chiahuib68-Today, I just enjoyed my first cup of Sun Gertain Reishi.

Today, I just enjoyed my first cup of Sun Gertain Reishi.  Sun Gertain Reishi “tea” does not contain any tea leaves or caffeine.  Yet, it’s a tea in the sense that it’s prepared by steeping a bag of select ingredients in hot water.  Personally, I’m a fan of teas and I believe in the wisdom of consuming foods and drinks that are organic and health-promoting.  Reishi has been extensively researched and well-documented as having very powerful health-promoting properties; so naturally, I was eager to try Sun Gertain Reishi. 

Sun Gertain Reishi comes packed in a beautifully designed and aesthetically appealing box.  The perfect enjoyment of a quality tea always begins with the initial presentation, and Sun Gertain Reishi is attractively packaged.  Opening the box of Sun Gertain Reishi, I was delighted to see each tea bag individually sealed.  The most important reason to drink reishi tea is to benefit from the powerful healing properties of reishi.  With any organic product, from the moment the package is unsealed, oxidation begins and potency can begin to diminish.  Sun Gertain’s airtight packets grant the assurance that each bag will always be at the perfect peak of freshness and healthful potency when opened. 

Boiling water in my cup, I opened the first packet and dropped the bag into the water.  Immediately, I noticed how beautiful the tea bag itself is.  Traditional tea bags are made of cloth or paper which effectively holds the ingredients; however, the contents inside the bag are not visible.  Sun Gertain Reishi tea bags are delightfully different.  Each Sun Gertain bag is perfectly formed of transparent micro-mesh which allows clear viewing of the premium ingredients held within the bag.  Reishi steeping in cup, I admired the textures, colors and appearance of the reishi within the teabag.  A gentle scent arose which made me think more of a mild soup than a tea.  I began to sip.  The flavor was delicate and mild.  As the bag steeped longer, the flavor intensified with the distinctive, slightly bitter characteristics of the organic Reishi.  Once the full flavor had been released, the flavor was somewhat unusual and odd to me.  While I would not describe it as delicious, the taste wasn’t bad either.  Personally, I enjoy variety, and the flavor of Sun Gertain Reishi offers a unique, distinctive contrast with common leaf teas.  It’s a smooth-drinking beverage, and the experience is complimented greatly with the knowing that every sip is a practice in medicinal therapy for the body.   

As someone who loves teas and health-promoting beverages, I have long enjoyed the green teas of Taiwan’s pristine high mountains.  For generations, Taiwan has held the reputation of producing many of the best green teas in the world.  In addition, the thousands-of-years-old, profound Chinese wisdom and tradition of promoting health through organic substances is very much alive today in modern Taiwan.  Home to a rich world-class tea tradition as well as the ancient traditions of Chinese herbal medicine, Taiwan is also a world leader in high technology and cutting-edge production.  Thus Taiwan is naturally the perfect home of Sun Gertain Reishi – the union of nature’s timeless wonders and the highest standards of modern quality assurance.  I am delighted to discover Sun Gertain Reishi.  With its powerful, health-promoting reishi, Sun Gertain Reishi is a drink I consider worthy of evaluation for frequent consumption.     

CHEN-Ganoderma Lucidum soup

When the security of my community handed me the package that had just arrived, I wondered what was so heavy inside. Opening the package, I couldn’t help laughing out. To my surprise, the canned soup I was going to test (and taste) was such a huge can that I had to hold it with both hands.

      Unlike tomato or corn canned soup we usually see in a supermarket, Sun Gertain Ganoderma Lucidum Soup weighs 1.7 kg and is able to serve 6 to 9 people. Ganoderma Lucidum (a.k.a. Red Reishi or Ling Zhi in Chinese) started to be used in Asian medicine thousands of years ago. Numerous research has reported the benefits of Red Reishi. I’ve seen Red Reishi capsules used for supplement but never seen Red Reishi canned soup. The particular soup includes not only high-quality Red Reishi cultivated naturally by the Sun Gertain Bio Farm but also 28 natural herbs. Reading the clear description posted on the can, I couldn’t wait to ask my mom to cook a Red Reishi hot pot for dinner.

      I had to say the big canned soup came at the right time. On a cold, rainy day, nothing is better than a bowl of hot soup, especially when you know it’s good for your health! The soup actually tasted a little bit bitter, but it’s quite acceptable. To be exact, the mild bitterness made me feel that I was eating something beneficial for my health, and consequently, my body began to get warm, which I always need in winter. It’s amazing that all kinds of food materials seemed to go well with the soup.

      I like to enjoy a hot pot with my family in winter. There have been various kinds of soup or stock developed in market for a hot pot. In addition to chicken stock, kimchi soup, vegetable stock…, now I have a new choice: Red Reishi soup!

