Summer is here, the major health programs and experts are happy to recommend herbal tea, heat relief to remove fire. But the two sheep feel that should not eat too much cold and cold, the fire attention to protect the spleen and stomach.

If you have to eat something to reduce fire. Chinese medicine two goat recommended ume plum soup ume plum soup

Plum soup can not only calm the liver and reduce fire, but also strengthen the spleen and stomach to facilitate digestion and nourish the liver. It is also good for people who have a hot liver and love to lose their temper. Summer heat, that is, quench your thirst and summer heat, boiled by yourself, green and safe.

【Ingredients】 50g of umeboshi, 20g of hawthorn, 8g of tangerine peel, appropriate amount of rock sugar (optional), a little cinnamon 【Practice】 1. Soak umeboshi in warm water for 30 minutes to remove the white frost and salt stains on the surface of the umeboshi, and then rinse it well, and set aside.

2, hawthorn with water to clean, control the water, standby. Hawthorn and umeboshi is the sourness of umeboshi soup to bear, if you do not like too sour, you can reduce the amount of hawthorn appropriately.

3: Soak the umeboshi, hawthorn and tangerine peel in water for 20 minutes first.

4, after boiling over high heat, turn the heat to continue to simmer for half an hour, then take out the tea bags, according to their own tastes, add the right amount of rock sugar, stirring until the rock sugar melts, fully cooled, add a little cinnamon to increase the aroma, you can drink. Add a few ice cubes or put in the refrigerator after chilling, the taste is better.

Note that umeboshi soup is not suitable for.

1. Frequent constipation is not suitable. Ume has astringent diarrhea effect, often constipated people or intestinal peristalsis function is relatively weak is not suitable.

2, outside the table evil or internal stagnation of dampness and heat should not be taken, there are table evil or internal stagnation of dampness and heat to take umeboshi soup, easy to cause "closed door to keep the enemy".

3. Children should not binge drink

4. Coughing and phlegm, early stage of enteritis, etc. are prohibited.

6, there are real evil people should not take, stomach acid people should be careful to take.

Hello I'm Dr. Forest Xiangzi, I'm here to answer your question [Hot summer, do you have any herbal tea to recommend? It's best to boil...].

Summer is coming, with the gradual increase in temperature, rain is also more and more, coupled with the rise of the earth's gas, hot and humid, summer temperature diseases will gradually increase, in order to avoid the summer damp or hot and humid to bring discomfort symptoms, we like some herbal tea, some summer herbal tea one after another to launch the market. On the health of herbal tea, forest doctor xiangzi for you to recommend a few, we can according to their own constitution reasonable choice.

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I. Chrysanthemum Tea

Chrysanthemum is from the Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica, with medicinal properties of pungent, sweet, bitter and slightly cold. It belongs to the lung and liver meridians. It has the efficacy of dispersing wind-heat, calming liver-yang, clearing the liver and brightening the eyes, clearing heat and removing toxins, and is often used clinically for the treatment of wind-heat colds and colds and the beginning of warm diseases; dizziness of liver-yang and solid evidence of liver-wind; redness and dimness of the eyes, and sores, carbuncles and swollen toxins.

Chrysanthemum can be used in tea or decoction. When drinking, yellow chrysanthemum is suitable for wind-heat body; white chrysanthemum is suitable for liver fire or dizziness and poor eyesight with kidney deficiency, and the most with wolfberry is better; wild chrysanthemum is suitable for heat-poisoned body that is prone to sores and pimples.

2, Huangzhi

Gardenia is from "Shennong ben cao jing", the medicinal properties of bitter, cold, return to the heart, lung, triple jiao meridian. Have diarrhea fire remove annoyance, clear heat and benefit dampness, cool blood and detoxification effect. Clinical often used for heat disease heartburn, damp-heat jaundice, blood gushing astringent pain, blood heat epistaxis, eye red swelling and pain, fire poison sores treatment.

Gardenia summer tea, decoction can, can effectively treat or prevent the evidence of fire, but because of the gardenia medicinal nature of bitter cold, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, spleen deficiency loose physique is not suitable for selection.

