These wonderful red dates are wonderful to have stored at home as last for ages. They taste sweet but not too sweet and are commonly used to help restore blood loss. Brilliant in a tea (see recipe below)

Red dates can be eaten dried or fresh. In a formula the seeds are usually removed first due to their hot thermal temperature. Provide excellent energy and help the stomach and spleen extracting maximum qi from food and drink. Great blood tonie and great for calming and stablising effect on the emotions

 superior adaptonogenic herb, generally reinforcing to overall health and has a strong anti fatigue effect. Universally believed to be anti aging. To also prevent feebleness in all ages an dhelps increase vigor. Helps to reduce oxygen deficiency, evem at high altitudes, to improve digestion, strengthen mind, improve sex functions. Also to help calm the nerves and ease pain. Anti inflammatory and immune booster. Has bio directional immune activity.

Known as “the herb of immortality,” it’s amazing for balancing energy and promoting longevity.

Benefits:

Reinforces overall health and has strong anti-fatigue effects.

Believed to be anti-aging and helps prevent feebleness in all ages.

Increases vigor and reduces oxygen deficiency, even at high altitudes.

Improves digestion, strengthens the mind, and enhances sexual function.

Calms the nerves, eases pain, and has anti-inflammatory properties.

Boosts immunity with bio-directional immune activity.

Great to increase energy, slow down aging -has all 5 flavours, . It’s a good mind tonic, sharpens concentration, improves memory and alternes and unlike caffine doesn’t stimulant. Doesn’t produce nervousness infact calming effect tht improves focus. Adaptonogen good at balancing nervous system and regulating it.

The “five-flavor berry,” is a powerful adaptogen known for boosting energy, focus, and stress resilience. It supports liver detox, glowing skin, and a strong immune system, all while promoting balance in the body.

Benefits:

Increases energy and slows down aging.

Contains all five flavors, making it a well-rounded tonic.

Sharpens concentration, improves memory, and enhances alertness without overstimulation.

Calming effect that improves focus while balancing and regulating the nervous system.

warm, bitter, acrid, LU, SP, ST, regulates stomach Qi, invigorates spleen, transforms phlegm

In the modern Chinese Medicinal guides, the chrysanthemum is listed among the cooling herbs for “relieving the surface” (or “releasing the exterior”). The flowers are also often utilized to promote circulation, cool the body, preserve vitality, and provide some properties akin to those of the tonic herbs.

The chrysanthemum is sweet, bitter, and cool-natured, and according to Traditional Chinese Medicine has the potency to expel wind, clear away heat, calm the liver, improve acuity of sight, subdue inflammation, and expel toxic substances. It is used as an exterior syndrome relieving herb, pungent in flavor and cool in property, to treat wind-heat syndrome and swelling and it can even be used to treat cardiovascular diseases and hypertension due to it’s cooling and pressure/swelling relieving functions. High blood pressure is also a kind of “wind rising upward”, which can cause headaches, dizziness and light-headedness. Combined with honeysuckle flowers, chrysanthemums have been known to effectively reduce blood pressure.

When incorporated into a treatment, chrysanthemum tends to clear heat in the upper body. For conditions like the common cold, upper respiratory infection, and tonsillitis that are categorized as an external invasion of wind and heat in Traditional Chinese Medicine, chrysanthemum is usually combined with mulberry leaf, peppermint and platycodon root for relieving fever, headache and coughing. For red and itchy eyes, adding the flower to your diet can help nourish your Liver and benefit your vision, thus clearing visual discomfort.

 – mineral rich, amazing to remove radiation, cooling, neutral. In Chinese medicine, seaweed is considered to be salty and cold, and is recommended to clear heat and disperse accumulation, reducing irritability as well as insomnia.

