SLC S21 Week 4 - Herbal Remedies for Energy, Pain Relief, and Mental Clarity

Best regards to all of us, may we always be in good health and happy.

On this occasion, I tried to participate in the Steemit Learning Challenge Week 4, the theme of this week is Herbal medicine for energy, Pain Relief, and Mental clarity. This theme is very interesting for me because I can learn a lot about drinks with a combination of other ingredients that are certainly useful and fall into the category of herbal drinks.

Sometimes we do not know the benefits of the kitchen ingredients we use, even though there are various benefits resulting from these ingredients for our health. Therefore I feel happy to be able to participate this week so that I can find information as well as recall the benefits produced from these beneficial natural ingredients.

In Week 4, the participants were also required to perform several tasks related to the theme, from making Herbal medicines for energy and pain Relief to making drugs for Mental clarity, with simple ingredients that are easy enough to find in the market. My respect to @afzalqamar, hopefully, what I present is in line with your expectations.

Without lingering, here is my publication outlining all the tasks I have prepared.

Speaking of tea, almost all countries in this part of the world are familiar with this warming drink. Besides the benefits obtained from the drink, I know the main ingredient of making tea drinks generally made from tea leaves or scientific language is Camellia sinensis. However, there are also Tea drinks that are brewed using leaves from other plants, for example :

1. Lavender Leaves.
2. Mint Leaves.
3. Lemon Leaves.
4. Jasmine flowers.
5. Rosemary.
6. Clitoria ternatea / butterfly pea
   And so forth.

All preparations of these ingredients can be a tea drink that is rich in benefits, so it is good for consumption as a daily herbal drink. But this tea drink can also be combined with the addition of powder from natural ingredients from other nature, to enrich the taste and other benefits. For example, the drinks that I serve below, according to the first task of this participation post.

This drink is tea with the addition of cinnamon powder, perhaps this is familiar to all of us. This is because tea from Tea Leaves is beneficial for the body, added again with the addition of cinnamon powder which also has benefits.

How to make it is quite simple, here are the steps :

1. Brew 1 glass of tea drink.
2. Then mix with 1 spoon equivalent to 5 grams of cinnamon powder into the warm tea drink.
3. Mix thoroughly for a while.
4. Strain to avoid cinnamon pulp
5. The next can already be enjoyed.

Pretty easy isn't it!

The benefits of tea drinks that have been mixed with cinnamon powder have benefits, including :

1. Tea has been proven to be a drink that boosts immunity, this is because the tea leaves that have been brewed contain caffeine compounds, theobromine, minerals, theologian, and there are vitamins A, E, and C.
2. While cinnamon is proven to contain essential oils, cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, as well as vitamins A, B, and K.
3. The combination of these two main ingredients, will make tea drinks mixed with cinnamon can improve heart health and is rich in antioxidants, improve focus and memory, to improve focus and memory.

Very useful, isn't it!

Here is the answer to task 1, which I answered based on the knowledge I know. Continue to task 2!

Telling about pain reliever oils, we are very grateful because nature provides a lot of ingredients that can be used to overcome this. Moreover, Indonesia has a very abundant yield of spices, ranging from turmeric, ginger, ginseng, and pepper to other spices.

The use of ingredients sourced in nature is also used for treatment, one of which is as a pain reliever oil as I will discuss below. Many ingredients can be used, one of which is ginger.

Ginger can be used to make pain-relieving oils by going through several stages of manufacture. As we all know, ginger contains Gingerol and resin compounds that have very strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. So this material is suitable to be used as one of the pain reliever oil drugs among Indonesian people, and of course for me and my family.

How to make pain reliever oil is quite simple, I think you can all make it. Here are the steps for making ginger-based Pain Relief Oil :

1. Peel the ginger skin and finely chop the ginger.
2. After peeling, put the chopped ginger in a jar or bottle.
3. Next, warm the oil, making sure that it does not overheat.
4. Next, pour the oil over the ginger in the jar or bottle and grease all the ginger with oil.
5. Close the jar or bottle and leave for 2-3 days. You can stir it occasionally to make it evenly distributed.
6. On the appointed day, strain the oil until it produces a clear color.
7. Put in a clean bottle or jar and let stand for 24 hours. This serves to separate the oil from the water.
8. The last step, carefully separate the oil and water using a fine sieve, so that it is completely clear.
9. Furthermore, it can be used in the required part, until evenly distributed. How to make pain reliever oil is quite simple, I think you can all make it.

Woooowww. Pretty easy isn't it, and certainly useful.

Next, let's take the language of the third task which is the last house task of the week, what is the task? here we go.

For this third task, I took the same way as the first task that I described above. This is because the process of making it is quiet and very simple, so the tea drink is the right choice to serve it. Apart from the simple way of presentation, the benefits obtained are what we expect in our task, namely herbs to overcome stress to bring Mental Clarity.

The material needed for the preparation of the mental clarity potion that I though into a kind of tea drink is the Flower Of The Clitoria ternatea plant in the local language in our country called the Telang plant or Telang Flower. It is a plant with beautiful flower colors and rich in benefits.

Before getting into the artificial process of this very simple mental clarity Herb, we first discuss why this plant can bring Mental Clarity.

Clitoria ternatea plant or Telang flower is a type of plant that contains many beneficial compounds, one of which is a Serotonin compound known as the hormone of happiness. This compound plays an important role in maintaining emotional balance when consuming it. This flower also contains Adaptogens that can medically increase resistance to stress and anxiety. And no less important is that it contains Antioxidants that protect the central nervous system from the effects of damage.

What I say is not arbitrary, I was looking for information so that this data by the truth. According to the information listed on National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information.

How to make Mental clarity in the form of tea that utilizes Clitoria ternatea or Telang flowers in herbal medicine is as follows :

1. Prepare 5 to 10 petals of Clitoria ternatea or Telang flowers and 2 stems of lemongrass.
2. Bring 500 ml of plain water to a boil.
3. Insert the cut strands of Clitoria ternatea flowers or Telang flowers and lemongrass slices.
4. If the water has turned blue and the smell of lemongrass has been smelled, turn off the heat and wait a while.
5. Filter to avoid the dregs of Telang and lemongrass flowers.
6. Juice decoction of the water, and in a warm state such as tea, drinks can already be consumed.

However, the information I can some people with certain health conditions and circumstances, it is recommended to consume this drink. Some of them are :

1. Pregnant women and nursing mothers.
2. Patients with low blood pressure.
3. Patients with high blood pressure.
4. Those who are allergy sufferers, especially plant-based allergies.
5. Stroke patients.
6. Those who have recently been postoperative.
7. And the last woman standing.

These are the 3 tasks that I worked on and described to all of you in my participation in this 4th week, I hope that this post will be useful for me personally and for all the users who read it. I also learned a lot from everything I did for this post, hoping to give it the creativity I have on this great platform.

I invite @alee75, @radjasalman, and @kouba01 to participate if you design, warm greetings to all of you.