The Healing Power of Tea: Traditional Chinese Medicine Meets Tea Culture

February 6, 2024

Tea therapy is a health regimen rooted in the traditional Chinese medicine culture and tea culture. It combines the therapeutic effects of Chinese medicine with the "appearance, color, fragrance, and taste" of tea, offering practicality, safety, and enjoyment.

Rose Peppermint Tea

Ingredients: 4-5 dried rose buds, a small amount of peppermint. Put the dried rose buds and peppermint into a cup, pour in hot water, cover it, and let it steep for 10-15 minutes. Drink it when it cools down.

Effects: Rose buds promote blood circulation, relieve emotional stress, and peppermint helps alleviate fatigue, making you feel refreshed.

Sea Holly and Goji Berry Tea

Ingredients: 5 grams of sea holly, 10 grams of goji berries, 10 grams of dwarf lilyturf root. Steep in tea.

Effects: This tea nourishes yin and kidneys, improves vision, detoxifies, and relieves sore throat. It is suitable for those with yin deficiency, internal heat, dry cough without phlegm, dry mouth, and sore throat. Not recommended for those with fever from external causes or poor digestion.

Three Flowers Cooling Tea

Ingredients: 2 grams of honeysuckle, 2 grams of goji berries, 1 gram of licorice, 2 chrysanthemum flowers (yellow), 1 chrysanthemum flower (white). Steep in boiling water.

Effects: This tea has the functions of clearing heat, detoxifying, soothing the liver, and improving vision.

Hawthorn and Wintergreen Tea

Ingredients: 2 grams of hawthorn, an appropriate amount of wintergreen, boil in water and drink as tea.

Effects: Hawthorn helps with digestion, disperses food stagnation, and promotes Qi circulation. Wintergreen has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, and promoting blood circulation.

Snow Fungus Tea

Ingredients: 20 grams of snow fungus, 5 grams of tea leaves, 20 grams of rock sugar. First, wash the snow fungus and cook it with water and rock sugar until it is cooked. Then, steep the tea leaves for 5 minutes, extract the juice, and add it to the snow fungus soup. Stir well and consume.

Effects: Snow fungus with rock sugar nourishes and moisturizes the lungs, relieves cough, and transforms phlegm. The combination with tea leaves helps to clear phlegm and dampness, and also has anti-inflammatory effects.

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