Luo Han Guo Tea

It's the time to say " Happy New Year 2010 "

Wish you and your family are happy and happy and happy forever...


For this new year festive, I went to my hometown. My mother made " Luo Han Guo tea " for me because I had hoarse (Expectorant) after singing... This herbal drinking is really great for our throats, it's very amazing for me!!! After I had 1 cup of Luo Han Guo tea, my sound was okay suddenly. I want to share how to make it with you, let's go ...

Ingredients of Luo Han Guo tea

- 2 fruits of Luo Han Guo (Siraitia grosvenori), beat until the cover was cracked
- 1 1/2 liter of drinking water
- 1-2 table spoon of sugar (up to your taste)

Cooking Instructions of Luo Han Guo tea

1. In the teapot with boiling water (1 1/2 liter of drinking water), add herbal fruits - cracked " Luo Han Guo - and boil (until the water is about 1 liter).
2. Add sugar and boil until it melted - the amount of sugar up to your taste.
3. Filter the juice, serve as hot. Or allow to cool, and serve over ice.

Other Applications

1. Heat stroke with thirst: Take one fruit, break it open and stir into boiled water. Drink the liquid in place of tea.
2. Acute or chronic throat inflammation; aphonia. Take half a fruit and 3-5 seeds of sterculia. Cover with water and simmer, then swallow very slowly.
3. Chronic cough. Take 1 piece of fruit, cover with water, simmer, and drink the liquid. Do this twice each day.
4. Constipation in the aged. Take 2 pieces of fruit, obtain the juicy part and the seed (put the shell aside for other uses), break apart, cover with water, and simmer. Drink before going to bed.
5. Diabetes. Take an appropriate measure of the fruit and crush it or simmer it into a thick juice and add to food being prepared, using it as a substitute for sugar.

Ref : http://www.itmonline.org

Cantaloupes or Yellow Lemon Juice

Cantaloupes or Yellow Lemon are highly nutritious and relatively low calorie, they have tons of Vitamins A and C. Enjoy this melon cooler!!! This drinking can make you better from fever !!!

Ingredients
- 3-4 ripe cantaloupes (yellow melon)
- 1 tablespoon suger
- 1/2 cup ice
- 1 cup boiled water
- 1/2 teaspoon pinch salt

Directions
- Peel and seed cantaloupes and cut into 2-inch chunks.
- Mix all of the ingredients in the blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Add pinch of salt - as your taste.
- Chill until ready to serve.

Carrot Juice

One of energy herb drinking is " Carrot Juice ", I think carrot is very easy to find in the market. You can make and take it everyday!!!

Carrot juice has a number of health benefits. The carrot provides what is certainly the most important basic juice. The yellow color is due to carotene. Another name for this form of carotene, the transform, is pro vitamin A. Many authors write that carrots contain a lot of vitamin A. This is not actually true; what the carrot does contain is the pro vitamin. That means a substance that is converted by the body into the vitamin itself.

Healths Benefits of Carrot Juice

Carrot juice plays the most important part in an infant's supply of vitamin A. When carrot juice is consumed jointly with milk, the utilization of carotene as vitamin A is considerably increased. A carrot and milk juice is the ideal vitamin A source for infants and can in no case lead 10 the risk of the child having too much A.

Carrots are widely used. Indeed it is estimated that in Germany carrots account for 10% of the total vegetable consumption. From the carrot juice point of view, the varieties to be employed are ideally those with the most carotene. It is fortunate that the pro vitamin is strongly colored for this means that so long as you use good colored carrots they are likely to be the best nutritionally speaking too.

As a general rule, early carrots are pale and low in carotene. Because carotene is not water soluble, but is fat soluble, there is not a very great deterioration in the vitamin content on storage.

Nursing mothers are well advised, for the sake of the quality of their milk, to take carrot juice throughout lactation. When the baby is on its way it is good sense not only to drink the juice but also to nibble a carrot when you feel hungry. For although a good sized one will provide your minimum requirement of vitamin A, 7oz (200g) of carrot contain only 50 calories, which cannot be considered to be a fattening snack.

The carrot is recorded as being used in medicine by the early Greeks and has been cherished ever since. Its juice is one of the most delicious and healthful, and alone or in combinations should be in every daily diet providing, as it does, the essential vitamin A, without the saturated fats with which this vitamin is associated in eggs and butter.

