Night Fragrant Jasmine Sea Bird Nest for Sluggish Liver

Here I come....another Simply Senz's Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed ~ Sea Bird Nest recipe for today's blog. After my long holidays in Johor Bahru, it's really a tiresome trip and then busy for the past few weeks....Now back to normal routine, and once again, I think I need something to unwind myself, and this is my refreshing Senz's Sea Bird Nest dessert of the day.....

For this time I am using the traditional medicinal plant of Night Blooming Jasmine Flowers to cook with Sea Bird Nest. Something fragrant and refreshing, to unwind, it’s cooling and full of natural healing properties with it. 

 

As usual, when making my Sea Bird Nest recipe into dessert soup, naturally I think of Red Dates, Goji, Lo Han Gou and Dried Longan fruit.  I like the natural mixture taste not just because of the taste help to cover the fishy smell of the Sea Bird Nest, it also give the warming and energizing effect in balance of Yin and Yang.

 

Adding fresh flora is the best choice in natural healing ingredient. Not other option, as this time, added fresh aromatic Night fragrant Jasmine Flora into Sea Bird Nest herbal soup is “the center of the attraction” of this dessert.

What is Night fragrant Jasmine flowers

• Scientific name: Pakalana Vine, Telosma cordata
• English Name: Night fragrant Jasmine
• Chinese Name: Ye Xiang Hua 夜香花
• From: Native west India. 
• Its nutrient Values: Rich in carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins A and C.

Note: There are few types of Night Jasmine Flower, make sure you get the edible type to prevent physical side effect. 


Night fragrant Jasmine flower is golden yellow blooms which have many medicinal uses for ailments such as liver syndrome like hepatitis, abdominal pain and headache. 

  

Commonly this edible flora is used in Chinese cuisine to make into herbal soup or dishes as alternative healing for rheumatism, sluggish liver, clear eye vision, irritating eyes, red and sore eyes, depression, relaxation, respiratory tract like cough and sore throat, muscle pain, most important thing is that it helps in toning the skin in natural beauty remedies.

The flowers containing heavy fragrance, it posses aromatic compounds, its essential oil is used for perfumery, cosmetics or skincare, aromatherapy essential oil in beauty and health products, for food and drink flavoring, like scenting beverage e.g herbal teas and drinks. Yet the root of Night Jasmine is sedative and calming effect to relax the brain. Especially in folk remedies and some of the Chinese culinary recipe, fresh Night Blooming Jasmine flowers is cooked with eggs as natural remedies herbal soup.

Now, this Sea Bird Nest recipe gives a refreshing taste with Jasmine flora aroma sweetening soup, it tastes great when combined with Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed ~ Sea Bird Nest.

Ingredients A:

• 30gm of Sea Bird Nest

Preparation of Sea Bird Nest:

1. Wash and rinse Sea Bird Nest with running water, then soak in the water for 5 to 6 hours, intervals change the water every 1 hour.

2. After 5 to 6 hours of soaking and washing. Rinse dried, cut into smaller in size and keeps aside for use.

Ingredient B:

• Fresh Night Fragrant Jasmine Flowers

Preparation of Fresh Night Jasmine Flora:

1. Rinse and wash Fresh Night Jasmine Flora thoroughly, then soak in the water for 1 hour.

2. After 1 hour of soaking, rinse dry and keep aside for use.

Ingredients C:

• 1 Lo Han Gou
• 20gm of Goji
• 20 Red Dates
• Rock Sugar (depending on individual sweetness).
• 500ml Water

Preparation for Ingredients C:

• Wash Red dates and dried Longan and cut into small pieces.

• Soak Goji for 15 mins, wash dried and ready for use

• Wash and Smash Lo Han Gou into 2 - 3 pieces, ready for use

Method:

1. Bring water to boil, place in red dates, dried Longan and Lo Han Gou to cook for at least half an hour.

2. After half an hour of cooking, add in goji, Sea Bird Nest to cook for 5 mins.

3. Remove the pot from stove; add in Fresh Jasmine Flora to the dessert soup. Stir well.

4. Serve warm as Dessert Soup. 

5. To serve as cold dessert, just keep the leave over dessert soup in the Tupperware or small containers, keep it in refrigerator and let it set as in Jelly form. (It tastes better after overnight in refrigerator.) 

