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.
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.
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.
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.
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