There is also a saying that herbal tea is a general term for the liquid parts of Guangdong and Guangdong cooked Chinese medicines. Compared with some traditional Chinese medicine teas for specific diseases, herbal tea generally refers to the traditional Chinese medicine that ordinary people can drink with the effect of clearing away heat and reducing fire.
Herbal tea is not tea, but a medicinal soup made of Chinese herbal medicines; Herbal tea is not necessarily cold, it is better to drink hot, and the most representative one is Bansha herbal tea.
The hot and humid climate in summer is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort. In addition, some people are addicted to spicy and overweight food, which will inevitably lead to symptoms such as excessive internal heat, sore mouth and tongue, sore throat and loss of appetite. Herbal tea is the favorite of Cantonese people. Since ancient times, Cantonese people have been famous for drinking herbal tea. In fact, herbal tea is the most effective and direct way to get rid of heat and fire. Even some experts predict that herbal tea is expected to become the only national beverage in China that can compete with Coca-Cola.
According to different functions of herbal tea, herbal tea can be divided into four categories.
First, heat-clearing and exterior-relieving tea is mainly suitable for people with internal heat and heavy internal heat. The representative herbs are honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, gardenia, Huang Cen and so on. Suitable for drinking in spring, summer and autumn.
Secondly, Ganjie tea mainly treats exogenous wind-heat, cold and seasonal flu. The representative medicinal materials are Radix Isatidis, which was sold at a sky-high price during the SARS period last year. Drinks include "Deng Lao herbal tea" and so on. This kind of tea is suitable for drinking in all seasons.
Third, the heat-clearing and moistening tea reminds me that this herbal tea is especially suitable for drinking in autumn and has a good medicinal effect on dry mouth and cough. Representative medicinal materials include Adenophora adenophora, Polygonatum odoratum, Folium Tetrandrae, Winter Wheat, Tremella, etc. The beverage type is "Deng Lao Herbal Tea".
Fourth, heat-clearing and dampness-removing tea is used by Huang Chi and others, with heavy damp heat and big breath. The representative medicinal materials are honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, wormwood, poria and so on. The beverage type is "Deng Lao Herbal Tea". Suitable for drinking in summer.
1, Xihuangcao tea has the effects of clearing liver, expelling toxin, promoting diuresis and eliminating jaundice. Suitable for acute and chronic hepatitis and cholecystitis.
2, light salt herbal tea has the effect of quenching thirst, relieving fever and vexation, and treating dizziness and nausea.
3. Jinsheng Runzao tea has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving sore throat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Suitable for sore throat, dry throat and dry mouth.
4, the fire king tea has the effect of purging fire and detoxifying, cooling blood and relieving sore throat. It is suitable for sore mouth and tongue, sore throat, red eyes and upset eyes, fever, etc.
5, Guangdong herbal tea has the effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, eliminating dampness and promoting fluid production. Can be used for treating common cold and fever, sore throat, damp-heat stagnation, dry mouth and yellow urine.
6. Kudingcha herbal tea (granule) tea has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, and cooling wind and heat. Suitable for dry throat, red eyes, sore throat, wind-heat cold and fever.
7, sugar-free summer mulberry chrysanthemum has the effect of treating wind-heat cold, red eyes and headache, hypertension, dizziness and tinnitus, sore throat.
8. Fire-reducing herbal tea has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production, and inducing diuresis and stranguria. It is suitable for sore mouth and tongue, sore throat, red eyes and upset eyes, fever, etc.
9. Juice black tea has the effect of removing fire and refreshing.
10, Wuhua Qushi Tea has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, relieving summer heat, relieving vexation, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, invigorating stomach and resolving food stagnation.
1 1, Sangju Qingre tea has the effects of clearing liver, improving eyesight, expelling wind and dissipating heat, and relieving sore poison. Suitable for wind-heat cold, red eyes and headache, sore throat, fever, etc.
12, Yuye Yinhua Tea has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, relieving sore throat, expelling toxin and reducing swelling. It is suitable for sore mouth and tongue, sore throat, red eyes and upset eyes, fever, etc.