This herbal Jasmine Sea Bird Nest soup is good for treating cough to get rid of stubborn phlegm, stomach blotting and constipation cause by stomach damp-heat, as the Night jasmine flowers has the cooling blood and detoxifying the liver medicinal effect, good for liver-heat that caused red eyes and sore. 

The aromatic fragrance of this flower is refreshing scent and has therapeutic uplifting effect, the essential fragrance is chemical complex with hormone-like, which can stimulate and perceived to our brain, as stimulant to activate the neurochemical e.g serotonin and endorphins are sending the message to our brain, and communicate with our body system, it help to change our moods and relief of tension, to give a calming and soothing effect for relaxation and refreshing. Its essential oil helps to ease stress and nervousness, tension and depression, muscle pain and cough. 

With the combination of Sea Bird Nest it further promote healing to invigorating and moisture the lung, to maintain and rejuvenating beautiful skin texture, it is best with regularly consumption of this herbal soup and dessert for better result. 

Note: Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed ~ Sea Bird Nest wholesale and supplies. In bulk or small quantity, washed and dried form of Sea Bird Nest is available. PM me ~ ongsenny@gmail.com

Natural Herbal Tea ~ Fatty Liver

In my list of herbal tea remedies, "herbal Tea Treatment" comes easily in preparation to brew varies in favor and choice of therapeutic effects. other than cooking medicinal plant and herbs, simmer a pot of “Herbal Tea” with flora tea, herbs and medicinal leaves which has been widely used in ancient time and among Chinese. Every sip of my herbs tea I think of its benefits and of course their side effect too.

With my daily routine and hectic work pressure, unwind with herbal tea brews in variety of blends accordingly to revitalize my physical body is set as habit. Make sure daily and regularly with a cup of delicious blend of favorite choices, place a pot of flora or herbal ingredients in infuser, brew with boiling water for 5 to 10 minutes. Simple thing as that, then call it a day with wonderful brews of herbal infusion. It is simply comforting thought and indulgences….Tea Time!

Enjoy a day taking alternative healing herbs for health, and beauty not only by its pleasant aroma taste, also as a remedy for health disorders. Still it needs a proper healthy living, herbs and sufficient rest and exercise to stand a good chance of beating and safeguard to keep sicknesses at bay.

One of my friend used to tell me that sleep late will eventually suffer of Liver disease or sickness. I know my sleeping routine is bad partly due to my work. No doubt late sleep may affect my health in long term. Still I managed to get at least 7 to 8 hours of sufficient sleep for years. Moreover it’s not a problem to me I guess.

But in Chinese “meridian” circulation system said our body has a “circadian clock” from 1am to 3am that schedule to detoxify and process the debris from our liver. Since late sleep during that hour may cause damage to the liver. I Think I am forced to choose between earlier sleeping method and stop working late to start a regular routine for beauty and health sake. That I promised myself I will do so and need to make it as a good sleeping habit. First thing first, is to banish my TV, works and computer out of bedroom then. Hopefully.

Liver is our body biggest organ. Maintain and protect our liver in good functioning and healthy is not easy. To prevent damages to our Liver, from awareness to prevention of taking the right foods, drinks and medicine plays an important role. Other than this,being overworked, irregular and unhealthy eating habits of junk foods, and stress may cause damages to our liver easily too. If eating too much of fatty foods, heavy drinking of alcohol, endocrine system disorders, obesity may also cause Fatty Liver disease.

Personally, however I prefer to use the some herbal raw ingredients that allow me to combine with other ingredients into different herbal infusion for different purpose. Some taste just nice, some actually very good to combat the heat in the body for flu and cold symptoms.

Like the combination Shan Zha herbal infusion I had mentioned about “Herbal Infusion for slimming, beauty and menstrual cycle” earlier,

Shan Zha is quite a good alternative home remedy ingredient, I added Shan zha to cook soup, make herbal tea for weight lost, also reduce painful menstrual cramps and other woman’s menstruation syndrome.

