Refreshing Herbal Teas for Summer: Prevent Heatstroke, Improve Digestion, and Enhance Well-being

January 26, 2024

Maidong Tea: Take 9g of Maidong, Danshen, Beisha Shen, and Yuzhu, 6g of Zhimu, Wumei, and Licorice. Grind them into coarse powder and add 50g of green tea. Boil 1000ml of water, let it cool, and drink it as tea.

This tea is suitable for diabetes patients to drink in the summer to prevent heatstroke.

Malt Hawthorn Tea: Take 50g of roasted malt and 15g of roasted hawthorn, soak them in 5 cups of water for half an hour, then boil the mixture and drink the soup.

This tea is suitable for poor appetite, loose stools, or adults with high blood lipids. It can also be consumed by children with food accumulation. However, lactating women should not take it because malt has a mild lactation-inducing effect.

Double Flower Tea: Take 15g of honeysuckle and 10g of white chrysanthemum, brew them with boiling water as a substitute for tea.

This tea has the effects of clearing heat, detoxification, and relieving summer heat and inflammation. It is suitable for influenza, restlessness, acute enteritis, and other conditions.

Lily Jujube Tea: Take 20g of dried lily (or 50g of fresh lily), soak it for 4 hours, then boil it with 20 jujubes and a little sugar. Drink the decoction.

This tea nourishes yin, moistens the lungs, calms the mind, and is suitable for lung and stomach yin deficiency, thirst, dry lips, insomnia, or persistent dry cough. It is especially suitable for patients with residual heat after illness or gout.

Bitter Gourd Heat Relief Tea: Cut open the top of the bitter gourd, remove the pulp, fill it with green tea, hang it in a well-ventilated place to dry, take it down, wash it, and cut it into small pieces. Take 10g, brew it with boiling water, cover it for half an hour, and drink it frequently.

This tea has the effect of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, and reducing restlessness. It is suitable for heatstroke with fever, thirst, and difficulty urinating.

Chrysanthemum Longjing Tea: Take 10g of chrysanthemum and 5g of Longjing tea, mix them well in a teacup, pour in boiling water, cover it, steep for 10 minutes, and then drink it.

This tea has the effects of dispersing wind-heat, clearing the liver, and improving eyesight. It has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on early-stage hypertension, wind-heat headache, conjunctivitis, and other conditions.

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