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Restaurant with no gluten-free options

It can be stressful eating out when not all restaurants have gluten-free options. It can give you anxiety. Some restaurants are more careful with the gluten-free options such as those part of the GIC Gluten-free Food Services Certification Program. They are detailed and prevent any cross- contaminations. Unfortunately, not all restaurants are as careful.

Some Suggestions for Dining Out

Restaurants with no gluten-free menu. You can have a plain potato instead of a fried potato. You can let the server know of your allergy to gluten and ask the server or chef to cook with a new pan to prevent cross contamination.

Smartphone Application

There are applications to make gluten-free living easier. This application either help you while grocery shopping by allowing you to search for items gluten-free or contains any gluten free or non-gluten ingredient. Also, it allows you to find restaurants with a gluten-free menu.

Smartphone Application for Shopping

Fooducate helps to scan an item to see what ingredients are in each product.
Scanglutenfree.com finds a product that has gluten by scanning the product barcode.
Gardenbaysoftware.com contains a large database of gluten-free products.

Smartphone Application for Eating Out

Glutenfreetravelsite.com is a review of restaurants people from the US and worldwide of gluten-free restaurants
Findmeglutenfree.com helps to find gluten-free options when dining out and it is linked to the restaurants’ menus. You can view the menus before visiting the restaurants.

Dining Out with Different Types of Cuisine

Cuisine:

Mexican

Mexican is a great gluten-free option mostly the food is made of corn. Or this cuisine contains mostly beans. Do avoid the flour tortillas when having a fajita.

Japanese

Japanese is made of mostly sushi rolls. It is safe to have seaweed and rice. The better gluten-free choice and healthier option to have brown rice instead of white.

Thai

Thai food is made of rice noodle and rice. The only thing to watch for is the dishes contains fish sauce rather than soy sauce.

Indian

The dishes contain mostly protein and vegetable. The dishes are mostly eaten on rice. Do avoid Naan bread, it is not gluten-free. There is wheat in naan bread. Just be careful with the sauce.

You can eat at various restaurant with different cuisines but there are little things to watch out for when trying to eat gluten-free.

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Juicing: Things to know before starting

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Why Juicing

Juicing: Things to know before starting. You can absorb more vitamin in a glass easily. Also, you might have a lot of time to consume the required amount of fruits or vegetable per day. You get more vegetable and fruit. Juicing the fastest to have the proper nutrient. You get a higher concentration of nutrient.

What are the best fruit and vegetable for juicing

Fruit with soft texture:

pineapple, tomato, berries, citrus, melons, mangos, grapes, peaches, nectarines, plums, kiwis.

Fruit with hard texture:

apple, cranberries, pears, pomegranates

Vegetable with soft texture:

spinach, kale, chard, mint, cilantro, parsley, cucumber.

Vegetable with hard texture:

cabbage, celery, carrots, beets, ginger root, fennel, sweet potato,

Fruit and Vegetable with little water content(not recommended for juicing)

Avocado, banana, rhubarb, figs(dried fruit), eggplant

Suggestion What to use the juiced fruits or vegetables

compost for your garden

vegetable ingredient for the inside of a dumpling

make soup broth

Tips for juicing

Using fruits for a juice recipe makes recipe tasty but fruit has sugar. You don’t want to have too much sugar. It is best to have a balance, Maybe two fruit to one vegetable. You can start by having more fruit in the beginning once you have gotten used to juicing you can decrease the amount of fruit over time. Then, finally, you can switch two fruit to one vegetable. It is best to consume the juiced beverage while it is fresh and not have the juice refrigerated for too long. The best is to have the beverage while freshly juiced. The juice does separate the liquid from the more pureed fruits.

Attempt on juicing

The very first time you juice, you can attempt one recipe. After you have gotten comfortable with the machine and the recipe, you can experiment on other recipes. By attempting other recipes, you give your body a variety of vitamin and minerals.

Juicing Process

When juicing juice with softener texture to harder texture.

Simple Juicing Recipe

Ingredient:

5 orange

Manual Juicer

Instruction:

Wash the oranges. Cut them in halves.
Place half of an orange on the juicer. Press and spin the orange left and right until all the juice has been removed from the fruit.
Continue this process until you remove juice from all the fruits.
Enjoy!

