Anti-inflammatory herb ~ Honeysuckle flower

One of my home grown herbs ~Japanese Honeysuckle in my herb garden is blooming with beautiful flowers. I noticed the white flowers bloom and then it turns to yellow flowers in 2 – 3 days. Then it falls off within a week. 

Anti-depressant & Anti-cancer Peanut Root Herbal Soup

Foods as nutritional therapeutic diet, actually in Traditional Chinese Medicine has realizes that food not only the nutrition, also used for ailments in curing illness. Helps and affect various aspects organism to obtain health and prevention of disease vigorously.

In fact, many illnesses are encumbered and its disease root lies in lacking of nutrients and insufficiency of staple food intakes. The insufficiency of foods and nutrients intakes, unhealthy eating habits can cause malfunctioning to human body vitality, immune and oxidation balance, as a result link to many viral and illnesses. Therefore, in therapeutic foods or diets approach, the main source is to alleviate with the sufficient and eat right method to supply the proper nutrients to the body needs as to achieving the benefit of alternative healing in acute conditions.

First thing first, the immune system is the body self-defenses. To protect pathogens from entering our body, stronger immunity system of human body has the abilities to protect and as a safeguard to self-defenses from illnesses. The main purpose of immunology system is to increase and improving self immunity body defense, self-healing system and autoimmune system to free radical and against harmful cancerous cells in formation.

“Sufficiency of Alkalinity Based foods and drinks as Acidic Eliminator to body pH adjustment”

I found sources from the therapeutic foods are concerning about daily intake of healthy, nutrients foods in alkalinity base, which is able to balancing and improves the body alkalinity condition, help in eliminate and to get rid of acidic body that causes illness to prevent high risk to illnesses, such as cancer, tumors and carcinoma formation. Several factors can also due to foods and drinks intake, environmental and emotional factors that caused.

Some of the specific foods or diets in my nutritional studies, I had learned about natural food sources and it’s valued in therapeutic effect. Whereby using foods as natural medicine will help in boosting an individual health, to protect and maintaining good health and proceed to healing as well. As when I used foods as natural medicine, as an alternative remedies, I used of medicinal foods or herbs for treating illnesses. It depends on what type of foods and herbs are right for an individual body’s and health condition in application as the basic approach. 

Anti-depressant Anti-cancer Herbal Peanut root Soup

In the researches found out the Peanut Root contain high valued of “Reveratrol” contents, the natural compound and the most powerful phenolic antioxidant found in peanut root, Reveratrol content can also be found in mulberry, grape and found in red wine for health benefit, it is natural plant polyphenol, which is easy to absorb and has a better curative effect when consume.

It has antibacterial, anti platelet activities, oxidation resistance, and anticancer active properties which can be used as in anticancer, anti-SARS, anti-allergy and anti-carcinogenic properties. Therefore, Reveratrol found in peanut root is useful cancer preventive and alternative medicinal plant to breast cancer treatment, and post-chemotherapeutic as an alternative healing soup. Do not forget, in beauty aspect, this soup has anti-depressant and anti aging properties.

I bought a small bundle of Peanut Root cook it with red dates and wolfberry (Goji) and combination with Traditional Chinese herbs like Bei Qi and Licorice root. 

This soup provides resveratrol to inhibit the cancer and tumor growth, stimulate carcinogen detoxification, to induce apoptosis cell death in tumor cells, to delayed cancer cell in progression. Especially it is good to take it after chemotherapy to improve the body immunity to fight against fatigue and sluggishness. For women with hot flashes, menopausal, anxiety and depression, mood swings during menopause.

Ingredients:

• 1 bundle of Peanut Root
• 20 Red Dates
• 5 Bei Qi 北芪
• 3 - 4 pieces licorice root or gan cao 甘草 *Optional
• 100gm of Goji or Wolfberry.
• 1200 liters of water

Method:

1. Rinse and wash Peanut root thoroughly, after few rinsing with running water. Soak peanut root for few hours to make it free of debris and mud.
2. Wash Red Dates, Goji, Bei Qi, Licorice Root thoroughly. Ready to use.
3. Boil water. Add in peanut root, and all ingredients.
4. Boil for an hour. Remove the peanut root and herbals, drink the soup only.

