This recipe for a purely Chinese herbal slimming soup is a safe and effective way to lose weight, as recommended by many beauty-conscious women. If you are also troubled by accumulating fat, why not give it a try? Say goodbye to your belly fat without the need to fast.
The miraculous fat-reducing slimming soup requires the following ingredients: cassia seed, hawthorn, plantago seed, dried tangerine peel, polygonum multiflorum, licorice, and bitter orange peel. You can find them all at ordinary Chinese medicine stores:
Cassia Seed: It has the effects of relieving asthma, promoting bile secretion, protecting the liver, and reducing blood pressure. It also has certain antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. It can clear the liver, nourish the kidneys, improve vision, and promote diuresis and bowel movement. Drinking cassia seed tea can promote gastrointestinal motility, remove intestinal waste, and reduce blood lipid and blood pressure.
Hawthorn: It promotes gastric juice secretion and increases gastric enzymes. Hawthorn also has the effects of resolving food stagnation, astringing and stopping diarrhea, promoting blood circulation, and resolving stasis. Hawthorn contains active ingredients such as proanthocyanidins and rutin, which have significant vasodilation and blood pressure-lowering effects, enhance myocardium, anti-arrhythmia, regulate blood lipid and cholesterol levels.
Plantago Seed: It has the functions of diuresis and reducing swelling, nourishing the liver and improving vision, and dispelling phlegm and stopping coughs. It is especially effective in the treatment of chronic bronchitis, hypertension, urethritis, and cystitis.
Dried Tangerine Peel: It contains volatile oil, hesperidin, vitamin B, and vitamin C. The volatile oil it contains has a mild stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract, can promote the secretion of digestive fluids, eliminate intestinal gas, and increase appetite. Dried tangerine peel has the effects of promoting qi circulation, invigorating the spleen, drying dampness, resolving phlegm, relieving greasiness, and leaving a fragrance, and relieving vomiting.
Polygonum Multiflorum: When used raw, it has a strong laxative effect and its active ingredient, emodin, can promote intestinal peristalsis. It is especially suitable for those with high blood lipid levels, and taking it will facilitate bowel movements.
Licorice: It benefits qi, harmonizes the middle, clears heat, detoxifies, and relieves phlegm and stops coughing. When combined with other medicinal materials, it can treat ailments such as abdominal distension, intestinal rumbling and diarrhea, asthma, and sudden severe abdominal pain.
Bitter Orange Peel: It has the functions of regulating qi, harmonizing the middle, promoting digestion, and reducing bloating. It has a significant regulatory effect on ailments such as chest and hypochondriac qi stagnation, distension and pain, and indigestion. Therefore, the first five ingredients are the main purgatives, while the last two ingredients are harmonizers. By combining and coordinating their effects, it can easily reduce excess fat and reduce the side effects on the body.
Method of taking the slimming soup: 1. One dose of the recipe: 50g of cassia seed, 10g of hawthorn, 15g of plantago seed, 10g of dried tangerine peel, 7.5g of polygonum multiflorum, 5g of licorice, and 5g of bitter orange peel. Soak all the ingredients in cold water for 60 minutes. 2. After soaking, add 6 small bowls of water and boil over high heat. Reduce to low heat and simmer for another 30 minutes. Since the medicinal ingredients will expand when boiled, you can filter out about 1-2 bowls of soup in the end. 3. Filter out the residue, let it cool, and then it can be consumed. Take one dose every day, and a course of treatment consists of 10 doses.
