Monday, April 02, 2007

Healthy Drink to cleanse the body

Winter-melon Drink

Ingredient

500g of Winter-melon
200g of cooked & uncooked barley (buy from chinese medical hall)
200g of sweeten wintermelon (dong gua tang)
1 litre of water
20 pieces of red dates (seeds removed)
10 pieces of Huai Shan (buy from chinese medical hall)


Method

Prepare 1 litre of water into the pot, once water boiled, add in winter-melon (which cut into pieces with seeds & skin, cooked & uncooked barley, sweeten wintermelon, red dates and Huai Shan, let it boil for about half an hour, once you smell of winter-melon fragrant, off fire.

This Drink is specially recommended by my teacher, Mdm Lee Swee Har.

She say it is good to cleanse the body and good for the smoooth flow of urine in the body. It will not be very cooling because Huai Shan is added to balance the cooling system.

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