13, fresh plantain tea has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, eliminating dampness and stranguria, improving eyesight and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for edema, heat stranguria with astringent pain, summer-heat diarrhea, red eyes with swelling and pain, phlegm-heat cough.
14, Gan Ping Qingre Tea has the effects of clearing away liver and toxic materials, and cooling wind and heat. It is suitable for stagnation of liver qi and damp-heat of liver and spleen.
15, Bitter Summer Herbal Tea has the effects of aromatic dampness, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Suitable for dry throat, sore throat and summer heat.
16, the snake gall under Huowang tea has the effects of purging fire and detoxifying, cooling blood and relieving sore throat. It is suitable for sore mouth and tongue, sore throat, red eyes and upset eyes, fever, etc.
17. Damp-heat herbal tea has the functions of purging fire and detoxifying, clearing heat and promoting diuresis, and clearing liver and purging fire. Qingnei Hot Herbal Tea has the effects of cooling blood and purging fire, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, nourishing yin and moistening lung.
18, stomach heat tea, has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, and relieving flatulence, and is suitable for heartburn, anorexia, dry mouth and halitosis caused by stomach heat.
19, Houttuynia cordata tea has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating carbuncle and expelling pus, and inducing diuresis to treat stranguria. Its pharmacological effects are antibacterial, antiviral and antihypertensive, and it is an anti-inflammatory and antipyretic drug, which can treat various bacterial infections or viral infectious diseases of respiratory tract, urethra and intestine.
20. Honeysuckle tea has antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and immunomodulatory effects. It is often used for clearing away heat and toxic materials, treating fever, dysentery with toxic blood, carbuncle and swelling, and also for wind-heat cold and bronchitis.
2 1, herbal tea has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing toxic materials and promoting diuresis, and catching a cold.
22, chrysanthemum Sydney tea has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing liver and improving eyesight, dispersing wind and dissipating heat.
23. Qingrejiedu herbal tea has the effect of dispelling wind and clearing heat, detoxifying and reducing swelling. It is suitable for sore throat, wind-heat cold, polydipsia, red eyes and wind-heat diseases.
24. Four Seasons Herbal Tea has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production, and promoting diuresis and stranguria. It is suitable for sore mouth and tongue, sore throat, red eyes and upset eyes, fever, etc.
25. Abrus cantoniensis herb tea has the effects of soothing the liver, clearing away heat, relieving jaundice and diuresis. Suitable for acute and chronic hepatitis.
26, twenty-four herbal tea-expelling wind and cold, relieving exterior heat, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Suitable for common cold in four seasons, dry throat, sore throat, febrile disease and fever.
27, Kuding herbal tea (bag bubble) tea has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling wind and heat. Suitable for dry throat, red eyes, sore throat, wind-heat cold and fever.
28. Fresh grass-root herbal tea has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance, relieving sore throat and moistening throat.
29, fresh reed root herbal tea has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Suitable for summer heat, dry throat, polydipsia, red eyes and sore throat.
30. Siraitia grosvenorii scented tea has the effects of eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and moistening lung.
3 1, Hawthorn appetizing tea has the effects of promoting appetite, eliminating dampness and resolving food stagnation.
32. Watermelon skin herbal tea has the effects of dispelling summer heat, diuresis and detoxification.
33, mint herbal tea has a refreshing effect.
34. Vanilla herbal tea has the effects of relieving fever and expelling wind, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, stimulating appetite and stopping vomiting.
35. Chenpi tea has the effect of drinking this tea often, which can not only relieve summer heat, but also relieve cough, eliminate phlegm and strengthen stomach.
36. Fresh lotus root herbal tea, often drunk, has the effect of removing fire and removing blood stasis.
37. If orange tea is drunk with sterilized fresh orange peel and white sugar, it has the effects of relieving swelling, promoting fluid production and moistening throat, clearing heat and relieving cough.
38. Mulberry tea can dissipate heat, clear lung and moisten throat, clear liver and improve eyesight, and also has certain curative effect on wind-heat cold.
