Celery and Rock Sugar Syrup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Clears heat, cools the blood, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by blood heat, characterized by early menstruation, heavy flow, purplish-red color, viscous consistency, blood clots, restlessness, thirst, a yellow tongue coating, and a rapid, forceful pulse.
Celery and Rock Sugar Syrup
Herbal Tea Name: Celery and Rock Sugar Syrup
Chinese Name: 芹菜冰糖汁
Formula
500 grams of fresh celery, 20 grams of powdered rock sugar.Main Ingredients
How To Make
Remove the roots and leaves from the celery, wash it thoroughly, blanch it in boiling water for 1 minute, mash it to extract the juice, and stir in the powdered rock sugar.
Efficacy
Clears heat, cools the blood, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by blood heat, characterized by early menstruation, heavy flow, purplish-red color, viscous consistency, blood clots, restlessness, thirst, a yellow tongue coating, and a rapid, forceful pulse.
Usage
Take one dose in the morning and one in the evening.
Commentary
Powdered rock sugar holds the chief position in this formula, providing the main thrust of the formula. Fresh celery (Qin-cai) joins as the supporting deputy. Sweet, bitter-cool in property, it enters the Liver, Stomach meridians and works to clear heat and calm the liver. Without a separate harmonizing herb, the herbal tea formula balance is achieved through the mutual tempering of its active ingredients. In sum, the prescription clear heat, cool the blood, regulate menstruation, aimed squarely at the blood and heat pattern rather than at isolated symptoms.