Hi there, dear friends

We are just 3 days away from the Chinese New Year of the Water Dragon. Once again, Master atan is offering FREE Prayers for Good Luck and Success for the new lunar year 2012.

Everyone is welcome to request for this auspicious for themselves, their  family, friends and relatives.

You can either submit your names here and I will list your names for you at Dhealing Forum, or you can sign up directly at Dhealing Forum and request for the prayers there

Please submit your name in the format as shown in the example below :-

 Master atan – Malaysia – reason of prayer (e.g. for Good Luck and Success)

You can use nicknames, usernames or pseudonyms if you are worried about revealing your names over the Internet.

You can also request for other types of prayers here, e.g. prayer for job interview, prayer for safe trip, etc.

May the year of the Water Dragon bring you and your family an abundance of blessings, prosperity, success, wealth and good health!

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year!

With best wishes,

choesf

Dhealing Forum Prayer Room Name List 2012

Hi there, dear friends

The new year has begun and on 23 January, 2012, we will be celebrating our lunar Chinese New Year. 

As in previous years, we will follow Master atan’s “Dhealing How To Feng Shui 2012” guidelines to Feng Shui our home for good energies and good luck all year round.

The first step advised by him is to request for Tai Sui Prayers for your family.

Whether you are applying Feng Shui in your life or not, you are most welcome to submit your names here for FREE Tai Sui Prayers offered by Master atan.

You can ask for this free prayers also if you or anyone in your family is a Dog zodiac and will be offending Tai Sui or Grand Duke Jupiter in 2012.

Below are Master atan’s Tai Sui Prayer message from his FORUM .

May you be blessed with Tai Sui Support and Protection for 2012!

With best wishes,

choesf :

Step 1 ~~~ Prayer to Tai Sui – 2012.

All members and their loved ones are encouraged to list their names in the 2011 Prayer Room for Tai Sui Prayer.

This prayer is very important as I had activated it to be …..

1. You and your family will have the protection and support from Tai Sui in many areas of your life – especially for wealth and health.

2. When you are moving outside or away from your home or traveling – you will also have His protection and support.

3. If you had unknowingly offended Tai Sui – you will be protected.

For the past few years, we had placed SCC and Trinity 3coins in the NW and North, and Piyao in the SE facing Him – these sectors were very clean when Tai Sui came and stay in our home – Tai Sui was very happy in years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and I hope the same in 2012.

With more than 10,000 people praying to Tai Sui in 2011 – please don’t miss out this Prayer, it is FREE.

Master atan.

Tai Sui Prayer Room Name List 2012

Happy New Year, dear friends!

Another year has flown by and tomorrow we will begin another year – 2012! 

Tonight, my family will have a Roast Turkey dinner with all the trimmings – roast turkey with gravy, mash potatoes, turkey stuffing, brussel sprouts, garlic bread and steamed vegetables.  This year, we have moved our usual Turkey Dinner from Christmas to New Year’s Eve instead, for a change.  

Our previous year’s Christmas Eve Turkey Dinner

Well, I have to go  now put my 5 kg turkey in the oven now.

Happy New Year and may you be blessed with love, happiness and success! 

With best wishes,

choesf

A hearty, yummy bowl of Chinese Herbal Lamb Soup to warm the stomach

Hello there, dear friends

This year, my stomach is acting up quite often and I have to really watch my food intake and diet.   Some foods that seemed alright  previously somehow do not agree with my stomach this year…hmmm,  must be a sign of getting old for me!

As usual, I would ask my lady healer friend for advice when I go to her for a healing massage. She said my stomach is prone to developing wind and the reason is due to the weather this year! Yes, she said the weather is the cause of my problem.

I was very surprised that the weather can affect our health in such a manner, i.e. stomach ailments. 

My stomach is developing wind more frequently and I end up having nausea, indigestion, headaches and even migraines, bloatedness….all resulting from wind.

Even  my husband and my eldest daughter had wind-related problems. My husband had very bad neck, shoulder and upper left arm pains. He thought he had sprained those areas somehow or perhaps, it could be due to work stress. Seeing a doctor for treatments over a week didn’t relieve his pains at all. Finally, a visit to my lady healer friend revealed that my husband’s stomach was producing wind and it was a bad case of wind that resulted in his neck/shoulder/arm pains.