There are many types of edible seaweed derived from marine algae, most of them regarded as a rich source of vitamins, minerals, fiber, essential aminos acids and omega-3 fatty acids. Some are used in Asian cooking, while others are used as additives in food processing. In Chinese medicine, eating seaweed is recommended to reduce inflammation, detoxify the blood, increase energy, maintain strong bones and teeth, support thyroid function and hormonal balance, and even reduce the risk of cancer.

In terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Oyster Mushroom is known for its ability to resolve dampness. In general the ancient Chinese medical texts cite that it enters the Stomach and Spleen. The flavor of Oyster Mushroom is sweet, and it is considered to be warm in temperature.

In terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Shiitake mushroom is known for its ability to tonify qi and blood. It also helps to resolve phlegm.
In general the ancient Chinese medical texts cite that it enters the Stomach, Spleen, and Liver. The flavor of Shiitake mushroom is sweet, and it is considered to be neutral in temperature.

Strengthens the Wei Qi, energetic swimming en suite. Enters into the spleen lungs and triple warmer meridian's. Can be used in soups and stocks and as a powder in breads or as a marinade for fish. Symbol with water. Great for strengthening the immune system swarming and sweet post op can also be ground up to make bread doughs pastries etc. Warming, LU, SP, Qi tonic, energy, immunity, digestion.

A powerhouse herb for immunity and energy, keeping you steady and strong.

Benefits:

Increases energy and slows down aging.

Contains all five flavors, making it a well-rounded tonic.

Sharpens concentration, improves memory, and enhances alertness without overstimulation.

Calming effect that improves focus while balancing and regulating the nervous system.

Its thermal temperature is neutral flavour is mildly sweet and is the spleen Meridian. It supports health at the spleen, lungs, kidney, triple warmer, heart and gallbladder can be ground into flour to make dumplings and use as a thickening agent. Drains excess water in the body use in cases of swelling and oedema. It's a yen tonic restores and refreshes the body and mind could be breeden taking with T you can also eat it. Looks like chalk it's from a parasite that grows on the root of a pine tree the outside is brown like bark of a tree and when you put it back is white inside. You can put in the bottom of the rice cooker cover with rice and cook it. Is good for stagnation. If have it as T simmer for 30 to 45 minutes. Good food sweating his joints water retention great for strength in the spleen.

Energetics are sweet and neutral considered a Qi tonic. Helps to stabilise energy and vigour within the body. It's a major tonic herb with powerful effects when taken alone or in combination with other herbs. Promotes inner strength. It's got your back. Invigorates spllen and lung functions so that qi is replenished and it promoites the production of body fluids. Excellent blood tonic and majo immune tonic. Good for fatigue anf for building blood. Helps to produce milk

Longevity, Yin essense, replenishing herb, grey hair to dark, builds essensec and build, inhances fertility, restroes and nourishing the JING.

Category: Tonifying – Blood Tonifying.

Common Name: Fleeceflower Root or Processed Fleeceflower Root.

Channels Enetered: Heart, Liver and Kidney.

Properties and Functions: He Shou Wu is sweet and bitter in flavour, and mild in nature. The prepared form is sweet and astringent in flavour, and warm in nature. Its main functions are:

Tonifying the Liver and Kidney to nourish the Blood and augment the essence.

He Shou Wu: A rejuvenating root that supports hair health, vitality, and longevity.

: These vibrant little berries support your immune system and pack a dose of nourishing vitality.

Benefits:

Can be eaten raw or cooked; mild sweet and sour energetics.

Enters liver, kidney, and lung meridians.

Tonifies blood and stimulates the central nervous system.

Antifungal and good for hypertension.

Can be paired with Schizandra, Romania, and ginseng as a kidney tonic and sexual enhancer.

Supports endurance and athletic performance, making it beneficial for runners.

The chill-out king of mushrooms, perfect for relaxation and deep recovery.

Cordyceps: A stamina-boosting mushroom that helps with energy and breathing.

Your go-to for boosting energy, focus, and immunity.

Ashwagandha: A grounding herb that calms your nerves and helps you sleep better.