Weight loss has always been a hot topic for us, especially for female friends who have a strong desire to lose weight and slim down. We know that in order to lose weight, we need to control our diet. Here, we recommend 5 weight loss herbal recipes that will make you eat beautifully.
Herbal Recipe 1: Lotus Seed and Barley Porridge
Ingredients: 1 fresh lotus leaf, 50g barley, 30g glutinous rice.
Instructions: Wash and tear the fresh lotus leaf, boil it to extract the juice and remove the residue. Cook the lotus leaf juice with barley and glutinous rice to make porridge. Eat it for breakfast for more than a month.
Recommended Reason: Lotus leaf has a clear and fragrant aroma, which can eliminate dampness and fat. Barley can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, promoting fat burning. The combination of the two is powerful for weight loss.
Herbal Recipe 2: Goji Chrysanthemum Mulberry Parasitic Weight Loss Tea
Ingredients: 3g chrysanthemum, 3g goji berries, 5g Chinese yam, 1g mulberry parasitic, appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Instructions: Wash the ingredients and boil them with five bowls of water for thirty minutes. Add brown sugar and continue boiling for ten minutes. Drink it as tea.
Recommended Reason: Suitable for people with high blood pressure and high blood lipids caused by kidney and spleen deficiency, as well as those with weak waist and knees, loose stools, reduced appetite, fatigue, blurred vision, or dry eyes.
Herbal Recipe 3: Braised Carp with Garlic and Winter Bamboo Shoots
Ingredients: 1 live carp, 100g winter bamboo shoots, 50g garlic, 10g ginger, 10g soy sauce, appropriate amount of corn oil.
Instructions: Gut the live carp and remove the gills and scales. Fry it in corn oil until golden yellow. Slice the winter bamboo shoots, slice the garlic, and cut the ginger into small pieces. Stir-fry them together with the fried fish and soy sauce.
Recommended Reason: Carp has a diuretic effect and its lipid-lowering effect is better than other fish. Winter bamboo shoots are rich in fiber, which can eliminate excess fat and cholesterol through bowel movements. Ginger and garlic can purify the blood, lower cholesterol, and dissolve fat.
Herbal Recipe 4: Papaya Salmon Head Soup
Ingredients: 1 green papaya, 1 salmon head, 3 slices of ginger, a pinch of salt.
Instructions: Peel and cut the green papaya into pieces. Wash the salmon head and chop it into pieces. Put 1000ml of water into a pot and add all the ingredients. Boil for 10 minutes and then simmer on low heat until the papaya and salmon head are tender. Finally, add salt according to your taste.
Recommended Reason: Papaya contains papain, and the papain in green papaya is about twice as much as that in ripe papaya. These papains can not only break down proteins and carbohydrates, but also break down fat, remove excess fat, shrink fat cells, promote metabolism, and eliminate excess fat in a timely manner, thus achieving the goal of weight loss!
Herbal Recipe 5: Lotus Seed Slimming Soup
Ingredients: 30g lotus seeds, 30g foxnuts, 50g coix seed, 8g longan meat, 300g pork, 2 honey dates.
Instructions: Blanch the pork, clean all the ingredients, boil 10-12 bowls of water, add all the ingredients, boil on high heat for 10 minutes, then simmer on low heat for 2 hours, season to taste.
Recommended Reason: This soup can nourish the spleen and generate qi and blood, promote blood circulation, and make the complexion rosy. Longan meat in the soup has the effect of replenishing qi and nourishing blood, while lotus seeds can nourish the heart and invigorate the spleen, and coix seed has the functions of whitening and reducing swelling. It can invigorate the spleen and replenish qi, nourish blood and moisturize the skin, whiten the skin, and improve obesity.