Ever since I was very little my Mom always made fresh squeezed orange juice. It is delicious. You can a large amount of vitamin C. This year, I have started making fresh squeezed orange juice for my kids. My son loves it. My mom taught me that it is healthier to make your own orange juice rather than the store bought ones.

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Gluten Free Blueberry Muffin

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Gluten-Free Moist Blueberry Muffin

When I first learned about my daughter’s food sensitivity. I decided I would start to bake more often to save on cost and to be healthier. Then, I know what I am putting in my daughter’s food or what she is eating. It might require more time in the kitchen but for a better health, it is worth it. I decided to start with making breakfast items. In the past, I had baked some items from cheesecakes to brownies, so it shouldn’t be too difficult. First, I looked at some recipes for something simple like a loaf of bread, pancakes, banana bread, etc. I thought I would start with something simple like the gluten-free blueberry muffin. Now, it is summer time we are getting lots of blueberries. Berries would be great it tastes great and kids love berries. I wanted the muffins to be moist, not dry or crumbly. This recipe I tried had applesauce, and butter, coconut oil which really helped with the moisture level.

Ingredient:

3 cup gluten-free flour

1 tbsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

3/4 cup sugar

7 tbsp coconut oil(liquid form)

3 large eggs (room temperature) or vegan eggs

1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce

2 tsp vanilla extract

2/3 cup fresh blueberries

1/4 cup butter

Instruction:

Pre-heat oven 350 degrees. Spray muffin tray with oil.
In a bowl, mix together gluten-free flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Put aside for later.
In another bowl, mix well together with a beater or electric mixture. Mix together coconut oil, eggs, applesauce, vanilla. Mix well.
Add in blueberries. Mix in the batter.
Use an ice cream scoop to scoop batter into 12 muffin tins. Bake until golden brown. Bake for 25 minutes.
Let the muffin cool. Once cool. Remove from muffin tin.

I gave a some to my son, he loved it. Who can refuse fresh out of the oven fresh blueberry muffin.

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DIY Skincare: Things You Should Know

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DIY Skincare: Things You Should Know

When you start off making your own skincare products at home, if you don’t have a lot of time to make everything. You might want to start small. Just buy a couple of natural skincare products and start off making one product at a time. There is a great site called Skin Deep Cosmetics Database

rates brand name products from 0-10 according to the hazard level. This will help you decide which products are safe to use.

Toxic Skincare

When choosing to buy skincare products, there can be chemicals in skincare products. It is best to buy skincare held in a glass container since plastic container can contain toxins. If a plastic container with a recycling code #3 and V, it stands for poison plastic. The material releases hydrochloric acid, cancer-causing properties that it releases pollutants, additives, and chemicals. Need to be very careful.

Choose Organic Skincare

Why organic? Why is organic important? An organic product is grown without any pesticides or synthetic fertilizer. It is better for the body. If a product is biodynamically certified, it will have Demeter U.S.A stamp on the package. You will know the product is organic.

Beautiful Inside and Out

Don’t need anything fancy for skincare. Proper exercise. Eating healthy. A diet that contains protein, good fats, and fruits is very important. Of course, you can’t forget water.

Make Your Own Skincare

Make your own skincare and save on cost. The cost goes to the brand and the packaging. You will know the ingredients in the product. No preservatives. No bad chemicals. It is something simple. Safe for your kids and your family.

Avoid Contamination

When creating your own skincare product, it is best to prevent contamination. How you can handle the ingredients if very important. Before handing the ingredients, clean your hands and clean all the containers to prevent anything from getting into the products. Also, use scoops rather than your hands to prevent wrongly handle the products.

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Learning about all the Different Gluten Free Flour

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Learning about all the Different Gluten Free Flour

The first thing I did after doing some research on the gluten sensitivity is going shopping for gluten- free loaves. I know my daughter loves grilled cheese sandwich. The first place I went to was Safeway probably not the best place but I wanted to see what are the gluten-free products at the stores. The Safeway close to my house had a frozen session by baked goods with gluten-free products. They were selling gluten-free hot dog buns four on sale for $3.98. The loaf of bread price was between $5.50-$10.00. This gives me a small idea of how much gluten-free products would sell for. I still need to shop around at other places. Maybe I just need to start baking to make some of our breakfast items. It doesn’t hurt to start baking some bakery goods.

