The Healing Power of Herbal Teas: A Comprehensive Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine Remedies

December 8, 2023

1. Qisheng Tea

Ingredients: 5g Astragalus, 3g Rhizoma Cimicifugae, 3g Flower Tea

Usage: Brew with 250ml boiling water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify Qi, promote yang, expel evil and detoxify

Uses: Qi deficiency inflammation, oral ulcers; hypotension; low immune function; decreased white blood cells

Qisheng Tea

2. Shan Yao Tea

Ingredients: 10g Chinese Yam, 3g Flower Tea

Usage: Brew with 250ml Chinese Yam decoction and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify spleen, nourish lungs, strengthen kidney, replenish essence

Uses: Weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, loss of appetite; asthenia cough; nocturnal emission; abnormal vaginal discharge; frequent urination; chronic diarrhea

Shan Yao Tea

3. Shan Yao Sheng Shu Tea

Ingredients: 5g Chinese Yam, 3g Codonopsis Pilosula, 3g Atractylodes Macrocephala, 3g Flower Tea

Usage: Brew with 350ml Chinese Yam, Codonopsis Pilosula, and Atractylodes Macrocephala decoction and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify spleen, nourish Qi

Uses: Weak spleen and stomach, loss of appetite

Shan Yao Sheng Shu Tea

4. Gancao Tea

Ingredients: 5g Licorice, 3g Green Tea

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Harmonize middle, relieve urgency, moisten lungs, detoxify; anti-inflammatory, detoxify, analgesic, anti-convulsant, cough suppressant, diuretic, anti-tumor

Uses: Spleen and stomach Qi deficiency, abdominal pain, loose stools, decreased appetite; fatigue and fever; lung weakness cough; palpitations; sore throat; digestive ulcers; antidote poisoning; food poisoning

Gancao Tea

5. Rou Cong Rong Tea

Ingredients: 5g Cistanche, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 250ml Cistanche decoction and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify kidney, nourish essence, moisten dryness, smooth intestines

Uses: Male impotence, nocturnal emission; female infertility, coldness; lumbago and knee pain; uterine bleeding; abnormal vaginal discharge; constipation due to blood dryness; enuresis

Rou Cong Rong Tea

6. Cistanche Du Zhong Tea

Ingredients: 5g Cistanche, 3g Eucommia Bark, 3g Dodder Seed, 3g Schisandra, 3g Morinda officinalis, 5g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 400ml decoction of Cistanche, Eucommia Bark, Dodder Seed, Schisandra, and Morinda officinalis and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify kidney, nourish essence

Uses: Male weakness and exhaustion, impotence, itchy scrotum, dribbling urine;

7. Xian Mao Tea

Ingredients: 5g Curculigo, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Warm kidney yang, strengthen tendons and bones

Uses: Male impotence, coldness; urinary incontinence; cold pain in the abdomen; cold and pain in the waist and legs; female coldness, low sexual desire

Xian Mao Tea

8. Xian Mao Jia Pi Tea

Ingredients: 5g Curculigo, 3g Acanthopanax Bark, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 250ml boiling water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify kidney, strengthen tendons

Uses: Lumbar and knee tendons and fascia stiffness, numbness of the skin, joint discomfort; impotence; female uterine cold infertility

Xian Mao Jia Pi Tea

9. Ba Ji Tian Tea

Ingredients: 5g Morinda officinalis, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify kidney yang, strengthen tendons and bones, dispel wind and dampness; lower blood pressure

Uses: Impotence; lower abdominal cold pain; urinary incontinence; uterine cold and irregular menstruation;

10. Ba Ji Niu Xi Tea

Ingredients: 5g Morinda officinalis, 3g Achyranthes bidentata, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 250ml boiling water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify kidney and blood

Uses: Deficiency impotence

Ba Ji Niu Xi Tea

11. Ba Yu Tea

Ingredients: 5g Morinda officinalis, 3g Evodia rutaecarpa, 2g Cinnamon, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 300ml boiling water. Or brew with decoction of the first three ingredients and drink as tea.

Function: Warm kidney, warm uterus

Uses: Female cold uterus, irregular menstruation, excessive or insufficient menstrual flow, abnormal vaginal discharge

Ba Yu Tea

12. Ba Ji Du Zhong Tea

Ingredients: 5g Morinda officinalis, 3g Eucommia Bark, 3g Ligusticum wallichii, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 300ml boiling water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify liver and kidney, strengthen tendons and bones, dispel wind and dampness

Uses: Wind and cold pain in the waist and buttocks, difficulty in walking

Ba Ji Du Zhong Tea

13. Yin Yang Huo Tea

Ingredients: 5g Epimedium, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify kidney yang, dispel wind and dampness; aphrodisiac, cough suppressant, expectorant, antitussive, diuretic, antihypertensive

Uses: Male impotence, premature ejaculation; dribbling urine; tendon and meridian spasm, hemiplegia, lumbar and knee weakness; rheumatism pain

Yin Yang Huo Tea

14. Yin Rong Tea

Ingredients: 5g Epimedium, 3g Cistanche, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 300ml decoction of the first three ingredients and drink when the taste is light

Function: Warm kidney, strengthen yang

Uses: Kidney yang deficiency, cold limbs; uterine cold infertility; female low sexual desire; nocturnal emission

Yin Rong Tea

15. Yin Yang Gui Tea

Ingredients: 5g Epimedium, 3g Cinnamon, 3g Tangerine Peel, 3g Areca Seed, 3g Ginger, 5g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 350ml decoction of the first several ingredients and drink after brewing black tea, when the taste is light

Function: Tonify spleen and kidney

Uses: Spleen and kidney yin deficiency, cold pain in the abdomen, loss of appetite, lumbago; nocturnal emission; impotence

Yin Yang Gui Tea

16. Xu Duan Tea

Ingredients: 5g Dipsacus asper, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify liver and kidney, strengthen tendons and bones, regulate blood circulation

Uses: Kidney deficiency, lumbago, prolonged diarrhea; rheumatism pain; tinnitus; trauma

Xu Duan Tea

17. Xu Duan Du Zhong Tea

Ingredients: 5g Dipsacus asper, 3g Eucommia Bark, 3g Achyranthes bidentata, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 350ml decoction of the first three ingredients and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify liver and kidney, dispel wind and dampness

Uses: Back pain, leg and foot weakness; wind cold dampness pain

Xu Duan Du Zhong Tea

18. Xu Duan Ji Sheng Tea

Ingredients: 5g Dipsacus asper, 3g Mulberry mistletoe, 3g Dodder Seed, 3g Gelatin, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 350ml decoction of the first four ingredients and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify kidney, nourish blood, stabilize pregnancy

Uses: Threatened miscarriage

Xu Duan Ji Sheng Tea

19. Gu Sui Bu Tea

Ingredients: 5g Drynaria, 3g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 250ml water and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify kidney, activate blood, stop bleeding

Uses: Kidney deficiency, lumbago, prolonged diarrhea; rheumatism pain; tinnitus; trauma

Gu Sui Bu Tea

20. Gu Yu Tea

Ingredients: 5g Drynaria, 3g Cornus officinalis, 3g Poria, 3g Rehmannia, 3g Moutan bark, 5g Black Tea

Usage: Brew with 350ml decoction of the first five ingredients and drink when the taste is light

Function: Tonify kidney, nourish essence

Uses: Kidney deficiency, deafness, tinnitus; loose teeth, toothache

Gu Yu Tea

Source: "Ben Cao Hui Yan" (Collection of Herbal Medicine)

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