What are the common teas for clearing away heat and dampness in summer?

In the hot summer, drinking heat-clearing and dampness-removing tea has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire and relieving restlessness, cooling blood and detoxifying, and strengthening the spleen and relieving heat. So what are the teas for clearing heat and removing dampness? What to do? What are the effects?

Double Flower Drink

Main ingredients: 500g honeysuckle, 500g chrysanthemum, 500g hawthorn

Accessories: 5000g honey

practice:

1. Select honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, wash them with water and put them in a clean pot. Select hawthorn and wash them, put them in the pot together, add clean water (about 30 kg), boil over low heat for about half an hour, then remove from the pot and filter out the decoction for later use.

2. Pour the required amount of honey into a clean pot, heat over low heat to keep it slightly boiling, and refine it until it turns slightly yellow and becomes sticky and stringy.

3. Slowly pour the refined honey into the boiled juice and stir evenly. After the honey is completely dissolved, filter with two layers of gauze to remove the residue. After cooling, it is ready.

Health Tips: Using honeysuckle and chrysanthemum together can relieve summer heat and clear the head. Paired with hawthorn, it can help digestion, clear the blood vessels and increase the sour taste. Adding honey can add nutrition, replenish the vital energy and combine sweetness and sourness. It is used for symptoms such as fever, thirst, dizziness, red eyes due to fire poison, sore throat, sores and boils caused by heatstroke. It can be used as a beverage for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, dysentery, and suppurative infections. It is also an excellent refreshing beverage in summer.

Loofah Honey Tea

Heat-clearing and dampness-removing tea

Function: Clears the lungs, reduces phlegm and relieves cough.

Indications: lung heat, cough, wheezing, yellow and sticky phlegm, shortness of breath and dry mouth.

Preparation method: Wash the loofah flowers, put them in a covered cup, brew them with an appropriate amount of boiling water, cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Add honey and drink it all at once while hot, or divide it into two doses. Take 1 to 2 doses daily.

Burdock Tea

Function: Clearing away heat and detoxifying; dispelling wind and relieving rash.

Indications: Rubella and measles due to wind-heat syndrome.

Preparation method: Grind the above three ingredients into powder, brew with boiling water, and drink warm as tea at any time. Take 1 dose daily. If frying, it should not be boiled for too long.

Do's and Don'ts: Measles is an adverse syndrome and this prescription is not suitable for treating it.

Ginseng, wheat and honeysuckle tea

Indications: Chronic pharyngitis, which is Yin deficiency throat congestion in traditional Chinese medicine, and is a syndrome of Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire. Throat flushing, chronic congestion, and hyperplasia of lymphoid follicles in the posterior pharyngeal wall. Common symptoms include a foreign body sensation in the throat, dry mouth and throat, hoarseness, dry cough with little sputum, chest tightness, belching, and a red tongue with little coating.

Preparation method: Put the above medicines in a warm cup, brew with boiling water, cover and simmer for more than 10 minutes, and drink frequently instead of tea. Take 1 dose daily.

Do's and Don'ts: People with spleen and stomach deficiency, coldness, and phlegm and dampness in the body should not take it.

Tip: Honeysuckle is sweet and cold, has a wide range of antibacterial effects, and is a good product for clearing away heat and detoxifying. The three medicines are combined and drunk regularly as tea, which is an effective tea remedy for chronic pharyngitis.