Health-Promoting Teas
Health-Promoting Teas
Tea Formula for Fitness and Longevity:
1. Equal amounts of tea leaves, peanuts, and ginger, crushed in a mortar, boiled with boiling water and consumed as tea.
2. Take 100 ml fresh milk. First, boil black tea into a concentrated decoction, then mix with boiled milk and add a pinch of salt. Stir well and drink once daily, on an empty stomach (Note: This formula nourishes the body and improves skin texture, serving as an excellent tonic).
3. 3 grams oolong tea, 18 grams Sophora japonica fruit, 30 grams Polygonum multiflorum, 18 grams winter melon peel, 15 grams hawthorn flesh. Boil all ingredients, remove residue, then brew with oolong tea for drinking (Note: This formula clears heat, resolves stasis, and promotes circulation. It enhances vascular elasticity, lowers blood cholesterol, and prevents arteriosclerosis).
4. 3 grams green tea, 30 grams cream. Boil with hot water, let tea sink, then add cream, stir, and gently heat (without boiling) before drinking (Note: This formula energizes and nourishes. Regular consumption by the elderly enhances vitality).
Anti-Aging Tea Formulas:
1. 750 grams each of glutinous rice, yellow millet, soybeans, red adzuki beans, and mung beans, roasted until fragrant; 500 grams fine tea, 375 grams clean sesame seeds, 75 grams clean Sichuan pepper, 150 grams clean fennel, 30 grams dried white ginger, 30 grams roasted white salt. Grind all into fine powder, mix thoroughly. Add wheat flour and roasted yellow flour in equal parts, mix well. Optionally add walnuts, southern dates, pine nuts, and sugar. Store in a porcelain jar. Take 3 scoops daily, dissolve in boiling water as tea.
2. 6 grams green tea, 2 grams rhubarb. Boil with boiling water, drink as needed (Note: This formula clears heat, relieves fire, promotes bowel movement, eliminates accumulation, and reduces fat. Regular consumption delays aging).
Tea Formula to Relieve Fatigue:
1. 10 grams tea leaves. First, boil to extract concentrated juice (~100 ml), strain out tea residue. Add 50 grams rice and appropriate sugar, then add ~400 ml water. Cook into a thin porridge. Consume twice daily, warm.
2. 0.5–1.5 grams green tea, 25 grams honey, 300–500 ml boiling water. Soak for 5 minutes, drink warm, or boil and consume.
3. 1 teaspoon concentrated tea decoction, half a lemon, 2 tablespoons honey. Wash lemon, blend into juice using a blender, pour into a cup with concentrated tea, stir well with a long spoon. Add honey, mix, then pour in boiling water and drink.
4. 10 grams tea leaves, 6 grams jasmine flowers, 6 grams cardamom (crushed). Infuse twice and drink frequently.
Tea Formula for Treating Weakness:
1. Roast white sesame seeds until golden brown. Then add 3 grams tea leaves to a pan, add water, boil, and drink while chewing.
2. 5 grams tea leaves, 200 grams fresh loofah. Cut loofah into thick slices, cook with salt water until soft, then add 5 grams tea leaves and brew. Drink the tea liquid.
3. 0.5–1 gram black tea, 15–25 grams astragalus root. Reduce dosage for children. Boil astragalus in 400–500 ml water for 5 minutes after boiling, then add black tea. Divide into three portions, drink warm daily.
4. 10–15 dried shrimp, 3 grams tea. Boil with boiling water, drink warm with shrimp (Note: This tea invigorates and nourishes, boosts nutrition, maintains normal bodily functions, and enhances disease resistance).
5. 3 grams tea leaves, 10–20 jujubes, 20 grams codonopsis. Wash codonopsis and jujubes, boil together with tea leaves, drink as tea (Note: This tea tonifies spleen and stomach, strengthens qi, and generates body fluids).
6. 5 grams tea leaves, 10 jujubes, 10 grams sugar. First, boil jujubes until soft, then brew tea with boiling water. Pour tea into jujube soup, add sugar and stir. Eat jujubes and drink tea (Note: This tea nourishes blood, calms the spirit, strengthens spleen and stomach).