Rabbit Milkweed Xiao Jin Ying ~ Anti-cancer Herb

Rabbit Milkweed is the best feed food for rabbits. That is how its name from I guess. It looks quite similar to Dandelion, but this is not dandelion, don't make a mistake, there is a lot of its efficacy and detoxification quite similarly as Dandelion, but it is a different species of Asteraceae plants. 

Chinese name: Xia Jin Yin “小金英” or Tu Er Cai “兔耳菜”

English name: Rabbit milkweed

Scientific name: Ixeris chinensis 

Alternative Herbal Soup for Postpartum Abnormal Bleeding

After child birth some women may face the lochia problem. Lochia discharge is postpartum virginal discharge commonly continues for 4 to 6 week after childbirth.

What is Lochia

Mugwort Lemon Grass Red Dates Wine

Herbs in culinary can be medicine and it also add tastes to our cooking. Other than that used of herbal to make herbal wine, enzymes or vinegar, making mugwort wine is quite an easy job. Again, herbal wine in holistic healing, more and more women are now become awaken on using herbal wine, tonic and herbal vinegar in rejuvenating, and give warming effect to promote the energy flow, and boost blood circulation to improve their beauty care ~ “the inner health and outer beauty”, to maintaining and strengthen our body immunity in keeping good health. 

Mugwort is one of the famous women’s herbs. Do it yourself a herbal wine with mugwort is the best feminine food. Mugwort is commonly use as herbal infusion, in cooking for confinement food, making into herbal and fruit enzymes, or air dried the mugwort leaves, it can be air-dried as tea leaves or making into powder form as healthy drinks for convenient in keeping.

Mugwort benefits and nutrients:

Mugwort besides content of chlorophyll, it also rich in fiber, simultaneously have the massive vitamins and mineral substance, like vitamin A, B1, B2, C and the mineral substance iron, calcium, Phosphorus and other micro nutritive elements which enable the chlorophyll or other ingredient multiplication effect, therefore mugwort is most ideal food for natural healing, as a sedative herbs traditional to nervous system, medicinal usage to balance hormones to improve the woman’s menstrual pain and menstruation cycle health problem, as well as in treating infertility. It is a digestive stimulant herb, even good for treating malaria. 

Mugwort ~ Women health

Since mugwort is the best remedy for women health, adding red dates and lemongrass to immerse with rice wine gives the warming effect especially good for cold feet and hands, the mugwort is famous Chinese medicinal plant which has the close relationship to women health. Especially to confinement women help to get rid of blood stasis in the womb, help to improves of blood circulation, reduces menstrual pain, also to regulate the menstruation cycles for those having irregular menstrual problem. After giving birth, taking this healthy mild tonic will strengthen the nervous system and boost potent energy.

Lemongrass

By adding few stalks of Lemongrass to release its mild taste of lemony fragrance and citrus flavor, this therapeutic and versatile herb gives the stimulant effect to treat cold, anti-depressant, and expels excessive body wind, it works wonderfully to skin and nail, get rid of water retention during confinement, alleviates indigestion, reduces stomach fat after birth.

The ingredients, Red Dates, rich in Magnesium and Iron, its boost energy metabolism, as blood tonic ingredient adds medicinal effect to mugwort, and lemongrass, using the rice wine starter which allow the ingredients or herbal properties to draw out by the alcohol solution. Rice wine starter are mixed up and the immersion process to certain period, it becomes a healthy herbal wine which can be taking it solely as wine to drink. It is a slightly sweet bitter tonic, after 3 weeks or a month of immersion in the rice wine; it turns into sweet bitter herbal wine.

I reckon its therapeutic benefits are imparted from the herbs, or to those confinement women. Something for a change; mixing some of this aromatic taste of herbal rice wine to cook with chicken or chicken feet, or use the concentrated herbal wine to steam with chicken. Other than the taste is refreshing and makes the confinement food much more nutritious, for which strengthen the immunity system and help to regulate the menstrual cycle back to normal after birth.

Now ready to make your homemade herbal wine.

Ingredients you need:

• Mugwort dried herb 30g
• 10 dried Red dates
• Lemongrass 5 to 6 stalks
• Rice wine starter 1000ml
• Brown rock sugar 100g

Preparation:

Wash and air dry the mugwort, red dates and lemongrass, let it totally air dried first before use.

Method:

1. Place all the ingredients into a glass jar
2. Pour in the rice wine over it
3. Cover lid.
4. Let it immerse for at least 10 to 15 days. 

Sip a glass of herbal wine before bed time, in additional, this Mugwort Lemongrass Red Dates wine may help to eliminate halitosis or unpleasant odor exhaled in breathing caused by digestive system problem. Have a good try.

Enjoy this herbal wine.

Flora Sea Bird Nest Jelly

Making a cup of flora tea just come easily to me.  The dried strawberry kiwi fruity infusion with a handy glass tea pot or tea infuser. That's it. 

Brews a cup of flora tea seems a bit boring. Try out this Flora Tea with Sea Bird Nest how's it? Not yukky at all.

