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 take it according to people's needs, rather than taking it indiscriminately, not to mention taking it as a health care medicine for a long time. 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."