10 Essential Chinese Herbs in my Pantry (Part 1) | A Chinese Medicine Practitioner’s Guide

If you want to start to incorporate Chinese Herbs in your cooking and diet what would be the herbs that you would keep in your pantry. Let me share my favorite top 10 Chinese herbs that are versatile easy to use and easy to pair with other food or herbs. They are delicious and they can be used in your herbal tea or herbal soap or dishes, to warm you up, to clear your heat, or to boost your energy, to calm your mind, or to relieve minor symptoms.

I got you covered in these 10 popular and safe Chinese herbs. Hi everyone, welcome to Chinese Herbal Pantry.

My name is Shirley. I’m a Chinese medicine practitioner and a Western medicine pharmacist in Australia. This channel is about how to improve general well-being and to relieve minor symptoms by using Chinese herbs at home effectively and most importantly safely.  You probably always are curious or believe in the healing power of Chinese herbs and are inspired to want to start incorporating Chinese herbs in your everyday cooking.

You want to keep some delicious, nutritious, and commonly used Chinese herbs in your pantry.

So, they are there when you need them.  But there are so many Chinese herbs which ones should you keep in your pantry. One of my online  course students I have asked this question before, which I already answered in this video. However,  in that video, I literally just gave them the 10 herbs without explaining what their functions and  how to use it because they have gone through my course they know what I’m talking about but for  some of you probably don’t know what those herbs are, how to use them and this is why I’m creating  this two-part video series – the Top 10 herbs for your pantry. Please note that I will still go  through the properties of the herbs, the Chinese medicine functions, and how to use them quite  quickly in this video, assuming that you already have some basic understanding of Traditional  Chinese Medicine.

Please do more reading and learning yourself with some credible websites and  Chinese medicine books. If you are not that kind of person who can do self-study and would like to ask questions to someone that have experience, you can consider joining my online course which I’m going to teach soon. If you are interested to learn more about the course, please go to this link to join the waitlist, so you’ll be the first to be notified when I launch my course.

In this course, I teach you how to basically create your own Chinese herbal pantry, and I’ll give you recipes that suit you and teach you how to modify them for your own use. Okay, without further ado, let’s start with the list, as you can see on the screen here or you can see on the table here.

These are the top 10 herbs or healthful food ingredients that I think will be great for your pantry. Of course, you don’t have to buy them all at once. You can start with one or two, or a few of them, and then as you get more comfortable with cooking and learning. And understanding the  herbs and learning how your body responds to the herbs, then you can slowly build up your  own Chinese herbal pantry.

These ten herbs have a variety of functions that are able to support your general well-being, to help you through the four seasons and to relieve minor symptoms.

If you learn the simple and appropriate combination that suits your own needs, these ten herbs should be quite easy to find in your local Chinese herbal stores or local Asian grocery shop. I will talk  about five herbs in this video and the other five in the next video. Otherwise, this video  is going to be too long so we’re going to start with this plate which there are five herbs here So the first one is the goji berry.

Okay so the goji berry in Chinese is Gou Qi Zi (枸杞子) and in Cantonese sometimes we just call it “Gay zi” okay So, the thermal property is neutral, and we classified it as Yin tonic. The Chinese medicine’s function is to nourish the ‘Essence’, the Yin, and the Chinese Medicine Blood, and it also can support the Eye Health.

Many of you would have known, or already heard about it, or even tried it because it has made popular or even trendy in the West when it was found to be a type of superfood in recent years.

Yet it has been  used for thousands of years in Asia. Goji berries are widely available in many grocery shops now in Western countries or health food stores. I wish eventually many other Chinese herbs would be as accessible as Goji berry now. So, Goji berry is neutral according to Traditional Chinese Medicine.

So, you don’t have to worry about it too much whether you are a cold or ‘heaty’ person or whether you could use it. It tends to be quite safe and that’s why in Australia  a lot of them mix it with their granulas or their cereals in the morning it is sweet and  very easy to incorporate in your everyday diet you could eat it as snacks you can sprinkle to  your cereal your yogurt or your smoothie or you can make it as herbal tea you could add  them to your herbal soup in my first video of this channel is actually goji berry and  the Chrysanthemum flower for Eye Health the soup recipe that.

I share here often  have a small handful of goji berry because it is give a gentle sweetness to the soup  it’s not only adds the health benefits to the soup it also makes the soup more pleasant to  our eyes because of its red color they are so versatile hence they are truly loved by many okay and the second herbs new medicine black and calm the spirit the Chinese name is Cantonese is this one is another very  popular Chinese soup it’s often used together with the goji berry and you can see in many of my soup  recipe.

