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Eight Treasure Tea has always been adored by tea drinkers especially in Mainland China, NingXia. Besides its nice aromatic smell and sweet taste, its many medical benefits is also one of the reasons why the Chinese take it on a daily basis. Eight Treasure Tea promotes blood circulation and improves the body's vital energy. It also improves our appetite and eyesight. On the outside, it can improves ones complexion, and (another good news for the ladies) it also relieves abdominal pain during menstruation. And this is what you need to start brewing a simple yet heavenly tea...

Ingredients:



Preparation:

1. Rinse ingredients 1 - 8 with lukewarm water. Sieve till dry.
2. Brew the concoction with 300 ml of hot water in a teapot. 
3. Let it soak for 10 -15 minutes.
4. Serve while hot. 

准备方式 :

1. 用热水冲洗材料 1 至8。
2. 将 300ml 的烧水跟材料浸泡在茶壶里。
3. 让材料浸泡10 至15分钟即可饮用。
4. 趁热品尝。

Ingredients:

North Chinese almond/北杏 - 70g
South Chinese almond/南杏 - 130g
Fresh milk/鲜奶 - 1lit
Rock sugar/冰糖 - 150g
Hot water/热水 - 0.5 lit





Preparation:

1) Wash the Chinese almonds and soak in 0.5 lit of hot water for 1 hour.
2) Pour the Chinese almonds together with the water into a blender and blend till it becomes almond juice.
3) Pour the almond juice into a pot, bring to boil and switch to smaller fire to boil for 20 minutes. Constantly stir to prevent overheating. (Add in additional water to make sure the almond juice dissolve fully）
4) Add the rock sugar and stir. Filter using a strainer.
5) Add in fresh milk and the tea is ready to be served.
6) For better taste, chill it before serving.

Benefits:
1) Clears away lung heat and reliefs asthma
2) Improve complexion
3) Dispel heatiness
4) Relief of constipation

Ingredients:

1) Chrysanthemum/菊花 - 20g
2) Prunellae Vulgaris/Selfheal/夏枯草 - 20g
3) Cassia Seed/决明子 - 20g
4) Water/水 - 3bowls
5) Rock sugar




Direction:

1) Rinse the ingredients and bring to boil with 3 bowls of water.
2) Boil the mixture till amount equates to 1 bowl of water.
3) Add in rock sugars (amount depending on how sweet you want it to be)
4) Consume while warm.

Benefits:

1) Cleanse the liver
2) De-stress
3) Relief of constipation

Ingredients:

1) Small chicken
2) Salt
3)1litre of water

Chinese herbs:

1) Radix Codonopsis/党参 - 25g (2 stalks)

2）Black Astragalus Root/北芪 - 7g (2 pieces)

3) Red Dates/红枣 - 2g (10 pieces)

4) Wolf berries/枸杞子 - 15g

5) Szechwan Lovage Rhizom/川芎 - 5g (3 pieces)

6) Chinese dried yam/淮山 - 20g

7) Tuckahoe/茯苓 - 20g

8) Fragrant solomon seal rhizome/玉竹 - 50g

9) Cordycep flowers/虫草花 - 5g


Directions：
1) Rinse all the ingredients (except wolfberry) with water.
2) If your red dates have seeds, remove seeds to reduce the heat properties.

3) Boil the small chicken for 5 minutes to remove the oil. Pour away the water and put the chicken aside.
4) Pour 4 bowls of water (amount of water depends on desired concentration) into the pot and bring to boil.
5) Add in the ingredients together with the chicken (without wolfberry) and a tablespoon of salt when the water starts to boil.
6) Boil for 1/2 hour.
7) 5 mins before the 1/2 hour is up, add in the wolfberry. The soup is ready to be served.