Medicinal tea, also known as medicine, is a mixture of Chinese herbal medicines (single or compound) or food with tea or tea instead of tea, which is used to treat diseases or preserve health. With the gradual accumulation of people's medical practice experience, medicinal tea has become a dosage form. Although it is not necessary to add tea, it is collectively called medicinal tea.

Medical function of medicinal tea

Refreshing: Refreshing tea made of Lycium barbarum, Epimedium, Semen Astragali Complanati, Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis and sweet potato meat.

Tranquilize the nerves: For example, Maidou Ningshen tea made of black beans, floating wheat, lotus seeds and red dates.

Mingmu: Qiju Mingmu tea made of Lycium barbarum and Hangju.

Leader of the Qing Dynasty: such as Kudingcha.

Quenching thirst and promoting fluid production: such as double melon pollen tea made of watermelon peel, winter melon peel and Trichosanthes root.

Heat-clearing: For example, ginseng beard heat-clearing tea made of ginseng beard, Ophiopogon japonicus and Radix Rehmanniae Preparata.

Summer: Chrysanthemum tea made of honeysuckle and chrysanthemum.

Detoxification: such as white bamboo detoxification tea made of white bamboo and double orchid.

Xiaoshi: such as medicated leaven, hawthorn and dried tangerine peel.

Sobering up: such as sober-up and liver-nourishing tea made from Radix Puerariae, Fructus Amomi and green tea.

Fertilizer removal: orange peel tea made from orange peel and tea leaves.

Xia Qi: For example, coltsfoot flower tea made of coltsfoot flower.

Lishui: Lishui tea made of black tea and brown sugar.

Relaxation: such as laxative tea for the elderly made of hemp seed, cassia seed, mulberry seed and radish seed.

Treat dysentery: For example, horsetooth tea made of purslane for treating dysentery.

Resolving phlegm: such as oolong tea.

Dispelling wind and relieving exterior syndrome: tea made of Schizonepeta tenuifolia and green tea.

Strong teeth: such as Tieguanyin tea.

Treatment of heartache: Jasmine-flavored tea made of green tea, jasmine and Acorus gramineus.

Treatment of furuncle and fistula: such as wild chrysanthemum tea.

Yiqili: such as milk tea made of strong tea, milk and sugar.

Longevity: such as ganoderma lucidum tea made of ganoderma lucidum and honey.

Drinking black tea has greater advantages than drinking green tea in preventing skin cancer. Relevant experiments show that Guangxi Lingshan tea, Yunnan Daye tea, Fujian Dingkeng tea and some green teas have obvious inhibitory effects on aflatoxin B 1 in the treatment of liver cancer. In addition, Qinglongshan Yunwu tea extract also has obvious anticancer effect, which can inhibit the growth of human laryngeal cancer and gastric cancer cells, and also has a good inhibitory effect on the growth of transplanted tumors, Ehrlich ascites cancer and liver cancer in animals.