How To Cook Your Herbs

IMPORTANT NOTE:   The cooking pot used to prepare the herbs MUST be made of clay, glass, or stainless steel, with cover.

STEP 1:    Soaking your herbs.     Soak 1 bag of your herbs in 2½ to 3 cups of water for 30 minutes or more.  Soaking releases the essence of the medicine into the water.  Two to three hours is not too long to soak your herbs. 

STEP 2:    Boiling your herbs for the first dosage.

1. Cover the pot and bring your herbs to a boil. 
2. When herbs are boiling, reduce heat and simmer on low heat for 20 minutes.
3. Pour tea into a cup through a strainer, retaining the herbs for later use.  The recipe should yield about 1 – 1 ½ cups of tea. 
4. Drink the tea.  This is your first dosage.

STEP 3:    Boiling the herbs for the second dosage

1. Add/refill 1 to 1½ cups of water to the herbs. Bring to a boil a second time.
2. When herbs are boiling, reduce heat and simmer on low heat for 20 minutes.
3. Again, pour the tea into a cup through a strainer.  This time you may discard the herbs. 
4. Drink the tea.  This is your second dosage.

YOUR PRESCRIPTION:

Take ­­­­­­­about one to one and half cup(s) of tea, ­­­­­two times per day

• Before meals
• After meals
• Between meals
• Other ________________________________________________________

The tea from one bag of herbs will last for ­­­­­­­one day(s).

For any questions you might have, call us at (512) 453-5352

Dr. Guoen Wang at Acupuncture Plus

11851 Jollyville Road # 102, Austin Texas 78759

www.AustinChineseDoctors.Com, guoenwang@yahoo.com

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