Step 1: ditch your iced drinks. Step 2: boil your fruit. step 3: understanding warming & cooling nature of foods. Love my daily @byAVA elixirs that makes this ritual so easy. #tcm #skinelixir #ginger #holistichealth #everydayritual

The easiest way to incorporate traditional Chinese medicine into your daily life is to just drink hot water. It doesn't even have to be a tea. It just has to be lukewarm to hot water. And TCM hot water is believed to support digestion and help your body absorb more nutrients without killing the digestive fire in your system. I love making hot elixirs like this with TCM herbs and while I'm at it, I love boiling fruit into a gently simmering fruit like apples and pear and to your tea elixirs makes it so much easier to digest and it also releases even more sweetness while you're at it. So you don't even need to add sweetness to your tea. And by doing this, it makes it so much easier for your stomach to digest. So, so, so sweet. And finally, add warming ingredients to your tea like ginger, especially and it's flu season. I want to add more immunity boosting ingredients. So into a tea I add ginger and you can't even really taste as much because the sweetness of your fruit and the that you do be in the Fujiberry.