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Cooling & Calming
Herbs & Foods
Chamomile
Celery
Cilantro
Chrysanthemum
Corn
Cucumber (with no seeds)
Borage
Elderflower (cultivated)
Fennel
Hibiscus (agua de jamaica)
Horchata (rice is cooling and can be made into lots of dishes with added herbs. Be sure to rinse well. I like Koda Farms rice!)
Lavender
Lemon Balm
Linden
Peach Leaf
Red Clover
Rose
Yerba Buena
Yarrow (cools by guiding excess heat out of the body, can also be warming without existing heat symptoms)
*Friendly reminder to ensure hydration before consuming herbs that can be drying. Notice the ones that are also mentioned on the hydrating issue that can be seen below.
Hydrating
Herbs & Foods
Aloe Vera
Bean Broth
Chia seed
Celery
Corn
Cucumber (with no seeds)
Desert Globemallow (cultivated)
Flaxseed
Hibiscus (agua de jamaica)
Mallow (malva neglecta)
Nopal (pads & prickly pears)
Pickle Juice
Plantain (plantago)
Pitaya
Radish
Tarmarind (agua de tamarindo)
If you are drinking filtered water with no minerals consider adding some, especially if you still feel exhausted after drinking a lot of water. This can be as easy as adding a small pinch of salt to your water, there are also products that you can purchase to supplement your filtered water with minerals.
*Suggested use for when there is no excess dampness in the body.