A Chinese Herbal Tea to Nourish, Heal, and Strengthen the Lungs

A Chinese Herbal Tea to Nourish, Heal, and Strengthen the Lungs

A Chinese Herbal Tea to Nourish, Heal, and Strengthen the Lungs

Tea Name:

Nourishing, Healing, and Strengthening Chinese Herbal tea for the lungs (and cooling)

Traditional Chinese Name:

羅漢果雪梨茶 (luó hàn guǒ xuě lí chá)

Nature:  Cooling

Taste: Sweet and sour

(You can read this article on the impact on your body of different food tastes!)

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I’m making this tea out of a request from one of my readers who is from NYC and now dealing with all the crazy smog, dust, and smoke that you’ve been getting from Canada!  WE ARE SO SORRY!  Toronto isn’t as bad today, but I hear it’s going to get worse over the weekend.  Regardless, I immediately went to my pantry and pulled out my handy dandy luo han guo and designed a cooling, strengthening, and healing tea for your lungs.  The idea is because it’s dry heat, you’ll want something that’s going to help cool the body and lungs and clean it out.  You can add a few slices of dried tangerine peels as well. 

Let’s hope it clears soon and that there’s some relief in the weather with some rain to help put out all the raging fires across Canada and US.  In the meantime, stay safe and have some healing herbal teas!  Sending lots of love out there!!

❤️❤️❤️

 

This tea is perfect for nourishing, healing, cooling, and strengthening the lungs and supporting dry coughs (caused by excess heat or yin deficiency) and sore throats.

The only fresh ingredient you’ll need is the fresh snow pears, but everything else can be found in your soup pantry! 

It’s a quick boil, suitable for the whole family, you can also drink both hot and cold (although you know my take on drinking cold things as one who has studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, lol).  Enjoy! 

 

What’s involved?

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 15 mins

Total time: 25 mins

Serves: 2 cups

Ingredients

 

  • rock sugar optional, but taste test first!
Cooking Instructions
  1. Using the flat side of a large blade, smash the luo han guo until you can remove the middle of the fruit.  I will only use the dried skin for this tea.  Use about half as the golden luo han guo isn’t as sweet as it’s brown counterpart.
  2. Cut up your fresh snow pear, keeping the skin on.  I will cube into bite-sized pieces so I can also eat with the tea using a spoon!  Delicious and refreshing!
  3. In a stove top safe tea pot, add all the ingredients together and boil on medium heat for 5 minutes until it fully boils and reduce to a low boil for 10 minutes as to try not to reduce too much of the water.  
  4. When it’s ready, you’ll notice that the tea has turned into a beautiful golden yellow colour.  This is a good indication that the luo han guo is seeping out into the tea!  
  5. Serve and enjoy!  Don’t forget to eat the fresh snow pears as part of your tea!
Any benefits?
  • This soup is perfect for nourishing and tonifying the lungs
  • It helps with cough, especially a dry cough where there is Yin deficiency (or appears as heaty)
  • It’s a sweet tea that is perfect for the whole family
  • It’s a cooling tea and helps cool and lubricate the lungs

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The monk fruit!  This is the slightly less dry version.  You’ll notice it’s more green and less brown.  This one is a little more expensive, coming in at $2 CAD per monk fruit.  You’ll also notice a thin layer of sugared coating, so it is a bit sticky to touch, but that’s just the sugars of the fruit on the skin.  The great thing about the greener version is that it isn’t as pungent or sweet, so you can use half in a soup to give is just enough of that flavour.  If it’s the heavily dried version, I will only use a quarter in 3L of soup water.  This is also great in teas!!  

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To answer your questions on what equipment I'm using, I've built a section here where you can find and explore what I'm using to make soups.  Ingredients are a little harder, but I will do my best as I source them around.  However, you can always message me on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Facebook, and I will reply and try to point you in some direction!  

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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 videos, you can follow us on YouTube.

When it’s hot, stuffy and the temperatures are blowing the thermometers through the roof, this deliciously sweet and tart tea is perfect for this type of weather!

The mercury hit 32 C yesterday and what better way to cool the body than with a cooling, sweet tea that can help reduce internal heat, clears and disperses dryness, and moistens the lungs and stomach.   

The amazing thing about this tea is that you can also enjoy the snow pear and apples as part of the tea.  With the right cook time of 10 minutes, parts of the fruit are still semi-crunchy!  So delicious!  And you don’t need to add any sugar or honey because of the natural sugars of the fruit.

