The Soup Queen

Senduduk putih  I was visiting a friend's garden in Balik Pulau when his father pointed to this shrub with fragrant white flowers. He said it was full of medicinal properties but he didn't know what it was called. And the flowers could be infused as a tea to reduce high blood pressure. I was intrigued as I always am whenever I find out about a new plant. I couldn't stop researching and finally I found out the name of this plant. It's called senduduk putih (Melastoma decemfidum). Now what does this plant do? Actually plenty. The flowers are used to heal persistent coughing. It is also believed that its flowers can help children with slow speech development. Its leaves can be pounded and mixed with fresh turmeric to cure diarrhoea and bloody stool. According to this website : The leaf and root extracts are used to treat diarrhoea, dysentery, epilepsy and rheumatism. Shoots are ingested to treat puerperal infections, high blood pressure and diabetes while j

The past few months have been hectic and that is why the blogs suffer - I haven't had the energy or the time to blog! And it's now 2019 so it means I haven't been blogging for many months. But I also want to tell you what's happened in the past year. Hello there! Nic and I took this selfie recently in Kuching I have been diligently drinking my Ba Zhen Tang every week. Remember when I said I was looking for a sinseh to help me with my hair fall issues? Well, that was in February last year. Priscilla who is in her 30s trained as a sinseh and she runs her family's medical hall in Paya Terubong. While it isn't terribly far, I still need to make that trip to her shop to get my supply of Ba Zhen herbs. I find her herbs of better quality and the formula she uses is quite palatable and smooth to the palate. That's the only reason why I go back to her shop. She doesn't have a good sinseh's touch and can be rather millennial in her attitude (whi