What are the recipes for herbal tea?

1. Two-leaf tea

Ingredients: 30 grams of fresh chrysanthemum leaves, 30 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

Method: Put all the ingredients into 3 bowls of water and fry until it reaches 1 bowl, remove the residue and add brown sugar to taste and drink.

Efficacy: Dispelling wind and clearing away heat, cooling blood and detoxifying.

Applicable to: colds and headaches, wind-heat red eyes, mumps.

Comments: The chrysanthemum leaves in this tea are pungent, sweet, and neutral in nature. They can clear away heat and detoxify, soothe the liver, clear the lungs, and remove head wind; the mulberry leaves are slightly bitter in taste, slightly cold in nature, and can dispel wind and clear away heat. , the effect of clearing liver and improving eyesight.

2. Ermai Prince Tea

Ingredients: 20 grams of floating wheat, 10 grams of Radix Pseudostellariae, 10 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 3 candied dates (pitted)

Method: Add 3 bowls of water to all the ingredients and fry until 1 bowl is obtained. Serve warm in 2 servings. You can also use 5 to 6 loaches, blanch them in boiling water or wash them with salt to remove the mucus on the body surface, fry them until they are slightly yellow, add a little water, and make a soup with some tea. 1 dose daily.

Efficacy: Replenishing qi and nourishing yin, reducing sweating.

Applicable to: Yin deficiency and night sweats, symptoms include sweating when sleeping at night, sweating stops after waking up, irritability at night, red tongue, and less coating.

Comments: People with yin deficiency have relatively excess yang heat, and the deficient fire decoction forces the yin and fluid. The fluid escapes from the body with the deficient fire, causing night sweats. The treatment is to nourish yin and suppress sweating. In this tea, Radix Pseudostellariae nourishes yin and replenishes qi, fixes and arrests sweat; Ophiopogon japonicus nourishes yin; Floating Wheat is sweet and cool, and has the functions of relieving deficiency and cold and removing irritability and heat.

Candied dates are sweet and nourishing. They are not only sweet and moisturizing with Radix Pseudostellariae and Ophiopogon japonicus, but also have a sweet taste, which is easy for children to accept. For those who are irritable and irritable, add 10 grams of white peony root to soften the liver and suppress sweat; for those with severe night sweats, add 8 grams of glutinous rice root and 6 grams of Schisandra chinensis to strengthen the effect of suppressing sweat.

3. Three-Huang Gardenia Tea

Materials: 1g Coptis chinensis, 15g Scutellaria baicalensis, 10g Phellodendron cypress, 15g Gypsum (first), 6g Gardenia

Method: Add all ingredients to 2 bowls of water and fry until 1 bowl is required. Take 1 dose per day, divided into 1 to 2 drinks. It is advisable to use it for 3 days.

Efficacy: Clear away heat and relieve surface inflammation, resolve dampness and rash.

Applicable to: Damp-heat trapping the spleen and stomach, in addition to sores and boils on the hands, feet and mouth, accompanied by fever, irritability, dry stool, and heat heavier than dampness.

Comments: This tea is modified with Huanglian Jiedu Decoction, which is mainly used to treat triple burner fire-toxic heat syndrome. Coptis chinensis, which is used in severe pain and cold, clears away the fire in the heart. Scutellaria baicalensis clears the fire in the upper burner. Coptis chinensis is used to relieve the fire in the lower burner. Gardenia is used to relieve heat and induce heat downwards. For those with severe dampness and heat, you can use Coptis Jiedu Decoction combined with Sanren Decoction.

Instructions for people who are contraindicated in herbal tea

1. People with yang deficiency: These people are mostly white-collar workers who often sit in offices. Symptoms include sensitivity to cold, cold limbs, pale complexion, and loose stools. If these people have symptoms such as loose stools and long and clear urine, drinking herbal tea will be like "adding insult to injury" and aggravate the symptoms of yang deficiency.

2. People with weak spleen and stomach: Taking herbal tea with cold nature will damage the spleen and stomach, making the already weak spleen and stomach even weaker. The spleen and stomach are more damaged, the healthy energy is damaged, and many other diseases can occur due to reduced immunity.

3. Women during menstruation and puerperium: Women’s bodies are extremely weak during menstruation and postpartum, and are especially sensitive to hot and cold stimulation. If you drink herbal tea without restraint due to the hot weather, you may feel a temporary coolness in your stomach.

However, after these drugs are absorbed into the blood, the cold stimulation will cause the blood flow to stagnate and slow down, and even form blood stasis, causing dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, reduced menstrual volume, and in severe cases, may cause Massive bleeding and amenorrhea.

The above content refers to People's Daily Online - Herbal Tea DIY: Homemade traditional herbal tea?

The above content refers to People's Daily Online - Must you drink herbal tea in moderation? Not everyone can drink herbal tea