Refreshing Summer Beverages: Teas and Drinks to Beat the Heat

With the arrival of summer, the heat becomes unbearable. While people are replenishing their fluids, they can also add foods that have both medicinal and nutritional value, which can be made into teas or drinks. These beverages can not only quench thirst but also clear heat and relieve summer heat.

6 Summer Teas

Chrysanthemum Green Tea - 10 grams of Hangzhou chrysanthemum and 10 grams of green tea, brewed with 500 milliliters of boiling water. Drink as desired. It has the effects of clearing heat, improving eyesight, quenching thirst, and relieving inflammation and detoxification.

Bitter Melon Tea - 1 bitter melon, appropriate amount of green tea. Cut open the top of the bitter melon, remove the seeds, and stuff it with green tea. Hang the bitter melon in a well-ventilated place to dry. Then remove and wash it, cut it together with the tea leaves into small pieces, mix well. Take 10 grams and steep in boiling water for half an hour before drinking. It has the effects of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, and quenching thirst.

Roasted Barley Tea - Roast the barley and set it aside. When drinking, brew the roasted barley with boiling water. It has the effects of clearing heat, quenching thirst, and invigorating qi.

Semen Cassiae Tea - 200 grams of Semen Cassiae, roast them and set aside. When drinking, take an appropriate amount of Semen Cassiae and steep it in boiling water. It has the effects of relieving heat, clearing heat, improving eyesight, and quenching thirst.

Bamboo Leaf Peppermint Tea - 10 grams of fresh bamboo leaves, 2 grams of fresh peppermint leaves, 5 grams of green tea, brewed with boiling water. Drink as desired. It has the effects of cooling the body, relieving summer heat, and dispersing heat.

Three Flower Tea - 20 calyxes of luffa flowers, 20 calyxes of hyacinth bean flowers, 5 calyxes of pumpkin flowers. Wash the three types of flowers, cook them with an appropriate amount of water for about 20 minutes, strain the juice, add white sugar, and drink it as tea. It has the effects of relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness.

6 Summer Drinks

Lotus Leaf Juice - 30 grams of fresh lotus leaves, boil them with 1000 milliliters of water. When drinking, add an appropriate amount of white sugar. It has the effects of cooling the body, quenching thirst, and reducing fat and weight.

Watermelon Tomato Juice - 1000 grams of watermelon, 250 grams of tomatoes. Wash the watermelon and tomatoes, remove their peels and seeds, separately juice the watermelon pulp and tomato flesh, mix them together and drink. It has the effects of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, and quenching thirst.

Honeysuckle Hyacinth Bean Soup - 15 grams of honeysuckle, 30 grams of white hyacinth beans, 3 grams of peppermint, boil them with 1000 milliliters of water. When drinking, add an appropriate amount of white sugar. It has the effects of relieving summer heat, nourishing the stomach, invigorating the spleen, and eliminating dampness.

Bitter Melon Peppermint Soup - 100 grams of fresh bitter melon, 40 grams of peppermint, remove the seeds from the bitter melon and cut it into pieces. Wash the peppermint, cook them with an appropriate amount of water, and add a little salt for seasoning. It has the effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat.

Three Bean Drink - 50 grams each of mung beans, adzuki beans, and black beans, boil them and add an appropriate amount of white sugar. Eat the beans and drink the soup together. It has the effects of dispelling heat and dampness, clearing heat and detoxification, and nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the body.

Plum Summer Drink - 15 grams of dried plums, 10 grams of fresh bamboo leaves, 6 grams of lotus seed hearts, 30 grams of watermelon rind. Wash all the ingredients, cook them together in water, strain the residue, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and dissolve it, then drink. It has the effects of relieving summer heat, cooling the body, calming the mind, and quenching thirst.