      When women are pursuing magic tricks to make themselves younger and prettier, drinking or eating something nutritious has become a trend due to its convenience. If you don’t know what you are having and are not sure about the effect, why not try the 100% natural, made by a high-quality ISO 9001 certified manufacturer in Taiwan, effective Ganoderma Lucidum soup?

Scott-toothpaste

For a lot of reasons, I hate brushing my teeth.  So it's nice to have found a toothpaste that's the opposite of everything else on the shelves.

Ganodenma Reishi Propolis Toothpaste is almost the Anti-Toothpaste.

Walk down the toothpaste aisle of a store and you're assaulted by an array of products that are essentially the same, though each of them screams to you that it is different. Special. Unique. Each brand wants you to believe that it alone will clean your teeth, freshen your breath, and invigorate your sex life.

I'm waiting for a toothpaste that promises I can learn to play the piano with regular use. 

Brushing your teeth is like shaving or cleaning your ears: it must be done so we do it.

But toothpaste makers try too hard to make brushing your teeth fun and exciting. They add all sorts of chemicals; fluoride I can understand because it's actually good for teeth, and detergents help it foam up. But the flavorings linger for hours and spoil everything else I enjoy.

Coffee, juice, milk, soft drinks all taste awful after tooth brushing.

So I was impressed with Ganodenma Reishi Propolis Toothpaste.

It doesn't try to entertain me while brushing, and it doesn't try to make me think I'm brushing my teeth with candy.

Instead, the stuff has almost no flavor and it doesn't howl with sweetness.

Reishi mushrooms have been used for thousands of years to treat arthritis as it helps renew living bone and cartilage. Teeth, too, are living tissue and benefit from reishi.

So, do I now love brushing my teeth? No. It's still a chore of personal hygiene. But at least when I'm done brushing I can enjoy a cup of coffee.

Scott-aroma therapy

When I was offered the opportunity to write about aroma therapy, I leaped at it. After all, I'm a big fan of aromas; the smell of good beef on an open fire is a delightful form of therapy just before dinner. I love the aroma of fresh-mowed hay, which smells like hard work that is well done.

The odors of oil, gasoline and wax combine to put me in mind of my racing days, going 250 km per hour in a car I built.

And I really love it when my wife wears the French perfume I got her three years ago: $200 U.S. for 60ccs at the duty free store in the Tokyo Narita airport.  My wife doesn't want to use it often because it costs so much. Instead, it sits there, slowly evaporating.

The way things smell is deeply ingrained in our minds, our memories and our emotions.

Funeral wreathes in America are usually made of carnations, so to Americans the smell of these flowers brings on feelings of sadness, grief and loss. My Taiwanese neighbors say the same thing about the odor of incense burned at Buddhist funerals.

What surprised me, therefore, about Poreishi Aromatherapy Skin Sauna Pack was the absence of any strong smell. Instead, there is a light, earthy fragrance from the reishi mushrooms, but not much else.

But the aroma therapy's effect was genuine and noticeable. As it simmered in hot water,  carried away by the steam throughout our home, everyone seems to get calmer and more focused. It was a rainy, windy day so we were all cooped up indoors. Our 14-month old son went from crabby to calm and happy as the aroma therapy spread.

It was a soothing, pleasant experience.

Like many modern homes in Taiwan we have a shower but no bathtub. My wife is already planning on trying this aroma therapy the next time we have a hotel with a tub. She plans to sink into the warm water and let the aroma therapy pack work its magic; as the warm water soothes her muscles she knows the reishi aroma therapy with soothe her spirit.

Maybe she'll come out so calm and happy that she can use her perfume without fretting about the cost.

Scott-face masque

I confess, I have never had a facial treatment, until now.

After a fun afternoon of football, auto racing or hunting, a group of guys simply will not make it a perfect day by getting a facial – and maybe our nails done.

My wife, Victoria, on the other hand, loves it, so I let her take the lead in my first facial, using the Poreishi Mushroom Reishi Facial Mask.

Perhaps it was prophetic that my first-ever 'facial' experience was on October 31, Halloween, the night we all dress up in scary costumes.

Victoria put on the first mask, to show me how, and then I donned my own. We looked like two silly versions of Jason Voorhees, the evil villain of the 'Friday the 13^th' horror movies, known for wearing a hockey mask.

I expected our 14-month-old son, Seymour, to shriek in terror until I realized he'd never seen any horror movies in his life. Instead, he looked at his Mommy and Daddy and giggled, waiting for us to do something else funny.

My first mask was cool and damp, with a natural earth fragrance thanks to the reishi mushrooms. Research on reishi mushrooms shows that they are unique in their ability to restore and heal human tissue, based on more than 4,000 years of use in traditional Asian medicine.

