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Cooling Tea: Prevention or Over-Prediction?

🔑 Keywords: Pharmacological Diet · In traditional Chinese medicine clinics, many people request doctors to prescribe cooling teas. Many believe cooling teas can cure illness when sick and prevent disease when healthy, making them essential health tonics in spring and summer. However, this view is scientifically unsound.<br>Common cooling teas such as Wanglaoji, Xiàsāngjú, and Wuhuachá are composed of bitter, cold herbs. They suit conditions involving external wind-heat and damp-heat accumulation, including seasonal colds, fever, headache, sore throat, dry mouth, bitter taste, red lips and eyes, dull abdominal pain, constipation, dark yellow urine, red tongue with thin or yellow greasy coating. Among them, Wanglaoji is the coldest in nature, while Xiàsāngjú and Wuhuachá are relatively milder.<br>Xiao'er Qixing Cha (Pediatric Seven Star Tea) consists of sweet, bland, cold herbs and is suitable for children with fever, colds, irritability, teeth grinding, indigestion, poor appetite, dry stools, yellow urine, red tongue with thin or yellow coating. Compared to the above teas, its nature is milder. Patients with these symptoms can take it. Even in seasons with strong damp-heat, if no symptoms are present, it may still be taken for preventive purposes. Especially those with robust constitutions, frequent internal heat and dampness, recurring sore throats, constipation, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, may take it intermittently. But remember: cooling teas are medicines, and "medicine has three poisons"—a well-known truth. Thus, use must be individualized; avoid overuse, and never take them long-term as health tonics.<br>Editor’s Recommendation: Lotus leaf and chrysanthemum are excellent weight-loss herbal teas<br>The Art of Flavors in Spring’s Early Days<br>For those with weak constitutions and infants, indiscriminate long-term consumption of bitter-cold cooling teas can damage vital energy and the spleen-stomach, leading to fatigue, pale complexion, excessive sweating, easy susceptibility to colds, pale tongue with thin coating, or weak pulse—symptoms of spleen-lung qi deficiency. Especially in infants, whose organs are tender and vital energy underdeveloped, prolonged use of cooling teas can harm their constitution and hinder healthy growth. Some children suffer repeated colds and coughs—up to 3–4 times a month—many of which result from excessive intake of bitter-cold cooling teas damaging spleen-lung qi during infancy. Yet some parents continue giving their children cooling teas based on folk habits, unaware that their children’s ailments stem directly from overconsumption of these teas. Experts therefore warn: do not overuse cooling teas.

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