Herbal Tea Recipes for Various Health Concerns

1. Mulberry Leaf Goji Tea.

Ingredients: 5g mulberry leaves, 3g goji berries, 3g chrysanthemum flowers, 3g cassia seeds, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 250ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Disperse wind-heat, clear head and eyes.

Uses: Dizziness caused by wind-heat.

2. Perilla Tea.

Ingredients: 10g perilla leaves, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 300ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Release exterior cold, regulate qi and nourish.

Uses: Wind-cold cold, fever and cough.

3. Purple Wind Tea.

Ingredients: 5g perilla leaves, 3g saposhnikovia root, 3g chuanxiong, 3g dried tangerine peel, 3g licorice, 5g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 300ml of boiling water for 10 minutes and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Disperse wind and heat.

Uses: Fever and cough caused by external pathogenic factors.

4. Tight Chen Tea.

Ingredients: 5g perilla leaves, 3g dried tangerine peel, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 250ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Disperse cold and regulate qi.

Uses: Catching a cold with respiratory symptoms, cough with nausea.

5. Purple Ginseng Tea.

Ingredients: 5g perilla leaves, 3g ginseng, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 250ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Disperse wind, stop cough and tonify qi.

Uses: Deficiency of qi with external pathogenic factors, cough, shortness of breath.

6. Perilla Anzi Tea.

Ingredients: 5g perilla leaves, 2g chuanxiong, 3g white peony, 3g angelica, 3g ginseng, 5g black tea, 15g brown sugar.

Instructions: Boil perilla leaves, chuanxiong, white peony, angelica, and ginseng with 400ml of water. After boiling, brew with black tea and brown sugar for 10 minutes before drinking. Can also be brewed directly.

Function: Harmonize blood and nourish the fetus.

Uses: Imbalance of qi in pregnant women, distension and pain in the abdomen.

7. Perilla Ginger Tea.

Ingredients: 5g perilla leaves, 3g dried ginger, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 250ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Warm the lungs and stop cough.

Uses: Chronic bronchitis.

8. Purple Lotus Tea.

Ingredients: 5g perilla leaves, 1g coptis, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 250ml of boiling water. Can add some rock sugar. Drink when the taste is light.

Function: Clear heat and relieve distention.

Uses: Gastric heat-induced vomiting, uremic vomiting, pregnancy-induced vomiting.

9. Perilla Depression Relief Tea.

Ingredients: 5g perilla leaves, 5g perilla stems, 3g flower tea.

Instructions: Brew with 250ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Disperse wind, relieve exterior, regulate liver qi.

Uses: Plum pit syndrome, wind-cold external invasion with food stagnation, symptoms of qi stagnation caused by external pathogenic factors.

10. Perilla Tongli Tea.

Ingredients: 5g perilla leaves, 3g cicada slough, 3g motherwort, 3g flower tea.

Instructions: Brew with 300ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Disperse wind, activate blood circulation, promote diuresis, detoxify.

Uses: Nephritis edema, proteinuria, nephrotic syndrome.

11. Perilla Xianggeng Tea.

Ingredients: 3g perilla stems, 3g patchouli stems, 3g flower tea.

Instructions: Brew with 250ml of boiling water and drink. Can also boil the two stems with 250ml of water and then brew.

Function: Disperse qi, transform dampness, stop diarrhea.

Uses: Chronic diarrhea, bloating and diarrhea caused by lung and stomach qi stagnation.

12. Shengma Tea.

Ingredients: 10g shengma, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 300ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Promote yang energy, detoxify, antibacterial.

Uses: Cold and heat headache, oral ulcers, rash that does not penetrate, long-term diarrhea and dysentery, prolapse of rectum in women.

13. Shengma and Kudzu Root Tea.

Ingredients: 5g shengma, 3g kudzu root, 3g white peony, 3g licorice, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 300ml of boiling water. Can use the decoction of shengma, kudzu root, and white peony to brew licorice and green tea.

Function: Disperse exterior heat, promote yang energy.

Uses: Fever, headache, body pain, rash that does not penetrate caused by wind-heat.

14. Shengqin Tea.

Ingredients: 5g shengma, 3g scutellaria, 3g kudzu root, 3g burdock fruit, 3g peppermint, 5g green tea.

Instructions: Boil shengma, scutellaria, kudzu root, and burdock fruit with 500ml of water. After boiling, brew peppermint and green tea for 10 minutes before drinking. Can also be brewed directly.

Function: Clear heat, promote rashes.

Uses: Unexplained rashes in children, fever, body pain, cough, mumps.

15. Qingzhen Tea.

Ingredients: 5g shengma, 3g atractylodes, 3g lotus leaf, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 300ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Clear heat, reduce swelling.

Uses: Headache with bumps and pain, aversion to cold and strong fever.

16. Shenglian Tea.

Ingredients: 5g shengma, 1g coptis, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 250ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Clear heat and detoxify.

Uses: Oral ulcers, halitosis.

17. Shenglong Tea.

Ingredients: 5g shengma, 3g gentian, 3g qianghuo, 3g green tea.

Instructions: Brew with 300ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light.

Function: Clear heat, reduce swelling.

Uses: Swollen and painful gums, yellow teeth and bad breath.

18. Shengma Stop Bleeding Tea.

Ingredients: 5g shengma, 3g bupleurum, 3g chuanxiong, 2g schizonepeta, 3g angelica, 5g flower tea.

Instructions: Use the decoction of shengma, bupleurum, chuanxiong, schizonepeta, and angelica (400ml) to brew flower tea. Drink when the taste is light.

Function: Promote yang energy, stop bleeding.

Uses: Persistent irregular bleeding due to yang qi sinking.

19. Shengma Clearing Sores Tea.

Ingredients: 5g shengma, 3g scutellaria, 3g peony, 3g angelica, 3g licorice, 5g flower tea.

Instructions: Boil shengma, scutellaria, peony, and angelica with 400ml of water. After boiling, brew licorice and flower tea for 10 minutes before drinking. Can also be brewed directly.

Function: Clear exterior heat, promote wound healing.

Uses: Wind-heat in the heart, spreading to cause ulcers and abscesses.

20. Shengma Abscess Relief Tea.

Ingredients: 5g shengma, 1g coptis, 3g peony, 3g rehmannia, 3g scrophularia, 5g flower tea.

Instructions: Boil shengma, coptis, peony, rehmannia, and scrophularia with 400ml of water. After boiling, brew flower tea for 10 minutes before drinking. Can also be brewed directly.

Function: Disperse wind, clear heat, detoxify, relieve abscesses.

Uses: Rash, abscesses, fever.