As for my eldest daughter, she  experienced mild nausea every day, especially towards the evening. Her doctor checked her health and couldn’t find anything wrong with her. She was prescribed some antibiotics, but that didn’t help with her nausea at all. Although her nausea was mild, it was a discomfort and a distraction. So, I brought her to my healer friend who said my daughter was suffering from stomach wind.

In both my husband and daughter’s cases, my healer friend recommended them to take the “5 Pagoda” brand (called “Ng Tarp San” in the Cantonese dialect)  of Chinese medicine that was a product of Thailand (see picture below). She said this is the most effective solution for stomach related problems like wind, nausea, indigestion, etc. I asked her about the “Po Chai” brand of pills and she said this Thai one is even better.

Both my husband and daughter took just one dose of the 5-Pagoda Powder in the morning, before breakfast and on an empty stomach, and they did this for one week. Wow, they recovered from their pains and nausea respectively by the end of the week!

For me, I have been taking this powder when I feel I am burping a lot or my stomach starts to feel like a balloon. Although the 5-Pagoda Powder doesn’t taste good as in any Chinese herbal powder, I really love the strong minty and cool taste it has. My stomach feels immediately soothed after I take the powder.

After taking the 5-Pagoda Powder for a week, my healer friend told me to make a hearty Chinese Herbal Lamb Soup (picture at the top) to warm back our stomach.  Below are the ingredients for that soup :-

Chinese Herbs For Lamb Soup - carrots, 2 honey dates, red dates, Wai San, Yook, dried longans, Kei Jee, Pak Kei and Tong Sum

500 gms of Lamb Shanks and Ribs

Instructions

1) Bring 2 litres water to a boil in a pot on the stove top.

2 Put in the Chinese herbs and lamb. Bring water to a boil. Skim off any scum that come to the surface.

3) Lower heat to small and simmer for 2 hours.

4) Season with some salt to taste and serve immediately.

In addition to warming up the stomach, this soup is also good to improve one’s energy, stamina and overall good health.

I also bought a bottle of “Tiger Stork” brand ( “Fu Hock Yau” in the Cantonese dialect) of medicated oil which was recommended by my healer friend for applying on the stomach for relieving gastric or winds stomach pains. I had complained to her that my “Minyak Angin” and “Yu Yee Yau” didn’t help at all in removing wind. She said to just apply the “Tiger Stork” oil on the our middle back and then on our stomach areas. Then our stomach would be soothed.

So, these are my home remedies for stomach ailments. Hope you can find them in your area as they brought a lot of relief to my family. The medicated oil and 5-Pagoda powder cost about RM5-00 or so and I bought them from some Chinese Medicing shops. in Kepong.

In my next post, I will share with you a wonderful Chinese medicated oil which is really good in treating cuts and burns and can stop bleeding almost instantaneously.

With best wishes for good health,

choesf

(READ HERE for the homemade cleaning enzyme recipe)

Hello there, dear friends

After an unusual period of rainy weather, the hot and humid heatwave is back again in tropical Malaysia and the air-conditioners become a necessity again to get a good night’s sleep! 

Somehow, electrical appliances tend to go out of order at the wrong time, and in my case, my bedroom air-conditioner developed a  leak  at 11pm on a Saturday! Aaarrggghhh…..how frustrating!  At least, if it needed a technician to come and fix it, it could have chosen to break down on a weekday afternoon, right?  What a bad timing indeed!  

The thought of having to sleep and sweat through the hot night was too unbearable and definitely out of the question. My other alternative was to leave the air-conditioner on and bear with the continuously leaking water sounds ===> drip, drip, drip…..oh, one would never be able to sleep well through all that..well, at least not for me as I am a very light sleeper.  

So, out of desperation, I thought of using my homemade enzyme cleaner to see if it could help fix my leaky air-conditioner. I know the leak was caused by some blockage in the water drainage pipes and I know enzymes can help to clear the kitchen sink outlet pipes. 

Wow, good news! My air-conditioner stopped leaking immediately after I sprayed enzyme all over the metal slates of the air-cond and it didn’t leak again for a good one week. Then it started leaking again and I did the enzyme “treatment” again and that stopped the leak. So, I presumed that I should have sprayed the enzyme cleaner more often to clear the air-conditioner pipe better.

Another reason why I thought of using the enzyme was because every time my air-conditioners are being serviced by my regular technician, he always poured a little enzyme onto the air-conditioner slates after he has installed the air-conditioner after cleaning/servicing.  That was to help clear the outlet pipe for water condensation, he said. Anyway, he was the one that also taught me how to make my own enzyme cleaners.  

