Licorice and chrysanthemum are two ingredients that are often used in daily life, and licorice tea and chrysanthemum tea are also very common tea drinks, so can licorice be brewed with chrysanthemum?
Can licorice and chrysanthemum be brewed together?
Licorice can be brewed together with chrysanthemum.
Licorice is flat, slightly cool, non-toxic; chrysanthemum is sweet and bitter, cool, non-toxic, the two are not mutually exclusive, so licorice can be brewed with chrysanthemum. And the two can also be combined with other together.
What are the benefits of brewing licorice and chrysanthemum together
Clearing heat and detoxifying
Licorice is cool in nature, can clear heat, used for wind-heat colds, and licorice infusion and glycyrrhizic acid have a similar detoxifying effect on certain poisons as glucuronide. Licorice infusion tea can be used to treat fatigue and fever, detoxify medicine and food poisoning, etc. Chrysanthemum is bitter and cold and enters the liver meridian. It can clear liver heat and calm liver yang and is used for wind-heat colds, sores and canker sores. Licorice and chrysanthemum together can make the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying stronger
Protect the eyes
Chrysanthemum calms the liver, clears the liver and brightens the eyes, and can treat redness and pain in the eyes caused by wind-heat or liver fire, and is also very effective in treating eye fatigue and blurred vision.
Can you drink licorice and chrysanthemum tea for a long time?
Licorice and chrysanthemum tea can not be drunk for a long time.
Although licorice has the effect of tonifying the spleen, clearing heat and detoxifying the body, but the sugar content of licorice is very high, long taking large doses of licorice can cause swelling, and licorice can also inhibit the conversion of cortisol, long-term use may lead to increased blood pressure and hypokalemia. And licorice and chrysanthemum are both cold, long-term drinking will cause adverse effects on the body.
How to brew licorice and chrysanthemum together
Licorice and chrysanthemum tea to reduce fire
Ingredients: marigold chrysanthemum 3, licorice 5, lotus seed core moderate, red lily of the valley 3, a small amount of rock sugar.
Practice: first pour in the appropriate cool water to clean the chrysanthemum licorice and other raw materials, wash all into a cup, pour boiling water (80 ° to 90 ° or so), steeped for 3 to 5 minutes.
Efficacy: clear heat and remove fire.
Not suitable for people: pregnant women, children.
Licorice and chrysanthemum together with the precautions
1, the spleen and stomach cold people should not drink licorice chrysanthemum tea, licorice and chrysanthemum are cool, the spleen and stomach cold people is not good.
2, pregnant women should not drink licorice and chrysanthemum tea, licorice and chrysanthemum are cold in nature, and pregnant women have low immunity and weak spleen and stomach, the consumption of licorice and chrysanthemum tea is likely to stimulate the stomach, causing belly pain and diarrhea and other symptoms, which is not conducive to the healthy growth of the fetus.
3, children are not easy and licorice chrysanthemum tea, children are in the peak of growth and development, and licorice chrysanthemum tea has the effect of cutting Yang, so it is best not to drink.
4, drinking licorice chrysanthemum tea may have stomach discomfort, intestinal tinnitus, loose stools and other digestive tract reactions, can not drink too much at once.
