WOMEN’S HEALTH 女士保健

Family and work lives increasingly influence contemporary women. It can easily result in a lack of physical activity and health harmonization, leading to qi and blood deficiency, cold hands and feet, paleness and other ailments. Chinese medicine practitioners consider these symptoms as a consequence of cold stagnation in the body, yang deficiency in the kidney, qi stagnation and blood stasis which can induce poor blood circulation and women's health issues such as menstrual pain and disorders. It is therefore important for women to replenish vital energy for blood and the uterus so as to treat the organs, meridian and blood deficiency.

Si Wu Tang (Four substance decoction) with Motherwort (溫經益母草四物茶)

Stimulate qi circulation and nourish blood, relieve menstrual pain and discomfort, promote menstrual flow.

Ingredients:

Motherwort 9g, Dongquai 6g, Shu Di Huang (Rehmannia) 6g, Szechuan lovage 4.5g, White peony root 9g, Brown sugar (Q.S.)

Method:

1. Rinse the ingredients and put them in a soup bag.

2. Place the soup bag in a cook pot and add 1,000ml of water.

3. After reaching a boil on high heat, continue cooking on low heat for 20 minutes.

4. Add brown sugar to taste.

The tea is not suitable for pregnant women, those with excessive menstruation, or those with an excess of heat caused by yi deficiency; as well as heat-fire pathogen.