, and in the practice of herbal usage to fight disease for physical health. She used it as therapeutic herb to help to get rid of the tapeworm and parasites in our stomach, we grew up eating this herb as vegetable, it is also dispelling heat and toxins from the liver as liver tonic. This is the cheapest edible vegetable for the poor family, but it is delicious healthy food.

Immediately, I bought 2 big bundles and cooked it with garlic. I like to cook it with garlic, it is my best choice of delicious vegetable dish. It is very easy to cook, simply add oil and fried with garlic and salt.  This dish turns out to be a sour and crispy in bite. Very smooth and soothing taste.

Done.....a big plate portion of at least 5 colors vegetable ~ Red, Yellow, Green, White and Black in colors "5 colors a day for better health".  This rich colorful vegetables is nutritious low fat food for my dinner. Some prefer to cook with eggs as healthy healing soup for digestive problem.

Even thought this kind of wild vegetable, it is very common and can be found growing wild at the roadside, farm or plantation. We can even get it as cheap as RM 0.50 per bundle in price. 
But do not judge from the cheapest price to underestimate its useful and healthy medicinal properties. It has been used in alleviating most of the stomach and colon illnesses, for lungs and liver cancer.







What is Ma Chi Xian "马齿苋"

Portulaca oleracea L. or common name as Purslane or verdolaga, in Chinese name as “Ma Chi Xian” 马齿苋, belongs to succulent plant in the family Portulacaceae, we also called it as “Pigweed” in our hometown. The village people used it as pig feeding food. Don't be surprised, today it has becoming popular healthy and alternative healing herb, also one of the well-known delicious dishes.

Medicinal properties of Purslane (Ma Chi Xian 马齿苋)


It has the medicinal effect and its nutritional value is very high. And in culinary usage it is delicious, sour in taste, it has extraordinary content of omega3 fatty acid, the Eicosapentaenoic Acid ~ the EPA, Vitamin A, B, carateniods, and vitamin C, dietary minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron.

In traditional Chinese medicine property is sour in taste and cold, its meridian channel to intestine, liver and spleen. It's cheapest and wonderful natural herbal therapy were based on its medicinal effect and its purposes.


Why Ma Chi Xian is named as five element herb in traditional herb?

Because the whole herb or plant is consisting of 5 colors, green, yellow, red, white and black.

• Leaf is green in color
• Flower in yellow,
• Stem is red,
• Root is white
• Seed is black

In Traditional herbal is has been known as “longevity vegetable or herb”. It is drought resistant grass with strong vitality and can last for a long time expose to the sun without dying. The people regarded it as the "natural antibiotic" and "natural good vegetable and alternative medicine" in home remedy. It is commonly used as expectorant of internal heat, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-aging, laxative and diuresis.

From the whole plant itself, the stem and the flower has the potent antioxidant properties. The scientist conducted the research to the Purslane, and discovered that it is rich in alpha-linolenic acid, can suppress the blood serum cholesterol and LDL, to lower the triglyceride production, and eliminates it and to prevent it from sending to the blood vessel wall deposits, and reduces atherosclerosis ~ prevent from build up of fatty deposits in the walls of the arteries. It protects and against of the heart and cardiovascular disease.

The leaves containing oxalate, like spinach. As it is advisable when using Purslane as natural therapeutic herb, for those with kidney stone history is not advisable or should take it with care. Excessive intake food in oxalate or oxalic acid, in long-term it may produce and cause the kidney stone.

Note: Start with low dose for any home remedies, possible some herbs may do well and it may also cause harmful effect or allergic reaction to it. In general, this herb not to say has no side effect, but it is less severe.


It helps in eliminate the roundworm, pin worm in the stomach, also treating infection, Inflammatory of the colon and intestinal disorder syndrome.

Purslane has great detoxification, antioxidants, and cooling effect for treating skin problem like eczema, dermatitis, itching and swelling skin, it helps to eliminate skin problem like pigmentation spot, prevent pimples and acne skin, as well as maintain the normal physiological function of the skin and delay skin aging, to keep our skin moisture balancing effect. 

Raw Juice Healing with Purslane:

Internally intake: 
Raw Purslane extract  or juice can be used to treat backwoods coli bacterial in the stomach.


Externally application: 
This herb has the varying degree in inhibitory action to the common pathogenic skin fungus, which can be used for skin rashes, fungus and ringworm.

For itchy scalp and head and skin fungus, apply of raw Purslane extract mixed with Burdock juice and apply to the infectious area, it may help to reduce itchiness, and has the anti-inflammatory effect. 

Natural Anti-aging herb:

The Purslane or Verdolaga 马齿苋 is richly including nutritional value of renieratene function with Vitamin A, E and Vitamin C, which has anti-aging, enhances the immunologic function, and to maintain the eye and skin health. Possible help in prevent the senile dementia. In addition, it also helps to reduce the blood sugar, in prevention of diabetes.

