There are many records in ancient Chinese classics about the connection between tea and traditional Chinese medicine, which shows that ancient people had an understanding of the health benefits of tea. For example, in Lu Yu's "Classic of Tea" in the Tang Dynasty, he quoted the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" as saying: "Drinking tea for a long time makes people energetic and happy." Hua Tuo in the Three Kingdoms period also mentioned in his "Discourse on Food": "Bitter tea, long-term consumption benefits the mind." Zhang Hua in the Jin Dynasty wrote in his "Compendium of Natural History": "Drinking real tea makes people sleep less." Many scholars in later generations have also discussed this topic, so let's take a look at the wonderful recipes related to tea and health that the ancients have left us from the perspective of medicinal formulas.
1. Red Date Tea
Ingredients: 10 red dates, 10 grams of water, 10 grams of white sugar
Usage: Boil the red dates in water until they are cooked. Brew 5 grams of tea leaves with boiling water for 5 minutes, remove the residue and take the juice. Pour the tea leaves into the cooked red date soup and boil. Take it once a day, warm and take it multiple times.
Benefits: Nourishes the essence and blood, invigorates the spleen and stomach. Suitable for anemia, prolonged illness, and vitamin deficiency.
2. Chinese Date and Ginger Tea
Ingredients: 25-30 grams of Chinese dates, 10 grams of ginger, 0.5-1.5 grams of black tea
Usage: Cook the Chinese dates until they are cooked and dry. Stir-fry the ginger slices until dry, add honey and stir-fry until slightly yellow. Then brew the Chinese dates, ginger, and black tea leaves with boiling water for 5 minutes. Take it once a day, divided into 3 doses, and drink it warm with the dates.
Benefits: Invigorates the spleen, nourishes the blood, harmonizes the stomach, and aids digestion. Suitable for poor appetite, anemia, and nausea.
3. Codonopsis Tea
Ingredients: 10-25 grams of honey-baked codonopsis, 1-1.5 grams of black tea
Usage: Brew the mixture with boiling water for 5 minutes. Take it once a day, divided into 3 doses, and drink it warm.
Benefits: Strengthens the stomach, clears phlegm, replenishes qi, and nourishes the blood. Suitable for malnutrition-related anemia.
4. Rock Sugar Tea
Ingredients: 1.5 grams of black tea, 15-25 grams of rock sugar
Usage: Brew 1.5 grams of black tea leaves with boiling water for 5 minutes, remove the residue and take the juice. Dissolve the rock sugar in boiling water, pour it into the tea juice, and mix well. Take it once a day, divided into 2-3 doses.
Benefits: Invigorates the stomach, moisturizes the lungs, nourishes and strengthens the body. Suitable for weakness, dry cough due to lung deficiency, and chronic bronchitis.
5. Astragalus Tea
Ingredients: 15-25 grams of astragalus, 0.5-1 gram of black tea
Usage: Boil the astragalus in water for 5 minutes, then add the black tea and mix well. Take it once a day, divided into 3 doses, and drink it warm.
Benefits: Strengthens the surface, stops sweating, replenishes qi, strengthens the body, promotes diuresis, reduces swelling, and dispels pus and toxins. Suitable for chronic weakness, spontaneous sweating due to surface deficiency, and chronic bronchitis.
6. Walnut Tea
Ingredients: 5-15 grams of walnuts, 0.5-1 gram of green tea, 25 grams of white sugar
Usage: Mix them together and brew with boiling water for 5 minutes. Take it once a day, divided into 2 doses.
Benefits: Nourishes the kidneys, strengthens the waist, nourishes the lungs, and relieves coughing. Suitable for lumbar muscle strain, weakness, asthma, postpartum weakness in hands and feet, and chronic bronchitis.
7. Glutinous Rice Tea
Ingredients: 25-50 grams of glutinous rice, 0.5-1.5 grams of green tea
Usage: Cook the glutinous rice until half-cooked, then use the rice soup to brew the green tea. After 5 minutes, it's ready. Take it once a day, drink a small amount several times.
Benefits: Generates body fluids, quenches thirst, strengthens the stomach, promotes urination, and dissipates heat and detoxifies. Suitable for thirst due to summer heat, strengthening the stomach, promoting urination, dissipating heat, and detoxifying.
8. Goji Berry Tea
Ingredients: 5-10 grams of goji berries, 0.5-1.5 grams of black tea
Usage: Stir-fry the goji berries with salt until they expand, remove the salt, add black tea, and brew with boiling water for 5 minutes. Take it once a day.
Benefits: Moistens the lungs, nourishes the kidneys, nourishes the liver, improves eyesight, and nourishes the blood. Suitable for yin deficiency, decreased vision, hot flashes, night sweats, and premature ejaculation.
9. Lotus Seed Tea
Ingredients: 30 grams of lotus seeds, 20 grams of rock sugar, 5 grams of black tea
Usage: Soak the lotus seeds with the core in warm water for several hours, then stew them with rock sugar and water until they are cooked. Brew the black tea leaves with boiling water for 5 minutes, then mix the tea juice into the lotus seed soup. Take it once a day, drink it several times.
