12 types of herbal tea that both quench thirst and prevent disease

Drinking tea is a cultural feature of Vietnamese people. Tea not only quenches thirst but also improves health and prevents diseases.

In addition to green tea, people also use many herbs from traditional medicine. Each type of herbal tea has different flavors, properties, and effects. Here are some herbal teas that are very delicious to drink and have high disease prevention and treatment properties.

Chrysanthemum tea:Yellow and white chrysanthemums are both sweet and cool. This drink has the effect of cooling the liver, reducing heat, detoxifying, preventing and treating headaches, weak eyes, numbness, and acne. How to use: Dry chrysanthemums, use 20-30g per day to make a drink or combine with goji berries, red dates, and licorice.

Myrtle tea:Both domestic and wild guava trees have a spicy, bitter, and warm taste. Uses: treat bloating, indigestion, chronic colitis, and bacillary dysentery. How to use: Guava leaves or buds can be used fresh or dried, or the leaves can be brewed and dried to make tea to drink year-round. Use 40-50g per day, cooked or brewed to drink like tea.

Ginger teahas a spicy, warm taste. Effect: Treats stomachache, vomiting, diarrhea, cough with phlegm due to cold. How to use: The simplest way is to use 12-14g of fresh ginger, thinly sliced, add 1 teaspoon of honey, mix with boiling water and drink, or dry ginger, crush and use 10-12g each time to drink, or 12g of fresh ginger, sliced ​​and a handful of green tea, crushed and steeped in boiling water to drink to prevent winter diseases.

Ginger tea.

Ganoderma tea:There are many species of Ganoderma lucidum, grown in many places, generally they all have a bitter taste and neutral properties. Effects: Treats weakness, high blood fat, cardiovascular blood pressure, poor liver and kidney function, etc. How to use: Slice or grind Ganoderma lucidum into powder, 20-30g per day, boil or soak in water to drink like tea. You can add an equal amount of jujube to increase the delicious and nutritious flavor.

Artichoke teaSweet and cool. Effects: Treats acute and chronic hepatitis, arthritis, boils, diseases related to blood heat... How to use: Wash and dry artichoke flowers and leaves, slice. Use 30-50g per day, decoct or mix with boiling water to drink, or combine with other herbs to use.

Artichoke tea is very good for people with hepatitis, arthritis, acne...

Raspberry teai also called gai tea, nam nam tea, has a warm aromatic and astringent taste. Effect: Stimulates digestion, prevents colds, flu, sore throat... How to use: People often go to noon on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month to pick branches and leaves to dry and drink all year round. Use 40-50g per day to boil water or make tea, some places combine guava leaves, patchouli leaves to drink for fragrance, increase the effect of treating external digestive diseases... Ripe fruit nourishes the kidney and spleen, benefits the marrow...

Phyllanthus urinaria teahas a slightly bitter and sweet taste, cool properties. Effects: Treats hepatitis, weak liver, gout, detoxifies, feverish people... How to use: Dry and cut the whole plant into small pieces, 50-60g or more per day, boil and drink like tea. Sometimes combined with artemisia, wolfberry, astragalus, increases liver function, nutritious and easy to drink.

Bitter melon tea:Both domestic and wild bitter melon have a bitter taste and a cooling effect. Effects: Clears heat, cools the liver, treats diabetes, acne, constipation, gallstones, etc. How to use: Use the whole fruit, flowers, and roots. Slice and dry the domestic or wild bitter melon. Every day, boil 20-30g in boiling water and drink like tea.

Plumeria teaSweet taste, cool properties. Effects: Treats headaches, dizziness, high blood pressure, bloody stools, dry cough, heat in the lungs... How to use dried flowers: Use 10-20g per day, decoct or soak in water to drink, or combine frangipani flowers with pagoda tree flowers, yellow chrysanthemums, jasmine flowers, cassia seeds, wolfberry, codonopsis, licorice, effects: improves health, supports treatment of blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes...

Gynostemma pentaphyllum teahas a bitter taste and cool properties. Effects: Increases antibodies, protects liver cells, aids digestion, reduces blood pressure, blood fat, blood sugar... How to use: Dry and chop the leaves. Use 10-12g per day, boil in boiling water and drink like tea.

Vang tea is also called Vang tea.... has a bitter, sweet taste and cool properties. Effects: Blood circulation, anti-inflammatory, detoxification, weight loss, often used to prevent postpartum diseases, constipation, poor sleep... Use 40-60g per day, boil in boiling water and drink like tea.

Stevia tea is also called honey grass, sugar grass.… has a very sweet taste, cool properties. Often used for people with diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, etc. How to use: Dry the whole plant, cook and drink or combine with other herbs such as Chinese tea, Cassia seed, Chinese wolfberry, Codonopsis pilosula, jasmine, chrysanthemum, Sophora jasmine, lotus buds, etc. (royal tea). Supports the treatment of blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, increases resistance, reduces cholesterol. Nourishes blood, clears heat, reduces toxins, cools the liver, beautifies the skin, reduces acne.

Above are some herbal teas from traditional medicine that are very close to nature, have a delicious taste, are suitable for many people, have very high disease prevention and treatment properties, herbal tea has become an indispensable daily drink for many families.

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