Different types of tea have different effects, and drinking different teas can have different therapeutic and preventive effects. Below are 12 conditions suitable for tea therapy.
1. Bacterial dysentery
Take 10-20 grams of tea leaves, make a strong decoction and take orally or use for rectal infusion.
2. Heatstroke
Brew 15 grams of green tea and drink it.
3. Fever
Mix the juices of pear (30 grams), bitter gourd (20 grams), lotus root or sugarcane (20 grams), ophiopogon (20 grams), and fresh reed rhizome (25 grams), boil the mixture with water and drink it after cooling.
Make a decoction of seven fresh ingredients (6 grams of agastache, 6 grams of perilla, 10 grams of pear juice, 6 grams of peppermint, 6 grams of raw rehmannia, 6 grams of polygonum multiflorum, 6 grams of lotus leaf) and drink it.
4. Cold and flu
Brew a tea mixture of agastache, perilla, windproof, and bupleurum and drink it.
Make a decoction of five flavors (6 grams each of schizonepeta, perilla, and tea leaves, 3 grams of ginger, 25 grams of rock sugar) and drink the soup.
5. Sore throat
Make a drink with fat sea holly (3 grams) and honey.
Brew a tea with fresh wheatgrass (15 grams of dendrobium, 10 grams of ophiopogon) and drink it.
6. Herpes zoster
Grind the leaves of old tea trees into fine powder, mix with concentrated tea water, and apply it 2-3 times a day.
7. Heart disease
Take 30 grams of old tea tree roots, decoct with an appropriate amount of water, and take it with yellow wine.
8. Epilepsy
Grind 500 grams of black tea and 500 grams of alum into fine powder, make round pills the size of a wuzi (a type of fruit), and take 40 pills before the onset of symptoms.
9. Dysmenorrhea
Take 15 grams of tea tree roots, 30 grams of lingxiao flower roots, and 15 grams of fennel, stew with an appropriate amount of yellow wine for 3 hours, remove the residue, and take with red sugar during the menstrual period.
10. Headache
Fry 6 grams of coix seed, 9 grams of peppermint, and 9 grams of tea leaves, make a decoction with water, and drink it.
11. Constipation
Make a decoction with 9 grams of chrysanthemum and 30 grams of cassia seed, and drink it.
12. Chilblains
Burn persimmon peel into ash, mix with strong tea, and apply it as a poultice.
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