To achieve safe, healthy, and effective weight loss, try these 8 traditional Chinese herbal soups!
1. Preventing Cold and Astragalus Soup
Ingredients: 6g of Preventing Cold, 15g of Astragalus, 10g of White Atractylodes, 9g of Roasted Licorice, 6g of Fresh Ginger, 4 Chinese Dates. Boil in water and drink twice a day.
2. Lotus Leaf and Atractylodes Soup (for Hypertension-related Obesity)
Ingredients: Equal parts of Lotus Leaf, Atractylodes, White Atractylodes, Amur Cork Tree Bark, Achyranthes Root, Coix Seed, Phellodendron Bark, Cinnamon Twig, Papaya, Poria Cocos, Alisma, Hawthorn Fruit, Plantain Herb, Polygonum Cuspidatum, Summer Cudweed, and Licorice. Boil in water and drink. Effective for hyperlipidemia.
3. Light Body No.1 (for Simple Obesity)
Ingredients: 15g of Astragalus, 9g of Preventing Cold, 9g of Angelica Root, 9g of Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, 15g of Fleeceflower Root, 10g of Alisma, 10g of Hawthorn Fruit, 20g of Salvia Root, 15g of Inula Flower, 15g of Buffalo Horn, 6g of Xian Ling Pi, 3g of Raw Rhubarb. Boil in water and drink twice a day.
4. Three Flower Weight Loss Soup (for Simple Obesity)
Ingredients: 9g of Rose Flower, 9g of Jasmine Flower, 9g of Gardenia Flower, 9g of Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, 9g of Lotus Leaf. Grind into powder. Drink 1 packet daily, steeped in water at 80-100 degrees Celsius. Drink 2-3 times a day, morning and evening. Can also be consumed in the morning and evening for 3 months.
5. Shixiao Pill (for Hyperlipidemia-related Obesity)
Ingredients: 15g of Fructus Aurantii, 10g of Magnolia Bark, 15g of Codonopsis Pilosula, 10g of White Atractylodes, 10g of Poria Cocos, 10g of Licorice, 10g of White Mustard Seed, 15g of Radish Seed, 10g of Alisma, 30g of Hawthorn Fruit, 30g of Fleeceflower Root, 15g of Raw Rhubarb. For those with headaches and dizziness, add 10g of Sichuan Lovage Rhizome and 10g of Chrysanthemum Flower; for those with dry and difficult to pass stools, add 15g of Mirabilitum and take orally. Drink 1 dose daily, boiling 200-300ml each time, and divide into 2-3 servings. One course of treatment lasts for 3 months.
6. Rejuvenating Soup (for Obesity in the Elderly)
Ingredients: 30g of Locust Thorn. Brew with boiling water, take 1-3 grams each time, 3-4 times a day.
7. Ping Chen Soup (for Spleen Deficiency and Dampness Accumulation-related Obesity)
Ingredients: 75g of Binfang, 15g of Magnolia Bark, 7.5g of Malt, 15g of Green Tangerine Peel, 15g of Atractylodes, 15g of Pinellia Tuber, 15g of Poria Cocos, 15g of Quisqualis Indica, 10g of White Mustard Seed, 15g of Charred Hawthorn Fruit. Drink 1 dose daily, once in the morning and evening, for 1 month.
8. Phlegm-dissipating and Spleen-tonifying Soup (for Spleen Deficiency and Phlegm Accumulation-related Obesity)
Ingredients: 9g of Fructus Aurantii, 9g of White Mustard Seed, 9g of Preventing Cold, 9g of Apricot Kernel, 12g of White Atractylodes, 12g of Poria Cocos, 12g of Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, 15g of Winter Melon Peel, 15g of Alisma, 15g of Red Bean, 6g of Fennel, 5g of Tangerine Peel, 10g of Achyranthes Root. Drink 1 dose daily, once in the morning and evening, for 1 month.
