Bamboo Tea: Natural Remedies for Various Ailments

1. Bamboo Plum Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g dried plums, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water and drink. Add sugar to taste.

Function: Clears heat and generates fluids.

Uses: Relieves summer heat and excessive thirst.

2. Bamboo Licorice Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 5g licorice.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water, steep until the taste is light.

Function: Clears heat and generates fluids.

Uses: Relieves heat-induced vomiting and thirst.

3. Poria Cocos Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g dandelion, 2g poria cocos, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 250ml dandelion and poria cocos decoction, then add green tea. Add sugar to taste. Can also be brewed directly.

Function: Clears heat, detoxifies, and promotes digestion.

Uses: Treats digestive ulcers.

4. Daqingcao River Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g daqingcao, 3g grass river car, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water for 10 minutes, then drink.

Function: Clears heat, detoxifies, cools blood, and reduces swelling.

Uses: Treats pneumonia, hepatitis, urinary tract infections, and influenza.

5. Mountain Bean Root Tea.

Ingredients: 2g mountain bean root, 5g green tea, 10g white sugar.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water for 5-10 minutes, until the taste is light.

Function: Clears heat, detoxifies, reduces swelling, and relieves pain. Has anti-tumor properties.

Uses: Treats swollen gums, lung heat with cough and asthma, sore throat, hemorrhoids, scabies, and snake, insect, and dog bites.

6. Mountain Yellow Tea.

Ingredients: 1g mountain bean root, 0.3g rhubarb, 3g asarum, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water for 10 minutes, until the taste is light.

Function: Clears heat and purges fire.

Uses: Treats throat obstruction, swelling or ulcers, and oral ulcers.

7. Mountain Winter Tea.

Ingredients: 1g mountain bean root, 3g ophiopogon, 3g sophora, 3g pollen, 5g licorice, 3g green tea.

Usage: Boil mountain bean root, ophiopogon, sophora, and pollen with 300ml water until boiling, then add licorice and green tea and steep for 5-10 minutes. Add sugar to taste. Can also be brewed directly.

Function: Clears heat, purges fire, and relieves sore throat.

Uses: Treats swollen throat caused by wind and cold, mouth ulcers, and sores.

8. Mountain Purple Tea.

Ingredients: 1g mountain bean root, 3g perilla leaf, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water, steep until the taste is light.

Function: Clears heat, soothes the lungs.

Uses: Treats thick and sticky sputum due to pharyngeal heat and inflammation of the lymph nodes.

9. Mountain Green Tea.

Ingredients: 1g mountain bean root, 3g daqingcao, 3g licorice, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water for 10 minutes, until the taste is light.

Function: Clears heat and detoxifies.

Uses: Treats lung heat and cough.

10. Mountain Arrowhead Tea.

Ingredients: 1g mountain bean root, 3g sophora, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water, steep until the taste is light.

Function: Clears heat, detoxifies, and clears phlegm.

Uses: Treats swollen throat caused by heat and toxins, acute pharyngitis, acute tonsillitis.

11. Mountain Mint Tea.

Ingredients: 1g mountain bean root, 3g mint, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water. Add sugar to taste. Steep until the taste is light.

Function: Clears heat, detoxifies, and soothes the throat.

Uses: Relieves discomfort in the throat caused by external factors.

12. Mountain Ice Tea.

Ingredients: 1g mountain bean root, 5g licorice, 10g rock sugar.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water for 5-10 minutes, until the taste is light.

Function: Purges fire and soothes the throat.

Uses: Relieves sore throat and thirst.

13. Mountain Chrysanthemum Tea.

Ingredients: 1g mountain bean root, 3g chrysanthemum, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water for 10 minutes. Steep until the taste is light.

Function: Purges fire, detoxifies, and improves vision.

Uses: Treats sore throat and red, swollen, and teary eyes.

14. Bamboo Leaf Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water. Steep until the taste is light.

Function: Clears heat and relieves restlessness.

Uses: Treats fever, thirst, childhood epilepsy, and red urine.

15. Ice Bamboo Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g green tea, 10g rock sugar.

Usage: Brew with 200ml boiling water. Steep until the taste is light.

Function: Clears heat and relieves restlessness.

Uses: Treats fever, thirst, and red and hot urine.

16. Bamboo Leaf Poria Cocos Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g poria cocos, 3g gypsum, 3g wheat, 3g green tea.

Usage: Boil bamboo leaves, poria cocos, gypsum, and wheat with 250ml water until boiling, then add green tea. Can also be brewed directly with 200ml boiling water for 5-10 minutes.

Function: Clears heat and quenches thirst.

Uses: Treats heat-induced thirst and bad breath.

17. Bamboo Leaf Gypsum Ginseng Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g gypsum, 3g ginseng, 3g ophiopogon, 3g licorice, 5g flower tea.

Usage: Boil bamboo leaves, gypsum, ginseng, and ophiopogon with 300ml water until boiling, then add licorice and flower tea. Can also be brewed directly.

Function: Clears heat and benefits qi.

Uses: Treats weakness and lack of energy after a fever.

18. Bamboo Leaf Mint Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g mint, 3g glutinous rice, 3g green tea.

Usage: Boil bamboo leaves, mint, and glutinous rice with 250ml water until boiling, then add green tea. Can also be brewed directly.

Function: Clears heat and eliminates dampness.

Uses: Treats childhood fever with mental confusion.

19. Bamboo Leaf Pueraria Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g pueraria, 3g ledebouriella, 3g licorice, 3g cinnamon twig, 5g flower tea.

Usage: Boil bamboo leaves, pueraria, ledebouriella, and cinnamon twig with 500ml water until boiling, then add licorice and flower tea. Can also be brewed directly with 300ml boiling water.

Function: Relieves muscle tension and harmonizes the Ying and Wei.

Uses: Treats postpartum fever, headache, red eyes, thirst.

20. Bamboo Leaf Plantain Tea.

Ingredients: 5g bamboo leaves, 3g plantain, 2 jujubes, 3g licorice, 3g green tea.

Usage: Use the decoction of bamboo leaves, plantain, and jujubes (250ml) to brew licorice and green tea. Can also be brewed directly.

Function: Clears heat and promotes diuresis.

Uses: Treats painful and hot urination.