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Japanese Recipe - Kudzu Tea
This is an ancient Japanese remedy for quickly alkalizing the blood and is
useful for all sorts of conditions: Feel a cold or flu coming on? Drink a cup
of this. It makes a great hangover remedy too. If the ingredients are all new
to you. Don't fret. you can easily buy them from http://www.simply-natural.biz/natural_foods.php
and you don't even have to change your diet for it to work. (Although a good
diet is recommend...)
Kudzu Tea
* 1 teaspoon Kudzu
* 1 C.
cold water
* 1 Umeboshi plum
* Shoyu (or tamari soy
sauce)
* Ginger Juice (to make juice just grate a little on a fine
grater. Take the
gratings in your fingers and squeeze out a few drops
of juice.)
Simply dissolve 1 heaping teaspoon of kudzu in 1 cup cold
water. It will be
easier if you dissolve it in some of the water and then add
the rest. Then
add 1/2 to a whole ume plum. (no ume plum? Use 1/2 teaspoon of
the plum
paste) Stir over med. heat until the liquid becomes more clear in
color and
it is okay if it comes to a boil. Add maybe 1/2 teaspoon of shoyu
(or tamari
soy sauce) and then turn off the heat. Add a little ginger juice
and put it
in a tea cup to drink. It will be too hot so just wait a few
minutes.
As odd as this drink is for us Westerners, it works wonderfully
well for upset tummies, hangovers, colds and more.
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I love tea. I adore the whole idea of taking an afternoon off to just sit, drink tea, and make those little snacks the English have during tea time. There's something exotic about tea as well. Way back when, tea and rare spices like salt were the mark of the upper-class. What a long way we've come.
Where would I find these ingredients for Kudzo tea? My favorite tea is Tazo's "passion" it's very very berry....
Oooh I love the berry teas too. I just got back from the UK where tea is still quite prevalent but coffee is taking over. They call their evening meal tea which I found slightly confusing at first. The kudzu tea is slightly different than the lovely drinkable infusions we think of as tea. It's more like a broth perhaps or if you like you can make it thick. Kudzu is a root starch and very alkaline. It is being studied as they are finding out it is also terrific for "curing alcoholism" but it can be used just as would corn starch for thickening a sauce or a soup or as a binder in cooking. You ought to be able to find it in most health food stores or I prefer the online site I mentioned. I like to keep it handy in my kitchen for all sorts of things from feeling run down to making lemon pie... Cheers!
As one who is totally obsessed with Japanese cuisine, I cannot wait to try this! I am such a fan of finding new recipes for hot, healthy drinks! One of my favorites is from another part of Asia with ingredients I get in Chinatown - boil both American and Chinese ginseng with dried gogi and longenberries (yes, longen - not logan is what the store tells me) for a really delicious blend. Experiment to find how strong you like it, but not too much is needed per cup. I make a huge pot at a time. Thank you for sharing yours!
Apryl, be sure to read the part of this tea being a REMEDY. It is not an everyday sort of a drink. Just want to keep you feeling good okay as a remedy is for when you are not feeling good and in this case it is an alkalizing drink so only good when there is too much acid....
I totally have ADD when it comes to drinking the same tea/remedy every day! My biomedical science degree helps me discern between the two as well. Thanks for the warning/reminder and for the great recipe! Keep 'em coming!
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