In cooking as herbal soup and porridge:
Use of this simple herbal therapy in traditional method, it helps in clearing heat and detoxification, e.g. cook it with egg as herbal soup.

And usually it is mixed with rice to cook into porridge is one of the home remedy for upset stomach and to stop diarrhea. It can be used either for diarrhea or constipation, it helps to smooth the bowel movement to prevent constipation. To drain damp-heat from the stomach and intestinal system.

Contraindication:
Not suitable for pregnant woman, it will cause the contraction of the womb, it may cause and induced earlier delivery of childbirth. As it has diuresis effect, and strengthens the intestines creeping movement function and cause laxative effect to smooth the bowel movement.

Bai He Ling Zhi ~ Natural Herbs for Skin and Lungs

This seems like the little small white crane standing and pauses on the tree. When I first saw this type of shape like cranes white flower, it is just like the Manchurian crane gregariousness branch, and the flora is so fair and clear, it is really a marvelous view.

I discovered this medicinal herb is a very special medicinal plant to skin and cough. originally with its herbaceous medicine cures especially to treat lung, liver and breast cancer.

The name of this white crane herbs in Chinese name: ‘Xian he Ling Zhi or ‘Bai He Ling Zhi’ (white crane grass), Yun nan bai yao

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, antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-allergic and cytotoxic activities

It’s the best green grass herbal tea raw material for keeping good health medicinal preparation. By using the tender leaf to boil as cooling herbal tea come with flavor of pleasant and tasty fragrant. To make it as herbs decoction, take the leaves and branches t cook it for at least 2 hours with red dates, honey dates, adds crystal sugar or brown sugar is optional and depend on individual taste, it is the good flora aroma tasty healthy and yet alternative healing drinks. 

In additional, I personally found out this is a wonderful curative herbs for skin problem and long term coughing. Maybe it is due to cooling blood effect and clearing lungs heat.

 

It medicinal benefits:

• Lowers the blood pressure

• treats diabetes

• Nourishes Liver and curative effect to treat liver disease

• As medicinal herbal bath for skin problem, eczema, tinea versicolor, skin rashes and ringworm type of skin disease.

• Hypertension and high blood pressure

• breast cancer

• Treats gastrointestinal disease and ulcer

• Diuresis effect

• Treat urinary infection

• treat dehumidify of stomach

• Clear lung heat,

• Cough, pulmonary tuberculosis and esophagus tuberculosis

• Nose sickness, bronchitis, laryngitis

According to the ancestor it claimed that these white crane herbs in earlier China used it to cure wound wondrous medicines “the Yunnan white medicinal powder” - Yun nan bai yao is the main medicines obviously it is extremely good to cure the wound hematischesis effect. 

For the external use, as herbal bath or blend it and apply to skin and infectious areas to treat the ringworm as well as eczema is good to try. For skin problems, try to boil it as herbs tea, drink for a period and combine with external application the result is possible to reduce the symptom gradually. Making fresh juice extract of this herb mixed with orange juice is good for drinker and liver problem.

Use with caution:

When taking fresh herbs juice do not overdoses. 

Not suitable for pregnant woman.

I quite like this herb plants, firstly it is really a beautiful medicinal herb plant, secondly this medicinal herb is very easy to plant and maintaining, simply cut the trunk and branches and plant it. it is easily plant by insert the branches only need transplant a cutting plants. 

Takes a section of approximately 10-15 centimeter to insert in the earth, maintains the soil in certain moist condition, place it indoor to avoid hot sun for approximately 1-2 weeks later, it will emit the sprout and then place them outdoor for further growing.That's it.

Natural Sweetener Stevia Rebaudiana Sweet Leaf

In my herb plant collections, I begin to collect some of the species of aromatic herbs like Lavender, Rosemary, mint and thyme for the enjoyment of making herbal healing beverages. Partly these healing herbs and its aromatic herbs really gives our body and spirits refreshing and uplifting feeling.


I have been looking for Stevia Rebaudiana (Sweet leaf) a very unique name kind of herbs plant for quite sometimes. I like brewing herbal tea from variety of herb plants, some may be easily found in dried leaves form, but seems hard to find this herb plant in fresh leaves out here.


After all, I am still lucky enough that I found one of this herb plant of Stevia Rebaudian, 'Tian Ju' in Chinese, commonly known as sweet leaf or sugar leaf, it is a sweetener and sugar substitute kind of herbs plant for tea or food. This herbal brews is rich in mineral, health giving compound for nourishing and support body, mind and spirits. It is not like those refine sugar, it won’t drain our body and it is worthwhile to try to use is as sweetener substitute. As the raw Stevia Rebaudiana leaf contain phytonutrients and volatile oils, it is good to take it fresh or in raw, when brews herbs tea remember do not overcook it or simmer for long period just to prevent the evaporation of it essence oil and volatile oil.

