ScarlettHeat Relief Tea
October 15th 2008 06:34
Heat Relief Tea
About Heat Relief Tea
This Heat Relief Tea is suit for people who suffer from coughing and sore throat.
About Oroxylum Indicum (Wooden Butterfly)
Bitter in taste, sweet. It can help to clean lung and throat, clear out liver and stomach. It also has the function of improving the immune system…especially for women. It can make women’s skin more clear and health. It can lower blood pressure, lose weight, and promote metabolism.
About Rock Sugar (Rocky Candy)
Rock candy (also called rock sugar) is a type of confectionery composed of relatively large sugar crystal. Homemade rock candy is commonly formed by allowing a supersaturated solution of sugar and water to crystallize onto a string or some other surface suitable for crystal nucleation. Heating the water before adding the sugar allows more sugar to dissolve and thus produces larger crystals. Crystals form after several days. Food colouring is often added to the mixture to produce coloured candy.
Rock candy is used in Chinese cuisine. It is used to sweeten tong sui (sweet soups) and chrysanthemum tea, as well as Chinese liquors.
Rock candy is called mishri in Hindi and is widely used in India with aniseed as a mouth freshener, especially after meals. In telugu, it is known as patika-bellam. One can find these two being offered along with the check/bill, at most restaurants in India. Rock candy is called kalkandu I Tamil and is commonly used in Tamil cuisine especially in Jaffna (Northern Sri Lanka).
Rock candy is also used in Mexico to make sugar skulls on the celebration of the Day of the Dead. Children make the rock candy in the shapes of skulls by special strings and then decorate them with icing and jewels. These are eaten after the festivities.
About Lalang Grass
Lalang grass rhizome cools the blood and clears away heat by inducing urination. This beverage helps to replenish body fluids and clears dryness and heat symptoms such as thirst, mouth sores, dry throat, bad breath, crusty lips, nasal bleeding and scanty urine.
About Herba houttuyniae
Pungent in flavour, cold in nature, it acts on the lung channel. The cold property clears away heat, pungent flavour dissolves boils. It has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxicating, dissolving boils and draining pus. It may therefore be used to treat abscesses in both internal organs and external infections. It is always an important medicine for treating pulmonary abscess because the herb is mainly acting in lung. In addition, it is also to clear the damp-heat pathogens in the large intestine and bladder and treat diarrhea due to damp-heat, urination disturbance and stranguria. Its effects are clearing away heat, detoxicating, dissolving boils, draining pus, and inducing diuresis for treating stranguria.
About Lonicerae Flos
Lonicerae Flos, also called Jinyinhua, is one of the widely used herbs prescribed in many Chinese formulas. It has latent-heat-clearing, antipyretic, detoxicant and anti-inflammatory actions. It has been, therefore, prescribed to treat fever due to common cold, febrile disease, dysentery, carbuncles, and virulent swellings. In many previous reports, chlorogenic acid, one of the major components in Flos Lonicerae, has been widely adopted to control the quality of Flos Lonicerae owing to its high content and antibiotic property. Several kinds of the other components, such as flavonoids, iridoid glucosides and saponins have been also discovered and characterised using advanced analytical techniques due to their effective activities.
INGREDIENTS
15 gm Henon Bamboo Leaf
10 gm Oroxylum Indicum (Wooden Butterfly)
½ catty Rock sugar (Rocky candy)
3 bowls water
Dyers Woad Leaf (Large Green Leaf)
Lalang Grass
Herba houttuyniae (Fishy Grass)
Lonicerae Flos (Gold and Silver Thread Flower)
1. Wash all ingredients; soak in water for 15 minutes.
2. Add all ingredients to a saucepan, cook over high heat until soup boils, then switch to medium heat and cook for 40 minutes more.
3. Remove all herbs from soup.
4. Add rocky candy, wait until dissolved.
5. Serve hot.
**From “Next Magazine”, “Alibaba.com”, “Beijing Xueyuan Press”, “Journal of Zhejiang University Science” and “wikipedia, the free encyclopedia” **
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