1, how to make tea correctly with traditional Chinese medicine
1. In principle, tea leaves should be standardized and processed into pieces, and some even cut into thin slices. Fruit Chinese medicines such as Siraitia grosvenorii and olives should be broken to make tea.
2. Making tea with Chinese medicine must be dialectical, just like decocting medicine. Making tea with traditional Chinese medicine should also be dialectically used according to the performance of traditional Chinese medicine and combined with one's own constitution, disease, climate and season. In order to achieve the desired effect, and you should never trust your hands. If boat-fruited Sterculia is cold in nature, it can clear lung heat, benefit throat, and clear bowel to relieve constipation. It is effective for sore throat, hoarseness and constipation caused by wind-heat pathogen, but ineffective for sore throat and hoarseness caused by incomplete vocal cords or excessive alcohol and tobacco.
Another example is honeysuckle, which is a well-known heat-clearing antidote. Suitable for people who get angry in summer, but not for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Abuse can cause diarrhea. In addition, some drugs can cause allergies, and some drugs may harm the fetus, which is something that special people can't use indiscriminately. Therefore, before choosing a medicine to make tea, you should listen to the doctor's guidance.
3. Chinese medicine should grasp the taste, dosage and administration method of tea. Generally speaking, it is best to make tea with a single traditional Chinese medicine. Because of treatment or illness, it can also be used in multiple doses. But if you choose up to 4 or 5 kinds of medicines, too many medicines will lose the meaning of making tea.
4. The dosage of traditional Chinese medicine for making tea varies from drug to drug and from use to use. Generally speaking, the dosage of fresh medicine should be large, and the dosage of dry medicine should be small; The dosage should be small for health care and large for treatment. For example, dried tangerine peel can reach 12 ~ 20g for fresh products and 6 ~ 10g for dried tangerine peel. Cogongrass rhizome, as a health-care drug for clearing away fire, takes 10g each time, while it takes 30-50g each time to treat bleeding syndrome caused by blood heat. In addition, when drinking herbal tea, it is recommended to take it warm and drink it frequently, one dose a day. Flexible under special circumstances.
In addition, we should also pay attention to the time of making tea with traditional Chinese medicine, which generally depends on the texture of the medicine, usually 3~5 minutes, but it must be soaked in boiling water or boiling water.
2. What medicinal teas can't be drunk casually?
(1) Lycium barbarum chrysanthemum tea
Lycium barbarum and chrysanthemum should be the most common herbal teas in recent years. Although Lycium barbarum has a good nourishing and therapeutic effect, chrysanthemum has the effects of clearing away heat and fire, clearing liver and improving eyesight, so this kind of tea has a good fire extinguishing effect, whether it is a virtual fire or a real fire.
But here's the problem. Although chrysanthemum can clear away heat and fire, it is bitter and cold. If people with weak constitution drink too much, they may not be able to stand it. If it is wild chrysanthemum, we should pay more attention to it, thinking that it can dispel wind and improve eyesight, clear away heat and detoxify, and it is something that people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold and pregnant women must stay away from.
As for Lycium barbarum, although it is known as a nourishing sacred product for civilians, many people are used to grabbing it at any time and brewing it with boiling water, but its warming effect is still quite strong.
Sometimes we meet people who have a cold, fever, diarrhea or inflammation. It is completely wrong to eat Lycium barbarum at this time. Suitable for eating Lycium barbarum should be people with weak constitution and poor resistance. It is enough for healthy adults to eat about 15 grams a day. If you only drink wolfberry tea for a long time or drink too much, you may get angry.
In addition, Lycium barbarum also has a "shelf life", and deteriorated Lycium barbarum can't be used for making tea, but many people don't pay attention to regularly checking whether Lycium barbarum is still within the shelf life, which is very dangerous.
(2) Rose tea
Rose tea does have the functions of beauty beauty, dredging meridians and softening blood vessels, so it is not only suitable for women to drink more, but also can assist in the treatment of gynecological diseases, and has a cosmetic effect, which is also good for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, hypertension and heart disease.
In fact, however, many people feel bloated after drinking rose tea. This is actually because they are not used to the taste of rose tea; Moreover, roses have a certain astringent effect and should not be drunk when constipation occurs.
(3) Ginseng tea
Nowadays, many people also begin to make tea with ginseng and American ginseng. Among them, ginseng is especially powerful, although it greatly invigorates the vitality, but if it is used in excess, it may cause relatively large side effects.
The elderly usually eat health food, and we recommend 2-3 tablets, which is enough. There are no contraindications. The same is true for making tea. Moreover, ginseng tea is also very particular. It must be soaked slowly, even for a day, to slow down the drug effect and save medicinal materials. Even tea residue (dregs) can be eaten after drinking tea.
(4) cassia seed tea
Cassia seed is a commonly used Chinese medicine, which has the functions of clearing liver, improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure and relaxing bowels. So many people with constipation love to make tea with cassia seed. In addition, if you carefully read the ingredient list of many products known as detoxification, you can basically find the name of Cassia seed.
