Lohan Xia Ku Tea: A Natural Remedy for Chronic Pharyngitis

　　Lohan Xia Ku Tea

　　Patients with chronic pharyngitis, especially in the autumn and winter seasons, may experience more pronounced symptoms such as excessive phlegm and throat pain. Some people recommend a recipe: prepare 1 Lohan fruit and 15 grams of Xia Ku Cao (Summer Dried Grass). Put the Lohan fruit and Xia Ku Cao together in a clay pot and simmer them to extract the juice. Repeat this process three times and then combine the herbal extracts. Add an appropriate amount of brown sugar and mix well. Drink the mixture. Is this recipe effective? Let's see how the experts analyze it.

　　Lohan fruit has a sweet and sour taste, it is cool in nature, and it has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, generating body fluid, relieving cough, and moistening the lungs to transform phlegm. It can be used to treat symptoms such as phlegm-heat cough, throat pain, constipation, and irritability due to excessive thirst.

　　Lohan fruit is one of the first batch of medicinal and edible dual-use precious Chinese herbal medicines announced by the Ministry of Health. The Lohan fruit glycoside it contains is sweeter than sucrose and does not produce calories, making it a good substitute for sugar. Modern medicine has proven that Lohan fruit has significant therapeutic effects on bronchitis, pharyngitis, and whooping cough. Xia Ku Cao has a pungent and bitter taste, it is cold in nature, and it belongs to the liver and gallbladder meridians. It has the functions of clearing the liver, purging fire, improving vision, and dispersing nodules and reducing swelling. It can be used to treat red and swollen eyes, headaches, dizziness, and breast pain. When used in combination, these two herbs have the effect of clearing the lungs and transforming phlegm. They have a good effect on throat pain, coughing, and sputum caused by lung heat and liver fire invading the lungs.

　　Two points to note: firstly, both of these herbs are cool in nature, so they should be used with caution by those with weak spleen and stomach; secondly, both herbs have the function of clearing heat, so they should not be taken by those with lung Qi deficiency and cold.

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　　Simple recipe for Lohan Xia Ku Tea

　　Ingredients: 1 Lohan fruit, 15 grams of Xia Ku Cao

　　Instructions:

　　1. Rinse the Lohan fruit and Xia Ku Cao with water.

　　2. Break open the Lohan fruit and divide it into several segments.

　　3. Soak the Xia Ku Cao in clean water for half an hour.

　　4. Put the broken Lohan fruit and Xia Ku Cao into a pot, add 1 liter of water, and boil it for 15 minutes to extract the juice.

　　5. Boil and simmer for another 15 minutes. Combine the two batches of herbal tea and mix well. Drink it hot or cold.