Bei qi 北芪also know as huang qi 黄芪

English name: Astragalus, milk vetch

Function: Boost and prevent heart disease, immune system

Bei qi 北芪, Astragalus, or huang qi 黄芪 is used in traditional Chinese medicine, as general tonic for the benefits mainly for heart, liver and immune system. It provides harmonious energy (Qi) and blood flow to the liver. It is especially good for boosting vital energy, promote blood circulation, treat fatigue and weak, help to support and enhance the immune system, to improve appetite and invigorates energy. Also used for treating chronic hepatitis and as adjunctive therapy in anticancer.

I used with combination of other herb like Licorice root; it adds sweet flavor to the soup. Licorice root or gan cao, it has anti-depressant compounds, treat stomach ulcers and stomach problems. It contains of anti-inflammatory effect, to soothe respiratory, sore throat and inflammation, especially after chemotherapy, and help to prevent of dry throat and burning sensation in the bodily after chemotherapy treatment.

Licorice Root

Licorice root 甘草 has hydro-cortisone, quite similar to corticosteroid hormones, also known as natural source of mild estrogen properties. And therefore it is proven useful for the women with menopause syndrome. It stimulates the adrenal glands, help in reducing stress. Also help for internal cleanse and rejuvenate body to stay younger and healthier as an anti-aging soup. Those with uncomfortable symptoms of menstruation, and menopause, this soup help in soothing and have anti-depressant for insomnia during menopause.

Caution to use: 

For those with adrenal glands cancer patients, try not to use or add in Licorice Root to cook with this anti-cancer recipe. 

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.

Giant Detox Fruit and herbal Detoxification for Lymphatic Syndrome

People now are more aware of using the medicinal herbal as anti-cancer remedies and to cure and treat cancerous illnesses. Many of them started herb gardening by planting herbs at home backyard or in pot. The useful herbs could preserve for future usage, it brightens up your garden, not only to stay green also to keep in good health.

Cancer is scary illnesses, some maybe “scared to death” once diagnosed with cancer that including myself. Actually many cancer patients can be treated or cured in earlier stage, provided they think positively towards the healing process, but most of them, tends to "worries” more than “Curing”. This is not kidding, but that’s hard for dying cancer people to control the “negative” thoughts sometimes.

In my collection of medicinal healing herbs, today's post is something about this wild fruit....many years back, I used this “Giant wild Detox Fruit" that I bought from the medicinal herbs seller. I was first doubtful about this unknown name kind of wild fruit. As told by her, this is the locally planted wild fruit for lymph cleanses, and detoxifying fruit for skin diseases and lymphatic problem or tumor.

The name of this Giant Fruit is called “Wu Hua Guo” 无花果 in Chinese, but it is also known as “Giant Lo Han Guo” 大罗汉果 in Chinese name. Scientific name unknown....indigenous people name it as “Detox Fruit”. 

I can’t imagine why the name is given as the “Giant Lo Han Gou” 大罗汉果. As the normal size of the common "Lo Han Guo"罗汉果, Siraitia grosvenori or Momordica grosvenori  is 50 times smaller than this "Wild Detox fruit". According to my research, this wild fruit is an alternative traditional medicinal fruit as anticancer fruit for various ailments.

Just look at this comparison in size:

No doubt that’s quite a risky way to drink or eating any unknown wild fruit for natural healing. Some of the herbs may look quite similar, it is best to identify those anticancer herbs in advance, first is to seek further research for more information from the traditional herbal healing books, whether it is nontoxic or safe before consuming it.