I found out from an electrician and my technician that the stuff or gunge that is blocking the air-conditioner water condensation outlet pipe is some jelly-like stuff and if that is the case, then the enzyme should work in breaking down or “melting” the jelly.

Here’s the method on how to use your homemade enzymes to clean and fix your leaky air-conditioner (split unit A/C only)  :-

1) prepare a strong enzyme cleaner of 1 part enzyme (strained)  to 1 part water in a spray bottle.  Add a tablespoon of baking soda to balance the acidity of the enzyme so that it doesn’t rust the parts of the air conditioner. Give the mixture a good shake in the spray bottle.

2) turn off the air-conditioner (if you haven’t by now)

3) if you can remove the plastic cover of the air-conditioner, that makes it easier to the enzyme onto the metal slates by giving you more room/space to work. Otherwise, pull up the cover as high as it can go. 

4) remove the air-conditioner filters. Either vacuum the filtered dust off or given the filters a good rinse in the bathroom and let dry.

5) carefully spray the enzyme cleaning solution onto the air-conditioner slates.  Be sure to avoid spraying onto areas that are connected to wires or any other electronic boards. For this , I had used up almost a whole cup of the cleaning enzyme mixture. 

6) give the enzyme about 30 minutes or so to clean the slates and blocked piping.

7) turn back on the air-conditioner and see if the air-conditioner has stopped leaking. If not, spray another cup of the enzyme mixture and see if it will work this time. It should as it was successful for me on the two occasions that I tried out this method of fixing the leaks of my bedroom air-conditioner.

It is best to give a few more “enzyme treatments” to your air-conditioner the next day to allow further cleaning and clearing of the water outlet piping.

Caution!

1) do this “enzyme treatment” at your own risk of damaging your air-conditioner! This is only an emergency measure for those times when you can’t get your technician to come and fix your air-conditioner.

2) if you can, try to check the air-conditioner outlet pipe to see if there is water flowing out when the air-conditioner is on. The rate and amount of water flow will tell you how bad the pipe is blocked and the seriousness of the leaking problem. The “enzyme treatment” may not work if the pipe is completely blocked.

3) it is best is you can get your air-conditioner technician to check it out and give it a proper cleaning to prevent further leakings.

Good Luck!

With best wishes,

choesf

Hello there, dear friends :

I had just received a review report from my blog host, WordPress and I am so happy with it. It wouldn’t have been a such a success without your continued following and support here. Thank You!

Here’s what I got from the WordPress team :-

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 470,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 20 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 27 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 296 posts. There were 55 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 4mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was January 27th with 2,162 views. The most popular post that day was How Was 2009? Try Using Feng Shui For A Better 2010, Year Of The Tiger.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were en.wordpress.com, live.feedjit.com, google.com, tastytreats.wordpress.com, and mail.yahoo.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for washing machine, corn, tupperware, left ear ringing, and honey.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Hello there, dear friends

Thank you very much  for visiting my blog and sharing good information here with me.  My blog would not be a success without your support!

Here in Malaysia, we are just 3 hours away from heralding in the new year. I would like to wish all of you a very Happy New Year. May 2011 bring us all more happiness, more peace, more blessings and good health.

Happy New Year 2011 !

With best wishes,

choesf

Chinese God of Wealth or “Choy Sun Yeh”

Good evening, dear friends

Chinese New Year of the Rabbit is just one month away – it falls on 03 February, 2011.

For the last 2 years, , Master atan had launched with great success his Chinese New Year Bird Releasing Ceremonies (BRCs), which were specially designed to help us clear obstacles, get rid of troublemakers and invite helpful people for the whole new Chinese year.

It included also “Welcome God of Wealth” prayers done on our behalf….a very traditional Chinese practice on the eve of the Chinese New Year…where the God of Wealth is welcomed into our homes to bless us with good energies, prosperity and wealth for the whole year.

We had bottles of blessed/activated Wealth Water which we could use to bathe with, drink, placed at our Sheng Chi (Success) sector of home, or sprayed around the house for good wealth energies!

If year 2010 has not been good for you in terms of luck and wealth, why not try Master atan’s Chinese New Year Bird Release Ceremonies

Looking back, so far in this year we gained some wealth in some areas and we met many helpful people . We even paid off some loans and best of all, our  old credit card debts got cleared. As such, I am looking forward very to having Master atan do those 2 CNY BRCs for us again.

You can order conveniently the Chinese New Year BRC with Welcome God of Wealth Prayers and BRC for Gui Ren HERE.