39. Lotus leaf herbal tea has the effect of heatstroke prevention and cooling.
40, children's summer mulberry chrysanthemum has the effect of clearing liver and improving eyesight, dispelling wind and dissipating heat, and relieving sore poison. Suitable for wind-heat cold, red eyes and headache, sore throat, fever, etc.
4 1, children's fruity heat-clearing tea has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Suitable for children with wind-heat irritability, dry mouth and cough with excessive phlegm.
42, children's fruity nocturia tea has the effect of nourishing liver and kidney and nourishing qi and blood. It is suitable for children with deficiency of both qi and blood and nocturia.
43, children's fruity partial eclipse tea has the effect of strengthening the spleen and promoting digestion. Suitable for children with anorexia and partial eclipse.
44, children's fruity tea has the effect of being suitable for children's dry stool, and the stool becomes sheep-like particles, which can soften the stool and reduce the difficulty of defecation.
45, children's fruity malnutrition tea has the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetizing, digestion and stagnation. Suitable for children with indigestion, emaciation and loss of appetite.
46, children's fruity appetizing tea has the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetizing, digestion and stagnation. Suitable for children to eat food, regardless of diet.
47. Children's fruity sweat tea has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting qi and strengthening spleen. Suitable for children with weakness of limbs, loss of appetite and hyperhidrosis [2].
[Edit this paragraph] Herbal tea DIY
1. Watermelon skin herbal tea
Production method: the green layer of the skin can be washed, chopped, dregs removed to get juice, and then a small amount of white sugar is added and stirred evenly.
Efficacy: It has the functions of dispelling summer heat, diuresis and detoxification.
2. mint herbal tea
Preparation method: Take 6 grams of mint leaves and 6 grams of licorice, add about 1000 grams of water, boil for 5 minutes, then add sugar and stir evenly.
Efficacy: refreshing.
3. vanilla herbal tea
Production method: Wash 9 grams of Pogostemon cablin and 9 grams of Eupatorium odoratum, put them into a teapot, add 6 grams of tea leaves, dissolve them in 500 ml of boiling water, cover them for 5 minutes, add ice cubes and cool them before drinking.
Efficacy: antipyretic and expelling wind, clearing away heat and dampness, appetizing and stopping vomiting.
4. Chenpi tea
Method of making: Wash 10g dried tangerine peel, tear it into small pieces, put it into a teacup, rinse it with boiling water, cover the cup and let it sit for about10min, then remove the residue and add a little sugar. It's best to put it in the refrigerator and ice it when it's a little cooler. Efficacy: Drinking this tea regularly can relieve summer heat, relieve cough, eliminate phlegm and strengthen stomach.
5. Fresh lotus root herbal tea
Production method: Wash 75g fresh lotus root, cut into pieces, put into a pot, pour 750g water and cook with slow fire. When the water in the pot boils to two thirds, add a proper amount of sugar;
Efficacy: Regular drinking can remove fire and remove blood stasis.
6.orange tea
Production method: Orange tea can be made by brewing orange meat and tea with boiling water, which can prevent cancer, cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
Efficacy: If the sterilized fresh orange peel and white sugar are drunk together, it can also play the role of regulating qi and relieving bloating, promoting fluid production and moistening throat, clearing heat and relieving cough.
7. Mulberry tea
Production method: Put Mulberry Leaves, White Chrysanthemum each 10g, and Licorice 3g into a pot for a little boiling, then remove residues and leaves, and add a small amount of white sugar.
Efficacy: it can dissipate heat, clear lung and moisten throat, clear liver and improve eyesight, and also has certain curative effect on wind-heat cold.
8. Lotus leaf herbal tea
Production method: Tear half a lotus leaf into pieces, mix with talc, Atractylodes macrocephala 10g, and licorice 6 g, put in water, boil for about 20 minutes, remove the residue to get juice, add a little white sugar, stir well, and drink after cooling.
Efficacy: it can prevent heatstroke and cool down.
9. light salt herbal tea
Production method: brew 5g of green tea and 2g of salt with 500ml of boiling water, and drink after cooling.
Efficacy: It can quench thirst, relieve fever and vexation, and treat dizziness and nausea.