Wild Detox Fruit ~ Wu Hua Guo 无花果

This Giant "wild detox fruit" ~ Wu Hua Guo 无花果 has the anticancer and antioxidant medicinal properties to treat various ailments such as malignant lymphoma, enlarge thyroid and goiter. It also help reduce swelling or enlarged glands or lymph nodes problem. Enlarged or swollen lymph node under the ear near the jaw joint may consider trying this detox fruit herbal soup. This miracle fruit can be used as laxative, antitussive, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic. It is a natural expectorant for treating respiratory ailments like cough, bronchitis, long term coughing, dispelling phlegm, also alleviating shortness of breath. Its has anti-inflammatory effect to stop dysentery or frequent diarrhea, and stomachache. It is cooling herbal drinks and effectively treat skin eczema and boils, and heal wound naturally. That's how its name known as "Detox Fruit" in locally.

Cooking method: 

• Cooking the fruit of its fresh pulp as decoction is a natural expectorant.  
• Cooking the fresh pulp with red dates boiled with water as decoction is good for treating menstrual irregularities. 
• Use of its fresh leaves and bark together with its fresh pulp to cook with lean meat and Goji as herbal soup, which is good for treating hypertension, as it is high in mineral, thiamine and calcium and other useful nutrients to human health.

I was grateful through the recommendation from the native herbal seller. Previously this detox fruit is not easy to find, now it is much easier to get it. Still many people dare not take the risk to try it. As told by the seller, this is good detox fruit for my neck’s enlarged lymph node which is hardened due to lymph stagnation problem. I just can’t be bothered so much…and occasionally I will buy and cook it, and taking this wild fruit herbal soup in the prevention of having lymph gland swell and for lymph cleanse.

Detoxification in progress and reaction:

So far so good, from my first experience, after I drank this herbal soup, some reaction and feeling of uncomfortable…tingling sensation with some tendency of itching sensation, but very mild and it disappeared after a few frequent urination. This could be the detoxification in progress side effect I guess. But not to worry, it is depending on individual body condition and reactions. 

Detox is an important step to rid of toxins from the body especially to lymph problems, in keeping of health care to the recuperation condition through detox flushing and drainage. When uses of the holistic and alternative healing approach with herbal detoxifying method, during this detoxification process, the painful spot or illnesses may increases of pain, some may thought that the diseases is recurred or getting worsen, because of the painful experiences they may feeling fear and scared.


For the incurable illness or serious illness's person, during the detoxification in progress, or when the new cell regeneration, the definitely will may feel the intense pain inevitably. Especially when the human body cell is inflammation, during the swelling process this will oppresses the human body nerve system, and causes and feels the pain, usually when after given an injection with steroid or any drug anesthetizes to relief the pains, which will kills through numbness of the nerve, pain is released. This may causes the central cerebral unable transmitted to sensory nerve and traces the painful sense. Which also make the patient think that the illnesses or pain is already been convalesced. Actually the disease still existed, but it is temporarily helped in relief of pain. Meantime, pain killer causes the numbness, which because the body nerve is unable to transmit the neural senses to the cerebrum, therefore, many people because of the pain-killer function, they may think that disease is convalesced, but not.


Thus, the painful process in detoxification, many cannot tolerate with pain, that’s why some of the people eventually will give up using the alternative in recuperation method again. Do not surrender to the pain. By all mean, they must insist that do not give up halfway, this response decrement should be overcome.


The detoxification process helps to regeneration new cells and change for the better response to restoration of good health. As when the human body completed the cell regeneration work through the detoxification process, the ache will obviously reduce or vanishing, and the vigorous sickness will convalesce. As long as, everybody understands the detoxification process will help the body to heal and replenish by itself, which after the body cells is metabolism through the elimination process, once the energy is increased and strengthen the immunity system, the human body itself is the best immune booster.

Preparation for “Giant Wu Hua Guo” or Wild Detox Fruit Herbal Soup

It is not easy to cut open the hard shell. The skin of the fruit is hard like rock…You may need a hacksaw to open it. LOL....It really need a lot of strength to open it. 

• Inside the flesh of this fruit is spongy in texture, 
• white in color, and the outer layer of the flesh has a very thin layer of black color skin attached with. 
• To prepare, by lightly rinse to wash the flesh, remove the hard shell, 
• cut the spongy-flesh into smaller pieces. 
• Cook it with a big pot of water for about 3 hours.