Not only that, “Shan Zha” also has the effective alleviation in treating high blood pressure, lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels that deposited in the body.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and diabetes runs in my family is quite high. That’s what I always conscious about and taking care of. Usually herbal remedies with green tea extract have proven result in preventing development of fatty liver. On a regular basic taking herbal tea is considered as prevention to me. As far as health concern, prevention is always primary and important role played by. Better not regret later if without proper cares.

 




Herbs tea with Shan Zha, Rosebuds or rose petals and Chrysanthemum are considered is "cooling" herbs for cleansing and detoxifying blood, liver and skin.

This is an excellent herbal tea to balance the liver system and reduce the fatty cell in the liver. Best you can also adding green tea into it.

Ingredients to prepare:

• Rosebuds or Rose Petals 3-5g
• Chrysanthemum 3g
• Shan Zha dried fruit 2g
• 2 tbs. of brown sugar (optional)
• 500 ml of boiling water

Method:

1. Wash all ingredients ready for use.
2. Place all ingredients into infuser with candle.
3. Pour in hot boiling water. Simmer for 10 to 20 minutes and serve warm.

The benefits of San Zha 




Also known as Fructus Crataegi, is a herbal medicine and great cleansing tea for promotes heart and circulation system to treat pain when blood is stasis. The channel acts on spleen, stomach and liver. It aids digestive system and relieving stagnated foods and inducing appetite.

For Fatty liver is an alternative treatment to affect a cure, it disperses the liver and rectifies qi. Shan Zha also helps in metabolize fatty acids and dissolve fat from the body, reducing the bloodstreams fatty levels to prevent high sugar content in the blood. It contains flavonone class medicinal properties compound, which can block the nitrous acid in the synthesis. contains in the flavanone class medicine ingredient, one kind of compound, which can block the nitrous acid and synthesis.








• Rose bud or petal is “Yin” in nature, Yin is moisture quality. As “nourish Yin to moisture beautify skin” to slow down aging process, uplifting energy as a beauty booster which nourishing to skin, as we age the Yin dries up and diminishing. Rosebud or petal is usually taken by ladies for the Yin responsible to boost and rejuvenate the skin and relieve menstruation cramps.

It also aids in digestion system. When brown sugar is added it is aroma sweet taste help in unwind and relaxing with calming effect for depression and insomnia, soothes the mind. The essential oil aid in circulation, harmonizes blood and also blood purify and tonic for the liver and spleen.






• Chrysanthemum is common used and has cooling properties in Chinese medicine herb. It has antioxidant, antibacterial effect and cancer fighter properties. Taking Chrysanthemum Tea helps in dispel toxin heat and enhance detoxification to liver. It is good for people who are often sleep late, hypertension, it helps enhance vision and skin tone, nourish lung, liver and kidney.






 

Mulberry Leaves Self-made Herbal Tea

A cup of self-made health care Mulberry leaves combined with Chrysanthemum is also a liver care herbal tea that provides a good taste of natural aroma, which has the assisted in control of blood sugar, neutral fat and cholesterol in blood, balance blood pressure and preventing of liver syndromes like Fatty Liver.

As Mulberry leaf is bitter, it nature is "cold" and it enters the liver channel. Adding Mulberry fruits to this herbal infusion may improve and strengthen the kidney and it has the tonic effect on kidney energy. Deficient of kidney energy may also cause ringing in ear.







Planting mulberry tree in a pot which enables me to obtaining raw ingredient of fresh mulberry leaves for “herbal Tea treatment”. The wonderful part of Mulberry has been used in Chinese medicine from the root, stem, leaf, fruits and bark the whole plant. The leaves rich in alkaloid component has fantastic benefits that make medicinal herbal tea in preventing and treating diabetes, as alternative healing food and medicine in scavenge free radicals and many other benefits like:

• Using Mulberry leaves helps in lowers blood pressure 10 times higher than using green tea. It has full of flavones and higher carotene.
• It controls in neutral fat, shrink fat cells help in losing weight naturally
• Reduce and stabilized blood sugar in traditional used to treat type 2 diabetes. It contains the compounds stimulate insulin secretion.
• it contains of Rutin substances which strengthen capillaries, lower blood pressure and high cholesterol
• Cures the heat of small intestines and improve constipation, with daily a cup of fresh mulberry acts as dietary tea to weight lost naturally.
• It is also a natural anti-aging tea.
• Preventing premature gray hairs. Promote hair growth.
• Cures consumptive fever, cough and nourishing the lungs.
• Improve eyesight.
• Promote urination to get rid of water retention in the body.
  

