I’m a Chinese and I drink Chinese tea, yet, I didn’t know that oolong tea helps people with eczema ! This tells me that continuous learning is really important.
While I was at a seminar recently, a fellow attendee from Japan advised me to drink lots of oolong tea when eczema hits me. Touch wood, that did not happen. However, a friend had a pretty bad break-out and is willing to try anything. Of the 9 tips I shared, she chose oolong tea. She prepared a flask of oolong tea and brought it to work. She drank lots of water and oolong tea for that day. The next day, I got her text message.
To my amazement, she said the oolong tea worked like magic. Within 24 hours of consuming oolong tea, her itch and inflammation lessened.
Almost a week later, I got another text message. She reported that her angry lesions disappeared within 6 -7 days. What was simply remarkable was there were hardly any scars.
Why does oolong tea work so well? I couldn’t find any concrete studies on the subject but I suspected it could be the antioxidant, polyphenols, that are present in oolong tea. They have anti-allergic properties and calm the overactive immune response.
Let me know if you have used oolong tea to treat eczema.
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Additional “Homemade Eczema Treatment” by Vivienne Quek
We are pleased to welcome yet another writer to enhance our sharing over at Nurture Your Own. Jerry maintains his own site that talks about Africa Safari. Really cool. He has joined us to share his knowledge and experience on living a healthy lifestyle the good old-fashioned African Way.
We are certainly excited to learn more about this and we hope that all of you will enjoy reading Jerry’s contributions as much as I am sure I would.
Welcome aboard, Jerry!
We started Nurture Your Own with a few of us writing about our interests in healthy living and growing sprouts. Then we invited writers to join us. We were happy to get a few good posts going. So, imagine my surprise when I saw this:
Then I realised that this was due to just two excellent articles! One was Facts of Strokes and the Warning Signs by our new writer Bokjae and the other was 6 Steps to Flatten Your Abs by Vivienne. For those who wonder if this is for real, click on the image above to see the full page including the url address bar.
Well, this came at the same time as we found out that we were graciously ranked #7 over at Check Up Today’s Top 20 Blogs. Christmas sure came early this year!
We are not some web business gurus. We are just sprouting and healthy lifestyle enthusiasts. We are really happy to have to many views, that’s all. Just to share our joy and crow a little. Then we shall go back to writing nice posts about healthy foods, care for stroke and other good stuff.
In an earlier post, I shared that I used a plastic strainer, a pair of chopsticks and a plate to grow my sprouts. I like to share my latest experiment which proves to be a great choice.
I now use a stainless steel flour sieve, easily found in supermarket or baking shop. Flour sieve can in different made and sizes. The picture here shows you the stainless steel and plastic options. The stainless steel flour sieve I chose is about 8 inches in diameter which meant I
can grow enough sprouts for myself with some leftover to keep in the fridge for the next day.
Why do I like the flour sieve better than the strainer?
1) The stainless steel body and the wire-mesh bottom is sturdy. The weight of beans and water does not make the bottom “sink” like the plastic strainer.
2) The 2 handles at the side made it easier to grip.
3) The sieve can stand on top of a plate, a bowl or a tray without taking much space. The handle of the plastic strainer sometimes pose a hazard as I had accidentally knock it off once too often.
You can buy a sprouting jar or a sprout dome but you may be better of using these common kitchenware as recommended in the highly recommended Crash-course in Sprouting @ Home. The advantage is you can use that same kitchenware for other purposes when you are not sprouting.
Highly Recommended:
AmazingSprouts.com to get started with sprouting in just 5 days flat.
Healthy-E-Meals.com for easy to prepare healthy recipes.
The Raw Secrets – The Raw Food in the Real World by Frederic Patenaude
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10 Great Benefits to Eating Alfalfa Sprouts
10 Great Benefits of Eating Raw Food & Juice
Alfalfa Sprouts Protect Against Cancers & Osteoporosis
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Eat Sprouts To Cure Eczema
Eat Sprouts to Treat Acne
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