At first, in the pot it appears with clean water and fruit, but after 20 minutes of cooking, it turns out with some bubbles on top. Within 30 minutes of cooking, the whole pot of water changed into black color water. 

 

It is amazing. This herbal soup has very nice aromatic smell like "Lo Han Gou", no wonder it is named as “Lo Han Guo”.The taste is slightly sour and natural sweet taste. This herbal soup is cooling; it helps to expel heat from the body. Alternative medicinal fruit detox for Edema syndrome such as Lymphoedema and thyroid problem.

Lymphatic System

Our body is made up about 70% of water. The fluid in the lymph vessels is called lymph. Lymph system is consisting of lymph nodes, lymph vessels, lymph capillaries, and ducts. It transports of water or clear fluid that’s know as Lymph.The important of the Lymphatic System and Drainage is actually as important in any other part of human organs especially in detoxification of toxins from our body.

When the lymphatic system of the human body is blocked or sluggish, this will cause the stagnation of poor circulation flow of fluid, and accumulated or overloaded with toxins, if an immune response or immune functions is in defending to against the infections, this stimulating can causes the painful and swell lymph nodes, when the lymph node is palpable, that is the sign of infection or disease. 


When the toxins is accumulated in the body tissue for too long, chronic swelling to the lymph nodes will also happen, the stagnation can cause harden or swelling lymph nodes, in long term it may cause Lymphoma, but not all swollen lymph is tumors or cancerous tissue. However, many swollen lymph nodes may not be Lymphoma, and it is just the infection of the lymph nodes, and that may be earlier stage of lymphoma if not treated. This is scary thought.  

The lymphatic system is human body's important defense system; the lymphatic system can make the white blood cell and the immune body, filters out the pathogen.

Many illnesses can be caused by poor lymph flow and stagnation. It can damaged and disturb the circulation flow and causes lymph nodes swell and water retention as well. More common, it cause the cellulite due to poor circulation of lymphatic flow.

The reason why I posted this wild Detox Fruit, this is as good as the blood purifier and detoxifying fruit. In alternative natural healing, they are many herbs and wild fruits alternatively can be used to treat the lymph diseases, and traditionally used for anticancer. This is from my personal experience, I found some of the local herbs and wild fruit has the great effect, which can really treat the lymph problem. Especially this wild "Detox fruit" has the alternative approach with radio-protective compounds, after radiotherapy or chemotherapy, or positively interacts as post-cancer treatment which helps to reduce the ill-effect, its antioxidant compounds help to boost the immune system.

As the lymphatic system needs drainage to detoxify, and get rid of harmful substances to protect against toxins. Whereby the alternative healing ways of detoxifying the body can be done by fasting with juice detox, rebound exercises, Yoga breathing, skin dry brushing, and massage such as Manual Lymphatic Drainage(MLD). MLD is in form of gentle upward strokes technique massage to encourage the stimulating of the lymph flows into the lymph capillaries, using herbs tea flushing and so on. Intakes of kelp and seaweed may boost and enhances metabolism to the lymph glands. 

Eats the kelp porphyra capensi, may provide the manufacture thyroxin the raw material, enhances metabolism

This is my method of using Alternative Natural healing with herbs, fruit flush, MDL, Energy Meridian massage healing for Lymphatic disease or syndrome.

• Taking raw herbs, fruits and vegetables juice for detox flushing, varieties from Sabah Snake grass, or Clinacanthus Nutans herb extract apple juice. 

• Juice Flush ~ Beetroot and bitter guard juice, the blood and liver tonic and purifier.  Burdock with carrot juice, Burdock is natural anti-biotic, anti-fungal, blood purifier and it is idea for lymph cleanses herb plant in detoxification. 

• Taking raw herbs like Chuan Xin Lian, 穿心莲, Andrographis paniculata is wild medicinal herbs is good for detoxify the lymph, this is the natural antibiotic, and has anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal active properties for pharyngotonsillitis, the presence of lymph node enlargement along with sore throat and infection, just simmer this herb with hot water, or make it into herbal capsule for easy consumption. 

