Often patients ask their doctors, “Doctor, I heard that astragalus is good for the qi, can I usually drink water with astragalus?” Outpatient clinics can also see a lot of patients drink astragalus water after the fire, mouth ulcers. There are also some people who have throat discomfort will make fat sea drink, but some people will have diarrhea after drinking.
In order to maintain health care, many people will often bubble serving herbal tea, such as astragalus, wolfberry, honeysuckle, jujube, ginger tea, etc., although these are medicinal food with Chinese medicine, but the essence is still medicine, not health products.
Chinese medicine has four gases and five flavors, each person’s physique is different, we must combine their own physique and the medicinal properties of Chinese medicine when choosing herbal tea, only when the two complement each other, to relieve discomfort. “Medicine is three parts poison”, whether it is decoction or tea, the main purpose is to “cure” rather than “cause disease”.
Today, let’s take a scientific look at these herbs that can be made into tea.
Astragalus
◆ Sweet in taste, warm in nature, enters the lung, spleen and large intestine meridians.
Effects: Benefiting the qi and fixing the surface, astringing sweat, tonifying the lung and spleen, and removing pus from the body.
◆ Suitable for: Patients with superficial deficiency and spontaneous sweating, such as perennial fear of wind, cold, qi deficiency, weakness and spontaneous sweating; weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite, indigestion and diarrhea.
◆ Not suitable for people: Patients with yin deficiency, dampness and heat as well as incandescent heat toxins; patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, whose symptoms mainly manifest as coughing up blood, dry mouth and tongue as well as body fever; patients with cold and fever; menstruating women and pregnant women.
◆ Note: Use 5-10 grams of Astragalus every day, soak it in boiling water for 10-20 minutes for future generations to drink tea, which can be brewed repeatedly.
Honeysuckle
◆ Sweet and cold in nature, enters the lung and stomach meridians.
Effects: Clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing inflammation and swelling.
◆ Suitable for: people with external wind-heat or warm fever, hot body and headache, sleeplessness, dry throat, summer heat and thirst, diarrhea and dysentery, influenza, acute and chronic tonsillitis, cough, cough with thick and yellow sputum, periodontitis.
◆ Not suitable for people: those with cold constitution, weak spleen and stomach. Menstruating women, pregnant women.
◆ Caution: Use 3-6 grams of honeysuckle every day, boiling water for 10-20 minutes offspring tea, can be repeatedly brewed.
PangDaHai
◆ Sweet, cold, enters the lung and large intestine meridian.
Effects: Clearing heat and moistening the lungs, opening the pharynx, moistening the intestines and opening the bowels.
◆ Suitable for: people with sore and dry throat caused by heat, those with severe hoarseness and dry lung cough, and those with mild constipation and poor bowel movement caused by heat accumulation in the large intestine.
◆ Not suitable for people: Those with hoarseness caused by vocal cord nodules, vocal cord polyps, incomplete vocal cord closure, excessive stimulation by tobacco and alcohol, especially the elderly with sudden loss of voice and those with spleen deficiency and loose stools should be used with caution. Menstruating women, pregnant women.
◆ Precautions: 2-3 pieces of PangDaHai every day, boiling water for 10-20 minutes offspring tea, can be repeatedly brewed. Not suitable for long-term tea drinking.
Chinese wolfberry
◆ Sweet, flat, into the liver, kidney meridian.
Efficacy: nourish the kidney, moisten the lung, nourish the liver and brighten the eyes.
◆ Suitable for people: dizziness and dizziness caused by Yin deficiency of liver and kidney, loss of vision, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, etc.
◆ Not suitable for people: Patients who are usually full of qi or prone to nosebleeds, irritable, diarrhea and fever. Menstruating women, pregnant women.
◆ Note: Every day with wolfberry about ten grains (20-25 grams), warm water bubble 10 to 20 minutes offspring tea, can be repeatedly brewed.
Jujube
◆ Sweet, warm, enters the spleen and stomach meridian.
Efficacy: nourishing the middle and benefiting the qi, nourishing the blood and calming the mind.
◆ Suitable for people: diarrhea, fatigue and weakness caused by weakness of the spleen and stomach, stomach distension and vomiting caused by careless diet; menstrual disorders, physical weakness after illness or childbirth; mania, restlessness, restlessness, crying and restlessness in sitting and lying down.
◆ Not suitable for people: people with relatively heavy dampness, dry and hot body, diabetics, cough with phlegm, abdominal distension, cold and fever caused by external wind-heat, and people with tooth decay.
◆ Use 3-4 pieces of jujube every day, soak it in boiling water for 4-5 minutes for future generations to drink tea, and can be brewed repeatedly.
Is it necessary to wash the herbs before brewing water for drinking?
It needs to be decided according to the specific conditions of the herbs. If it is a small package of tablets, the cleanliness is relatively high, basically do not need to wash; if the tablets are exposed to the air for a long time or are grasped by hand, they need to be washed before making water for drinking.
Drinking medicinal tea, mostly advocate warm, frequent drinking unrestricted, a daily dose.
Brewing tea to choose a single herbal medicine is best, because of the treatment or condition and other needs, can be formulated to use, but the selection of drugs up to 4 ~ 5 flavors, and need to pay attention to the combination of contraindications.