What are the benefits of chicory and gardenia tea

Drinking tea is a very good health-preserving habit, and different teas have different health-care values. Chicory and gardenia tea has a relatively high value. It can protect the liver and promote bile secretion. It can also help reduce body fat and blood sugar levels, and help gout patients relieve pain. It can also clear away heat and detoxify, and has a diuretic and swelling-reducing effect, which is very good for our health.

1. Drinking a cup of chicory gardenia tea every day can protect the liver and gallbladder, reduce the levels of blood lipids and blood sugar in the body, and through a comprehensive effect, reduce the amount of uric acid in hyperuricemia, thereby helping gout patients relieve pain.

2. Chicory: Chicory is the above-ground part of the chicory plant of the Asteraceae family. Chicory has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, diuresis and reducing swelling. It can treat damp-heat jaundice and nephritis edema. Chicory extract has a significant effect on lowering uric acid.

3. Gardenia: The fruit is a traditional Chinese medicine and is included in the first batch of medicinal and edible resources promulgated by the Ministry of Health. It has the effects of protecting the liver, promoting bile secretion, lowering blood pressure, calming, stopping bleeding, and reducing swelling. Geniposide in Gardenia jasminoides can reduce the serum uric acid level in hyperuricemia mice by promoting uric acid excretion.

4. Mulberry leaf: Mulberry leaf is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica as "the spirit of the star Sangji. When cicadas eat it, it is called an article. When people eat it, an old man becomes a child. Mulberry leaf is also known as "immortal grass". Mulberry leaf total flavonoids can significantly reduce serum uric acid levels, which is equivalent to the uric acid-lowering effect of allopurinol.

5. Pueraria root: harvest in autumn and winter, cut into thick slices or small pieces while fresh; dry. Sweet, spicy, cool. It has the functions of relieving muscles and reducing fever, clearing rashes, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst, raising yang and stopping diarrhea. Pueraria root extract has anti-gouty arthritis effects. It can relieve joint swelling in MSU acute gouty arthritis model rats, and relieve splenomegaly and kidney damage caused by inflammation.