 

What’s involved?

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 20 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Serves: 2 cups

Ingredients
Cooking Instructions
  1. Cut up your snow pears and apples into cubes, keeping the skin on.  This helps hold it together and not disintegrate, but actually, from a Traditional Chinese Medicine benefit perspective, it’s the skins that hold the most value!  I talk about this below a little more!
  2. In a stove top safe ceramic or glass pot, add all your ingredients together
  3. Boil on medium high for 10 minutes, or until it’s bubbling for at least a good 5 minutes to really get the flavours out
  4. Serve and enjoy!
  5. You don’t need to add any honey or sugars at all!  

Snow pear are amazing for cooling and moisturizing the body, targeting the lungs and stomach.  It’s perfect for yin deficiencies (which includes cough) and reducing fire in the body and lungs.

It’s actually the skin of the snow pear that has the most power!  That’s why I keep them on when I’m making a tea with them or a soup.  And they provide a good source of fiber for the body.

Alternatively, if you don’t eat snow pear skins when you’re having the fruit, I would suggest to keep the peeled skin to dry, or freeze in a ziploc to save for use in soups or teas, but you don’t need to eat them!

 

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Sauce Name:

Japanese inspired vinaigrette (for beef carpaccio or salads or as an appetizers)

Nature:  Warm (which is primarily the vinegar)

Taste:  Sour and bitter and slightly sweet

Targets: Liver and stomach

 

For more videos, you can follow us on YouTube.

Yes!  Finally, a sauce!  I’ve been wanting to venture into this space for some time.  There is also huge benefits in understanding the benefits of the foods we consume from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective, not only in soups!

This sauce was inspired as a fusion for some boneless beef short ribs that I bought at the Korean supermarket over the weekend.  I also ended up flash frying the meat to get to a medium-rare texture because the kids don’t usually eat raw beef, so this was the compromise!  It turned out amazing! 

You can view the whole video of the dish here, including the sauce (which I think is the hero of the dish!)

 

I substituted the traditional red wine vinegars for sushi vinegar (and white vinegar because the sushi vinegar is sweet and thick) and mirin (could have also used yuzhu, will try next time!) and added half a lemon.  This balance with the brown sugar created a beautiful balance between tart and sweet.  It was truly a masterpiece!

I would suggest to taste test as well to really get to the balance you like! 

What’s involved?

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 5 mins

Total time: 20 mins

Serves: 8 people as appetizer dish (with 4 pieces each)

Ingredients
  • 32 x pieces of 1 cm thick sliced boneless beef short ribs (use the pieces that are marbling for best effect, the type you use for Korean bbq!)
  • Pre-made Korean snow pear and apple bbq marinade
  • 1 fresh white onion
  • 4 tablespoons of sushi vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons of mirin
  • 1 tablespoon of sweet soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons of white vinegar
  • 1.5 tablespoons of brown sugar
  • half a lemon
  • fresh green onions as garnish

Note:  This portion makes enough for 2 plates.  I actually used half and kept half for a smoked salmon appetizer

     

    Cooking Instructions
    1. Thinly slice your white onion using a sharp knife (or a slicing machine).
    2. In a mixing bowl, add in your sushi vinegar, mirin, sweet soy sauce, white vinegar, and brown sugar.  Mix well until the sugar is completely dissolved.
    3. In a ceramic bowl, put in the onions and pour the sauce over, completely submerging the onions and then squeeze in half a lemon.
    4. Cover with a wrap and refrigerate for later use
    5. Marinate your beef short ribs with the Korean snow pear and apple marinade for 10 minutes
    6. In a shallow pan, add a bit of oil, turn on high heat and once the pan is sufficiently hot, lay out the beef short ribs and flip immediately in the order you set them down and then remove right away from the pan (it will continue to cook a bit, but will become a beautiful medium rare)
    7. Plate and add your vinaigrette sauce and onions on top and then top with chopped green onions
    8. Serve and enjoy!
    9. EVEN BETTER…. I save a few pieces and left that in the fridge to consume the day after and it was even more amazing served as a cold dish!  Similar to raw beef carpaccio, this medium-rare version was simply sublime!!  My kids loved it!

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    6 Practical Applications of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Every Day Life

    6 Practical Applications of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Every Day Life

    6 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE IN EVERY DAY LIFE

    (A TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE PERSPECTIVE)

    Practicing and living in Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts isn’t hard!  It’s actually all about what you consume, when you consume it, your lifestyle (which includes sleeping patterns, weather considerations, what you let in and out of your body), and ultimately paying close attention to your body through observations (we’ll talk about how you can stay sharply attuned to your own body, including some part that’s intuitive!).