Name List for Chinese New Year BRCs 2011.

Below is Master atan’s announcement last night on the BRCs.

I would like to wish you and your family a very Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!

With best wishes,

choesf

We are happy to announce that Master atan is performing the Bird Release Ceremony with Sacred Fire to welcome The God of Wealth this coming CNY 2010.

A Bird Release Ceremony (BRC) is…..

1) to get rid of Xiao Ren (vile people or people that cause trouble for us)

2) to invite Gui Ren (noblemen or people who save us from hopeless situations) everywhere for us

3) and includes one year of master atan’s Prayers.

The Bird Release will be performed during the 15 days of Chinese New Year 2010, i.e. 14th February to 28th February, 2009

This year we have 2 BRCs for  the Chinese New Year :-

1) BRC for Wealthy for you and your family for CNY

2) BRC for Gui Ren or Helpful People

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1) Sacred Fire Ceremony for God Of Wealth…..
Welcome and invite God of Wealth into your house on the eve of Chinese New Year 2010 and get Blessings from God of Wealth for your house – especially at the South East Sector of your house.

Instructions will be posted later at Master atan’s FORUM on :-

1) how to made wealth water and,

2) put together a wealth cure during this Ceremony.

This year’s wealth water is drinkable.

2) BRC for Gui Ren for CNY is…

This is an important BRC to give thanks to our Gui Ren , as many Gui Ren ( Helpful People, Helpful Ancestors and Helpful Holy Angels ) had often helped us to overcome our obstacles and brought many benefits to us and our family.

With this thankful BRC performed during CNY –  we hope our Gui Ren will continuously help us and our family in 2010 to achieve a much peaceful and better life with good things to come.

A cup of Daun Pegaga drink made with steeping some leaves with boiling water for 10 minutes and then adding honey

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Good evening, dear friends

I stumbled onto the amazing goodness of the Daun Pegaga herb about 2 months ago and I have been trying this herbal drink out on my family. I am really amazed by what this herb can do and I am so excited to tell you about it until I don’t know where to begin! So, do get your cup of coffee and tea and prepare to be here for a while reading my lengthy post.

Daun pegaga is the local Malay name  for this herb, which is also known as Indian Pennywort or “Pang Dai Woon” in Cantonese (literally meaning “Chipped Big Bowl”). I learned from blog visitor Cina that its scientific name is Centella Asiatica, which is the most potent which is called Gotu Kola in India and Brahmi in Australia. Also known as ‘the Elixir of Life’ or the ‘spiritual herb’. Gotu Kola is one of the most important herbs in Aryuveda’s botanical  medicine chest.

Do visit the Complementary and Alternative Healing University website HERE for more information.

I was first introduced to Daun Pegaga by Master atan (my Feng Shui Master and a healer) whom I had asked for advice earlier this year when my youngest son kept getting sick and had trouble getting well despite being prescribed 3 rounds of antibiotics. It turned out that my son was extremely heaty and about the only herb that could help him was Daun Pegaga, which is known for its very cooling and healing properties.  At that time, I didn’t know where to buy Daun Pegaga.

Daun Pegaga is best described as having kidney-shaped leaves, growing on a single long stalk ranging from a few inches to 10 inches and grows as a runner plant in the soil. So far, I know there are 2 types of Daun Pegaga :-

• the commercial variety, whereby the leaves are more jagged on the outside (the middle leaf in the photo below). This does look like a “Chipped Big Bowl!
  
• the wild variety, where the outer part of the leaves is more rounded and even. In the photo below, the left leaf is a commercially grown wild Daun Pegaga, i.e. lots of fertilisers applied. The one on the right grew in the wild and not on the farm.

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Two months ago, I stumbled again onto the Daun Pegaga when I read that a lady in Singapore took this herb for only 2 weeks when her husband commented on her facial complexion which was practically glowing and much improved! Again, my interest on the Daun Pegaga was stirred and I began to do some research in the Internet on it….wow!

The more I read, the more impressed I became with the Daun Pegaga and I knew then I had to go hunt for it to try. I began by visiting my local plant nursery and I almost bought an ornamental plant that looked like the Daun Pegaga, but it wasn’t. This ornamental plant has leaves that were not kidney shaped but were whole circles/rounds instead…but they sure were similar to Daun Pegaga;s. Luckily, the lady boss of the nursery prevented me from buying it when I told her I was looking for the Daun Pegaga and she directed me to the local wet market to buy some from the Malay stalls.

