Snow Fungus Soup for Glowing Skin

A nourishing Traditional Chinese Medicine-inspired dessert soup, featuring skin-clearing ingredients like goji berries and peach gum

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) emphasizes the importance of maintaining balance and harmony in the body, and this includes taking care of the skin. According to TCM, the skin is a reflection of the body's overall health, and maintaining a healthy complexion is seen as an important aspect of overall health and well-being.

To rebalance the skin, TCM recommends certain foods that have the ability to affect the balance of energy to help fight acne. It’s believed that certain foods can help to support the body's natural healing processes, which is the purpose of this Chinese medicinal pear soup that is chock full of ingredients meant to moisturize and nurture the skin. Here’s how to make it:

Chinese Medicinal Skin Clearing Pear Dessert Soup

Growing up this chicken soup was treated as a panacea — a cure all — for any of our inflammation issues in the family. Dealing with a cystic acne flare up? Drink this. Gum are inflamed and hurting a lot more than usual from lack of sleep? Have some!

Because of its “cooling” and hydrating properties in Chinese medicine, we’d always make this soup any time we’re starting to feel some more inflammatory responses in our bodies, whether it’s from our skin, gut, or anywhere else. Here’s how to make your own — linked where to get ingredients too.

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For those who aren’t familiar, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a system of healing that includes various practices such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, dietary therapy, and physical therapy. It is based on the belief that the body's natural healing processes can be enhanced by maintaining a balance of energy, known as qi (pronounced "chee"), in the body.

In TCM, period cramps, or dysmenorrhea, are often believed to be caused by an imbalance of qi and blood in the body. To treat this, practitioners may use a variety of techniques, including acupuncture, herbal medicine and diet and lifestyle recommendations. All of these are to help balance the body's energy and improve overall health.

After suffering with debilitating period cramps that left me in the Emergency Room multiple times but couldn’t be tied to any serious disease, I turned to Chinese medicine for help. After taking tonics very consistently, I started to experience major differences. To this day, I still continue taking these tonics from

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To create your custom formula, Elix puts you through a very thorough quiz that every Chinese medicinal practitioner normally would. At the end, they’ll create a custom formula made for your needs. If you want to give it a try, use my code 

You can easily take the tonics as they are in the mornings, with a cup of tea or water, but I love to incorporate them into foods like this pear soup.

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