    One guiding principle in Traditional Chinese Medicine is the yin yang theory.  In the natural world, there exists a balance between 2 opposing and co-existing forces and yet, they also exist in each other.  Our bodies, minds, and souls are designed the same way in that to be healthy, we need to be in harmony between these 2 bipolar states.  Yin is receptive and passive, calm and slow, embodying cold and damp qualities (when we are sleeping).  Yang is its exact opposite in aggressive and active, embodying heat, dryness, and movement (when we are awake).

    One of our mission at The Chinese Soup Lady is to bring these principles into the foods and drinks we consume in order to support harmony.  

    What about Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts help me?

    In the end, TCM is about finding balance in the person as a whole.  While I know primarily it addresses more the physical construct of the body, it also does support the mental portion in some ways such as calming the spirit and calming the mind.

    Paying attention to so many of the little things (that may seem obscure and external) are actually more important than you realize.  TCM is built on a holistic (and more natural) approach that is more general than specific.  For example, looking at yourself as a whole system that is interconnected in all its parts (like your family doctor) rather than having a heart doctor (cardiologist) only look at the heart.  This is because TCM will not look at the heart in isolation and say, oh the heart has a problem!  There usually are challenges and connections with other organs, blood and Qi flow, imbalance of yin or yang in various states.  

    Drink warm water first thing in the morning

    • I want to cover temperature first (even though I know this article is about flavour).  As the stomach is the first place where food is received for true processing (in which it’s converted to a vital nutrient), cold foods will put a strain on the stomach as it will then need additional energy to heat it as the digestion process needs warmth.  This then means this energy is pulled from other organs and parts of the body that could have otherwise be used for something more useful.  And, we have control of what temperature the food goes into our body!  You can check out this video on why I drink warm water (all day long) and especially first thing in the morning when I wake!  Honestly, I even drink warm water on a run or ride… it’s weird, but did take some getting used to!

    Use warm ingredients over cool

    • You can check out this post on the warm and cool ingredients of Chinese soups as a start
    • As the stomach is the first place where food is received for true processing (in which it’s converted to a vital nutrient), cold foods will put a strain on the stomach as it will then need additional energy to heat it as the digestion process needs warmth.  This then means this energy is pulled from other organs and parts of the body that could have otherwise be used for something more useful.  And, we have control of what temperature the food goes into our body!  You can check out this video on why I drink warm water (all day long) and especially first thing in the morning when I wake!  Honestly, I even drink warm water on a run or ride… it’s weird, but did take some getting used to!

    Relax!  The flow of your Qi can is impacted by tension in the physical (and mental) domains

    • Qi is essentially the “energy” that flows within us.  It is also known as “life force” or “vital force”, but in modern day physics, it’s known as energy.  In modern day physics, there exists a continuum between matter and energy and flows throughout the universe.  TCM also similarly follows these concepts.
    • Qi for the body is what helps us move, transforms, transport, protect, warm up, and raise up things within the body.
    • For example, the liver is associated with Qi and when the Qi is good in the liver, it helps us move our blood and Qi around the body, creating good flow so that nutrients and blood can flow where it needs.
    • In contrast, if you are tense, you clench your fist, there is tension in your body (or mind), this affects the flow of Qi (and blood) and because we are preventing liver Qi from flowing, we may get headaches, foggy minds, tension headaches, stomachaches, digestive issues.

    User observations rather than “tests” 

    • There’s a balance between understanding and deciphering your own intuition about your body versus what tests can tell you about what’s happening in your body (for example, blood tests, MRIs, scans)
    • This is why a Chinese doctor will look at everything in totality, including pulse, skin color and texture, tongue size and color and moisture, the color of your eyes and brightness.
    • Sometimes, you just feel your tongue is rough and feels bumpy, well that’s a great initial indication of excess yang (or yin deficiency) and heaty conditions in the body

    Protect the body from cold and wind (conditions)

    • These are known as external pathogens
    • Cold is what increases yin and also counters what the body is naturally – warm (in temperature)!  By introducing cold elements into the body and even exposure to cold wind and weather, the wind can enter through the skin and our pressure points (you’d be surprised how many we have on our bodies that are potential exposure points!), you’re utilizing your Qi and energy (in an inefficient way) to stay warm.  This is inefficient use of your energy, which is similar to how your stomach needs more energy to warm up cold drinks and food you put into it.
    • A great example of this is how cold and wet hair, if it sits too long, ultimately does penetrate into the body and that’s why you hear old Chinese ladies tell you to not go outside with wet hair, or to dry your hair in the roots (at a minimum).  With wet and cold hair, this introduces both yin and dampness into the body, both of which create imbalance.

