This is a traditional confinement drink that is said to help reduce “wind” in the body and “warm” it up to help with the healing process after giving birth. These are common ingredients found in various confinement soups, teas and recipes (especially ginger). Some people make a large batch of the black bean and ginger mixture and steep it like teas for drinking everyday throughout their confinement.
For more information on what confinement is and the Chinese ingredients associated with confinement, please see our Confinement Soups page.
Ginger is to drive away the wind from the body and heal and warm. I prefer to use ginger juice, but some will also use ginger flesh and the skin. This is a key ingredient to this tea. You can add as little or as much ginger as you like depending on how spicy you’d like it.
Black beans help dispel water from the body, but also activates blood circulation and detoxification. They are naturally sweet and when pan fried, are warmed and compliment the heaty tea needed for confinement.
Rice in Traditional Chinese Medicine is used to strengthen the qi and blood. Interestingly enough, the word qi (in Traditional Chinese) is derived from the words air and rice. Rice holds significant meaning in this regard and is used as one of the key recipes for this tea!
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Soup Name: Green radish with carrots & corn in a Chinese Herbal Pork Broth Traditional Chinese Name: 紅青蘿蔔湯 (hóng qing luóbo tang) Nature: Cooling Taste: Sweet and savory For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.My parents came home last night from a cruise...
Soup Name: Korean Kimchi and Tofu Jjigae (Soup) Nature: Cool (although could be warmer depending on how spicy you make it, but this is driven by the cooling white radish and tofu) Taste: Sweet, Salty For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.I know there's a...
Tea Name: Cooling Snow Pears and Apples in a Chrysanthemum Tea Traditional Chinese Name: 雪梨蘋果菊花清熱茶 (xuě lí píng guǒ jú huā qīng rè chá) Nature: Cooling Taste: Sweet and sour (You can read this article on the impact on your body of different food tastes!) For more...
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Fish maw is usually associated with a chicken soup base, but it is just as ideal with pork. This soup is not naturally that flavorful (as fish maw itself has no taste and neither does dried lily bulb). The seabed coconut gives it a slightly sweet tinge, but you can consider adding some vegetables (like corn or carrots) to further enhance the flavor. Salt to taste as necessary – although it’s still refreshing without the salt.
The soup itself is slightly cooling due to the seabed coconut and fresh lily bulbs, but not overly. It’s also got an amazing amount of collagen and can eat like a meal if you add more vegetables.
With the added tangerine peel, this soup is ideal for getting rid of coughs. Seabed coconuts are great for nourishing and healing the lungs as with tangerine peel.
Traditional Chinese Name: 龍眼水魚湯 (lóng yǎn shuǐ yú tāng)
Introduction: A warm and healing soup, it’s often recommended for cold winter days and/or pregnancy and confinement. The turtle meat is said to be a healing meat (similar to chicken) and can be made with a variety of Chinese herbs.
Very similar to Chicken Herbal Soup, this soup contains some vegetables and fresh Chinese radish and is meant to be warming in the cold winter months. It is excellent for nourishing the lungs and adding moisture to the body when it is particularly dry. An excellent source of carbohydrates, you can add more vegetables as you see fit (mainly carrots, tomatos, celery, or neutral vegetables) to turn this into a hearty chicken broth.
One of the most basic Chinese chicken soups available. It is usually recommended by your Chinese herbalist, with minimalistic herbs and a whole chicken, it’s a wonderfully delicious soup for children and adults. It is actually designed to be the base for confinement soups, but with more herbs and can be double-boiled for extra strength. This soup is ideal for the cool autumn and winter months.