10. Juice black tea
How to make it: Add 750ml of water to the pot, heat it until it boils, pour in 40g of black tea, boil it slightly for 5min, remove the tea from the fire, cool it and put it in the refrigerator. When drinking, pour 40 ml of black tea into a cup, add a little lemon juice, orange juice and white sugar, add 150 ml of ice water, drop a little brandy, add an orange petal and a little crushed ice.
Efficacy: it can remove fire and is very refreshing.
1 1. herbal tea
Raw materials: honeysuckle, selfheal, chrysanthemum, Sophora japonica, dandelion, mulberry leaf, licorice, lotus leaf, etc.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials.
[Edit this paragraph] Precautions
1. Don't drink herbal tea overnight.
In the past, many people put herbal tea materials into a large ceramic teapot with a handle before going to bed at night. It was very cold after soaking for one night, and the family could drink it for one day the next day. In fact, it is unhealthy to do so. Don't drink tea overnight, even if you use a purple teapot.
2. Herbal tea can be boiled and soaked.
At first, the ancients used a kettle to fry tea, which was roughly the same as the current method of frying tea. In the Song Dynasty, with the popularity of tea tasting, the method of frying tea changed to the method of directly throwing it into a tea bowl and rushing into boiling water today. Herbal tea can also be brewed directly, but because the ingredients of herbal tea are more special than the tea material in the usual sense, most of them have medicinal properties, so it is easier to exert medicinal effects when boiled.
The most suitable container; Glass pots, porcelain bowls and teacups are all ok, but from the point of view of giving full play to the medicinal properties of tea materials, old pottery pots with lids are the most suitable. First, it doesn't hurt the wood, second, it doesn't spoil the tea, and third, it has a cooling effect more than other containers, and the poured tea is cold and refreshing.
3. Don't drink herbal tea in a hurry
Although herbal tea only needs to be boiled for 5 ~ 10 minutes, it takes half a day to drink it until it is cold. There are many ways to save time. You can pour cold water into the cooked herbal tea without affecting the efficacy of the herbal tea.
4. Herbal tea is also medicine.
After all, herbal tea is a kind of medicine, so we should pay attention to people's needs, and we should not take it indiscriminately, let alone take it as a health care medicine for a long time [3]. If people with weak constitution and infants drink bitter cold herbal tea indiscriminately for a long time, it will easily damage the yang and spleen and stomach of the human body, leading to mental fatigue, pale face, sweating, easy to catch a cold, and poverty will be easy to change. Spleen and lung qi deficiency such as pale tongue or peeling, weak pulse and other symptoms; Especially in infants and young children, the viscera are delicate, qi and blood are not full, qi and blood are insufficient, and qi is weak. If you take herbal tea for a long time, it will damage your child's righteousness and affect his healthy growth. Although children are easy to get sick, they are full of vitality and easy to recover. Some children are prone to colds and coughs, and even get sick 3-4 times a month. Many of these cases are due to excessive use of bitter cold herbal tea in infancy, which damaged the spleen and lungs. Therefore, warning people that herbal tea is also taboo. Use with caution for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, the elderly, children, pregnant women and lactating women. Even for healthy people, excessive use of herbal tea can cause spleen and stomach discomfort, and severe cases can induce gastrointestinal diseases.
Herbal tea is a drink developed and summarized by Lingnan people in the long-term process of disease prevention and health care, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, according to the local climate, soil and water characteristics, guided by the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and based on Chinese herbal medicine. Analyzing the causes of "high fever" of herbal tea, relevant experts pointed out that, first of all, the characteristics of non-toxic and effective herbal tea are in line with the consumption characteristics of modern people. Drinking herbal tea is a magic weapon to protect the body summed up by the people of Guangdong and Guangxi in their long-term struggle with nature. According to relevant medical experts, herbal tea is cool but not cold, clearing away heat without hurting the spleen and stomach, and is non-toxic to liver and kidney. Suitable for all seasons. Disease can be prevented when there is no disease, and it can be treated when there is disease. "Autumn and winter prevent autumn dryness, and spring and summer dispel summer dampness."
Herbal tea has four kinds of Chinese medicines.
