Blood-nourishing and Qi-enhancing Teas for Women's Health

　　 Blood-nourishing and Qi-enhancing Health Tea

　　 Blood-nourishing refers to the method of treating blood deficiency with blood-nourishing drugs. Blood deficiency is characterized by pale or sallow complexion, pale lips and nails, dizziness, blurred vision, insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations, reduced menstrual flow or amenorrhea, pale tongue and thin pulse. It is advisable to use Gui Pian Pill, Si Wu Tang, and Dang Gui Bu Xue Tang. Commonly used herbs include Dang Gui, Shu Di, Donkey-hide Gelatin, Mulberry Fruit, Longan Flesh, Polygonum Multiflorum, and Goji Berry. Therefore, blood-nourishing is generally aimed at women, as they lose a large amount of blood every month, which can easily lead to deficiency of Qi and blood. Therefore, women should pay more attention to blood-nourishing. Below, we will introduce several foods that can nourish blood and enhance Qi.

　　 Black Silkie Chicken: Li Shizhen, in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", said that Black Silkie Chicken is rich in the essence of water and wood, making it suitable for treating liver, kidney, and blood diseases. It can nourish deficiency and strengthen the body, treat all kinds of deficiencies, as well as relieve thirst, aphonia, chest and abdominal pain, and benefit postpartum women. It can also treat postpartum weakness, excessive uterine bleeding, and irregular menstruation.

　　 Women often suffer from insufficient Qi and blood, blood deficiency, and other conditions, mainly due to poor physical constitution and poor circulation. In daily life, there are many foods that can help women nourish Qi and blood. However, did you know that some teas can also help women nourish blood and Qi, while also being good for the skin? Therefore, in addition to eating foods that nourish blood and Qi, women should also drink these teas more. Nowadays, as women pay more and more attention to beauty, they must also focus on their own physical health.

　　 Blood-nourishing and Qi-enhancing Health Tea

　　 1. Jujube and Rice Wine Tea

　　 Ingredients: 10 jujubes, 1 tablespoon of rice wine, some brown sugar.

　　 Method: Put the jujubes and rice wine into 500 grams of boiling water, simmer for 5 minutes, and then add some brown sugar according to your taste.

　　 Effects: When jujube and licorice are used together with wheat (Licorice, Wheat, and Jujube soup), they can nourish blood and calm the mind, soothe the liver, and alleviate depression.

　　 2. Ginger and Huangqi Jujube Tea

　　 Ingredients: 4 grams of Huangqi, some ginger, 2 jujubes, some brown sugar.

　　 Method: Put the sliced ginger, Huangqi, and jujubes into 1000 grams of boiling water, simmer for 8 minutes, and add some brown sugar if desired.

　　 Effects: Brown sugar is warm in nature and sweet in taste, enters the spleen, and has the functions of nourishing Qi and blood, invigorating the spleen and warming the stomach, relieving pain, and promoting blood circulation and dissipating stasis.

　　 3. Danggui Red Tea

　　 Ingredients: 10 grams of Danggui, 8 grams of red tea, 10 grams of rock sugar.

　　 Method: Remove impurities from the Danggui, put it in a pot with an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil, add the red tea, simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, filter the juice, and dissolve it in water and grain.

　　 Effects: Nourishes and invigorates blood, warms the intestines and stomach. Suitable for irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, or deficiency-cold feeling, constipation, etc.

　　 4. Longan Red Tea

　　 Ingredients: 6 longan fruits, 10 grams of red tea, some brown sugar.

　　 Method: Clean the longan fruits and red tea separately, put them in a pot with an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil, simmer over low heat for 20 minutes, filter the juice.

　　 Effects: Nourishes and invigorates Qi and blood, warms the intestines and stomach. Suitable for palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, anemia, cold abdomen, etc.

　　 5. Motherwort Brown Sugar Tea

　　 Ingredients: 1 gram of motherwort, 1 gram of Cyperus rotundus, some brown sugar.

　　 Method: Put motherwort and Cyperus rotundus into 500 grams of boiling water, simmer for 5 minutes, and add an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Alternatively, put all the ingredients in a thermos, pour in 500 grams of boiling water, and let it steep for 30 minutes.

　　 Effects: It has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, regulating menstruation, and relieving water retention. Motherwort can promote rapid recovery of local blood flow microcirculation disorders.