How to take Mulberry leaves Tea:

Mulberry Leaves can be taken dried or fresh leaves, as dried leaves are less “cooling” and I prefer to use fresh mulberry leaves just because I like the green taste of fresh leaves. Taking fresh mulberry leaf juice is similar to wheatgrass juice. But dilute with water is best. It can be taken before and after meal.

Mulberry leaves with other herbs ingredients and its benefits:


Preparations:

• 2 - 3 Mulberry Leaves
• Chrysanthemum 10g

Simmer with boiling water for 10 to 20 minutes. Serve.




 




















 

Other combination of Mulberry Leaves with herbs for:

Tonic to spleen, for hypertension, cold and fever.

• Mulberry Leaves 5g
• Jin Yin Hua (Honeysuckle) 6g
• Chrysanthemum 6g

To clear liver and vision, hypertension, dizziness, constipation.

• Mulberry Leaves 5g
• Jue Ming Zi (Cassia Seed) 3g
• Wolfberry (Goji) 6g
• Chrysanthemum,

Improve blood circulation, common used for heart disease syndrome,
high blood pressure, liver heat, and blood stasis.

• Mulberry Leaves 10g
• Chrysanthemum 15g
• Jin Yin Hua (Honeysucker) 15g
• Shan Zha 15g

Ju Ming Zi
Cassia seeds (Ju Ming Zi) has been used as laxative herbal in traditional Chinese medicine, it may promote stomach and intestines' function, eliminates accumulates toxin in the intestines. Clear vision, aids constipation and ease bowel movement, lowers cholesterol and reduce blood pressure, In addition, it has diuretic effect.

Beat the heat with Ju Ming Zi (Cassia Seed) that clearing heat governs with liver for hepatitis and liver syndrome patient.



 




Simple Cassia Seed Tea:

Ingredients:

• Cassia Seeds 10 - 15g
• Crystal Rock sugar 20g
• Wolfberry - 5g
  
• Chrysanthemum -6g
  

Method:

• Crush Cassia Seeds and crystal rock sugar.
• Put in Simmer pot or infuser, add in boiling water. Simmer for ½ hour and serve.

Cassia Seed is good for constant constipation people. It will induce bowel movement, but not suitable for hypotension and low blood pressure people. Do not take Cassie Seeds (Ju Ming Zi) excessively. Moreover it contains tannin acid, may affect calcium absorption.


Jin Yin Hua (Honeysuckle)

The scientific research discovery, Jin Yin Hua (honey suckle) can reduce cholesterol absorption to the intestinal tract, has obviously help in loses weight function, frequently drinks honey suckle, can also suppress and eliminates swallows throat's disease, anti-inflammation and relieve of toxicity effectively. it enhances and ability in anti-infection, its nature is “Cool” help in relieve common cold, fever and clear heat. It is also has the laxative effect.

 



The advantage of using herbs that prescribes different combination of herbs according to the individual's health condition. With traditional method of treatment is safe and side effects is less, moreover the recovery is quite effective and fast. Just dip your suitable herbs accordingly place into the infuser or teapot of hot water. Drink it like Chinese tea,it helps a lot to prevent for being infected by H1N1 too. I considered myself a believer in alternative herbal medicine, as it has been passed down from my granny and generations. Used of foods, fruits, and herb plants as an alternative way to cure, simple as that, why not, that's what I believed.

Last and not least, it is good to grow your own organic herbs plant, to make your own homemade remedies herbal tea. Start now and it is fun.






Caution Disclaimer, Taking these herbal uses and properties are only given for reference purpose. Please consult your doctor or professional physician to diagnose, prescribe and treat any illness before consume or use of these traditional herbal remedies.

Chuan Xin Lian - Bitter Herb

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

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

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

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



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


Its meridian channels to heart and lung. 



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


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

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

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

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

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

 
How to make "Ku Cha" Bitter Tea



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

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

Must try..... :P