The ginsenosides present in the ginseng are soluble and preserve well in alcohol. Some gardeners describe jujube as tasting like dates flavoured with apples and chocolate. You can also mix ginseng tea with other types of tea if the taste is not to your liking. Because then, we can justify our failure, and continue along the same road weave been walking for years, we know this road and its familiar to us so we are comfortable here. The combination of honey and cinnamon has been used in oriental medicine for centuries. It may be easy for some of us, but for others taking the suggested action in a particular book, program, or course might involve stepping too far out of our comfort zone. It is very simple to prepare ginseng tea. And yet, when that first day was over, we all seemed to be floating a few feet above the ground. The yellow fragrant flowers are small and they mature into reddish brown oval fruits a little larger than an olive. But there was no particular difference in results between ‘real’ acupuncture and placebo acupuncture – where needles were only just inserted and into areas not known to have any benefit.

The longer the slices are simmered, the stronger the taste. Then one night I sat up in bed, suddenly aware of exactly what opening my heart really means. Ginseng tea is also a popular method to prepare and consume ginseng. While its easy to understand, theoretically, that in order to make changes we have to take action and start changing acupuncture the things we do, say, and think, this is akin to asking some of us to ladder before we can walk. Oriental medicine believes that the energy force of the body, or Qi Rhee, can become unbalanced.