In summer, health cultivation begins with nourishing the heart. As the weather is hot, the body's metabolism is vigorous, and its organs are in an active state, causing the heart rate to increase. A vigorous heart function inevitably places a burden on the heart. Without timely care for the heart, it can become overly stressed, easily leading to symptoms like palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, and even heart disease. Nourishing the heart in summer is not difficult; a good cup of tea can help you relax throughout the season.
1. Summer Lipid-Lowering and Heart-Nourishing Tea
Ingredients: Fried Cassia Seed, Dried Tangerine Peel, Hawthorn, Fo-ti, Dark Plum (10 grams each), Alisma, Wild Chrysanthemum, Plantain Seed, Licorice Root (5 grams each).
Method: Place all the herbs in a pot, boil in water for 30 minutes, remove the dregs, pour the liquid into a thermos, and drink as tea. 3 to 5 times a day.
Effects: Prevents cardiovascular diseases, aids in the body's fat metabolism, reduces fat accumulation, and enhances the heart's resistance to stress.
2. Soothe the Heart and Calm the Spirit Tea
Ingredients: Poria 10g, Polygala Root 10g, Floating Wheat 15g, Licorice Root 4g, Jujube 4 pieces.
Method: Place all the herbs in a pot, boil in water for 30 minutes, remove the dregs, pour the liquid into a thermos, and drink as tea. 3 to 5 times a day.
Effects: Suitable for busy professionals or students under academic stress, effectively helps to relieve stress and calm the mind.
3. Ophiopogon Yin-Nourishing Tea
Ingredients: Ophiopogon Root 5 qian, Schisandra Berry 1 qian, Lily Bulb, Goji Berry (3 qian each).
Method: Wash the herbs, place them in a large teapot, add boiling water to steep, and drink as tea several times a day.
Effects: Astringes vital energy, calms the mind and spirit, nourishes yin and protects the liver. Can help treat symptoms like dry mouth and palpitations.
4. Salvia Miltiorrhiza Blood-Activating Tea
Ingredients: Cinnamon Twig 2 qian, Fo-ti 3 qian, Solomon's Seal Rhizome 5 qian, Salvia Root 1 qian, Sanchi Root 1 qian.
Method: Add the herbs to a pot with 3 bowls of water and boil until it reduces to 1 bowl. Drink warm. Once every three days.
Effects: Specifically effective for patients with symptoms like chest tightness and pain, dry mouth, fatigue, and purplish-black lips. Also nourishes yin and protects the heart, relieves pain, invigorates blood, moistens the lungs, and tonifies the kidneys.
5. Platycladus Seed Tea
Ingredients: Platycladus Seeds 15g.
Method: Wash the herb, place it in a teapot, brew with boiling water, and drink as tea. 3 to 5 times a day, one dose per day.
Effects: Moistens the intestines and lungs, nourishes and protects the heart, calms the mind and promotes sleep. Can help treat heart palpitations, excessive dreaming, and insomnia.
6. Ginseng and Dendrobium Tea
Ingredients: Prince Ginseng 15g, Dendrobium 10g, Schisandra Berry 2g, all ground into a powder.
Method: Infuse the powder with boiling water and drink. Twice a day.
Effects: Tonifies Qi and generates body fluids, nourishes the heart and spirit. Can help treat heart palpitations, excessive dreaming, dizziness, shortness of breath, and fatigue.
7. Xiao Yao Flower Tea
Ingredients: Bupleurum Root (vinegar-prepared) 1 qian, Rose 3 qian, Goji Berry 3 qian, Mint 5 fen.
Method: Place the herbs in a sachet, put it in a thermos, and steep with boiling water. Honey can be added. Three times a week.
Effects: Settles the heart and nourishes the spirit, nourishes yin and the stomach. Suitable for patients who experience excessive dreaming, heart palpitations, and chest tightness at night.