Benefits: Nourishes the heart, benefits the kidneys, and calms the mind. Suitable for insufficient heart qi, palpitations, and restlessness.
10. Polygonum Multiflorum and Pine Needle Tea
Ingredients: 8 grams of polygonum multiflorum, 30 grams of pine needles, 5 grams of oolong tea
Usage: Boil the polygonum multiflorum and pine needles in water for 15-20 minutes, remove the residue and take the juice, then add the oolong tea while it's boiling. Take it once a day, drink it several times.
Benefits: Nourishes essence and blood, supports the body, and dispels pathogenic factors. Suitable for liver and kidney deficiency, and decreased white blood cell count caused by environmental factors.
11. Butter Tea
Ingredients: 50 grams of brick tea, 150 grams of butter, 1 cup of milk, 2 kg of boiling water
Usage: Put the brick tea, butter, milk, and a suitable amount of salt into a long cylindrical tea barrel, then use a wooden stick to beat it up and down until they blend together. Pour it into a teapot and heat it.
Benefits: Nourishes yin, invigorates qi, invigorates spleen, and refreshes the mind. Suitable for weakness.
12. Schisandra Tea
Ingredients: 3-5 grams of northern schisandra, 0.5-1.5 grams of green tea, 25 grams of honey
Usage: Stir-fry the northern schisandra over low heat until slightly charred. Brew it with green tea leaves in boiling water for 5 minutes, then add honey and mix well. Take it once a day, divided into 3 doses, and drink it warm.
Benefits: Refreshes the mind, nourishes the liver, strengthens the kidneys. Suitable for weak legs, tinnitus, mental weakness, chronic hepatitis, liver deficiency-induced dizziness, and decreased vision.
13. Honey Tea
Ingredients: 25 grams of honey, 0.5-1.5 grams of green tea
Usage: Mix them together and brew with boiling water for 5 minutes. Take it once a day, drink it warm.
Benefits: Invigorates the spleen, moistens the lungs, generates body fluids, quenches thirst, promotes urination, and detoxifies. Suitable for mental fatigue, weakness in limbs, thirst due to summer heat, excessive sweating, chronic bronchitis, hepatitis, hypoglycemia, and constipation.
14. Sweetened Condensed Milk Tea
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon of sweetened condensed milk, 0.5-1 gram of black tea, a suitable amount of salt
Usage: Mix them together and brew with boiling water for 5 minutes. Take it once a day, drink it after breakfast.
Benefits: Nourishes deficiency, strengthens the stomach and intestines, nourishes the five viscera, generates body fluids, quenches thirst. Suitable for weakness after illness, poor appetite.
15. Rounded Meat Tea
Ingredients: 10.25 grams of rounded meat, 1-1.5 grams of green tea
Usage: Steam the rounded meat for 1 hour. Brew the green tea leaves with boiling water for 5 minutes, remove the residue and take the juice. Pour the tea juice into the rounded meat while it's hot. Take it once a day, drink the soup and eat the meat.
Benefits: Nourishes the heart and spleen, replenishes qi and blood, calms the mind. Suitable for neurasthenia, physical weakness and blood deficiency, forgetfulness, and insomnia.
16. Dried Shrimp Tea
Ingredients: 15 dried shrimp, 3 grams of tea leaves
Usage: Brew the dried shrimp and tea leaves with boiling water and drink.
Benefits: Nourishes the kidneys, strengthens yang. Suitable for physical weakness and decreased resistance.
17. Blood Circulation Tea
Ingredients: 5 grams of safflower, 5 grams of sandalwood, 1 gram of green tea, 25 grams of brown sugar
Usage: Boil safflower, sandalwood, green tea, and brown sugar in water, and then drink the juice instead of tea.
Benefits: Promotes blood circulation, removes stasis, and relieves pain. Suitable for chest and epigastric pain caused by stagnation of heart and meridians, which can also occur in many cardiovascular patients.
18. Renhe Health Tea
Ingredients: Wuyuan green tea, ginseng flower and fruit
Usage: Brew with boiling water.
Benefits: Nourishes the body. Wuyuan green tea combined with ginseng flower and fruit has anti-cancer, tonifying yang and kidney, nourishing yin and spleen, anti-aging and other effects.
19. Health Spirit Tea
Ingredients: Wuyuan green tea, Epimedium, kudzu root
Usage: Brew with boiling water.
Benefits: Wuyuan green tea combined with Epimedium and kudzu root has the effects of lowering blood pressure, reducing blood lipids, improving immune function, and promoting blood circulation.
20. Sesame Blood Nourishing Tea
Ingredients: Roasted black sesame seeds, 3 grams of tea leaves
Usage: After roasting the black sesame seeds until golden, take 6 grams each time, add tea leaves, and brew with boiling water.
Benefits: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, nourishes the blood, and moisturizes the lungs.
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