How to make licorice tea

I believe everyone is familiar with licorice. Licorice is a common Chinese medicine. Licorice not only has good medicinal effects but also has the benefits of health care. We can use licorice slices to make tea. The licorice tea made in this way not only tastes very good but also has good effects. Below we will introduce to you the method of making tea with licorice slices.

Licorice (scientific name: Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch) is also known as: Guolao, sweet grass, Ural licorice, and sweet root. It is a perennial herb of the Leguminosae family and the genus Glycyrrhiza, with thick roots and rhizomes. It is a tonic Chinese herbal medicine. A very good medicine for the human body. The medicinal parts are the roots and rhizomes. The roots are cylindrical, 25 to 100 cm long and 0.6 to 3.5 cm in diameter. The skin has varying degrees of tightness and the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown. The rhizome is cylindrical, with bud scars on the surface and pith in the middle of the cross section. It has a slight odor and a sweet and special taste. Functions and indications: clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing phlegm and relieving cough, and relieving abdominal pain, etc. It likes a dark, humid, dry climate with long sunshine and low temperature. Licorice grows mostly in arid and semi-arid desert steppes, desert edges and loess hilly areas. The roots and rhizomes are used for medicinal purposes.

Ingredients: 5g licorice, 3g green tea.

Usage: Brew with 200 ml of boiling water and drink until the taste is light.

Functions: Soothe the stomach and relieve urgency, moisten the lungs and detoxify; anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, analgesic, anticonvulsant, antitussive, diuretic, and anti-tumor.

Uses: Deficiency of spleen and stomach qi, abdominal pain, loose stools, and poor appetite; fatigue and fever; pulmonary tuberculosis and cough; palpitations; sore throat; peptic ulcer; detoxification; and detoxification of food poisoning.

Source: Traditional medicinal tea recipe.

In the above article, we introduced what licorice is. We know that licorice has good medicinal effects and health benefits. There are many ways to cook licorice. The most common way is to use licorice slices to make tea.