For thousands of years, Dendrobium has been classified as a top-grade traditional Chinese medicine along with Lingzhi and Ginseng. Making tea with Dendrobium can have a good effect on nourishing Yin and the stomach, making it suitable for people with chronic gastritis. Here is the recipe for making Ophiopogon and Dendrobium tea!
[Name]
Ophiopogon and Dendrobium Tea
[Ingredients]
10g Ophiopogon, 6g Dendrobium, 3g Green Tea
[Method]
Grind the Ophiopogon and Dendrobium into powder. Put them together with the green tea into a large cup. Pour boiling water and cover it for 10 minutes.
[Precautions]
Nourishing Yin and the stomach, regulating Qi and resolving depression. Suitable for patients with chronic gastritis and Yin deficiency, especially for those with dry stomach.
[Effects and Functions]
Dendrobium, also known as Dendrobium huoshanense, has the functions of benefiting the stomach, generating body fluids, nourishing Yin, and clearing heat. It is often used for symptoms such as Yin deficiency, dry mouth and thirst, poor appetite, dry vomiting, post-illness fever, and dim vision.
Fresh Dendrobium has strong heat-clearing and fluid-generating effects, suitable for those with high fever and irritability due to warm disease invading the nutrient blood; dried Dendrobium nourishes Yin and clears deficiency heat, suitable for those in the late stage of hot disease and deficiency heat due to Yin deficiency.
Modern pharmacological studies have shown that Dendrobium has a certain antipyretic and analgesic effect, can promote gastric secretion and aid digestion, and has the functions of enhancing metabolism and anti-aging.