I have got some good flora tea of Strawberry and Kiwi, hibiscus blossom flavor which is given by one of my dearest friend from New Zealand. I really feel grateful and thanks to my friend's generosity and kindness for supplying this flora tea to me from far. 

Now it is about time for me to give a refreshing dessert to unwind myself to fuel my day.

Make it a bit unique, cups of flora tea can be created into a healthy soup or drink with Euchuema Cottonii Seaweed or sea bird nest. As usual, brews the flora tea of your choice, like adding this Strawberries Kiwi Flora tea to flavoring and covers the fishy taste of Sea Bird Nest, it really gives a great blend of fruity undertones and refreshing tea dessert. Plus a real soothing benefits of its flora scented flavor to this Sea Bird Nest flora tea Jelly.

A few of the flora scented flora tea like chamomile, chrysanthemum tea and goji berries also great choice of mixtures into the Sea Bird Nest for making dessert Jelly or Soup.

There are many health benefits of taking flora tea, as well as sea bird nest, it relieves digestion problems, improve proper bowel function, anti-stress activities to  refine stressed skin, and natural healing to pimple skin, for maintaining a youthful skin, healthy glowing skin complexion may try this recipe. 

In additional, try more variety of options like using Dried longan and Rosebuds, it helps to boost and improving of blood circulation, dried longan is the best blood tonic. Rosebuds and dried longan is great for ladies to regulate the monthly menstruation cycles and boosting energy level. 

There are a couple of good blend for dried longan, try to add rosebuds or rose petals, red jujubes and dried longan flora fruity tea with Sea Bird Nest which is really good for ladies. That does make you feel more energetic and boost your immunity system.

How to make Flora Tea Sea Bird Nest Jelly

Ingredients:

(Steeping flora tea for 15 - 20 minutes)

• Strawberry and Kiwi Flora Tea – 2 tbsp.
• Rock sugar – 2 tbsp.
• Hot water - 1 tea pot 

Ingredients B: 

• Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest) - 100g
• Water - 2 glasses of water

Preparation:

1. Add in 2 glasses of water to boil.
2. Add in Sea Bird Nest and boil it till dissolve. 
3. Done, let it cool down for about 5 minutes.
4. Stir in the flora tea and stir well. Pour it to the jelly mold or small container with cover. Keep in refrigerator to chill and serve.

Healthy Tips:

Adds to your favorite fruit of choice - green apple, red beet juice or mango and honey into fruit blender, blend them together for healthy drinkable juice with raw Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest). It is a great 'Energy boost drink' is especially good for teenager and menopause woman. 


caution: if you are pregnant, nursing women, or taking medication. It is important to prevent any complication or reverse side effect when trying any alternative natural healing. Always consult your healthcare practitioner before use. 


If you are interested to know more about Sea Bird Nest/Eucheuma Seaweed, please contact me for more information:

We supply unwashed / Washed Sea Bird Nest (see photo)

Contact: 

Person in charge: Senz

email: senzfates@gmail.com

Menstrual cramps home remedy

 




Since young we were taught how to use home remedy method to ease menstrual cramps. 

A natural, easy and no side effect way of using ginger, red dates and black brown sugar tea is reputed to have some value in treating menstrual cramps, herbal or nutritional herbs during acute menstrual cramps or pain, this alternative natural healing drinks provide effective pain relief, as ginger is great pain killer and it help in blood circulation, for abdominal bloating it helps to expel wind too.



Ginger and red dates increases blood circulation as the Yang energy, which can relieve blood clots in the uterus, as well as benefit woman after her child birth. This Ginger red dates drink may be safe and effective for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy when used at recommended doses for short periods of time.

Brown sugar is either an unrefined or partially refined which contains lots of nutrients and minerals.

The effect on menstrual cramps would be psychological rather than physiological. Researchers have found that sugar increases the amount of certain brain neurotransmitters that control moods. It tranquilize the nervous system and thus to relieve pain Heat pad is also one good way of relief the cramps and pains, just placing the heat pad to the stomach where it hurts for 10 to 15 minutes, till you feel the pain is gone.

Method of cooking this home remedy drinks is very simple.

Ingredients:

• 6 slices of ginger with skin
• 10 red dates (cut into small pieces)
• 1-2 tbs. black brown sugar
• 3 glasses of water

1. Bring water to boil. Put some ginger slices without peeling off the skin and cook in boiling water.


2. Add some red dates into it and then boil it with low heat for 20 minutes.\


3. Add brown sugar till dissolve, Simmer for about half an hour in pot, strain the tea to a mug and then drink it.



That really works when you have cramps. Which is also widely used by Chinese women as one of the home remedy for women after birth before or during menstruation period, woman’s body is often depleted of these important nutrients during menstruation, cramps are caused by the contraction of the uterus during menstruation. 


I often encourage women with more severe menstrual pain should try to start doing so a few days before her menstrual period until it ends, or even avoid cold food and drink as much as possible. So far I found it is quite effective for me.