Chuan Xin Lian, 穿心莲, Andrographis paniculata is the wild herbal grass, also known as
"king of bitter herb" with powerful anticancer and anti-inflammatory for the throat, neck, lymph nodes and glands problem such as nasopharynx, stomach, colon, kidney and ovary, prostate, liver health and immune health care herb. 

• Another herbs by the name of  “Xia Ku Cao” or "Xia Huo Cao" 夏枯草/下火草, Prunella Vulgaris L. herb is the raw herbs.

I had planted in my herbal garden, this raw herb is claimed to cure breast lumps infection or breast cancer or tumor, lumps in the throat, goiter and lymph nodes swelling, hyperthyroidism problems. 

When using the raw herb, it can be cooked with meat as herbal soup. The extract of this herb has the powerful exhibiting activity to against herpes simplex. In dried form herb, this usually used as cooling herbal tea by Chinese to drain “fire” or for expelling the heat for chronic heat syndrome.

 
• Conduct the self-massage like Manual Lymphatic Drainage massage to rid the blocked lymph, light pressure massage to the meridian points to aid lymph flow. As before massage, light dry-brushing to skin help to enable the proper lymphatic drainage flow too, with upwards strokes from the toe to upwards stroke brushing inwards to the heart for the upper body areas. Additional, yoga deep breathing and rebound Exercise with trampoline also help to stimulating and promoting the circulation of the lymph flows and drainage. And I found the best of all by regular bubble bath (water therapy) really help much to improve the lymph flows.

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.

Why Sabah? Why Sabah Snake Grass~ Clinacanthus nutans

Sabah Snake Grass - Clinacanthus Nutans

 

Lately, I found my Simply Senz’s blog is getting more traffics through my follower’s recommendation to some forums in seek of Sabah Snake Plant, or Sabah Snake Grass ~ Clinacanthus nutans and other herbs. Thank you so much to those who posted my blog Simply Senz blog link in the forum for sharing. I hope that’s helpful link to all.

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.

Good Health Anti Cancer Ling Jiao ~ Trapa Bicornis

Usually during month of October and November. Trapa Bicornis (Ling Jiao) can be found in most of the market. The uniform in structure and shape looks like a bull’s horn, black in color, hard-shell and like a bat ~ We called it “Ling Jiao”, because its contour has the “the angle”, in Chinese called as “Jiao”. 


What is Trapa bicornis

• Scientific name: Trapa Bicornis ~
• Also known as water caltrop, Jesuit nut, Ram Horn Nut, horned water chestnut, 
• in Chinese name: Ling Jiao, 
• Cantonese name it as “Ling Kok”, 
• in Latin: Trapa bicornis. 

And it is like other aquatic plants.


Trapa Bicornis, Ram Horn Nut or Ling Jiao is plant grows in water with the leaves float on the water, and the fruits droop in the water. It can be cultivated as floating plants in aquarium, or in ponds. In slightly acidic water and gives full sun. Found in still and slow-moving water systems in warm temperate regions, its centre of origin is china, Taiwan and is used for food and medicinal plant or nut. Ling Jiao is a seasonal food in Taiwan for Mid-Autumn Festival Called “Water Caltrops Festival”. 
 

Taiwan is the largest producer of Ling Jiao ~ water caltrops. The nut harvesting begins in from July and continues through fall, peaking around September and October.  

Ling Jiao or Water Caltrop is primary growth in Europe and Asia. It grows in the pond, the river moors in the warm climate wet muddy land. This water plant growing from seeding, blossoms and bears fruit, only needs 90 to 120 days. And the harvest period to recovering time for next harvest is about 10 to 15 days, continuously harvest for 7 – 8 times in a harvest session up to 4 months.

 











Its Nutrients and healing effect

This raw nut, rich in carbohydrate and fat, protein, glucose, multivitamins, like Vitamin B1, B2, C, Calcium, Phosphorus and Iron. Its nutritional value may with other nuts set-off. The flesh of this nut is thick and rich nutty taste. Nature is cool, commonly use to allaying fever, quenches thirst, sobers up, detoxification and awake the brain, good for spleen, and may prevent and treat the chronic diarrhea. Good dietary foods as it is easily feeling full after ingestion, do not over consumption in order to avoid dyspepsia. It has anti-cancer, antipyretic (fever reducer) and tonic medicinal effect.