I use them a lot together for the same reason for its sweetness for its color and for  its additional health benefits which is for to 25 hour Chi and to 25 hour Chinese medicine blood and  it’s often here to be able to add healthy color to a very pale face so in age a lot of women like to  eat this however its thermal property is warm so be aware if you are very prone to hit size don’t  use it that often or remove the pits because it will help to reduce the warmth the other reason  that’s very popular is also because it can calm our Shin which means calm our mind or spirit so we  do use it for relaxation which.

I already explained in one of the video in this channel you can go and  watch how to combine with other herbs to enhance the ocean coming or Spirit coming properties that helps to keep in your pantry is Ginger is a food is a spice that is everybody know about  it but you’ll probably be surprised to hear Ginger is considered a very important Chinese herb even  in the medicinal herbal decoction we do add Ginger to our herbal tic options Ginger is classified as  an exterior releasing herbs.

I have already briefly explained what it’s mean in this video here in the western medical term the closest term or description that I can use to describe that is to relieve common cold symptoms but it’s the common cold that without sore throat because this herb is warming.

I mean this is not exactly what it’s mean in exterior releasing but it’s close enough so because this is warming it’s great for winter or any time that you need the warmth in your body especially when you feel the cold in the middle.

I mean in the stomach area I have also make a video  on how to use ginger in everyday life and you can combine it in various different ingredients  enhance its function and flavor you can use it to warm yourself up to relieve minor common cold  symptoms such as mild cough you can also use it to release nauseous and vomiting or relieve  mild period pain that is caused by cold you can check out this video to learn more about it so.

I  think everyone should keep ginger in your pantry regardless of whether you believe Chinese medicine  or not because basically it’s a food and it’s a spice that you can use in many dishes or tea so the fourth Chinese herbs that you should keep in your pantry is Chrysanthemum flower the Chinese  name is Junhua Cantonese is so the thermal property of this is cool or cooling it’s also classified  as an exterior releasing herbs many use it to clear heat because of one of the traditional  Chinese medicine function it’s able to clear heat it have to really painful swollen and red eyes it  also can calm the Chinese medicine liver and it has a gentle relaxation so relaxing function for  us it’s often brewed at Chinese herbal tea for the birth signs and symptom I just mentioned.

I  previously said that it can combine well with the goji berry to support our Eye Health when  you are very tired with your eyes dry eyes red eyes or swollen eyes in contrast to Ginger the  chihua or chrysanthemum flour can help to relieve common cold symptoms that start with a sore throat  or heat sign such as filling warm at the start of the common cold or constipation or yellowish mucus  but do note that if the yellowish mucus need to be checked by the doctor first or pharmacist to  see where there is a bacterial infection otherwise you can use the Chrysanthemum flower to help you  clear the heat signs in the early stage of the common cold that start with the sore throat the  other way to use a Chrysanthemum flower is you can pair with other herbs such as some of the  flour that.

I suggested here in this video to help you to relax and to calm your mind the fifth ingredient that you should keep in your pantry is the Shania sometimes we call  in Cantonese is paisan the one that I keep here is the slightly different cut this is just the  cut and dry it doesn’t press it a lot of them that you see or you can buy from your herbal  shop that is like nice long flat white sand those are the slightly different way of processing they  cut it and then they press flat this one is just cut without pressing which.

I start using they’re  quite good so less processing is good and you can also easily find the fresh one this day  in your Market Chinese yam thermal property is neutral it’s classified as a chi tonic it can 25  the Chinese medicine spleen lung and Kidney Chi it’s often used for General well-being it can  also help to relieve fatigue stool due to weak digestion lack of appetite or mild sore back we  often use it in Chinese herbal soup the flavor is actually very gentle it doesn’t overpower.

The flavor of other ingredients in the soup so it can easily combine with a lot of other herb  it’s called Chinese yen because it’s actually a food ingredient in China if you can find a fresh  version you can shred it slice it and stir fry it with other vegetables or you can simply put  in your soup like adding potatoes in your soup because these also have a starchy property so  we’ll kind of gently thicken your soup it is quite nice to have it in your soup in one of  my video here is one of the four herbs for the four Minister soup to use for General well-being  or to boost our energy and our immunity okay that’s all for this video so don’t forget to  subscribe and click the notifications Bell so when I release the second video you will  be notified immediately.

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