This healing home remedy is also a tasty drink for common cold symptoms. This recipe treats mild or beginning symptoms such as: chills (more than fever) cough with clear or white phlegm (not yellow or green) nasal congestion a tickle in the throat (but not a sore throat!) headache bodyaches a floating pulse These symptoms […]
August 11, 2017
January 12, 2014
Kombucha Tea

August 12, 2013
Chilled Tamarind Drink / Agua Fresca de Tamarindo (Luó Wàng Zĭ)

Ingredients:
- 2 cups of tamarind pods (8 ounces)
- 8 cups of water
- 1/2 cup of sweetener, or more if needed (palm sugar or honey or other)
June 12, 2013
Chilled Hibiscus Tea / Agua Fresca de Jamaica (Fú Róng Hūa)

Ingredients:
- 1.5 cup of Jamaica (Hibiscus) Flowers
- 3 cups of water
- 4 cups of water to make 2 quarts of the final drink
- 3/4 cup of coconut palm sugar or 1/2 cup honey
- Ice cubes
February 7, 2013
Fresh Ginger Syrup with ‘Shēng Jiāng’ 生薑

Medicinal Benefits of Fresh Ginger (Shēng Jiāng 生薑):
Fresh Ginger exhibits a spicy, warm action on the Lung and Spleen/Stomach. This means that Fresh Ginger warms up the metabolism of the lungs and digestive system and is great for cold cases with excess dampness.August 20, 2012
Honeysuckle Flower & Licorice Root – Cleansing Drink

September 21, 2011
Monk Fruit Natural Sweetener (Luo Han Guo 羅漢果)

March 28, 2011
Indian Chai Tea – With Warming & Healing Herbs

Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoons fresh ginger root - Sheng Jiang (Release Exterior)
- 1 whole star anise, broken up - Da Hui Xiang (Disperses cold, Regulates /Moves qi)
- 1 tsp orange peel - Chen Pi, grated (Regulates/Moves Qi)
- 4 pieces cinnamon bark - Rou Gui (Warms Interior)
- 1 tsp black cardamom seeds - Yi Zhi Ren (Tonify Yang)
- 10 whole cloves - Ding Xiang (Warm Interior)
- 5 whole peppercorns - Hu Jiao (Warm Interior)
- 1 tsp ground fennel seeds - Xiao Hui Xiang (Warm Interior)
- 5 cups water
- ¼ cup black tea (like Assam or Darjeeling)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ¼ cup honey
- 3 cups milk
November 30, 2010
Japanese Sour Plum & Bancha Twig Tea

Tea Leaf (Camellia sinensis):
In class we made a home-remedy that is a mixture of the pickled Japanese ume plum along with a certain type of green tea called bancha or kukicha (from the tea plant Camellia sinensis). A little soy sauce and ginger can be added for flavor and warmth. Umesho bancha tea can be taken if there is discomfort after fasting or long-term illness. It is often given to a mother at the time her baby is delivered. The following is for 1 serving. The preparation time is about 3-5 minutes, and the cooking time is about 7-10 minutes.September 17, 2010
Tea Leaves as Medicine

- inhibit tumor growth
- strengthen the immune system
- help to fight heart disease
- contain antioxidants
- reduce cavities
- help with digestion
- relieve thirst
- help slow down arthrosclerosis