The taste

How about the taste, it is tasteless and shall be good to chop and add in to dishes to add flavor. Many Asians boil or steam them in the shell as a snack. You can also roast them and taste similar to chestnuts.

They are eaten whole or ground for flour, making into ice cream, soup, dessert, Jelly and healthy snack. We usually eat them as snack. It is famous street side roasted snack in China, Taiwan and Asia countries.

Multiples Medicinal Value in Ling Jiao:

• Bears the hunger, and enlivens
• Strengthen vital energy
• Clear heat and sober up
• Its sterilization, promotion wound healing, alleviation legs and waist physique sore
• Anticancer effect

The other benefits of taking it may increase the abdomen feeling full, and it’s not easy to pile up the fat, suitable in retinitis simplex obesity, losing weight as dietary food to replace the staple food.


Medicinal benefits:

In Chinese Herbal therapeutic way, it acts as medicinal herbs to treat cancer and also as anti-toxic food.

Good for the spleen and stomach, invigorate the kidney, and edible for treating lung and stomach cancer, carcinoma esophagi, rectal cancer and carcinoma of urinary bladder and so on has the auxiliary therapeutic healing action.





Ling Jiao Herbal recipe and cooking method:



Cooking Ling Jiao with Barley Soup or Porridge regular intakes is helpful to treat the lung cancer, stomach cancer, carcinoma of uterus, and breast cancer.











Ling Jiao Barley Soup or Porridge

Ingredients:

• 200g Ling Jiao (removed hard-shelled),
• 30g of Barley,
• Water 1500cc

Method of cooking:

1. Wash and brush Ling Jiao with running water thoroughly, soak in salt water for ½ hour. Use the Ling Jiao with hard shell to cook with water.

2. After boiling for 20 minutes, remove the hard shell, use only the flesh and add in barley, Cook it for 1 hour. Boil it like soup or porridge. Add in rock sugar (optional).

3. Remove from heat and serve warm.

Benefits: It can strengthen the vision, also has certain inhibitory action to the cancer cell.



Recipe to Treat Excessive blood flows during Menstrual period

Ling Jiao brown sugar soup

Ingredients:

• Ling jiao 250g
• Brown sugar 3 tbs.
• 1000cc water

Method:

1. Cleans and brush the Ling Jiao thoroughly, soak in salt water for ½ hour.

2. Bring water to boil, after boiling, put in Ling jiao to boil in low heat for 1 hour or till it is soften.

3. Add in brown sugar till dissolve. Remove from heat.

4. Eat the nuts and drink the soup.

Healing effect: Calms the nerves, control excessive flows of Menstruation blood.


Note: The brown sugar is named as “black sugar” and has rich glucose as well as vitamin and mineral substance.

In Chinese medicinal thought that black sugar is temperate, can be blood tonic profits for blood stagnation, and invigorate the spleen, stomach and Qi.















For treating Stomach and Gastric Ulcer

Simply cook the 120g of whole Ling Jiao with hard-shell in 1000cc of water. Boil in water for half hour.

Drink 1 cup of soup 3 times a day after three meals for one month.


To help in sober you up:

Add sugar to this drink, it quenches thirst and ease bothersome thirsty.



Note: Do not throw away the hard shell, as it is good medicine for treating gastric hemorrhage patient. Boil the hard shell with water and take it as tea.












Red Dates Goji Ling Jiao Soup




Ingredients:

• Ling Jiao (remove hard-shell) 50g
• Red Dates 10g
• Wolfberry (Goji) 10g
• 2 Lemon slice
• Water 1500 cc

Method:

1. Put water in pot to boil, add in all ingredients to boil in low heat for 1 hour.

2. Remove from heat. eat all the ingredients and soup. Sever warm.

1. Benefits: This soup has anticancer treatment effect, clear vision, make up the vitality, as the spleen host transports and controls the blood, the main muscle and four limbs, it benefits spleen then nutritious the whole body circulation function.
   

