Herbal Tea Recipes for Restful Sleep and Calming the Mind

1. Sour Jujube Kernel Tea

Ingredients: 59g sour jujube kernel, 1g flower tea

Method: Use 150ml of sour jujube kernel decoction and brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Calms the mind, nourishes the liver, stops sweating; sedative, hypnotic, analgesic, anti-convulsant, reduces fever, lowers blood pressure.

Uses: Restlessness, insomnia, palpitations, thirst, spontaneous sweating.

2. Sour Jujube and Ginseng Tea

Ingredients: 5g sour jujube kernel, 2g ginseng, 2g poria, 1g flower tea

Method: Use 250ml of sour jujube kernel, ginseng, and poria decoction and brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Nourishes yin and stops sweating.

Uses: Insomnia with night sweats.

3. Sour Jujube and Bamboo Leaf Tea

Ingredients: 5g sour jujube kernel, 3g bamboo leaf, 1g flower tea

Method: Use 200ml of sour jujube kernel decoction and brew with bamboo leaf and flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Clears the mind and calms the spirit.

Uses: Restless sleep, frequent palpitations.

4. Sour Jujube and Salvia Tea

Ingredients: 5g sour jujube kernel, 3g salvia, 1g flower tea

Method: Use 250ml of sour jujube kernel and salvia decoction and brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Clears the mind, relieves restlessness, nourishes and activates blood circulation.

Uses: Coronary heart disease with restlessness and insomnia.

5. Sour Jujube and Ocher Tea

Ingredients: 5g sour jujube kernel, 3g ocher, 1g flower tea

Method: Boil 5g of sour jujube kernel and 3g of ocher in 300ml water for 10 minutes, then brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Nourishes blood, calms the spirit.

Uses: Insomnia due to excessive yang and restlessness.

6. Sour Jujube and Coptis Tea

Ingredients: 5g sour jujube kernel, 18g coptis, 1g flower tea, 1g sugar

Method: Use 200ml of sour jujube kernel and coptis decoction and brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Nourishes blood, calms the spirit, clears the mind.

Uses: Insomnia, palpitations, dizziness, mouth ulcers, bitter taste in the mouth.

7. Longan Tea

Ingredients: 10g longan flesh, 11g flower tea

Method: Use 250ml of longan flesh decoction and brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Nourishes the heart and spleen, replenishes qi and blood, calms the spirit.

Uses: Insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations, restlessness.

8. Longan and Ginseng Tea

Ingredients: 5g longan flesh, 2g American ginseng, 1g flower tea

Method: Use 300ml of longan flesh and American ginseng decoction and brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Tonifies qi and blood, calms the mind and spirit.

Uses: Insomnia due to physical weakness; consumption before delivery can assist labor.

9. Longan and Ginger Tea

Ingredients: 5g longan flesh, 3g fresh ginger, 3g black tea

Method: Use 300ml of longan flesh and fresh ginger decoction and brew with black tea.

Function: Tonifies the spleen, warms the middle, stops diarrhea.

Uses: Spleen deficiency with diarrhea, cold abdominal pain.

10. Lily Tea

Ingredients: 10g lily, 3g green tea

Method: Use 300ml of lily decoction and brew with green tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Calms the mind, moistens the lungs, stops coughing.

Uses: Lingering heat after a fever, restlessness, palpitations, confused mind; tuberculosis with chronic cough, coughing up bloody phlegm; edema in the legs.

11. Lily and Winter Ginger Tea

Ingredients: 5g lily, 3g winter ginger flower, 3g fresh ginger, 3g green tea

Method: Use 350ml of lily, winter ginger flower, and fresh ginger decoction and brew with green tea.

Function: Moistens the lungs, resolves phlegm.

Uses: Persistent cough with phlegm, sometimes bloody phlegm.

12. Lily and Rehmannia Tea

Ingredients: 5g lily, 3g rehmannia, 2g Chinese angelica, 1g fritillaria, 2g platycodon, 3g flower tea

Method: Boil 450ml of water with lily, rehmannia, Chinese angelica, fritillaria, and platycodon until boiling, then brew with flower tea. You can also drink the decoction directly.

Function: Nourishes yin, moistens the lungs.

Uses: Lung and kidney yin deficiency, excessive virtual fire causing dryness and discomfort in the throat, cough, asthma, blood in phlegm, hot palms and soles.

13. Lily and Sour Jujube Tea

Ingredients: 5g lily, 3g sour jujube kernel, 1g flower tea

Method: Use 300ml of lily and sour jujube kernel decoction and brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Nourishes the heart and calms the mind.

Uses: Neurosis, restlessness, insomnia.

14. Lily and Rehmannia Tea

Ingredients: 5g lily, 3g rehmannia, 1g flower tea

Method: Use 300ml of lily and rehmannia decoction and brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Nourishes yin, moistens the lungs, calms the heart and mind.

Uses: Restlessness, insomnia, mental confusion caused by heart and lung yin deficiency.

15. Lily and Anemarrhena Tea

Ingredients: 5g lily, 2g anemarrhena, 1g flower tea

Method: Use 300ml of lily and anemarrhena decoction and brew with flower tea. You can also use the decoction without tea.

Function: Moistens the lungs, clears the heart, calms the mind.

Uses: Insomnia, palpitations, dizziness, low-grade fever in the afternoon, sweating of the hands and feet, hot flashes; tuberculosis cough.

16. Mimosa Tea

Ingredients: 5g mimosa, 1g flower tea

Method: Brew with 200ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light. You can also drink it without tea.

Function: Calms the mind, regulates qi.

Uses: Chest tightness due to depression, insomnia, forgetfulness; eye diseases caused by wind and fire, blurred vision, sore throat.

17. Mimosa and Coptis Tea

Ingredients: 5g mimosa, 1g coptis, 1g cinnamon bark, 2g polygonum multiflorum, 1g flower tea

Method: Brew with 250ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light. You can also drink it without tea.

Function: Harmonizes the heart and kidneys, clears the heart, calms the mind.

Uses: Insomnia, palpitations, dry mouth, mouth ulcers.

18. Mimosa and White Peony Tea

Ingredients: 5g mimosa, 3g white peony, 1g flower tea

Method: Brew with 250ml of boiling water and drink when the taste is light. You can also drink it without tea.

Function: Nourishes blood, softens the liver, relieves depression, calms the mind.

Uses: Restlessness and insomnia caused by liver stagnation; restlessness, mental confusion caused by blood and qi deficiency; menopausal syndrome, neurasthenia with depression.

19. Mimosa and Fritillaria Tea

Ingredients: 5g mimosa, 2g fritillaria, 3g flower tea

Method: Use 300ml of mimosa and fritillaria decoction and brew with flower tea. Drink when the taste is light.

Function: Expels depression, transforms phlegm, calms the mind.

Uses: Phlegm stagnation with hot cough, irritability.

20. Mimosa and Astragalus Tea

Ingredients: 5g mimosa, 28g astragalus, 3g flower tea

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

Function: Tonifies qi, regulates the liver, nourishes the heart, calms the mind.

Uses: Dizziness, shortness of breath, wheezing, palpitations, insomnia.