The most suitable medicinal tea for drinking in the hot summer
The most suitable health-preserving medicinal tea for the elderly to drink in the hot summer. As summer arrives, the weather gets hotter and hotter, which is a serious challenge for everyone's body, especially the elderly, whose bodies are not as strong as ours. Therefore, here are several types of health-preserving medicinal teas suitable for the elderly to drink in the summer.
Blood Pressure Lowering Tea
1. 9 grams each of Kuding tea, chrysanthemum, mulberry leaf, cogon grass root, and Gambir plant. Decoct in water and drink as a tea substitute. It has the effects of clearing heat, calming dizziness, and lowering blood pressure. It can be used for conditions such as hypertension, headache, dizziness, and a bitter taste in the mouth with a dry throat.
2. 1.5 grams of lotus plumule and 9 grams of cassia seed. Steep with boiling water and drink as a tea substitute. Used for hypertension, dizziness, and vexation.
3. 15 grams of dried watermelon peel and 9 grams of cassia seed. Decoct in water and drink as a tea substitute. Used for preventing and treating hypertension.
Heatstroke Prevention Tea
1. 6 grams of tea, 9 grams each of Agastache rugosa and Eupatorium fortunei. Decoct in water and drink as a tea substitute. Used for preventing and treating heatstroke.
2. 250 grams of fresh lotus root, washed and sliced, add an appropriate amount of ginger and sugar, decoct in water and drink as a tea substitute. Used for preventing heatstroke.
3. 1-2 fresh lotus leaves, decoct in water and drink as a tea substitute. Used for preventing heatstroke, and also has the effect of lowering blood lipids and cholesterol.
4. 9 grams of goji berries, 12 grams of Schisandra chinensis stir-fried with vinegar, and 6 grams each of mint and chrysanthemum. Steep with boiling water and drink as a tea substitute. It mainly treats pathogenic heat in the five organs, and also eliminates heatstroke headaches and quenching thirst. It has effects such as nourishing the liver and kidneys, improving hearing and eyesight, strengthening muscles and bones, benefiting essence, and strengthening yang and enhancing intelligence. It is especially suitable for those with poor appetite, emaciation, and suffering from "summer heat illness" (summer heat syndrome) during the hot season.
Other Health-Preserving Medicinal Teas for Treating Ailments
Tangerine Red Tea: One piece of Citrus grandis, 4.5 grams of green tea. Steep with boiling water, then place in a boiling pot and steam over boiling water for 20 minutes before drinking as a tea substitute. This formula has the effect of stopping cough and resolving phlegm. It is used for the elderly with coughing and excessive phlegm, sticky phlegm like glue, and difficulty in expectorating.
Persimmon Leaf Tea: Drink by adding tea leaves, steep together. It has a slightly sweet and fresh aroma. Regular consumption has certain therapeutic effects for scurvy, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. It also has sedative, diuretic, and anti-swelling effects. Because it is rich in vitamin C, rutin, choline, and other ingredients, it is a year-round beverage for lowering blood pressure and blood lipids, and treating scurvy, arteriosclerosis, and other conditions.
Clear Dizziness Tea: 9 grams each of Alisma plantago-aquatica and Atractylodes macrocephala, 5 pieces of lotus leaf base, 6 grams of chrysanthemum, and 3 grams of Eupatorium fortunei leaf. Steep and decoct to drink as a tea substitute. It has the effect of dispelling phlegm and removing dampness, and is used for dizziness, vomiting of phlegm (dampness-phlegm obstruction in the middle), and a heavy body and head.
Nephritis Tea: An appropriate amount of corn silk, dried winter melon peel, and red adzuki beans. Decoct in water and drink as a tea substitute. Used as an auxiliary treatment for edema and acute and chronic nephritis patients.