The summer heat consumes gas and damages body fluids, so the medicinal materials used in herbal tea have the effects of clearing away heat and benefiting qi, nourishing yin and suppressing yang. Some of these Chinese herbal medicines can be used as medicine and food, while others can only be used as medicine. Even medicinal materials that can be used as food have the same four flavors of traditional Chinese medicine. For example, honeysuckle, rose, kudingcha, chrysanthemum, Eupatorium, Ophiopogon japonicus and bamboo leaves, which are often used by people, taste mostly sweet and cold. After soaking, more than half of the active ingredients will be dissolved in water. Although the efficacy is not as strong as that of decoction, if it is drunk in large quantities, it will clear away heat and relieve summer heat, nourish yin and subdue yang, and at the same time, it will also damage the yang divergence of human viscera. Therefore, herbal tea is also a kind of medicine, which can be used to relieve summer heat at an appropriate time, but it should be drunk moderately.
Some people are not suitable for drinking herbal tea.
Some people think that the temperature is too high in summer, and drinking herbal tea can protect the human body. Some parents are afraid of their children's heatstroke and give them herbal tea. In fact, even in hot summer, there are still a large number of people who are not suitable for drinking herbal tea.
1. People with yang deficiency constitution: Most modern people have yang deficiency constitution. Nowadays, many people sit in the office all day, facing the computer, the intensity of physical labor and outdoor activities is reduced, and the function of promoting yang is not exercised; In addition, the use of air conditioning makes the seasonal impact on human body in summer less obvious than before, which leads to the weakness of yang in the body with the rise of seasons. Therefore, many people's constitutions are in the transition to yang deficiency, and they can no longer bear a lot of stimulation from cold substances. There are often some office white-collar workers who are afraid of cold, cold limbs, pale face, loose stools and long urine. It is necessary to check whether they drink too much herbal tea.
2. Bitter summer people: Bitter summer people have weak spleen and stomach yang transport function, less food intake and relatively low resistance. Sweat is secreted more in summer, and Chinese medicine believes that sweat is the "yang liquid" of the human body. If you sweat too much, the yang will seep out with the sweat. If you take bitter cold herbal tea at this time, it will hurt the spleen and stomach, make the already weak spleen and stomach weaker and damage the healthy qi, which will not only aggravate the symptoms of bitter summer, but also cause many other diseases due to decreased immunity.
3. Menstrual and postpartum women: The warmth of meridians is the key to keep veins unblocked and prevent blood stasis. Women are extremely weak during menstruation and postpartum, and are particularly sensitive to the stimulation of cold and heat. If you drink herbal tea without restraint because of the hot weather, although you can feel the temporary coolness in your stomach, after these drugs are absorbed into the blood, the cold stimulation will slow the blood flow and even form congestion, causing dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, decreased menstrual flow, and even severe bleeding and amenorrhea.
4. children and the elderly: children are pure yang, so they are particularly prone to get angry. But drinking herbal tea is not a good way to prevent children from getting angry. Because the regulation function of spleen and stomach in children is still in the stage of establishment and perfection, the cold stimulation of foreign drugs can not be adjusted in time, but it will affect digestion and absorption because drugs directly act on the spleen and stomach, leading to abdominal pain and diarrhea. Due to the weakness of yang, organ function declines, and the elderly will also have digestive system diseases and a series of symptoms of yang deficiency due to the stimulation of herbal tea [1].
Herbal tea can't be used as a drink, and drinks can't be used as boiled water.
In the south of China, hundreds of different "herbal teas" have appeared for hundreds of years. For people in non-South China, the "original ecology" herbal tea is "neither cool nor fond of tea", which is difficult to be widely accepted. The herbal tea that is popular all over the country is sweet, because there is no ingredient on the product label, and we don't know how much sugar is added in it. But according to the order of these components, except water, the content of white sugar should be the largest. In other words, the so-called herbal tea is a Chinese herbal medicine extract containing a lot of white sugar. Even regardless of the "effectiveness" and "safety" of those Chinese herbal ingredients, a large amount of white sugar may be a more unhealthy factor. When we criticize sugary soft drinks and accuse them of bringing obesity, don't forget: these herbal teas may not contain less sugar than them!