Herbal tea, known as "tea medicine" in traditional Chinese medicine, is a combination of natural herbs and tea leaves (or without tea leaves), brewed and consumed for the purpose of cooling down, detoxification, health maintenance, or disease prevention and treatment. Below are some herbal teas suitable for summer consumption, which can be selected based on individual needs:
Ginger Salt Tea
Method: 2-3 slices of fresh ginger, 4 grams of salt, 6 grams of green tea, steeped in boiling water for 15 minutes before drinking.
Benefits: Clears heat, moistens dryness, and soothes the stomach. Particularly suitable for thirst, discomfort in the stomach, restlessness, and frequent urination.
Orange Red Tea
Method: 5 grams of orange peel, 5 grams of green tea, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Clears the lungs and stomach, promotes qi circulation, and transforms phlegm. Particularly suitable for assisting in the treatment of cough with excessive phlegm caused by chronic bronchitis and digestive disorders leading to stomach distension.
Salvia Tea
Method: 10 grams of salvia (coarsely ground), 5 grams of green tea, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Promotes blood circulation, relieves chest pain, and calms the mind. Particularly suitable for conditions such as coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, thromboangiitis obliterans, and chronic hepatitis.
Sesame Tea
Method: 6 grams of black sesame seeds, 3 grams of green tea leaves, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, nourishes the blood, and moisturizes the intestines. Particularly suitable for conditions such as kidney deficiency, dizziness, premature graying of hair, and high blood lipids.
Peppermint Tea
Method: 6 grams of peppermint, 10 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 30 grams of gypsum, 3 grams of Ephedra sinica, 3 slices of fresh ginger, add an appropriate amount of water, decoct to obtain the herbal juice (decoct twice and mix well), and consume as tea.
Benefits: Expels external heat, disperses wind-heat, and relieves sore throat. Particularly suitable for conditions such as fever with headache, swollen and painful throat, cough with discomfort, and chest stuffiness.
Ginseng Tea
Method: 6 grams of American ginseng, 10 grains of Ophiopogon japonicus, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Nourishes yin, replenishes body fluids, invigorates qi, refreshes the mind, moistens the lungs, and clears the heart. Particularly suitable for conditions such as physical weakness, heat injuring body fluids leading to fatigue, dizziness, dry throat, and excessive sweating.
Honeysuckle Tea
Method: 15 grams of honeysuckle, 3 grams of peppermint, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Clears heat, relieves summer heat, and detoxifies. Particularly suitable for conditions such as dermatitis, prickly heat, and boils in the elderly and children; can also be used as a cool and refreshing drink in hot summer weather.
Prince Ginseng Tea
Method: 15 grams of Prince ginseng, 10 grams of Dendrobium nobile (coarsely ground), and 5 grams of Schisandra chinensis, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Tonifies qi, generates body fluids, nourishes yin, and stops sweating. Particularly suitable for conditions such as dryness of mouth and tongue, stomach pain, dry retching with poor appetite, as well as shortness of breath, dizziness, and palpitations in the elderly; can also be used as a common cool drink in summer.
Chrysanthemum Dragon Well Tea
Method: 10 grams of chrysanthemum flowers, 5 grams of Dragon Well tea, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Disperses wind and heat, clears the liver, and brightens the eyes. Particularly suitable for assisting in the treatment of early-stage hypertension, chronic hepatitis, wind-heat headache, and conjunctivitis.
Bamboo Leaf Imperata Tea
Method: 10 grams of fresh bamboo leaves, 30 grams of Imperata cylindrica (coarsely ground), 5 grams of green tea leaves, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Clears heat, drains fire, and promotes urination. Particularly suitable for conditions such as heat-toxin gout, internal heat with restlessness and thirst, kidney stones, and heat-related disorders.
Reishi Goji Berry Tea
Method: 5 grams of reishi mushroom, 3 grams of goji berries, and 3 grams of green tea, brewed with boiling water and consumed.
Benefits: Tonifies the body, strengthens the spleen and kidneys, aids digestion, and removes greasy substances. Particularly suitable for the elderly, patients with chronic bronchitis, diabetes, hepatitis, coronary heart disease, high blood lipids, and tumors.
Black Plum Pu-erh Tea
Method: 6 grams of black plum, 3-6 grams of Pu-erh tea, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Invigorates the spleen and stomach, generates body fluids, aids digestion, and relieves diarrhea. Particularly suitable for conditions such as poor appetite, abdominal distension, dry throat, and prolonged diarrhea or dysentery.
Loquat Bamboo Leaf Tea
Method: 20 grams of loquat leaves, 20 grams of fresh bamboo leaves, 20 grams of reed roots (washed and chopped), boiled in a pot with an appropriate amount of water for 15 minutes, extract the juice (boil twice and mix well), add some sugar and salt for taste, and consume as tea.
Benefits: Clears heat, generates body fluids, relieves cough, and alleviates asthma. Particularly suitable for conditions such as fever, cough with sticky phlegm, thirst with insufficient body fluids, etc.
Chives and Perilla Tea
Method: 9 grams of chives, 9 grams of perilla leaves, 6 grams of tea leaves, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Clears heat, resolves dampness, disperses wind, and harmonizes the middle burner. Particularly suitable for conditions such as influenza and mild "summer dampness" (bitter summer); can also be used as a popular cool drink for summer heat prevention.
Atractylodes Poria Tea
Method: 20 grams of atractylodes, 15 grams of Poria cocos, add an appropriate amount of water, decoct for 25 minutes to obtain the soup (can be decocted twice to brew tea), pour into a thermos cup with green tea (5 grams), steep for 5 minutes before consuming as tea.
Benefits: Tonifies the spleen, replenishes qi, dries dampness, promotes diuresis, relieves bloating, and stops diarrhea. Particularly suitable for conditions such as spleen deficiency with poor appetite, indigestion, abdominal distension, loose stools, and early morning diarrhea.
Chrysanthemum Cassia Seed Tea
Method: 10 chrysanthemum flowers, 6 grams of cassia seeds, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Clears the liver and brightens the eyes. Particularly suitable for conditions such as liver fire causing restlessness, blurred vision, headache, dizziness, bitter taste in the mouth, and dry throat.
Peppermint Reed Flower Tea
Method: 6 grams of peppermint, 60 grams of fresh reed flowers (washed and chopped), 3 grams of flower tea, mixed together in a thermos bottle, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Expels lung heat, moistens the throat, generates body fluids, relieves thirst, and clears heat. Particularly suitable for conditions such as heat injuring body fluids and causing dryness in the mouth, chest discomfort, and sore throat with itchy sensation and hoarse voice.
Dandelion Chrysanthemum Tea
Method: Dandelion, chrysanthemum, and flower tea in appropriate amounts, ground into coarse powder, use 10 grams each time, brewed with boiling water and consumed as tea.
Benefits: Clears heat, detoxifies, disperses wind, and resolves exterior. Particularly suitable for conditions such as wind-heat invasion, sore throat, tonsillitis, and influenza.
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