Ling Jiao Radix Astragali (Wang Qi) Soup

This soup has invigorates the kidney function, may treat the sychnuria and urination disorder, the wet dream, leucorrhea like whitish vaginal discharge.

Ingredients:

• Ling Jiao (Water Caltrop) 200g
• Radix Astragali (Wang Qi) 15g
• Water 1500cc

Radix Astragali (Wang Qi) in Chinese medicinal effect is to restores vital energy, improve blood circulation, regular intake can strengthen the curative effect mutually.

In addition the US researchers also pointed out that the Radix Astragali may also treat other immune system disease, especially has the effect to the virulent infection and chronic illness.




Method:

1. Wash and Clean Ling Jiao with running water, soak in salt water for 1/2 hour.

2. Bring water to boil, Ling Jiao (Walter Caltrop) with hard shell to cook for 20 minutes.

3. Remove the Ling Jiao from pot, smashed open the hard shell with nut opener.

4. Put the hard shell and flesh back to the pot. Put in Radix Astragali herb and cook for another 1/2 hour.

5. Remove from heat, remove Radix Astragali and hard shell from the pot.

6. Serve warm. Eat the nuts and soup only.


Benefits: This soup has invigorates the kidney function, may treat the sychnuria and urination disorder, the wet dream, leucorrhea like whitish vaginal discharge.


The harmful side effect of taking raw with caution

Ling Jiao or Water Caltrop is nutritious and delicious food, cook them in the shell or peel them first. It needs to steam, boil, roasted or fried them before you can eat them, as it contains harmful toxins and harmful parasite in raw state, which can be vectors for trematodes of significance are intestinal fluke and liver fluke.

When eating them in raw try not to bites open the hard shell with your teeth, make sure you wash it with running water first, it is best to use nut opener or smashed to remove the hard shell and clean thoroughly with water again. Those water vegetables need to be carefully peeled and washed, always clean in running water and brush thoroughly then soak them in salt water to eliminate toxins. For the best is to neutralize it by heat or cooking it.

Ling Jioa or Water Caltrop contains toxins in raw which must be destroyed by boiling to render them safe to eat. Usually after removing the hard shell, make sure the fruit pulp or flesh must also flush again with water thoroughly. Otherwise, it is easy infected by harmful parasite.

Due to it grows in the ponds or contaminated water, like those water plant e.g water chestnut, water lotus, water lily and Water caltrop - Ling jiao as well, may be contaminated with tiny organism parasite, as the outer layer of its hard shell easy affected by numerous trematodes parasites, taking raw with unwashed Ling Jiao - Water Caltrop or any water plants may consumed infective parasite that transmitted to human body, trematodes causes disease to gastrointestinal like intestinal fluke that infection usually asymptomatic with malnutrition, the influence growth become emaciated may cause anemia, or anorexia.

This parasite itself has strong absorptivity attraction which adsorption firmly on human intestines wall, cause intestines mucous membrane inflammation, dropsy even forms ulcer. If one discovered that abdominal pain disgustingly with vomiting and diarrhea, bowel movement with foul-smelling, loose stools, unfortunately you may be affected by the harmful parasite from the hard shell of Ling Jiao or Water Caltrop. Therefore, take precaution when eating raw or unwashed Ling Jiao or Water Caltrop with proper preparation in cleansing and cooking it with hygienic way.


Caution:

When taking Ling Jiao ~ Water Caltrop what need to remind that is has clearing heat and detoxification effect, in order to avoid causes distension of the abdomen do not over consumption with it.

For diabetic people, it is prohibited to over ingestion due to starch content is high, which may causes the instantaneous blood sugar to elevate and raised rapidly, the diabetic patient should take the right amount ingestion this nut and avoid taking excessively.




Note:

Restores vital energy with the traditional Chinese medicine, It is suggested that the “warm and cold” is best balanced in using herbal raw material. For the alternative healing effect and to avoid over reaction as the prescription may not suitable for certain people. Consult your physicians or doctor before taking any alternative healing remedies.







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