百子櫃THE HUNDRED DRAWERS
Monk fruit
羅漢果
clears heatmoistens the lungseases the bowels利咽開音潤腸通便甜苷不升血糖，教師歌手常用護嗓
The round dried fruit of a Guangxi gourd vine, sold whole in its brittle papery shell. Crushed shell and all into the pot, it steeps out an intense sweetness from mogrosides rather than sugar, turning the broth dark amber; one fruit sweetens a large pot.
TCM properties
Nature · cooling Flavour · sweet Meridians · lung、large intestine
Traditional food therapy
Cantonese tradition brews it for the voice and the dry season, crediting it with clearing heat, moistening the lungs and throat and smoothing the bowels; a standby of teachers and singers, sweet without sugar.
Cautions: read first
- Take care with a cold cough, or a cold weak spleen and stomach with loose stools. It suits a hot or dry cough only, and with a cold cough it makes things worse.
- Cooling in nature, so not in large amounts over a long stretch
Preparation
Wash it, crush it, and boil it shell and all.
Origin · Geo-authentic (道地) source
Guilin, Guangxi (Yongfu and Lingui)
Availability in Australia
Easy to find