    User observations rather than “tests” 

    • There’s a balance between understanding and deciphering your own intuition about your body versus what tests can tell you about what’s happening in your body (for example, blood tests, MRIs, scans)
    • This is why a Chinese doctor will look at everything in totality, including pulse, skin color and texture, tongue size and color and moisture, the color of your eyes and brightness.
    • Sometimes, you just feel your tongue is rough and feels bumpy, well that’s a great initial indication of excess yang (or yin deficiency) and heaty conditions in the body

    See the mind and body as connected and whole rather than separate.  See the organs as connected and shared, rather than as individual organs.  Think of yourself as one unit, one system.

    You are whole.

     

    The great thing about understanding how yin and yang is balanced is that this also pairs with the cooking styles of Chinese soups!

    You can follow this post on “How Different Styles of Chinese Soups are Made“.

     

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    For further reading, I’ve found some more scientific and published articles.  Here are some to read up on: 

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    To answer your questions on what equipment I'm using, I've built a section here where you can find and explore what I'm using to make soups.  Ingredients are a little harder, but I will do my best as I source them around.  However, you can always message me on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Facebook, and I will reply and try to point you in some direction!  

    A great help for fish or small bones in soups, including small ingredients such as barley, fox nuts, spices just to keep everything together.

    A MUST HAVE in the kitchen!  Energy saving, cost effective, and perfect for busy chefs!  Check out my article here that explains it.

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    Green radish with carrots & corn in a Chinese herbal pork broth

    Green radish with carrots & corn in a Chinese herbal pork broth

    Green radish with carrots & corn in a Chinese herbal pork broth

    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

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    My parents came home last night from a cruise from Italy and are jet lagging and there’s nothing more warming, homecoming, and beautiful than a familiar Chinese soup waiting for them!

    I made an easy green radish, carrots, and corn pork herbal broth.  The trick to this soup is to really let it boil out.  I made it early morning and then pretty much let it sit in the thermal pot all day until dinner.  

    TIP:  This soup actually tastes even better left overnight!  Don’t forget to boil it before you sleep and don’t open the lid or cover (this will ensure that everything is killed off and isn’t reintroduced, this is how they manufacture canned food and soups in large scale!).  Re-boil the next day and you can still drink it.

     

    Traditionally in the Cantonese soup repertoire, this green radish and carrot soup is cooling and often recommended if you’re feeling heaty, want to cool the body, or it’s hot and humid in the summer and autumn months.

    It is also commonly found as a dinner soup, where restaurants will serve it at the beginning of the meal known as “lai tong” (or aka, free soup).  You’ll find the bits of carrots and green radish chopped up and along with pork (or chicken).

    What’s involved?

    Prep time: 20 mins

    Cook time: 2-3 hours

    Total time: 2 hours and 20 mins

    Serves: 10 bowls

    Ingredients
    Cooking Instructions
    1. Boil both your soup water (3L) and another pot to blanch the pork bones in (enough to cover all the bones)
    2. Once your blanching water boils, gently drop in the pork bones and boil on high for 5-7 minutes, until the brown foam begins to form on top of the water.  You can turn off the stove at this time.
    3. Prepare your vegetables by peeling and chopping into large bite-sizes
    4. Once your soup water boils, transfer the pork bones to your soup pot.  You can either rinse them gently in the water, or do a water rinse under warm water to remove all the debris and foam stuck to the pork bones
    5. Drop in all the ingredients (herbs + vegetables) together
    6. Cover and boil on high for 30 minutes
    7. Transfer to a thermal pot for at least 2-3 hours
    8. Re-boil for 10 minutes prior to serving
    If you’d like to quick boil this faster, I’d suggest cutting up the pieces smaller, almost cubed.

    Be sure to also buy fresh, firm green radish.  You’ll know they’re fresh because they are super hard to touch and you can’t really squeeze them.  When they get soft, squishy (but not leaky), they’re already drying out and aging.

    This combination of green radish and carrots are amazingly delicious!  Some people will also add white radishes, which makes the soup even more cooling, and corn is also a nice addition!  Enjoy!

     

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