Drinking these teas in winter can warm your stomach and prevent colds

Winter is here, drinking hot tea can warm the stomach and prevent colds. There are many teas suitable for health preservation in winter, but which of the following teas do you know?

1. Ginger black tea

Preparation method: 5 grams of black tea, 2 grams of ginger powder, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Put black tea and ginger powder into a cup, brew with water above 90℃; after it is slightly warm, add brown sugar and drink.

Efficacy: Black tea is sweet and warm, which can nourish the body's yang energy; black tea is rich in protein and sugar, which can generate heat and warm the abdomen, enhancing the body's ability to resist cold. People with cold hands and feet and cold stomach, especially women, should drink more in winter. When black tea is paired with ginger, the effect of warming the body and dispelling cold will be better. In addition, people's appetite increases in winter, and drinking black tea can aid digestion and remove greasiness.

2. Milk tea

Preparation method: 3 grams of black tea, 100 grams of milk, and 2 grams of salt. Put the black tea into the pot, add water and boil for 5 minutes. Filter out the black tea leaves and boil the milk in another pot. Boil the milk, add tea juice, add salt and stir.

Efficacy: Drink it once every morning to effectively replenish qi and blood and strengthen the body.

3. Brown sugar ginger tea

Preparation method: brown sugar, golden dates and ginger. Put brown sugar, seedless golden jujubes and ginger slices into a stewing container; add appropriate amount of water (mineral water is best); cover with a lid and stew for half an hour.

Efficacy: Brown sugar has the effect of nourishing blood and activating blood circulation. Adding it to ginger soup can improve body surface circulation and treat colds. It should be noted that ginger and brown sugar water is only suitable for colds caused by wind and cold or stomach cold after rain, and cannot be used for summer heat colds or wind-heat colds.

4. Longan and Red Dates Tea

Preparation method: 40 grams of longan meat and 10 red dates. Add all ingredients to 3000 ml of water and cook for 30 minutes.

Efficacy: Longan is warm in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of nourishing the heart and spleen, and replenishing qi and blood; red dates can replenish the middle and replenish qi, nourish blood and produce body fluids. This tea is very suitable for people who are prone to cold hands and feet in winter. It is not suitable for those who have cold symptoms, sore throat, dry mouth and irritability.

5. Astragalus black tea

Preparation method: 15 grams of Astragalus and 3 grams of black tea. Put the astragalus into a pot, add appropriate amount of water and boil for about 15 minutes; then put in black tea and boil it together with the astragalus for about 5 minutes, and you can take the tea soup to drink.

Efficacy: Astragalus has the effects of replenishing qi and generating yang, harmonizing the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and producing body fluid. It can replenish qi and strengthen the stomach, and improve the condition of physical weakness. Black tea has the effects of invigorating qi and replenishing yang, generating heat and warming the abdomen. Drinking it in winter can enhance the body's ability to resist cold.