Chinese Herbal Tea
Chinese herbal tea,also known as Chinese Cold Tea, is a time-honored healthy drink which is a drink concocted from medicinal herbals to ease the summer heat in human’s body or sore throat caused by the dry winter.
History of Chinese Herbal tea
With a long history, Chinese Herbal tea was originated in Guangdong, drinking herbal tea was originally an age-old custom in Guangdong. And it has been also become popular in Guangxi, Hainan,Hong Kong, Macao and other regions in China, where the climates are damp and hot result in people living there easily suffer from excessive internal heat.
In past times, people collected herbs which could clear away heat and dampness from mountains and valleys to concoct into herb tea so as to repel internal humidity and heat. With many years of practice, different herbal teas have been evolved for relieving different symptoms.
Nowadays, herbal teas packed in fashionable cans and bottles have become popular on both the domestic and international markets. With the annual output of 2 million tons, herbal teas are exported to about twenty countries including the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and France.
The functions of Chinese Herbal tea can be classified as inducing sweat, relieving the syndrome of cold, moisturizing dry-heat and clearing away dampness.
Nowadays, herbal teas packed in fashionable cans and bottles have become popular on both the domestic and international markets. With the annual output of 2 million tons, herbal teas are exported to about twenty countries including the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and France.
Functions of Chinese Herbal tea
The functions of Chinese Herbal tea can be classified as inducing sweat, relieving the syndrome of cold, moisturizing dry-heat and clearing away dampness.Chinese Herbal tea is suitable for the people who suffer from excessive internal heat. And it is drinkable in four seasons, which has the functions of relieving summer-heat and body’s internal dampness.
1. Herbal tea, made up by honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and scutellaria, is appropriate for drinking in Spring, Summer and Autumn.
1. Herbal tea, made up by honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and scutellaria, is appropriate for drinking in Spring, Summer and Autumn.
2. Herbal tea, made up by radix isatidis mainly for relieving the syndrome of cold, is suitable for drinking in four seasons.
3. Medical Herbal tea, made up by root of straight ladybell, fragrant colomonseal rhizome, tuber of dwarf lilyturf and white fungus for moisturizing dry-heat, is effective in relieving cough and easing people’s parched mouth and the scorched tongue in Fall.
4. Herbal tea, made up by honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and wild Tuckahoe for clearing away internal heat and dampness, is good for the people who have bad breath and red and sallow complexions. And Its it is appropriate for summer drinking.
Important Tips:
1. Herbal tea should be drunk before it is getting cold. Since most of herbs are cold in drug property, drinking too much will harm to the spleen and stomach, especially for people who lack of vital energy and are easily to feel cold. Therefore, women in the menstrual period, children and the old people are unsuitable to drinking herbal teas.
2. If anyone has no idea about your physical condition, it is better to see the doctor of traditional Chinese Medicine to choose a right herbal tea for him/her.
Important Tips:
1. Herbal tea should be drunk before it is getting cold. Since most of herbs are cold in drug property, drinking too much will harm to the spleen and stomach, especially for people who lack of vital energy and are easily to feel cold. Therefore, women in the menstrual period, children and the old people are unsuitable to drinking herbal teas.
2. If anyone has no idea about your physical condition, it is better to see the doctor of traditional Chinese Medicine to choose a right herbal tea for him/her.
Chinese Herbal tea Culture
In Guangdong, Herbal Tea together with Guangdong opera, Guangdong cuisine and Cantonese is the representative of Lingnan culture. When people who are from other provinces come to Guangzhou, the first thing he or she learns in there may not be speaking Cantonese but drinking herbal tea.
Herbal tea culture is an embodiment of Lingnan culture (Lingnan offers the south area of Five-Range Mountain which is located in the border area of Hunan and Guangdong Provinces ), just like Guangzhou this big city which is magnanimous to many alien things at the same time gradually changes them unawares.
In Guangdong, Herbal Tea together with Guangdong opera, Guangdong cuisine and Cantonese is the representative of Lingnan culture. When people who are from other provinces come to Guangzhou, the first thing he or she learns in there may not be speaking Cantonese but drinking herbal tea.
Herbal tea culture is an embodiment of Lingnan culture (Lingnan offers the south area of Five-Range Mountain which is located in the border area of Hunan and Guangdong Provinces ), just like Guangzhou this big city which is magnanimous to many alien things at the same time gradually changes them unawares.
When you are gradually accustomed to live in a Cantonese way, you will find that drinking herbal tea has become part of your daily life just like the Lingnan culture influences you unconsciously. Even many people who leave Guangdong for a long time still cherish the memory of different herbal teas.
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