This is a drink I have on regular basis.
Ingredients (yield one serving):
- 2~3 dried longan ( I use those with shells. See picture below.)
- 2 tsp dried goji berries
- 3 jujube (also called "red dates")
- 2~3 slices of dried Astragalus root ( 黄芪 Huang Qi in Chinese)
- 1 1/2 cups water if soaking or 2 cups if cooking
- (optional) some honey or sugar
Directions:
Soaking Method:
- Rinse the dried longan, jujube, dried Astragalus root and goji with water. Crack open the longan and remove the shells. Some people slice jujubes but I usually don't.
- Use boiling water for the last rinse. Drain well.
- Use boiling water to rinse thermos flask. Put in all ingredients and pour in 1 1/2 cup boiling water. Tightly close the cap. Let it rest at least 3 hours. Serve.
Cooking Method:
- Rinse the ingredients well. Remove shells from longan.
- Add all ingredients with 2 cups of water and simmer 30 min. Serve.
Notes：
It wakes you up in the morning and helps you sleep well at night, so try having it before bedtime as well.
You can mix and match with fewer ingredients, such as:
- Goji berry tea: Use just goji berries. This recipe promotes calming, relaxing, reducing eye strain.
- Longan tea: Use just longan. This recipe promotes calming and warming effect.
- Jujube and longan tea: Use jujube and longan. This recipe promotes better circulation and warming effect.
- Jujube and huang qi (Astragalus root) tea: This recipe helps our immune system to function better.
- Jujube, goji berry, huang qi (Astragalus root) tea: This recipe promotes calming, relaxing, warming and helps our immune system to function better.
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Thanks for this awesome blog! My OMD just recommended goji and astralagus for adrenal fatigue. I grew up on this stuff so it's hilarious to see white people going crazy over our cheap old Chinese remedies. Great recipes on here!
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the comment. I am very happy to see my simple recipe can be helpful to you. I appreciate your kind message.
You could try adding these to chicken soup or broth.
I hope all the best for you. Take care.
- Anna
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Goji Berries... yes... I tried those too.for my health conditions, Those sweet, red berries seemed to help, but only during the time when I consumed them. I don't want to take a drug for the rest of my life, so why would I want to take a natural supplement everyday for the rest of my life (although Goji berries are very tasty and are highly nourishing). To me this was not a cure either (and I'm LOOKING for the CURE).
Up to that point, I hadn't found a cure. I felt like a young jumbled mess. I continued to have extreme pain, but continued on my path to healing. I started to focus on myself and not everyone else. When I was a young adult, I took on too much responsibility out of a sense of obligation. This was no longer healthy for me, so I resigned from all my projects and groups. Those days to come were the best [and worst] days. I took a lot of time off work, yet began to feel so extremely exhausted. Many health professionals "diagnosed" me with adrenal fatigue & Hiv,Prostate Cancer so my situation was annoying then I keep searching for permanent cure online that's when I came to know of Dr God hands whom god has bleesed with ancestral herbs gift to heal people with disease like .Cancers,Alzheimer's disease,HPV,Men & Women Infertility,Melanoma, Mesothelioma, Diabetes, Multiple myeloma, Parkinson's disease,Neuroendocrine tumors,Herpes, Hiv/Aids,Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,, chronic diarrhea, COPD,Love spell, Hepatitis... so i make a purchase of his herbal medicines and I have being watching my health for 6 years now and I actually comfirmed that his herbal medicines are permamnent cure and I'm so happy that i came to know of his herbal healings.You can contact Dr God hands Email: doctorgodhands@gmail.com WhatsApp: +2349057214220. if you gone through exactly what I go through in terms of health conditions because really honest there is more to learn about natural herbs than medical drugs.