Before finding out my daughter had gluten-free sensitivity, I did some baking and I do enjoy baking banana loaf or cheesecake occasionally. I just need to take a look at some gluten-free recipes to see what I want to try to make. Would they be very different from the baked goods with gluten? Gluten vs gluten-free. It looks like the difference is the number of flours used for recipes. Some recipes use three to four different types of flours. Do I need to buy and store five to seven different types of flour at home? Seems like a lot. What are the different types of flour? Do I really need them? What do they do? Would these flour be expensive? I want to do some baking at home to save on cost since gluten-free products can be expensive. It looks like I making gluten-free products will require me to put in more time and effort.

I look at the flour with gluten like the white and wheat flours I had used in the past to bake muffin or bread before learning about gluten-free flours. White and wheat flour bleached might not be the best for your health. It is actually tougher for your body to digest. During the process to bleach the flour, it removes a lot of nutritional value. It is best to reduce the intake of white and bleached flour.

There might be more gluten-free flours but there are four I took a looked at.

Coconut Flour:

High fiber, healthy fats, great a source of energy, great for metabolism, good to help with blood sugar level.

Rice Flour:

Brown rice flour is a lot easier for people to digest, most gluten-free pasta made from rice flour. Brown rice flour is a better option than regular rice flour; it has a higher amount of nutritional value.

Almond Flour:

It has L’arginine, magnesium, copper, manganese, calcium, potassium, helps to lower cholesterol and diabetes. High in fiber. Fantastic to make cookies, cake, and baked goods.

Tapioca Flour:

Tapioca flour is the purest type of starch. It is a thickener like a soup, stew or a sauce. Not a lot of nutritional benefit but it is low in calorie. It contains no sugar.

It is best to start with the four above flours while starting to bake gluten-free recipes.

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More About My Daughter’s Gluten Free Sensitivity

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More About My Daughter’s Gluten Free Sensitivity

The gluten sensitivity was new to me, I had looked at it in the past. A friend of mine has gluten sensitivity. I had learned a little about it, but I didn’t go too in depth into it. I didn’t know what to feed my daughter. I didn’t know what to cook for her. I didn’t know what are the changes I had to make at home. Do I need to completely change my way of cooking? I was definitely overwhelmed.

Now, Looking back to the past several weeks, it all makes sense all the symptoms my daughter was showing. My daughter’s tummy was bloated often and she was gassy. I thought she was sensitive to certain starchy food. Char had a terrible rash on her bum. I was trying to figure out why she kept on scratching her bum. We were using a natural detergent so it shouldn’t have been the clothes or the detergent. There are times where it gets really bad. The only thing I can do is discourage her from scratching and constantly apply ointment. The day after Char’s doctor’s appointment she had a nose bleed which was another symptom. In the past, Char did have constipation, but I thought she was not eating enough vegetable. Also, recently she has been sucking her thumb probably due to she not feeling well due to her body had trouble digesting the gluten. This all seems to make more sense now. Char had gluten sensitivity and her body knows it. It is good to find out early on Char has gluten sensitivity to switch her to a proper diet. I would need to completely change my way of cooking and buy gluten-free products. I do find this a little stressful. At the end of the day, it is better to know than not know.

List of Symptoms for Gluten sensitivity:

bloating
diarrhea and constipation
abdominal pain
headaches
feeling tired
skin problem
depression
unexplained weight loss
iron deficiency
anxiety
autoimmune Disorders
joint and muscle pain
leg or arm numbness
brain fog

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Starter Kit Make Your Own Skincare

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Starter Kit Make Your Own Skincare

What are the mandatory ingredients to make your own skincare kit at home? You don’t need a lot. You can start simple. What you want are healthy ingredients for your skin without any chemicals. Chemicals are not the best for your skin. If you buy natural skincare products, you should still have a look at the ingredients that make up that product.

Ingredient to Make Skincare Product

Oil is important to help mix all the products together. Oils have hydrating and nourishing properties; to nourish the skin. It is in a lot of things from skincare products to hair product to makeup products. It as a binding agent to bind all the ingredients together.

Coconut oil:

A large amount of skin care contains coconut oil. Coconut oil is one of the ingredients you should have at home. It is used as the base ingredient in a lot of the products.

