1. Lotus Leaf
It has a bitter and astringent taste and has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, and elevating yang energy.
Modern research shows that lotus leaf can detoxify, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, regulate digestion, and increase fat burning speed by twice as much, effectively eliminating belly fat. It can also gradually improve the body composition of thin individuals, without rebounding.
Lotus Leaf Tea
Ingredients: Dried lotus leaf (sun-dried) appropriate amount.
Method: Tear the dried lotus leaf into small pieces, use 15-30 grams each time, use a large teacup, steep in boiling water for 15 minutes until the tea becomes colored. Drink twice a day, continuously for one month.
Lotus Leaf Porridge
Ingredients: 100 grams of glutinous rice, 30 grams of lotus leaf, 30 grams of rock sugar.
Method: Cook the glutinous rice into porridge, add the appropriate amount of rock sugar and stir well. While hot, tear the lotus leaf into small pieces and cover the surface of the porridge. Once the porridge turns a light green color, remove the lotus leaf and consume.
Lotus Leaf and Tangerine Peel Tea
Effects: Weight loss and fat reduction, also helps to relieve phlegm and dampness.
Ingredients: Dried lotus leaf, dried tangerine peel appropriate amount.
Method: Use 15-30 grams of lotus leaf and 10-20 grams of tangerine peel each time, steep in boiling water for 15-30 minutes until the tea becomes colored and the tangerine peel releases its aroma. It can be brewed multiple times until the tangerine peel has no taste. Drink continuously for 1-2 months.
Winter Melon and Lotus Leaf Soup
Effects: Winter melon is known for its diuretic properties, which not only helps with weight loss but also promotes beauty and skincare. Lotus leaf relieves restlessness and clears the mind. This soup is healthy and delicious.
Ingredients: 1-2 pounds of winter melon, 2 large pieces of fresh lotus leaf, half a pound of lean meat.
Method: Wash and cut the winter melon with skin into pieces, wash the lotus leaf, cut the lean meat into pieces, put them all in a pot, add about six bowls of water, and simmer for two hours.
Hawthorn has a slightly warm and sour taste and enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians. It is good at treating the accumulation of greasy food.
2. Hawthorn
Modern research shows that hawthorn has a good relieving effect on coronary heart disease and hypertension. If obesity is caused by excessive consumption of greasy meat, consuming hawthorn regularly can be beneficial.
Hawthorn Juice
Ingredients: Fresh hawthorn, rock sugar or white sugar as needed.
Method: Wash the hawthorn and cut into slices, put them in water to boil. When a concentrated juice is obtained, pour the juice and fruit pulp into a cup and add rock sugar or white sugar.
Hawthorn Porridge
Ingredients: 30-40 grams of hawthorn, 100 grams of glutinous rice, 10 grams of white sugar.
Method: Wash the hawthorn and stew it in a clay pot to extract a concentrated juice. Then filter out the residue, add glutinous rice and white sugar, and cook.
Note: Not suitable for consumption on an empty stomach.
Hawthorn and Pagoda Tree Flower Tea
Effects: Hawthorn helps eliminate fat and oil, malt helps eliminate rice and flour stagnation, and pagoda tree flower clears internal heat. This tea is good for digestion and fat burning, refreshing the mind and clearing the heart.
Ingredients: 2 grams of hawthorn, 2 grams of pagoda tree flower, 3 grams of malt, 6 grams of wolfberry, and one radish.
Method: First, add about 6 bowls of water to a pot, put in the radish, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat until the radish is cooked. Then add the other ingredients and simmer for 15 minutes.
Hawthorn and Silver Chrysanthemum Tea
Effects: Hawthorn eliminates stasis and reduces fat, chrysanthemum clears liver heat, and silver chrysanthemum helps with weight loss and health preservation. This tea can help with weight loss, reduce cholesterol, and lower blood pressure. It is especially effective for obese individuals with qi stagnation and blood stasis.
Ingredients: Fresh hawthorn, silver chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum, 10 grams each.
Method: Put the above ingredients together in a teapot, pour in boiling water, and let it steep for about 15 minutes. Drink the tea frequently and finish it in one day.
Note: Not suitable for those with weak spleen and stomach or high stomach acid.
3. Vinegar
The "Bencao Jingjie" records: "Vinegar has a warm nature, inheriting the wood energy of spring, entering the gallbladder meridian of the foot shaoyang; its taste is sour and non-toxic, inheriting the wood flavor of the eastern land, entering the liver meridian of the foot jueyin. Vinegar has a descending effect more than an ascending effect, indicating its yin nature."
Modern research shows that vinegar contains various amino acids and trace substances, which can promote beauty, dissolve fat, eliminate fatigue, and also soften cardiovascular vessels. It is an excellent product for weight loss and reducing cholesterol.
Vinegar-Preserved Apples
Effects: Beauty and weight loss, clearing heat and generating fluid. It has a good relieving effect on hyperlipidemia and obesity.
Ingredients: 600 grams of apples, 500 grams of vinegar.
Method: Peel and cut the apples into pieces of suitable size. Pour the vinegar into a bottle, and then add the apple pieces. Seal the bottle and let it sit for about 5 days before consuming. Take 80 grams twice a day, continuously for 2 months.
Vinegar-Marinated Cucumber
Effects: Not only helps with weight loss and fat reduction, but also has a good relieving effect on arteriosclerosis and hyperlipidemia.
Ingredients: 1000 grams of cucumber, 1200 grams of vinegar, salt as needed.
Method: Wash the cucumber and cut it into strips, marinate it with salt for about half an hour, drain the cucumber's moisture, then put the cucumber strips into a bottle, and seal it with vinegar for 3 to 5 days. Consume twice a day, 100 grams each time, continuously for 3 months.