III. Mint

Mentha piperita is from Xinxiu Ben Cao (Newly Revised Materia Medica), which is pungent and cool in nature. It belongs to the lung and liver meridians. It has the efficacy of dispersing wind-heat, clearing the head and eyes, clearing the pharynx and rashes, dredging the liver and promoting the flow of qi. Clinically, it is often used in the treatment of wind-heat colds, wind-heat headache, eye redness and tearing, sore throat, impenetrable measles, itchy rashes, liver depression and stagnation of qi, chest tightness and coercive pain.

Peppermint is aromatic and can eliminate filth and dampness, and can be used to treat summer dampness and filth, often used with Elsholtzia and Chinese yam for weak spleen and stomach, and with honeysuckle and atractylodes for hot and humid diarrhea of the spleen and stomach.Because of its aromatic flavor, mint can be made into a tea or decocted, but the decoction should not be made for too long or it will reduce its efficacy.

IV. Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle is from "Xinxiu Ben Cao", sweet and cold. It belongs to the lung, heart and stomach meridians. It has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins and evacuating wind-heat. Clinically, it is often used in the treatment of carbuncle and furuncle, external wind-heat, the beginning of warm disease, and feverish blood dysentery.

Drinking honeysuckle tea, not only can make tea can also be decocted, treatment of sore throat, can be used with fritillaries; both hot people can directly use raw honeysuckle tea or decoction, if the heat toxicity is too prevalent and the dampness of the river can be fried and then used; honeysuckle system dew is the treatment of summer dampness; honeysuckle can also be used to treat children's heat sores and prickly heat.

There are also many herbs that can be made into tea or decoctions, such as Inulae and Dandelion. It has been described in detail in the relevant section, you can follow me to open and watch.

In addition, I would like to introduce you to a medicinal tea that is pungent and warm in nature, has the effect of relieving summer heat and dampness, harmonizing the middle and regulating the qi, and is suitable for pregnant women and those who have a weak spleen and stomach to drink in the summer.

V. Perilla

Perilla is from the "Famous Doctors' Record", which is pungent and warm in nature. It belongs to the lung and spleen meridians, and has the effects of relieving cold and dispersing cold, and promoting the circulation of qi and relaxing the middle. It is often used in the treatment of cold and flu, stagnation of qi in the spleen and stomach, and chest congestion and vomiting.

Shiso is a warm medicinal tea, suitable and herbal tea together with the combination, summer drinking, not only can relieve summer heat and dampness, but also to avoid the bitter cold nature of the drugs hurt the spleen.

In addition, perilla also has the effect of detoxification of fish and crab, and also has the effect of tranquilizing the fetus, and chrysanthemum is suitable for the combination ofmaternalTake it in the summer.

A decoction of perilla leaves was found to have a moderating and antipyretic effect; it promotes the secretion of digestive juices and improves gastrointestinal motility; it also reduces bronchospasm.

Perilla peduncle has the effect of relieving diaphragm and relaxing qi and stabilizing the fetus. It is suitable for the treatment of chest and abdominal gas stagnation, stuffiness and distension, and fetal restlessness, chest and hypochondrium distension and pain.

Avoid prolonged decoction of perilla due to its aroma.Either perilla leaves or perilla stalks can be used wisely according to your body type.

Well, let's talk here today, you can leave a message if you have any unclear questions.

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What kind of herbal tea is more suitable when the hot summer is coming? Here, we recommend afive-sparked tea。

five-sparked teaIt is one of the more popular herbal teas in folklore, which plays a preventive or health care role. It is made from five or more kinds of flowers or flower buds decocted into tea, and it has different formulas in different regions in the north and south, and in addition to honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, there are different matches for the other ingredients, such as the south likes to match lentil flower, kapok flower, egg flower or Shuiweng flower, while the north may like to use gerbera flower instead of egg flower, etc. Or it is made according to the body type, disease, and symptoms. Or according to the constitution, disease, symptoms, etc. with the five flowers tea, for example, for the body cold, weak qi and blood women, there can be rose, moon flower, Buddha's hand flower, azalea, acacia flowers composed of "five flowers tea"; for the liver stagnation type of gastric pain, there can be rose, jasmine, Succinum, osmanthus, tortoiseshell flowers composed of For those who suffer from liver depression and stagnant stomach pain, there can be "five flowers tea" composed of rose, jasmine, sinsemilla, osmanthus and tortoiseshell flowers, and so on.

raw materials

15g each of honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, lentil flower, egg flower, kapok flower, 50g each of fresh Poria cocos and Coix lacryma.