Starter Kit Should Have

Coconut oil:

Coconut oil can be used for multiple things like cooking, baking, healing ointment, and used in skincare. It can be blended into a creamy texture. Coconut oil is fantastic for skin care, hair product or great for after sun care.

Shea butter:

Shea butter was originated in Africa. It adds creaminess to the product. The butter is soothing, rich, moist, and heals. It has a high amount of fatty acids and vitamins great to soften the skin.

Beeswax:

Beeswax made from beehives of honeybees use to melt down to make skincare or other products. It is used as an emulsifier.

Tools to Make Skincare Products

Glass bowls, mason jars, whisk, measuring cups and wooden spoons, kitchen scale, and storage containers.

Sugar Lip Scrub

Benefit:

Nourishing scrub to give your lip a soft texture. Great for peeling skin.

Ingredient:

1tbsp brown sugar

1tsp honey

1tsp coconut oil

3 drop vanilla

1 jar

Instruction:

Mix brown sugar with honey and coconut oil.
Mix well.
If it does not stick together add more honey.

Note:

You can use the scrub weekly. It is the best to use the scrub twice per week.

After using the scrub, use moisture for the best result.

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Spice Help to Heal the Body

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Spice Help to Heal the Body

You cook with spices. You use spices to bake. Did you know that spice helps to improve and help to heal any issues you might have? In ancient times, the herb has medicinal properties or benefits. You might want to think about the herbs that are sitting in your spice rack or in your cupboards such as oregano, thyme, mint, rosemary, etc. For example, I like to use rosemary for cooking.

Benefits of Rosemary:

Rosemary is good to help improve circulation, headache, irritation. It helps to improve memory, concentration, digestion, prevent the brain from aging, boost immunity, improve circulation, and encourage hair growth. Rosemary has a high amount of antioxidant. It helps to fight against free radicals.

Digestion:

In Europe, rosemary is known to aid in digestion.

Information on Rosemary:

Rosemary is a fragrant plant. It was originated in the Mediterranean. Rosemary is good for cooking dishes. This herb is a part of the mint family similar to oregano. This herb has nutritional value like iron, calcium, and vitamin B6. Rosemary is either in powder form is as a dried herb.

Things to Know:

It is a perennial plant. The plant last more than two years.

Things to be Careful Of:

A high amount of rosemary would cause problems like vomit, coma, and pulmonary edema. Be careful not to have too much of the herb.

Recipe:

Slow Cooker Pork Roast

1-2lb pork shoulder blade

2 medium potatoes

2 medium carrot

1 tbsp rosemary

1/2 tsp kosher salt

1/2 tsp pepper

Instruction:

Spray the crockpot. Place pork shoulder blade in the pot.
Sprinkle rosemary, kosher salt, and pepper all over the roast.
Peel and chop carrot and potato in chunks. Add carrot and potato to the crockpot.
Turn on crockpot on low for 2 1/2 – 3 1/2 hour.

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Toddler Constipation Issue

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Toddler Constipation Issue

How can I tell my child is constipated

When a child has bowel movement 1 in 4 days or is in discomfort and has a hard dry stool.

Too much dairy

The child snacks often on cheese. Dairy can cause constipation. Having more milk and not enough greens with lots of fiber can cause problems.

Not Enough liquid

If the child does not drink enough water, dehydration can cause issues with a bowel movement. You try to keep the child active by taking them to the playground all the running around you might forget to give the child water.

Child might have anxiety going to the bathroom

The child might be afraid to go to the bathroom due to previous experience. This will cause the child to avoid going to the bathroom.

Treatment Option

A good option is to make smoothies. Children love smoothies. You can easily sneak something healthy in the smoothie. You can change it up with different flavor with different fruits. Add your child’s favorite fruit. Or you can sweeten the smoothie by adding ice cream.

Recipe:

2-3 pear, cut in smaller

1 cup pineapple, cut in cube

2 tablespoon honey

2 cup of milk

sprinkle psyllium husk

Instruction:

Peel and cut the pear into smaller chunk.
Cut pineapple into cubes.
In a blender, add milk, pear, pineapple, honey, and milk.
Sprinkle psyllium husk in the top.
Turn on the blender.
Taste smoothie. If you want the smoothie to be much sweeter in taste add more honey.

