Aloes (Lu Hui)

Source:
Aloes is the dried concentrated matter obtained from the juice of the leaf Aloe barbadansis Miller.

Action:

Drains fire and reduce accumulation

• For constipation, headache, dizziness, red eyes, inosmnia, and irritability due to heat in the large intestine and liver.


• To treat chronic constipation.

Kills parasites and strengths digestionn

• For childhood malnutrition especially as a result of roundowrm. And effective in treating ringworm. Used topically for treating burns.

Caution!
Use with caution in the case with deficiency of the spleen and stomach.

Green Bean (Lu Dou)

Everyone should be familiar with green bean soup. It has been carried down from many generations in my family. Till now, my mum still cooks green bean soup for the family because she claims it's good for the health, but never know the real reason behind it. And so, the curious me looked into the Essential Chinese Medicine books.

Of course, I found it.



How green beans is beneficial to us?
It is that it clears away toxic heat, summer heat and promotes diuresis.
Green beans is to prevent and treat summer-heat synfrome and miliaria.

Quality Herb:
The good ones should be full-grained, green in colour, hard, with pale yellowish green kernel and thick cotyledons.

Hope it helps all.
Extract from Essential Chinese Medicine- Restoring Balance.
If you are interested in finding out more, do check out the bookstores for this book. =)

Glabrous Greenbrier Rhizome (Tu Fu Ling)

Usage:
The usage for glabrous greenbrier rhizome can be for rejuventation and anti-wrinkle treatment.
It is also good for treating chronic and recurrent dampness heat skin disorder or acute skin lesions caused by heat.

Quality Herb:

A good glabrous greenbrier rhizome is big in size , heavy with powerdery, pale brown surface.

Medicinal Cooking:

Greenbrier can be used together with lotus root, pork, fresh coix, adsuki bean and hyacinth seed to prepare the following...

Greenbrier and Lotus Root Pork Soup

Effects
It clears heat and summer heat, relieves coughing and dampness builds the spleen and improves appetite.

A learning point while reading the book on 'Restoring Balance'. Some medicinal cooking recipes are included and the effects of the herbs/recipes are clearly stated. This books is really helpful in guiding someone towards TCM and allow us to understand more about the effects of the herbs.

Restoring Balance

These are the guidelines on what the book covers.

Antipyretic Herbs

• Hers for Eliminating Toxic Heat


• Herbs for reducing Intense Internal Heat


• Herbs for heat-clearing and blood-cooling


• Herbs for eliminating heat and dampness


• Herbs for clearing Astenic Heat

Purgatives Herbs

Dampness-Resolving herbs


Watch out this space for understanding on some individual herbs.

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Health Tonics

After a long time searching for the book which clearly describes about TCM.
I HAVE FINALLY FOUND IT!!!

It will be none other than Essential Chinese Medicine: Health Tonics.

book cover.

What's more, the herbs are categorized under 'Qi Tonics', 'Blood Tonics', Yin Tonics' and 'Yang Tonics'.
Each description about the herb is clearly stated, the uses, source, usage and dosage and also recipes on medicinal cooking.

a short excerpt from the book...

Qi Tonics
Tonics of sweet flavour and wamr or moderate nature, used for replenishing the vital energy. Qi tonics are usually used in the treatment of qi deficiency of the spleen, lungs, heart and other organs.

Blood Tonics
Sweet, warm-natured tonics for nourishing the blood, with a moisturising effect. They are mainly used to treat deficiency in the blood.

Yin Tonics
Cool-natured tonics with a sweet flavour, used for replenishing vital esence and fluid. There are usually used to treat deficiency of vital essence and fluid marked by thirst, tidal fever, malar flush etc.

Yang Tonics
These tonics are warm-to hot-natured with sweet, pungent or salty flavour. They can reinforce the kidneys and are used in the treatment of insufficient vital function of the kidney marked by chilliness in the back, aching loins and etc.

What's more, the focal point of the book will be the 'desciption of quality herb' column of each herb. It clearly explained how to examine a quality herb. Since the herbs found in Health Tonic are expensive, it is important for us to understand and able to examine quality herbs. This way we will not be cheated of getting bad herbs.

There's so much more to learn from this book.
I couldnt wait to finish this book and move on to the next series.
Stay tuned for more updates.

Have you ever wondered what are Chinese medicines?
Does it derived from plants only?
Or is there any other sources, such as insects?
What exactly is the use of Chinese medicines?
And definitely, how are the names derived from?

Basically, Chinese medicines (zhong yao) refers to the medicines prescribed in accordance with the principles and theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM).
They possess healing prepertires and health benefites are used to prevent, cure and diagnose disease and illness.
Of course, they derived from unprocessed plant, animal and mineral medicines.

As for the names of Chinese medicine, there are numerous criteria of which the names derived from, such as based on the main effects of the medicinal materials or based on parts for making medicines and etc.

The wonders of origins of Chinese Medicines and the herbs themselves are remarkable.

What''s more can I say when my interest lies in this.
It's just simply amazing.