Garlic and Radish Juice

Category: Herbal Tea

Herbal Tea Name: Garlic and Radish Juice

Chinese Name: 大蒜萝卜汁

Formula

3 raw garlic cloves (30 grams), 30 grams of raw radish, and rock sugar to taste.

Main Ingredients

How To Make

Peel the garlic cloves, wash the radish, chop both finely, add a small amount of cold boiled water, mash until smooth to extract the juice, and add a small amount of rock sugar.

Efficacy

Lowers blood pressure, helps eliminate phlegm, and reduces blood lipids. Suitable for all types of hypertension.

Usage

Take one dose in the morning and one in the evening.

Commentary

Raw garlic cloves (Da-suan) function as the chief herb; warm and pungent in character, it channels into the Spleen, Stomach, Lung meridians, working chiefly to warm the middle, remove toxins and kills parasites. Raw radish stands in the deputy (minister) seat. Pungent, sweet-cool in property, it enters the Lung, Spley, Stomach meridians and works to move qi and resolve phlegm. Rock sugar to taste reinforces this deputy action, working to moisten the lung and harmonize the formula. Without a separate harmonizing herb, the herbal tea formula balance is achieved through the mutual tempering of its active ingredients. The overall effect is to lower blood pressure, helps eliminate phlegm, reduce blood lipids, restoring balance within the high blood pressure framework.

Garlic and Radish Juice，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Lowers blood pressure, helps eliminate phlegm, and reduces blood lipids. Suitable for all types of hypertension.

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