Many people like to drink honeysuckle tea, especially in hot summers. What are the benefits and effects of drinking honeysuckle tea? Besides the benefits, do you know the potential harm of drinking honeysuckle tea?
【Benefits of Drinking Honeysuckle Tea】
Honeysuckle is a valuable traditional Chinese medicinal herb with various effects such as heat-clearing, detoxifying, promoting blood circulation, and broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral properties. More than 70% of cold and anti-inflammatory drugs contain honeysuckle, which is known as the "Chinese antibiotic" and "green antibacterial agent." In addition to its medicinal properties, honeysuckle also has miraculous effects on beauty, weight loss, and health preservation, providing significant protection and repair for the body.
The benefits of honeysuckle include relieving heat, sobering up, refreshing the mind, quenching thirst, removing toxins from the body, reducing fat, promoting weight loss, beautifying the skin, preventing aging, and prolonging life. Honeysuckle can reduce blood pressure, lower serum cholesterol, increase coronary blood flow, prevent coronary heart disease and angina pectoris, inhibit the formation of cerebral blood clots, improve the body's tolerance to hypoxia free radicals, enhance memory, delay aging, improve microcirculation, remove peroxidized fat deposits, promote metabolism, moisturize the skin, and remove spots.
Honeysuckle has the functions of clearing heat and expelling pathogenic factors. It has certain effects on early-stage wind-heat or warm diseases, such as body heat, headache, restlessness, dizziness, red tongue, dry throat, etc. It also has the functions of cooling blood and stopping diarrhea, and can be used to treat heat-toxic dysentery, bloody diarrhea, obstructive throat due to damp-heat, and throat swelling and pain.
The bioactivity of chlorogenic acid contained in honeysuckle can promote human metabolism, regulate body functions, and improve immunity.
【Effects of Drinking Honeysuckle Tea】
The effects of drinking honeysuckle tea:
1. Relieves internal heat and prevents bad breath.
2. Relieves sore throat and prevents upper respiratory tract infections.
3. Relieves summer heat and brightens the eyes.
【Methods of Making Honeysuckle Tea】
1. Honeysuckle tea: Boil 20 grams of honeysuckle in water and drink as tea to relieve sore throat and prevent upper respiratory tract infections.
2. Three-flower tea: Mix 10 grams of honeysuckle, 10 grams of chrysanthemum, and 3 grams of jasmine tea in boiling water. This tea can clear heat and detoxify, relieve headache and thirst, and treat dermatitis when used for washing.
3. Three-flower and seaweed tea: Mix 4 grams of chrysanthemum, 3 grams of honeysuckle, 3 grams of tea flowers, 3 pieces of pang da hai (a type of herb), and 10 grams of rock sugar in boiling water. Drink one dose per day for three days to clear heat, relieve throat discomfort, and treat sore throat.
4. Honeysuckle and mint tea: Mix 10 grams of honeysuckle and 10 grams of mint leaves in boiling water. Cover and let it steep for 15 minutes, then add honey to taste. This tea is used to clear heat and relieve heat rash.
5. Honeysuckle and licorice tea: Brew 15 grams of honeysuckle and 3 grams of licorice in boiling water. This tea is used in summer to relieve heat, quench thirst, and clear heat. It can also be used for gargling to treat pharyngitis and oral ulcers.
6. Honeysuckle and rhubarb tea: Brew 10 grams of honeysuckle and 3 grams of rhubarb together, and add honey to taste. This tea has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis, lubricating the intestines, and relieving constipation.
7. Honeysuckle and hawthorn tea: Brew honeysuckle and hawthorn in boiling water and drink as tea. It is used to stimulate appetite and aid digestion.
【Suitable Population for Drinking Honeysuckle Tea】
1. Suitable for those who feel dizzy, thirsty, and sweaty in hot summers.
2. Suitable for skin infections, furuncles, abscesses, erysipelas, mumps, purulent tonsillitis, and other infectious diseases.
3. Suitable for children to prevent heat rash in summer.
4. Suitable for various infectious diseases such as enteritis, dysentery, measles, pneumonia, encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, sepsis, appendicitis, and infected wounds.
【Harm of Drinking Honeysuckle Tea】
Honeysuckle has the functions of dispelling wind-heat, clearing heat, and detoxifying. It is suitable for various heat-related illnesses, such as heat, heat-toxic sores and furuncles, sore throat, etc. Generally, honeysuckle is considered safe, but experts remind that it is only suitable for people with neutral or internal heat constitution, and not suitable for those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold (frequent abdominal pain, diarrhea, cold abdomen, cold hands and feet). Excessive consumption of honeysuckle syrup or consumption by people with cold constitution can have side effects, such as spleen and stomach deficiency, decreased appetite, and even abdominal pain and diarrhea. Therefore, under normal consumption, adults should not consume more than 400 ml per day, and children should not consume more than 180 ml per day. Continuous consumption should not exceed one week. In addition, honeysuckle should be brewed 2-3 times and should not be consumed overnight.
【Precautions for Drinking Honeysuckle Tea】
1. Avoid excessive consumption.
2. Do not drink during menstruation.
3. Exercise caution for patients with spleen and stomach deficiency.
4. Choose the right season for consumption.
5. Do not drink leftover honeysuckle tea.
6. Avoid drinking honeysuckle tea as a cold beverage.
7. Do not drink honeysuckle tea every day.
8. Long-term consumption is not suitable for patients with hepatitis B.
9. Other precautions.