What is Stevia Rebaudiana

Lo Han Gou Olive Tea and Pickle

I got this fresh black olive from one of my friend’s farm as they are planting all sorts of organic fruits. Taking Raw Olives taste is not as good as you think. It is bitter and sour in taste.

Fresh Olive needs to be cured to get rid of the bitterness first before you can consume it. To cure Raw Olive is quite simply. A simply brine cured by just soaking Olives with salt and water. Curing refers to various preservation and flavoring processes.

We enjoying Olive pickle or preserved Olives as excellent snack by simple way of cooking it with low heat and simmer till it turns soften. Pickle it with light soy sauce and sugar marinade, it simply simple to prepare and taste wonderful!

Something that tastes so delicious after home-curing with salt. If you prefer the taste of its original taste, just add a little bit of salt to wash it before placing it into hot water and cook with salt. Or simmer in hot water for few minutes then you can consume it with the original taste of olives.







Ingredients:

1 bowl of Raw Black Olive
2 tbs. of light soy sauce
2 tbs. of sugar
1 tbs. of salt

For curing Oliver:

2 tbs. of salt
1 tbs. of Apple cider vinegar






Cooking preparation:

1. Wash raw olive with water, lightly wash Olives to remove the white spot or discard blemishes that might have stuck to the fruit. Use salt water to cure it first.











2. Drain with water after salt-cured. Add 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to soak it for 5 minutes, drain and wash with running water before cooking.












3. Bring water to boil with 1 tbs. of salt.

4. With low heat add in raw olives to boil for 5 minutes. Remove the pot from cooker and simmer it for about 10 minutes or till it’s softened.











5. Removes the water, add in light soy sauce and sugar to pickle olives . That’s it.


6. Eat it warm or keep in refrigerator and serve cold as pickle taste better. Keeping in refrigerator and consume it within a month or two.












Olive is one of the healing foods in traditional Chinese medicine. Taking fresh olive help in soothe mucus membranes, but it tastes bitter in raw. When cooked it also a delicious snack with healing potential.

It has highest content in calcium, high fiber, Vitamin E, Omega3 Fatty Acid. Not all fats are bad, olives have plenty of the good fats of monounsaturated fat, they are considered as stable fat that provide good protection to our body.

Researchers found the active ingredient of Oleocanthal found in fresh olive is similar to ibuprofen. It works like “painkiller” same process as drugs like an aspirin and is a non- steroidal anti-inflammatory and anti oxidant. With regular intakes of fresh Olive and Olive oil protects the intestinal tract and improves bile and liver functions. And lower the chance of developing gallstone by cleansing the gall bladder.


In beauty skin and fitness health benefits, its unique properties may control and prevention of aging process. It also increases in metabolism and help in weight lost due to monounsaturated fat of its satiating affects will ward off hunger. Moderate intake of fresh olives considered as one of the good dietary food, that actually make you feel full and help to stop the hunger signal enable you from overeat.

Olive has the medicinal benefits of preventing and helps in protect from diabetes, colon cancer, breast cancer, asthma, arthritis, atherosclerosis, heart attack and improve blood sugar levels, lowers blood pressure, treat rhumatism, hand and foot numb syndrome, it increases good cholesterol and decreases bad cholesterol. And the Vitamin E against cardiovascular disease and protect our heart. It has powerful antioxidants which neutralizes free radicals to our body and enhance our immunity system.

One of my late granny’s natural healing by using Lo Han Gou with Raw Black Olive in this formula is to treat tonsillitis, soothing sore throat and coughing. Plus help to ease constipation effectively.


Ingredients:

10 Raw Black Olives
Lo Han Guo fruit (for diabetes) or Rock sugar
3 bowls of water













Cooking Preparation:

1. Wash Olives with water, remove dirt and blemishes that stuck on the fruit. Soaking it with 1/2 tbs. of salt water for 1 hour, drain the salt-water and wash thoroughly with running water.

2. Use a sharp knife cut out the meat of the olive into smaller slices.

















3. Bring water to boil, smash Lo Han Gou into half, add into the pot with olive pits and Olive meat to cook it for 1/2 hour.


4. Remove from induction cooker and remove the olive pits.















5. place remaining Lo Han Gou and Olives into infuser then simmer it and serve warm.















Lo Han Guo refers to the fruit of Siraitia grosvenori, used as a medicinal herb for treating cough and sore throat, acute or chronic throat inflammation.

Lo Han Guo the fruit itself, though sweet, the extracts are nearly 250 times sweeter than sugar, for diabetes can using it as a substitute for sugar and it helps in normalized blood sugar levels naturally.