Ingredients:

Psyllium husk – fiber, gentle. Soluble fiber. Psyllium husk goes through the digestive system not to get absorbed. It absorbs water is a compound that helps with constipation, diarrhea, blood sugar level, blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight loss.

Pear – fiber on the skin of the fruit. High in pectin a natural fiber.

Pineapple – have lots of fluid and water great for hydration. Pineapple has an enzyme bromelain that is great for bowel function and controls regularity.

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My Daughter’s Food Sensitivity

adminJuly 21, 2018March 1, 2021Leave a comment

My Daughter’s Food Sensitivity. I took my daughter to her friend’s birthday party. At the party, after eating she complained her tummy was in pain. I thought she was in pain because she was too full. Her stomach always tends to be full easily. Char might be sensitive to starch; she tends to be gaseous often. Or it is just the way her body is like. There are times where she just wants to play so she makes the excuse she is full. At the party, I tried rubbing her tummy to hopefully make her less uncomfortable. In the past, I attempted to help her with her with her gas issue by juicing her a drink and adding ginger. Unfortunately, she is not too fond of spicy food. Char wasn’t feeling well so we had to leave the party early.

The next morning, she had a fever. She was complaining her tummy hurts. I applied peppermint o her stomach. Char was in a lot of discomforts. I was worried about the food she ate did not sit well in her stomach. I made a peppermint tea to help settle with her stomach. However, she dislikes mint. Then, Char threw up. She still wasn’t feeling any better. I made an appointment with my Doctor. I told my Doctor Char has a fever and has stomach pain. My Doctor felt Char’s stomach and asked where was the pain. She commented how Char’s stomach is quite bloated. I mentioned to her she has a lot of gas and she is often bloated. She asked what my daughter had for dinner the night before. I told her chicken, kale, and rice. My Doctor said Char might have thrown up due to the kale. Kale can be difficult for toddlers to digest. The amount of gas in her stomach was making her uncomfortable. Also, I told my Doctor Char has a skin rash. My Doctor believed Char might have gluten sensitivity. She wants me to bring Char back to test and see which type of gluten product she is sensitive to. This completely changes the way I would need to cook. The way I shop. This was a little overwhelming. I would need to find out which gluten product she is sensitive to.

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Low Energy Caused by Iron

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What a long day. I usually start my day from 6am and it does not end until 9pm or 10pm. I finally get to sit down after a long day. I feel exhausted. My children are in bed. I have little time for myself. There are days where I wonder why I am feeling this burnt out. What have I done all day? In the middle of the day, I do have a cup of tea. I something to keep me awake or to give me some energy to last until the rest of the day. The other thing I try do is to increase the amount of time I spend on exercising. I workout in the morning doing some cardio. At the end of the night, I would do some yoga to help me to de-stress after dealing with my kids. I was hoping the exercise would help my energy level.

The other thing I find dealing with my kids is that I am no longer a patient person. I thought I was a very patient person but after having kids I don’t think I have as much patience as before or maybe my kids are just really good at testing my patience. Lately, I have been feeling a little more drained than usual. I feel like I need something more for body or mental health. I was at the library looking at health magazines I came upon an Advertisement on iron deficiency. Low energy can be caused by low iron. It was stating that it is quite common women don’t have enough iron. The low iron could cause fatigue and it is quite common in women. The product adverted is a liquid product called Floradix a herbal remedy. This piked my interest because I tend to lean more towards natural or herbal remedies. I went to a nutrition store to pick up Floradix in liquid iron; I didn’t mind the taste. It reminds me of something similar to plum juice. I need to take this in the morning and evening before my meal. I felt a lot better after a day. Floradix had various B vitamins which help with stress. I find that this product does help with my health, my energy level, and my well-being. It is a great product.

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Dandelion Tea Benefits Might Surprise You

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Dandelion tea benefits might surprise you. You might think this is just a simple weed lying around on your lawn or in your garden. If you are a gardener, you might find annoying constantly have to be weed out.

My Mom has been making dandelion tea for my Dad daily. This peeked my interest. Isn’t it just a weed. Can we really use dandelion to make tea? I did try the tea. It can be quite bitter. When I was at the grocery store shopping for groceries, I did find this in the tea aisle.

