The Chinese herbal tea or cold tea is a drink concocted from medicinal herbs to ease the summer heat in the human body or sore throats caused by the dry winter.
Drinking herbal tea is an age-old custom in China. In order to repel internal humidity and heat, people collect herbs from mountains and valleys to concoct into herb tea. With many years of practice, different herbal teas have been evolved for relieving different symptoms. Herbal tea is drinkable in four seasons, which has the functions of relieving summer-heat and body's internal dampness.
Herbal teas' functions can be classified as inducing sweat, relieving syndrome of cold, moisturizing dry-heat and clearing away dampness. Herbal tea for inducing sweat and relieving internal heat is suitable for the people who suffer from excessive internal heat. Medicinal herbs honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, Scutellaria are the main ingredients of this herbal tea, which is appropriate for drinking in Spring, Summer and Autumn. Herbal tea for relieving the syndrome of cold is mainly made up by radix isatidis, suitable for drinking in four seasons.
Concocted by roots of straight lady bell, fragrant colomonseal rhizome, tuber of dwarf lilyturf and white fungus, herbal tea for moisturizing dry-heat is effective in relieving cough and easing people's parched mouth and the scorched tongue in Autumn. Herbal tea for clearing away internal heat and dampness is good for the people who have bad breath and red and sallow complexions. Its ingredients include honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and wild Tuckahoe, appropriate for summer drinking.
Generally, herbal teas should be drunk before they get cold. Since most herbs are cold in drug property, drinking too much will harm the spleen and stomach, especially for people who lack vital energy. Therefore, women during the menstrual period, children and the elderly people are unsuitable to drinking herbal teas. If you have no idea about your physical condition, it is better to see a qualified doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine to choose a right herbal tea for you.
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