Removing the mask, there was no greasy feeling; Victoria says many facial treatments make the skin feel tighter, but not  in a good way, just constricted. The Poreishi mask instead left my face feeling smooth and refreshed.

Two showers, a shave and a day later my face still feels different. I've lived with a dryness for so long that I didn't miss it until it was gone.

It makes me want to invite my guy friends over to watch sports, drink beer and then do facials together. Well, not really. But this is something I could do for myself regularly. 

Scott-Product review – supplement

Product review – supplement

My high school football coach taught me an important lesson that would affect me for life: running and weight lifting would keep me young, slim and fit.

Today I am being punished for all my hard work with painful knees, ankles, elbows and shoulders. But Poreishi's supplement made with reishi mushrooms may change that. Reishi has been used in traditional Asian medicine for thousands of years, in particular to treat arthritis.

For more than 20 years I ran about 6 kilometers a day – in total I've run the circumference of the Earth. Running is great for the heart, lungs and immune system. Several times each week I also pumped iron, building muscle mass and bone mass. And girls really liked the results. With time, the muscles begin to ache if you forget to work out.

The price was paid in cartilage, the spongy cushion between moving bones. With every step and every curl I was wearing away my cartilage to the point of developing arthritis.

Arthritis is often a type of inflammation; the immune system thinks the knee is infected and overreacts, causing great pain. It's  an evil disease. It does not kill, but instead steals life by making every activity difficult and painful.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says 50 million Americans suffer from arthritis. Globally that means more than 1.1 billion people suffer needless pain in their joints every day.

Which is where reishi comes in. For several years I have used a combination of treatments and enjoyed some relief. Glucosamine improves movement. Gelatin powder, made from animal bones, provides the raw material to repair cartilage. Occasionally I use anti-inflammation drugs.

What's amazing is the effect of the reishi supplement. In just a few days that constant, lingering pain has gone away.

New research shows that inflammation is also linked to heart disease and a wide range of other ailments. That's probably why reishi is proven to give relief in a number of problems, by treating the root cause.

The effect on the rest of my life is impressive. I'm more active and  animated. I no longer brace myself for pain when I pick up my child or climb the stairs.

I'm even starting to get the old itch back, deep in my muscles. They miss the exercise.

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公司辦聚會與高階主管會議，一路上我們從台北信義區過隧道就抵達石碇，原來石碇跟我過去的印象變好多，改變好多，現在交通方便開不到15分鐘就到了。

 

會議的場所是在石碇往平溪方向，經過了石碇交流道，看到大排長龍的大塞車，慶興阿寶沒有選到宜蘭，不然那次肯定很多人都遲到，頭兒就又要開罵了...

而場長更早之前的祖父是北部的茶農，後來越做越大，因為品茶功夫一流，轉型成為貿易商，賣的茶葉都外銷到英國等地，也因此祖先很早就與石碇鄉的東方美人茶結緣。而現在場長的兒子更安排到歐洲的農業大國-荷蘭，荷蘭最著名的就是乳酪、風車與鬱金香，其中鬱金香的農業育種篩選、生化測試...等都是強項，說到這難怪場長所種出來的靈芝不怕沒人買，場長說他所栽培的方式與一般的栽培方式不同，如今更因其靈芝栽培產量時間長且有限，因此水漲船高，往往都還沒採收就已經預定一空了。...結果我後來明查暗訪之下...還真的是這樣。台北會議-台北藥膳餐廳.台北美食旅遊.草原餐廳.景觀餐廳

 

抵達農場先是經過了一個讓人感覺警備森嚴的牌坊大門，蜿蜒而上就抵達了，不過因為那天的場控跟我們說車子都要停在上面，步入第二個大門，放眼一望，是一大片的草原，花花草草美不勝收@!!

當天開會分兩邊，一邊是高階部門主管會議，現場的設備也很不錯，音響還是百萬級的山水。

一邊是業務主管會議。

農場的另一邊正在對馬來西亞的農業團貴賓，進行專業的生態導覽解說。

   到處都是美景。

上廁所的時候看到他們的餐廳貨車正在將用完的空米酒瓶一箱箱上車運回，感覺賣得很好耶，不是用黑心米酒!這點是可以肯定的!

農場很注重生態，好多奇奇怪怪的昆蟲，場長說這隻是北台灣特有種，但是我忘記名字啦!~~~暈台北會議-台北藥膳餐廳.台北美食旅遊.草原餐廳.景觀餐廳

夜色黃昏，我們也即將吃傳說中的藥膳美食了!!

農場的菜色介紹

晚上有朋友說要去平溪放天燈，但是因為主管他們開會實在是太愛講了，整個行程都delay，還好附近的村長介紹我們去買天燈，索性就在農場草原上放了起來，真是太有人情味的村落!

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