Dandelion tea has many benefits:

It helps to reduce the amount of water your body holds onto such as feeling bloated. It helps your body to remove by increasing urine output.
Tea helps with liver health by increasing the movement of bile. Therefore, it helps to remove toxins. Improve issue with eye and skin.
You can replace coffee with dandelion tea. However, it really depends how much of a coffee lover are you? You can grow your own. If you want to grow on your own or in your garden. It is best if you buy a plant from a market or places where they sell plants. Do not take the wild ones from your lawn. Or buy dandelion tea from the store.

After you have grown a dandelion plant in your garden, try to make dandelion tea:

Firstly, you wash the leaves.
Once the leaves are cleaned without any dirt. You can put them in the sun to dried it out.
After the leaves are very dehydrated.
You can roast the leaves in a pan.
Turn on medium heat. After the pan is hot, you can put in the dandelion leaves.
Stir constantly to prevent burning.
Let it roast for twenty minutes to half an hour. Then, turn off the heat.

If you have any of the above issues, you can take out the leaves and add hot water to make tea. You can add honey if the tea is too bitter.

My Mom had some swelling in her joints; she has arthritis swelling of the joints. After having some dandelion tea for three or four weeks, she noticed one of her joints the swelling is gone. Dandelion tea is definitely a very useful tea with many benefits.

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Five Flowers Tea to Balance Your Chi

adminJune 30, 2018March 1, 2021Leave a comment

Five Flowers Tea to balance your chi. This product is composed of various herbs. The herbs are honeysuckle, chrysanthemum flower, silk cotton, plumeria rubra, and pueraria laboata. The benefits of this five flowers tea is it helps with inflammation, fatigue, sore throat, indigestion, poor appetite, insomnia, difficulty in urinating, clear acne, and eczema. You purchase tea leaves and combine everything to make the tea or buy instant tea. Where you can find a package of five flower tea at a Chinese market. These ready to drink tea has been prepared and turned into a powder where you can add to water mix and drink. This is convenient if you are busy or does not have a lot of time. However, you can’t control the amount of sugar or the strength of the tea if you buy instant tea bag from a herbal store or from an Asian market.

Five Flower Tea Preparation:

1 bag five flower tea mix

1/2 bar sugar cane

Boil water.
Add a bag of five flower tea mix.
Cover. Boil for 20minutes.
Adjust the strength of the tea. Note: Too strong. Add more water.
Add sugar cane. 1/2 a bar.
Can drink hot or cold.

The tea is great to remove uric acid that builds up in the body. Each individual ingredient has unique benefits. Honeysuckle removes toxin, reduce fever, help with swelling, skin infection and helps to strengthen the body. Chrysanthemum is fantastic for colds, headaches, and inflamed eyes. There are two types of chrysanthemum: white and yellow. If you soak white chrysanthemum flower in wine. It would be good for nervous system. The yellow chrysanthemum is good for wind heat. Japanese Sophora flower (Huai Hua) helps to stop bleeding.

During days where I had to stay up late or when the kids were sick, I had to stay up late or when I had some fried food or bite myself while eating. I would make myself fiver flower tea. It really helps with my body with the fatigue and balances my chi. This tea is great for all ages and for everyone.

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Fish Soup is Brain Food

adminJune 23, 2018March 1, 2021Leave a comment

Fish soup is brain food. Fish is a very healthy meat. Fish is a protein with no saturated fats. What it is good is for the brain; it helps to lower cholesterol levels. Chinese tends to use ginger with fish remove with the fishy taste. Fish can come from two places freshwater or the ocean. Fresh water can be from a lake or from a stream; it can have a muddy taste. The type of fish from the ocean is grouper, mackerel, tilapia. Tilapia is easy to fillet. When choosing fish it is best to choose fresh fish. How can you tell if it is fresh? Fresh fish has a pearly appearance, flesh firm nad moist. If you are considering buying a whole fish for soup. Make sure the fish has bright eyes, medium sticky gills, and the skin has a glossy sheen appearance. We like to add some warmth to the dish by adding a couple of slices of ginger.