Ingredients
- 1 cup carrot, cut into inch piece
- 1 teblespoons of lemon juice
- 1 cup boiling water
- 3 tablespoons sugar (up to your taste)
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1 glass of dried ice

Cooking Instructions
- Using a blender, mix the ingredients together. Blend all of mixers about 4-5 minutes.

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Strawberry Juice

To make the energy and fresh, I like to take " Strawberry Juice " in the morning. For this drinking, the honey was used because it has a number of health benefits more than sugar.

Researchers are discovering the natural health benefits of strawberries. This powerful red fruit packs a nutritional punch: Vitamin C, Folate and Potassium.

Strawberry Facts: The average strawberry has 200 tiny black seeds. Each of these tiny black seeds contain Omega 3 fatty acid.

Ingredients
200 g fresh strawberry fruit
1/4 cup of Yogurt (I prefer natural Yogurt)
2-3 tablespoons of honey
1/2 tablespoon salt
1/2 cup water


Cooking Instructions
- Using a blender, mix the ingredients together. You can use suger instead of honey, but I think honey is better. Honey has a number of health benefits more than sugar.

Tips : If you want to get the energy from " Strawberry Juice " in the afternoon, serve it with the ice. It's very good !!!

Ref : www.orchardofhealth.com

Lemon Ice Tea

If you want to fresh on the hot day, this tea is recommended!!! It's very easy to make, let's go...

Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons of Lemon juice
- 1-2 teblespoons of tea
- 1 cup boiling water
- 3 tablespoons sugar (up to your taste)
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1 glass of dried ice

Cooking Instructions
1. In the teapot with boiling water, add Lemon juice, tea, sugar, salt. Stir until suger and salt melt (about 3-4 minutes).
2. Then, strain into the mug and allow to cool.
3. Serve over ice.

Lemon Balm Herbal Tea

Lemon Balm Herbal Tea
(with fresh or dried leaves of Lemon Balm)

As we known that Lemon Balm is a citrusy and fresh scented herb. It is very prolific and easily grown. " Lemon Balm Herbal Tea " is one of my love drinkings. I love Lemon Balm Herbal Tea with lemon and honey, it makes me fresh all day.

Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons of Lemon Balm leaves (fresh or dried leaves are used.)
- 1 cup boiling water
- 2-3 tablespoons sugar (up to your taste)
- honey (alternative added of sugar)
- lemon juice (up to your taste)

Cooking Instructions : Lemon Balm Herbal Tea

1. In the teapot with boiling water, add Lemon Balm leaves and steep for 8 - 10 minutes. (or see Tips)
2. Then, strain into the mug and allow to cool, sweeten to taste. (3 tablespoons of honey and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice were added for me...)
3. Makes up one glass of tea, or serve over ice.

Tips :
You can make the sun tea by placing herbs and cool water in covered jar in the sun for a few hours

Roselle Herbal Tea

One of my favorite herbel drinking is " Roselle ". In summer, my mother always make it for my brother and me, we really love it! We use the flower of Roselle for drinking and flavour. There is one ice-cream shop in thailand make "Roselle Sherbet". I order only this ice-cream when I go to this shop, it's very great!!! The taste of Roselle is rather sour and sweet.

In Thailand, Roselle is drunk as a tea, believed to also reduce cholesterol. Roselle fruits are harvested fresh, and their calyces are made into a drink rich in vitamin C and anthocyanins. It's very cool!!!

In India, Africa and Mexico, all above-ground parts of the roselle plant are valued in native medicine. Infusions of the leaves or calyces are regarded as diuretic, cholerectic, febrifugal and hypotensive, decreasing the viscosity of the blood and stimulating intestinal peristalsis. Pharmacognosists in Senegal recommend roselle extract for lowering blood pressure. In 1962, Sharaf confirmed the hypotensive activity of the calyces and found them antispasmodic, anthelmintic and antibacterial as well. In 1964, the aqueous extract was found effective against Ascaris gallinarum in poultry. Three years later, Sharaf and co-workers showed that both the aqueous extract and the coloring matter of the calyces are lethal to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In experiments with domestic fowl, roselle extract decreased the rate of absorption of alcohol and so lessened its effect on the system. In Guatemala, roselle "ade" is a favorite remedy for the aftereffects of drunkenness.