Cooking methods

Wash the above materials (fresh Poria cocos should be chopped into fine pieces), add the appropriate amount of water, decoction for half an hour to drink (according to taste you can add the appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste).

This five-flower tea has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, eliminating heatstroke and promoting dampness, and is effective in treating and preventing cold symptoms caused by hot summer dampness and heat evils invading the human body, such as dizziness and headache, nasal congestion and runny nose, sleepy limbs, sore throat and mute voice, and loss of appetite, and can also be used as a health care drink for preventing heatstroke in the summer.

In the formula, honeysuckle is sweet and cold, clearing heat and detoxification, dispersing wind and heat; chrysanthemum is pungent, sweet, bitter and slightly cold, dispersing wind and clearing heat, calming the liver and brightening the eyes, and can be replaced by chrysanthemum; lentil flower is sweet and slightly warm, clearing heat and removing summer heat and dissolving dampness; egg flower is sweet and flat, moistening lungs and removing toxins, clearing heat and inducing dampness; kapok is light, astringent and flat, clearing heat and resolving heatstroke, and inducing dampness.

Throughout this formula, the flowers used are those that clear heat, relieve summer heat and promote dampness, so that their effects are self-evident. The addition of Poria cocos, which promotes dampness, detoxification and joints, and Coix lacryma, which strengthens the spleen and promotes water retention, clears heat and soothes the tendons, makes the tea more effective in promoting dampness, and is more suitable for the summer and dampness in the long summer seasons.

Mung beans 100g, brown sugar in the right amount of boiled water, can clear heat and detoxification, dispel summer diuretic. And there is brown sugar, not too cold, the spleen and stomach cold people can also take.

White tea, it's very down-home.

There's also green tea, and for convenience Wanglaoji is good too

Green beans, amaranth, sour plum soup!

1. small chrysanthemum 8-10 flowers, American ginseng 6-8 thin slices, licorice 2-4 slices, goji berries 6-8, hawthorn 1-2 slices, lotus seed core 3-4, rock sugar or honey Several. 2 watermelon rind herbal tea: you can make use of the green layer of the rind, washed and chopped slagging to take the juice, and then add a small amount of sugar and stir well, there is a summer heat diuretic detoxification. 3. mint herbal tea: take mint leaves, licorice 6 grams each. Add about 1000 grams of water, boil for 5 minutes, add sugar and stir well. Drink this herbal tea can refresh the brain. 4. peel tea: dry orange peel 10 grams of washing, torn into small pieces, put into a teacup, with boiling water into the cup, cover the lid of the cup simmering for about 10 minutes, and then slagging, put a small amount of sugar. After a little cool, put into the refrigerator to chill a little better. Drinking this tea, both summer and can relieve cough, phlegm, stomach. 5. Sangju tea: mulberry leaves, white chrysanthemum 10 grams each, 3 grams of licorice into the pot to cook a little, and then go to the slagging leaves, add a small amount of sugar that is, can be dissipated to clear the lungs and throat, clear the liver and eyesight, wind-heat colds also have a certain efficacy. 6. Lotus Leaf Herbal Tea: half of the lotus leaves torn into pieces, and Chinese medicine talcum, Atractylodis macrocephala 10 grams each, 6 grams of licorice, put into the water, altogether! Cook for about 20 minutes, remove the slag juice, put a small amount of sugar and stir, drink after cooling, can prevent heat stroke.

Silver Blossom Antidote Tea

Honeysuckle, Xiaku Cao, Dandelion, White Chrysanthemum 15 grams each, Sheng Di, Fritillary 9 grams each, add 500 milliliters of water and decoct to 200 milliliters, take the juice.

There are so many different types of herbal teas used during the hot summer months that I don't know what I like. Only one simple and applicable is offered. Gingko Teng, Tempranillo Leaf, Dandelion, Chicken Bone Herb, etc.

There's a lot of them in Guangdong. You can check them out. Hot drinks are recommended.