Discover the Refreshing Benefits of Huo Xiang Tea in Summer

Huo Xiang is a commonly used heat-clearing and summer-relieving medicine, which is most suitable for use in summer. It can alleviate various discomfort symptoms and has great benefits for the body when combined with different Chinese medicines.

【Benefits of Drinking Huo Xiang Tea】

In the scorching summer, drinking a cup of Huo Xiang tea can not only cool and relieve summer heat, but also have the fragrance to dispel dampness, soothe the stomach and stop nausea, treat dizziness and chest tightness, and stimulate appetite.

Take a few leaves of Huo Xiang and brew it with boiling water. A unique fragrance enters the nasal cavity, and the tea gradually releases a light green color, which is very pleasing to the eye.

Huo Xiang tea has a significant improvement effect on treating diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea caused by water and soil intolerance.

Huo Xiang tea is more suitable for drinking in summer because the hot weather in summer can easily cause heatstroke. Huo Xiang tea has obvious heat-clearing effects. Even if heatstroke does not occur, drinking some Huo Xiang tea can also prevent heatstroke. However, if there is no heatstroke, it is advisable to drink a cup a day.

【Uses of Huo Xiang】

1. With Pei Lan

Huo Xiang is fragrant and warm, dispels external evils, transforms dampness, invigorates the spleen and promotes appetite, and harmonizes the middle burner and stops vomiting; Pei Lan has a fragrant smell, moderate pungency, invigorates the spleen, transforms dampness, and relieves summer heat.

When used together, their effects of clearing heat, transforming dampness, relieving summer heat, invigorating the spleen, and harmonizing the stomach are more prominent. They are used to treat fatigue, distension and stuffiness in the stomach, nausea, vomiting, stickiness in the mouth caused by summer heat injury, damp obstruction in the body, and failure of the stomach to descend.

2. With Ban Xia

Huo Xiang transforms dampness, invigorates the spleen, regulates the middle burner, soothes the stomach, and stops vomiting; Ban Xia dries dampness, transforms phlegm, soothes the stomach, and stops vomiting. When used together, they can eliminate spleen and stomach cold and dampness and stop vomiting. They are used to treat symptoms such as distension and fullness in the stomach, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea caused by cold dampness obstruction.

3. With Sha Ren

Huo Xiang dispels turbidity and stops vomiting; Sha Ren warms the middle burner, promotes the flow of qi, and stabilizes the fetus. When these two medicines are used together, they have the effects of warming the middle burner, regulating qi, stopping vomiting, and stabilizing the fetus. They are used to treat pregnancy-induced vomiting or qi stagnation, distension and poor appetite in the stomach.