In East Africa, the calyx infusion, called "Sudan tea", is taken to relieve coughs. Roselle juice, with salt, pepper, safetida and molasses, is taken as a remedy for biliousness.

Ingredients of Roselle Herbal Tea
- 10-12 pieces of Roselle flower (dried or fresh)
- 2 cups boiling water
- 2-3 tablespoons sugar (up to your taste)

Cooking Instructions of Roselle Herbal Tea
1. In the teapot with boiling water, add Roselle flower and boil (using low heat for approximately 10-12 minutes). Add sugar and boil until it melted - the amount of sugar up to your taste.
2. Filter the juice and allow to cool, serve over ice.

Ref : http://www.hort.purdue.edu

Bael Fruit Herbal Drinking

There were many kinds of fruits in my garden when I was young. One of them I like is " Ma Toom " ( 'bael' or 'bael fruit' in English). Its size is the same as a mango fruit. It's the round to pear-shaped, yellowish edible fruit of a chiefly Indian tree (Aegle marmelos), used in southern Asia as a food and as a medicine to treat dysentery. My mother and I sliced and dried them every fruit period. They were kept for a long time as dried status. And they were made for drinking as our pleasure.

In Thailand, Bael Fruit Herbal Tea is most popular in Thai resturant for drinking theraphy. Bael fruit is the best laxative of all fruits. It cleans and tones up the intestines & gives constipation relief. If you have the problems with digestive system, this drinking can heal you!!!

Ingredients
- 8-10 slices dried bael fruit
- 2 cups boiling water
- 2-3 tablespoons sugar (up to your taste)

Cooking Instructions : Bael Fruit Herbal Tea

1. Grill the dried bael fruit until you smell its aroma.
2. In the teapot with boiling water, add dried bael fruit and boil (using low heat for approximately 15 minutes). Add sugar and boil until it melted.
3. Filter the boiled bael fruit juice and allow to cool, serve over ice.

Ginger Herbal Drinking

Ginger is a calming and soothing flavour with a touch of a bite to it that helps to keep me alert and calm. Sometimes I prefer to have Ginger Tea in the after noon for relaxing.

In Thailand, Ginger is commonly herb used to help an upset stomach, motion or travel sickness or general low-grade fevers. It is also excellent for nausea and for warming you up when you feel cold. Ginger is reputed to help ward off colds or improve your recovery time.

Other benefits of ginger include :
- digestive aid
- circulation booster
- flatulence, colic or indigestion relief
- blood sugar reduction
- increases perspiration
- soothes menstrual pain
- helps reduce sinusitis and throat soreness

Ingredients
- 2-3 tablespoons ginger, slice it thinly in small pieces
- 1 cup boiling water
- 2-3 tablespoons sugar (up to your taste)

Cooking Instructions : Ginger Herbal Tea
Pour the boiled water into a teapot that you have already placed the freshly sliced ginger into.
Then, put the lid on the teapot to stop the pot cooling down too quickly and to keep the aromatic ingredients in the tea, steep for 10 - 15 minutes. (There are many ways to cook Ginger Herbal Tea but I think these is so easy for us!!!)
Strain the tea after steeping or boiling and serve.
Drink hot, at room temperature or cold. (as preferred)

Lemonglass Herbal Drinking

I've tried lemongrass iced tea for the first time when I studied in high school. It's vary great for me, I fell in love with it!!! And I think this tea is very easy to have!!! You can try it without you knowing it. Smell it and taste it and you will most likely realize it's an old friend.

Furthermore, it is believed by many to be an herbal remedy, helping with stomach problems, arthritis, and containing anti-oxidants. Being a mild sedative, it can also help one to relax.

In Thailand, Lemongrass Tea is used as a therapy for colds, congestion, fever, cough, sore throat and laryngitis. It has a pleasant citrus taste and one of the best herb for killing stress. As a hot herb, lemongrass tea is use as a digestion stimulant in cases of flatulence, indigestion, and constipation. In the hill-tribes villages, fresh lemongrass also used as a general tonic, for bone and joint pain, and topically for sprains, bruises, and sore muscles.

Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemongrass, chopped
- 1 cup boiling water
- 2-3 tablespoons sugar (up to your taste)

Cooking Instructions : Lemongrass Herbal Tea
In the teapot with boiling water, add lemongrass and steep for 8 - 10 minutes.
Then, strain into the mug and allow to cool, sweeten to taste.
Makes up one glass of tea, serve over ice.