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
April 10, 2012
Cinnamon & Ginger Applesauce (Rou Gui 肉桂 & Sheng Jiang 生薑)
Both ginger and cinnamon are warming spices that bring heat into the body and chase away the cold. They are perfect for Spleen Yang Deficient folks or anyone with chills who might be catching a cold (wind-cold, not wind-heat).
Ingredients:
- 1 bag of apples
- 2 tablespoons of shredded ginger 'Sheng Jiang' and ginger peel 'Sheng Jiang Pi'
- 3 cinnamon sticks 'Rou Gui'
- 1/2 cup sugar
March 28, 2011
Indian Chai Tea – With Warming & Healing Herbs
Chai Tea is a tasty and healthy beverage that is especially balancing on cold days in the fall and winter. Many of the herbs that are used to make chai tea have the medicinal value of warming & increasing the metabolism of the internal organs, and pushing out the coldness that tries to enter when the temperatures drop. We can use the internal warmth from the herbs to increase our vital energy throughout the day.
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