When a virus, cold, or flu has you down, my go to hot drink is usually a Chinese Herbal tea that addresses my illness.  Lately, I have been tackling yet another virus strain that has left me with a cough and my Chinese Herbalist recommended this easy, smooth, vitamin C packed Chinese tea to address my cough and heal my lungs.

It’s a tea because I don’t use meats or bones, but I don’t actually put any tea leaves in it.  The key ingredient is the dried seabed coconut (which is a lung healer and addresses coughs).  Also throw in some dried snow pears, dried apricot kernals (north and south), dried lily bulbs, dried tangerine peel, sugared dates, and fresh apples.

Ingredients

• 3 fresh apples, halved
• 1 large piece of Fu Ling or Tuckahoe
• 1 tablespoon of north and south apricot kernals
• 1 tablespoon of dried tulip bulbs
• 2 sugared dates
• 1 piece of dried tangerine peel
• 1 cup of dried seabed coconut
• 4 cups of water

Cooking Instructions

1. Boil your water in a ceramic pot
2. Half your apples, keeping the skin on (so they don’t completely disintegrate into the tea)
3. When your water boils, add all the ingredients in together
4. Boil on medium for 2 hours
5. Let cool, serve and enjoy!
6. Or follow along in the video

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