The Soup Queen

The next time you buy fresh corn still in its husk, you should never throw away the corn silk. Most people throw away the husk and silk, thinking that they're useless but I can tell you, corn silk is great for your body. Save the corn silk to make a healthy tea. Just place all the silk into a pot, cover with 500ml of water and simmer for 10 minutes on low heat. Turn off the heat and pour yourself a steaming cup of sweetish corn silk tea that tastes a little like corn.  Corn silk or Yu Mi Xu is a natural corn fibre that is also used in Native American medicine. It contains flavonoids that give corn silks their colour and have antioxidant properties.  I t is considered an important medicinal plant, able to induce diuresis and excrete dampness according to TCM.  Corn silk is helpful towards Kidney, Bladder, Liver and Gall Bladder. meridians Therefore it clears damp heat, bloating, rheumatism, skin eruptions, gout, wasting and thirsting disorder, hepatitis, cholelithiasis, ch...

I am sure you have seen this herb in your garden. When we humans have a use for the leaves and parts of a tree or shrub, we call them herbs.  When we don't know what they are good for, we call them weeds. I mean, think about it. That's how we think about plants and shrubs in our gardens.  Today, I want to introduce a weed turned herb to you because I have definitely seen this in my garden. I have just not known its efficacy until I bought a packet of dried wild plantain leaves! I must have been a herbalist in my last life or past life. I keep gravitating towards herbs and plants. If I had an ache or pain, the first place I would go to is my garden.  Is there a herb that I could use? Is there a plant that I could find?  I would never eat Panadol or antibiotics. I have never eaten these in the past 20 years. I kid you not. I don't like medicines now that I know how harmful they can be to your kidneys over a long term basis.  When I was in Manila two weeks ago ...