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What is the function of mint? Can it be used as health tea?
Mint is the best cooling agent in midsummer, which has the functions of expelling wind, sweating and diuresis. Adding mint to black tea can clear the heart and soothe the nerves, accelerate metabolism and restore the spirit. Mentha haplocalyx has the effects of refreshing mind, relieving fatigue, tranquilizing mind, helping sleep, treating common cold and headache, expelling wind and sweating, clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating stomach and reducing swelling, diminishing inflammation and relieving itching, preventing corrosion and removing fishy smell, sterilizing and refreshing air. Because it contains volatile oil, mint essence and tannin, it tastes bitter and cool, which helps to calm anger and fear and has excellent curative effect on mental fatigue and depression. Mentha haplocalyx or mixed with other aromatic herbs to make refreshing tea has excellent effect. A cup of cold and delicious mint tea is not only suitable for tea time who relaxes in the afternoon, but also suitable as a refreshing agent to eliminate fatigue and a tonic for calming the mind after intense and busy work. When you feel depressed, you can drink a cup of cool mint tea, which is good for refreshing your mind and relieving stress. This paper introduces several brewing methods and effects of mint;

(1) green tea and mint tea

Ingredients: dried mint leaves and green tea.

Compilation: 1. Take 15g dried mint leaves and 3g green tea and put them in a cup.

2. Add boiling water1500g and stew for about10min.

3. After the smell is soaked thoroughly and cooled slightly, filter out the residue and add a proper amount of rock sugar according to personal taste.

(2) mint lotus leaf tea

Ingredients: 8g of tea, 0g of mint 1 2g, and 0g of lotus leaf1tablet.

Modulation: 1. Cut the lotus leaf into small pieces for brewing.

2. Put all the materials into the cup, brew with boiling water, and drink after 5 minutes.

Efficacy: It can effectively resolve summer heat and dispel body heat and moisture.

(2) Pepper and mint tea

Ingredients: 1 teaspoon pepper and mint, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Compilation: 1. Take pepper and mint, put them in a teapot and brew them in boiling water for 5 minutes.

2, add the right amount of rock sugar, mix well and drink.

Efficacy: This tea can effectively help soothe the nerves and improve headache symptoms. Pepper can strengthen the stomach, increase appetite, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and accelerate blood circulation; It can also detoxify and diminish inflammation, relieve fever and diuresis, and relieve food poisoning caused by shrimp and crab.

PS: 1。 Zanthoxylum bungeanum tea is not suitable for stomachache and indigestion. Drinking it in large quantities or for a long time will obviously stimulate the gastric mucosa.

2, yin deficiency with fire, constipation, pregnant women and hemorrhoids patients should not drink.

(3) Lemon mint tea

Ingredients: fresh lemon, black tea, mint syrup, mint leaves, ice cubes.

Compilation: 1. Wash and slice the lemon, and wash the mint leaves.

2. Cool the black tea with boiling water and add mint syrup.

3. Add ice cubes and lemon slices into the container, pour the prepared black tea and sprinkle with a few mint leaves.

Features: sweet and sour, refreshing, clearing cold and moistening throat.

PS: The number of lemon slices can be increased or decreased according to your own taste.