However, it is precisely because cassia seed has laxative effect that it will lead to diarrhea after taking it, and long-term use may lead to more complicated constipation. In addition, there is another disease called black bowel disease, which is related to it. Therefore, although cassia seed tea can drink it, the premise is that the drinking time must not be long.
(5) Astragalus tea
Astragalus membranaceus is not suitable for long cooking, so soaking in water is indeed a better choice. However, it should be noted that soaking in water alone is sometimes not enough to exert the efficacy of Astragalus membranaceus.
Therefore, if you want to soak water with Astragalus membranaceus, you can consider using freshly boiled water, so that you can soak up the medicinal flavor.
(6) Boat-fruited Sterculia tea
This is another traditional Chinese medicine tea that is often abused. You know, Boat-fruited Sterculia is only suitable for hoarseness caused by wind, heat and evil poison invading the throat, and vocal nodules and vocal cords are incomplete or boat-fruited Sterculia is ineffective if alcohol and tobacco are used excessively. Therefore, for those who are "heavy smokers", it is more useful to relieve throat discomfort and quit smoking than to soak in boat-fruited Sterculia.
In addition, people with cold constitution and people who often have diarrhea are not suitable for boat-fruited Sterculia. Even for patients with symptomatic pharyngitis, boat-fruited Sterculia tea 1-2 weeks is enough. Eating too much will damage the yang and affect the digestive function.
If the throat is dry and itchy in autumn and winter, you can use honeysuckle, Ophiopogon japonicus, Platycodon grandiflorum, raw licorice, boat-fruited Sterculia and Tibetan olives to make tea, and the effect is still good, but people with poor spleen and stomach should not drink too much.
3. Chinese herbal medicine for skin care
(1) Cortex Moutan
As an anti-inflammatory and antibacterial Chinese medicine, Cortex Moutan has also begun to play its outstanding role in whitening. Peony is known as the "king of flowers", and peony bark is the root of peony. Dig roots in autumn, remove fine roots, peel roots and dry them in the sun. Since ancient times, it has been used as a whitening medicine. Peony bark extract not only has a wide range of pharmacological anticoagulant effects, but also has anti-inflammatory and hemostatic effects, promotes blood circulation and keratin metabolism, and makes the skin transparent while pigmentation fades.
(2) pearls
Pearl in traditional Chinese medicine has a long history as a good recipe for skin beauty. According to ancient books, pearls have the functions of calming the nerves, improving eyesight, removing nebula and detoxifying, and promoting granulation. Modern research also shows that pearls have a unique role in delaying aging, scavenging free radicals, and diluting pigmentation. Seven kinds of essential amino acids can be obtained from pearl after hydrolysis, including calcium carbonate, more than 20 trace elements and vitamin B family with anti-glycosylation effect.
(3) Coix seed
Coix seed, the most traditional Chinese medicine, has the function of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis. At the same time, coix seed is rich in leucine, lysine, arginine, tyrosine, coix seed alcohol, coix seed lactone, triterpenes, protein, vitamin B and vitamin E, which is superior in moisturizing and antioxidation. Coix seed extract itself is a good ultraviolet absorber, which can effectively neutralize free radicals and prevent sunburn and aging when applied to skin care products.
(4) licorice
Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, and has anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects in pharmacology. Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is rich in glycyrrhizic acid, which can effectively prolong the life span of epidermal cells, enhance cell activity, eliminate dissociation, inhibit arginase transformation, fade spots and defects, enhance skin elasticity, and give consideration to anti-aging and whitening effects. Its antioxidant capacity is similar to that of vitamin e.
(5) Bitter almond
Almond tastes cold and bitter. According to the theory of lung combined with moss, some skin diseases can be treated by dispersing lung, and eating almonds often has an effect. Modern research has proved that the fatty acids contained in bitter almond can soften the stratum corneum, moisten and protect the skin, protect nerve endings, blood vessels, tissues and organs, and inhibit and kill bacteria. In addition, almond extract produced by enzymolysis can inhibit the activity of tyrosinase in skin, eliminate potential spots and even skin color, thus achieving the effect of lightening spots and brightening skin color.
(6) Lily
Chinese medicine believes that lily is sweet and slightly cold. Lily is white and delicate, rich in mucus and vitamin C, which can promote cell metabolism, improve dark yellow skin color, and has excellent antioxidant and whitening effects.
(7) Ginseng
Ginseng has been known as the "king of herbs" since ancient times, and has been praised by the eastern medical community as a good product of "nourishing yin and nourishing life, strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the foundation" Ginseng contains a variety of saponins and polysaccharides, and its leaching solution can be slowly absorbed by the skin without any adverse stimulation to the skin. Ginseng extract can dilate skin capillaries, accelerate skin blood circulation, supplement nutrition for epidermis, adjust skin water-oil balance, prevent skin from being dehydrated, dry and flawed, enhance skin fullness and whiteness, and make cells seem to be reborn. At the same time, ginsenoside also has the characteristics of anti-oxidation and reducing melanin, making the skin crystal clear.