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Can Guangdong herbal tea granules produced by Wang Laoji be drunk like drinks?

No, herbal tea is made of Chinese herbal medicine. Drinking too much will be toxic and bad for your health.

Herbal tea is the general name of Chinese herbal medicine plant beverage of Han nationality. Guangdong herbal tea is the representative of Han traditional herbal tea culture. Herbal tea is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with cold properties, which can dispel the heat in human body, so as to eliminate the heat in human body or treat the sore throat caused by dryness in winter.

Herbal tea has a long history. In 306 AD, Ge Hong, a Taoist priest from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, came to Lingnan. Because boils were prevalent at that time, he was able to carefully study various drugs for febrile diseases in Lingnan. The medical monograph left by Ge Hong and the rich experience of working people in preventing and treating diseases for a long time summarized by doctors from Lingnan School in later generations have formed herbal tea with profound Lingnan culture of Han nationality, and its formula and terminology have been passed down from generation to generation.

People with cold constitution should not drink more, and pregnant women and children should not drink herbal tea.