Kombucha Tea Health Beverage.

Homemade Kombucha health drink!

Have you heard of Kombucha Tea?

Just hit 'Kombucha tea' on google search and you will get hundreds of sites telling you about the wonders of kombucha tea.

The Kombucha Culture, sometimes mistakenly referred to as a mushroom, is a symbiotic, probiotic colony of yeast and bacteria (the friendly type). Kombucha Tea is made by combining the culture, with a mixture of black tea and sugar or green tea and brown sugar. The ingredients are allowed to "ferment", usually from 7-10 days. The resulting beverage contains dozens of elements, many of which are known to promote healing for a variety of conditions.

Kombucha tea is suppose to cure everything and it isn't something you can buy in a bottle or a bag. You need to brew up a batch of kombucha starter culture and grow your own.

I found it rather fun growing this fungus in my tea!

Kombucha Culture on 5th day! Notice the formation of the new culture on top layer.

1. kombucha 'mother' 2. Large glass container 3. brown rock sugar n rose buds
4. stainless steel pot 5 . boiling the rose buds and brown sugar 6. greentea bags 7. Adding the teabags 8. adding the culture into cool sugared tea 9. closing the top with cloth. 10. The culture on next day.

What you need to make your own Kombucha tea?

A stainless steel pot for boiling 2.5 litre water .

some brown rock sugar

5 green tea bags

15 rose buds

Holick glass jar

Kombucha culture
How to make your own Kombucha Tea.

There are many version of making Kombucha Tea, I learnt mine from my sister Pat. I noticed that her recipe include rose buds. I think the rose buds are for the fragrance of the tea. By the way, I got my Kombucha mother culture is from her.

First step is to bring to boil 2.5 litres water in a stainless steel pot. Add 3 pcs brown rock sugar and 15 rose buds. Turn off heat when the sugar has dissolved and put in the 5 green tea bags .Let it steep for at least 15 minutes then remove the teabags. It's necessary to make a strong sugared tea in order for the culture to grow.
Let your tea cool down to room temperature. A hot liquid will kill your starter culture. Pour the tea into a large glass container. Add the culture.
Cover the jar with a fine-mesh cloth or paper towel, to keep out fruit flies but to still allow air in. Secure it with a rubber band.
Keep your culture in a warm place, with no direct sunlight. A relatively dark place is best. Do not move the jar while it is fermenting. Let the fermentation process go on for 7-9 days. You'll likely have to experiment a bit to get the timing right for your own tastes. Longer period gives you a more tangy taste. Warmer temperatures will speed up the process. You will notice a new layer of culture developing on the 3rd or 4th day . That's the daughter culture on top and the mother culture right below.
While your kombucha tea is fermenting, the sugar will be broken down by the yeast in the starter, and CO2 will be formed. Your tea will start to bubble and develop a sharper, tart flavour.
At this point, you'll need to create a new, fresh batch of tea for your new culture (see the first steps). Remove the cultures from your completed tea, now you have 2 pieces of cultures, mother and daughter kekeke!.

Rinse them off lightly with lukewarm water, and place one in the new container of tea. Keep the other piece in the fridge or give it away to your relative or a friend who wants to try fermanting some of their own Kombucha tea.

Pour your completed kombucha tea into bottles. You can strain it if you like, as there will be a little bit of yeast sediment at the bottom. Stopper the bottles tightly.
Let it sit for 3-4 days, to finish maturing. Store in a cool place.

Your kombucha tea will keep for several months.

Enjoy.

Kombucha tea is reputed to help with many health problems such as: excema and other skin problems, hair loss, hypertension, digestive and intestinal disorders, arthritis, high cholesterol and more.

I'm not sure how much of this has been scientifically proven, as it seems to cure almost everything. All I can say is, give it a try.
Drop me a line if you want a kombucha culture. I am happy to give you one if you are in the neighbourhood.

Yoga Sun Salutation.

Five years ago, I attended my first YOGA Class in Alor Setar.
I liked the class very much. Its was very relaxing and I come out of each lesson walking straight and full of energy!
Two years later, I attended another class in Changlun , I learnt the same 1st Stage Yoga, hoping the class will continue with the 2nd stage...but it never did.
I read somewhere that it is good enough if you can do 4 Sun Salutations each time for daily exercise and increasing to 12 sun salutations as your strength and stamina increases.
The serenity of Yoga Sun Salutation is a series of 12 continuous movements which will tone and strengthen your whole body while increasing your flexibility.
Yoga done with proper breathing sequence will help you develop peace of mind ,dropping stress, improvement your balance, gain energy and lose weight etc etc...
Look at the youtube below......

are you ready for it???
Go register yourself into a good Yoga class!

Removing Gallstones Naturally

Many things happened this week .....
Two persons I know , was diagnose with gallstones.
I recall hearing my brother telling me about his Gallstones Removal Remedy, so I decided to contact him for the remedy.

1. Liver 2. Common Bile Duct3. Gallstones4. Gallbladder

Sharing here the easy-to-do-at-home gall bladder cleansing:
REMOVING GALLSTONES NATURALLY by Dr Lai Chiu-Nan
It has worked for many. If it works for you please pass on the good news. Chiu Nan is not charging for it, so we should make it free for everyone. Your reward is when someone, through your word of mouth, benefits from the regime. Gallstones may not be everyone's concern. But they should be because we all have them.Moreover, gallstones may lead to cancer. "Cancer is never the first illness," Chiu Nan points out. "Usually, there are a lot of other problems leading to cancer. In my research in China, I came across some materials which say that people with cancer usually have stones. We all have gallstones. It's a matter of big or small, many or few. One of the symptoms of gallstones is a feeling of bloatedness after a heavy meal. You feel like you can't digest the food. If it gets more serious, you feel pain in the liver area." So if you think you have gallstones, Chiu Nan offers the following method to remove them naturally.
The treatment is also good for those with a weak liver, because the liver and gallbladder are closely linked.
Regimen:
1. For the first five days, take four glasses of apple juice every day. Or eat four or five apples, whichever you prefer. Apple juice softens the gallstones. During the five days, eat normally.
2. On the sixth day, take no dinner.
3. At 6 PM, take a teaspoon of Epsom salt (magnesium sulphate) with a glass of warm water.
4. At 8 PM, repeat the same. Magnesium sulphate opens the gallbladder ducts.
5. At 10 PM, take half cup olive oil (or sesame oil) with half cup fresh lemon juice. Mix it well and drink it. The oil lubricates the stones to ease their passage.
The next morning, you will find green stones in your stools. "Usually they float," Chiu Nan notes. "You might want to count them. I have had people who passes 40, 50 or up to 100 stones. Very many." "Even if you don't have any symptoms of gallstones, you still might have some. It's always good to give your gall bladder a clean-up now and then.
PASS THIS AND YOU MAY HELP OTHERS!

Going to the gym!

You all know that I paid for a Diet Menu and trying to follow the 9days diet....and its been 2weeks.....

And... NO , I did not lose a single ounce...maybe I had too many cheat days in a week!!!! Ha!ha! ha! ha!....dunno leh...people tell me their diet similar to mine .The diet is only for 5days.....and weekends are cheat days where they can eat everything and anything they want, as much as they want!!! And I see them loose fats leh!!!

Consider me a failure in this diet lor.....hopefully it works for some of you.....

So tomorrow I am going to the gym.....hopefully will lose some real fats!