Fish Soup Recipe

3 slices ginger

1 tbsp low sodium soy sauce

500g fish fillet (slice 1 cm)

1 bag enoki mushroom

1 tsp sesame oil

1 1/2 c bok choi

1/2 cup coriander

2 tbsp onion scallion

Instructions:

Wash bok choi. Slice bok choi across into smaller chunks.
In the pot, boil water. Add ginger and soy sauce. Stir.
Lower the heat. Add fish. Let it simmer for 1 minute.
Add mushroom. Simmer for 1 minute.
Put in sesame oil.
Remove from the stove.

The many benefits of fish soup:

A homemade fish stock contains a good amount of iodine. If you don’t have enough iodine it might cause obesity, low I!, thyroid issues, etc. Fish is a brain food. It helps with intelligence. A good source of brain food. Also, it would slow down any brain decay. And it helps to improve memory. Fish is a source of calcium by improving bones and strengthen it. Fish broth provides people with a good amount of gelatin and collagen. Collagen and gelatin are great for osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Fish definitely have many benefits. It is a brain food and it helps to strengthen the body as well. Fish soup is brain food.

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Perilla frutescenes herb for allergies

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Perilla Frutescenes is a herb for allergies that had been used for traditional medicine. This has been used mostly used in Asia. It is from the mint family. The Chinese use the herb for asthma and lung issues. The Perilla herb contains Calcium, Vitamin C, and iron. The plant helps to improve immunity and it contains a high amount of omega 3. The benefit of the plant helps to fight anything harmful, especially in the mouth. What it can do is to help lower the number of cavities in your teeth. It is luteolin in this herb that helps fight anything harmful in the mouth. Rosharinic acid another chemical in the herb which helps to prevent redness and swelling. The type of redness is things like allergies. There are many types of allergies from skin allergies to breathing allergies and to food allergies. Perilla frutescers helps with allergy irritations. When allergies or airways get irritated; perilla will help by reducing irritation in the airway.

The Perilla Frutescers plant has anti-inflammatory properties. It helps to reduce allergy symptoms; it will help with serious allergies and seasonal allergies. This herb is definitely beneficial for people with allergies.

This plant can be grown annually in warm weather. Perilla grows well in the shade or in the sun. Depending on the amount of sunlight the plant gets, this can affect the color of the leaves, with exposure to the sun the leaves will be burgundy with less sunlight it is a light green.

Besides using the leaves as a tea, you can use the plant or leaves in a fruit or vegetable salad. The can be used in sushi as well.

How to use the herb:

Ingredient:
3-4 leaves of Perilla Frutescenes
1 cup of water

Instruction:
1. Boil a cup of water.

2. Put in 3-4 leaves of the herb.

3. Let the leaves steep for 5-10 minutes.

4. The tea is ready.

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Epsom Salt for the Sore Muscle

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Epsom Salt Re-energize Your Body

I had a very exhausting weekend. My body felt sore and tired. I did some exercise stretches and some yoga. I was hoping exercise would help with the fatigue. However, it did not help as much as I hoped. I wanted to do something different. I used Epsom salt. Epsom salt for the sore achy muscle. I know a nice body soak would help with the soreness. And I had a nice warm soak with Epsom salt for my body. I fill my tub with warm water and 2 scoops of Epsom salt with eucalyptus essential oil. The eucalyptus essential oil is wonderful to help with relaxation. The name Epsom comes from natural spring and it was originated in England. The salt has nutrient good for the body. It is effective because the salt has magnesium a good nutrient for the body. Epsom salt for the sore muscle.
When you soak the body; it absorbs the mineral through the skin. The mineral from the salt helps to remove lactic acid from the body. The lactic acid builds up is what causes the tired sore muscle. The skin is the largest organ of the body. The other thing the Epsom salt does is to help regulate the muscles and nerves. If you don’t have a lot of time, you can have a nice feet soak. If you stand or walk a lot, all the pressure tends to build up on your feet. The foot soak will help with the achy feet. What else purpose does a foot soak improve upon? Foot soak can improve foot circulation. The other thing the foot soak will help is the circulation of your feet. If you have bad circulation or have cold feet especially in the winter time, a foot soak will help with the situation. There are many other things you can do with Epsom salt. You can use the salt as for face wash, hair volume spray, body moisture, vegetable garden, body scrub, cleanser, hair treatment, relieve sunburn, headache, plant growth, etc.