Was I happy to have found Daun Pegaga at the market and I quickly bought 10 large bunches for RM1 (about US 32 cents) each. 

My first Daun Pegaga was of the wild variety. The Malay lady boss at the stall told me the wild type is better as a medicinal herb and it is slightly more bitter. Later on, I found some commercial Daun Pegaga, too – its taste is more similar to English flat leaf parsley.

I tried growing some wild variety Daun Pegaga and now have some peeping out below my Bird’s Nest Ferns in my garden

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If you type in the words “health benefits of Gotu Kola or Daun Pegaga”, you will find a wealth of information on the Internet. Elephants in India eat a lot of Gotu Kola daily – do you remember the saying “An elephant never forgets?” There you go, even elephants know this herb is good for health – in this case : as a memory enhancer.

I read a report somewhere where research of the Daun Pegaga was conducted on some lab rats. After just feeding some rats with Daun Pegaga for 2 days, some tests were done on these rats and compared to the results of those rats that didn’t take the Daun Pegaga. Wow, they found that the rats which was fed the Daun Pegaga did 2 to 60 times better in their memory tests! How’s that as a miracle herb

The main reasons why I am now using  this herb for my family are :-

1) Memory Enhancer

I swear, as I am getting older, my mind is getting more foggy and forgetful. I’m hoping this herb will improve my memory. Also, I have 3 schoolgoing children – this herb will surely come in handy and help them do well in their studies, perhaps?

Some people take Daun Pegaga to aid in their meditation practice.

2) Excellent Facial and Skin Complexion

When I was making the Tateshi Kazu Miracle Vegetable Soup for my family, everybody’s complexion got better and more rosy, except for my eldest son’s!

After drinking Daun Pegaga over a few weeks, his acne actually cleared up 80 % and his old acne scars actually became less inflamed and even healed! I later read that the daun pegaga is good for healing scars and wounds. And of course, my own facial complexion just kept getting better.

3) Anti-Viral Properties

Who is not afraid of a recurrence of the H1N1 Flu or the Dengue Fever outbreaks? I am.

Master atan told me first about the Daun Pegaga as an “anti-mosquito herb”. At that time, I was wondering how this herb can be that. Another healer later told me this plant has “anti-viral” properties and when I put two and two together….voila! I now understand that as the H1N1 and Dengue Fever are viral in nature – taking this herb regularly will give us a good immunity against those illnesses. Good, eh

4. “Elixir of Youth” & Anti Aging

Honestly, who doesn’t want to have the “Elixir of Youth”. I read in another research (I forgot the details…need to take more Daun Pegaga first ) about this herb having the capability to enhance our cells and get them to produce collagen or something like that…hence, resulting in us having a more youthful look and complexion, lesser wrinkles, perhaps?

Actually, the herb contains chemical substances called “triterpenes” that appears to enhance the formation of collagen in bones, cartilages and tissues.

5. Menopause

If you are perimenopausal like me, almost approaching middle age – you will understand the problems faced in many aspects of our life. The daun pegaga helps to alleviate anxiety and depression, relieve fatique by improving energy levels (indeed, after a cup of this, I feel energised shortly), and of course, improving memory and intelligence.

6. A One-Herb Pharmacy

Other than its anti-viral property, the Daun Pegaga has anti-septic and anti-fungal values, too. I noticed that while I was taking the Daun Pegaga drink, I had lesser instances of yeast and fungal infections…a real relief for me.

Other important benefits of the Daun Pegaga are :-

• good for cognitive functioning (brain/intelligence)
• good for aiding skin conditions, e.g. rashes, eczema
  
• improved blood flow and circulation, hence aiding varicose veins
• has anti-inflammatory properties – good for aiding conditions like arthritis

• has cooling effect on the body, good for fever, too

How to take Daun Pegaga or Gotu Kola

A research on the Internet will reveal many methods of taking this herb. I shall only mention those that I had learned over these few months…different people have their own ways.

Master atan’s method

Put 3 leaves of Daun Pegaga into a cup and pour boiling water over. Steep for a few minutes and then drink. Take on a daily basis. Another way is to boil 20 leaves for a few minutes with 7 cups of water. Store in the fridge and drink one cup every day.

Added 20 Dec, 2010 – Master atan said we can eat the leaves raw, too, a few pieces daily for good health maintenance.

My lady healer friend’s method

Boil 10 bunches (1 kilo) of cleaned Daun Pegaga (roots and all) with 15 honey dates with enough water just to cover the herb for 2 hours. Drink 1 cup per person per day. This is enough to last my family of 6 over 2 to 3 days. I usually make my youngest son drink more as he gets heaty so easily.

This is for once every 2 weeks, or twice a month.

A Malay lady boss from the vegetable stall

Blend a few bunches of Daun Pegaga (cleaned roots and all) with some water, add some rock sugar syrup and keep in bottles in the fridge…drink  as a vegetable juice. No boiling is required. This is more potent and faster acting. Taste is not too bad if using the commercial Daun Pegaga…the wild variety will definitely be bitter.

Blended fresh Daun Pegaga with a little rock sugar syrup added. One bunch of leaves and about 400 ml syrup were used.

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A bunch of Daun Pegaga, washed really clean with a little Homemade Pineapple Enzyme before blending

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Another Malay stall lady boss’s method

Remove the roots, just use the leafy part and eat fresg as a salad. Recipe ===> mix a bunch of Daun Pegaga (chopped or not), with 1 or 2 chopped tomato and 1 chopped onions. Add salt, sugar and pepper to taste and squeeze some lime juAnoice in. Stir and serve as a salsa. Delicious!

My large pot of Daun Pegaga and Honey Dates ready for boiling

Warning!

As with all herbs and alternative medicines, be careful and exercise caution if you are :-

• pregnant
• breastfeeding
• taking Western medication for chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, etc
• some sites suggest stopping this herb for 2 weeks after taking it for 6 weeks
  

There you have it – a really miraculous herb. Hope you can try it out for yourself and your family. This herb has been around for many centuries but I only heard about it this year. It is good that we have such a beneficial herb around and for those of us in the tropic countries that can get this herb  easily, you should test it out. Remember….”Health is Wealth”.

Good Night!

With best wishes,

choesf

P.S. Disclaimer – Take this herb at your own risk. I will not be held responsible nor liable if you develop any adverse side effects from taking this herb. Thank you.

Hi there, dear friends

A few weeks ago, some of my family members were suffering from different stomach ailments ranging from the occasional bouts of mild nausea to bloatedness and wind in the stomach.

I told my lady healer friend about the stomach ailments and she taught me some home remedies to counter those problems using soups and Chinese medicines.  She said the stomach is producing wind and once the wind  problem is addressed by taking the Chinese medicines (the easier method) or soups, then  the stomach is to be warmed up by consuming a bowl of Chinese herbal lamb soup.

The Chinese herbs used here are those that we commonly use to make soups and can be found easily at Chinese Medial Halls (shops) here in Malaysia and Singapore. However, I am not sure if those living overseas will be able to get them from their local Chinatown stores, but I think it will be helpful if you can show them a picture of the herbs required. These herbs are not very expensive. Just say that you are making soup for how many persons and they will prepare the right amount of herbs for you.

Ingredients (terms are in the Cantonese Chinese dialect) shown clockwise as per picture above (soup is for 6 persons) :-

Carrots

2 Honey Dates, halved

Chinese Red Dates, seeds removed

Wai San & Fook Sun

Yook Jook

Dried Longan

Goji or Wolfberries

Pak Kei

Tong Sum

1 Kati or 600 gms of of lamb shank (can use lamb ribs or chops)

2 litres water or 10 rice bowls of water

Method :-

1) Bring water to a boil in a claypot or soup pot.

2) Put all ingredients into the pot.

3) Bring water back to a boil. Skim off any scum that comes to the surface. Do this for about 5 minutes.

4) Lower fire down to small and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.

5) Season to taste with a little salt. Serve hot on its own or with dinner. Yummy!

Note – this soup can be prepared with a slow cooker/crockpot  and simmered for a longer period.

A bowl of hearty, delicious Chinese herbal lamb soup

Other than the purpose of warming up our stomachs, the ingredients in this soup aids in nourishing our health, improving vitality and stamina, is good for eyesight and promoting good sleep.

By putting in 2 Honey Dates, this soup is rendered not too heaty for consumption.  On other occasions, we usually use chicken in place of lamb and it is good to have this yummy soup at least twice a month for health maintenance.

Other soups that I had posted previously in removing wind from the body and stomach :-

Mint Leaves & Egg Soup

Shallots & Old Chicken Soup

Bon Appetit!

With best wishes for good health,

choesf

P.S. I will post next on some Chinese medicine to be taken to address serious stomach problems