🌿 Folk Prescriptions

In the urban jungle, elegant office ladies bloom like resilient roses, enduring and flourishing. Suboptimal health is everywhere. Let Green be your warm, traditional companion! Care for yourself starting with herbal drinks…
Mint and Licorice Tea has the effects of relieving fever, cooling the body, clearing heat, detoxifying, inducing sweating, and treating conditions like headache, red eyes, sore throat, and wind-heat colds.
Tips: Use 10–12 fresh mint leaves, 5 grams licorice, 5 grams green tea, 10 grams Prince’s Ginseng. Pour 500 ml boiling water, steep for 10+ minutes, filter out residue, add sugar to taste, mix well, and drink.
Chrysanthemum Tea has functions of dispersing wind-heat, clearing liver fire, improving vision, and detoxifying anti-inflammatory effects. It helps relieve eye strain, headaches, and hypertension.
Tips: Drink 5–6 Hangzhou chrysanthemums after each meal. It quenches thirst and generates saliva. Long-term use helps prevent hypertension, migraines, acute conjunctivitis, and slows aging, enhancing complexion. Adding a little honey improves taste.
You need careful adjustment to balance your body’s functions—replenish fluids, clear heat, detoxify, and prevent disease. Traditional Chinese medicine excels in this. Simple brewing or boiling, done right in the office, not only quenches thirst and relieves fatigue but also promotes health and beautifies the skin.
Health-Preserving Herbal Teas
Goji Berry Tea: Goji berries nourish the kidneys, enrich essence, nourish the liver and brighten eyes, and moisturize dry lungs. They lower blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent atherosclerosis. Beneficial for dizziness, tinnitus, blurred vision, and memory decline due to kidney-liver deficiency. Especially suitable for eye fatigue caused by prolonged computer use.
Tips: Use about a dozen goji berries, pour hot water, steep frequently.
honeysuckle Tea: Honeysuckle clears heat and detoxifies, soothes the throat, cools the body, and relieves irritability. Treats summer heat, dysentery, flu, boils, abscesses, acute and chronic tonsillitis, and periodontitis.
Tips: Use 10 grams honeysuckle, pour boiling water, steep frequently.
Safflower Tea: Safflower is sweet and non-toxic, promoting blood circulation in men and regulating menstruation in women. In larger doses, it moves blood; in smaller doses, it nourishes blood. Rich in vitamins and bioactive compounds, safflower and its seeds nourish blood, invigorate blood, lower blood pressure and lipids, inhibit thrombosis, protect the heart, and enhance beauty.
Tips: Mix 5 grams safflower, 5 grams sandalwood, 2 grams green tea, 30 grams brown sugar. Pour boiling water, cover, steep for 5 minutes. Drink daily—one dose makes skin clearer and brighter. Note: Avoid drinking before bedtime to prevent excitement disrupting sleep.
Licorice Tea: Treats wind-fire toothache, red eyes, cough from colds.
Tips: Use 10 grams licorice, 5 grams tea, 8 grams salt. Mix with 1000 ml water. Boil water first, then add ingredients, simmer for 10 minutes, and drink.
Lotus Leaf and Licorice Tea: Clears heat, cools the body, promotes urination, and quenches thirst.
Tips: Use 100 grams fresh lotus leaf, 5 grams licorice, 1000 ml water. Wash and chop lotus leaf, boil water, add licorice and lotus leaf, simmer for over 10 minutes, filter out residue, add sugar to taste, and drink.
Bitter Orange and Reed Rhizome Tea: Clears heat, transforms phlegm, generates fluids, quenches thirst, lowers blood pressure, and promotes urination.
Tips: Wash and chop 100 grams fresh bitter orange, 100 grams fresh reed rhizome, mix with 1000 ml water. Boil water, add ingredients, simmer for 20 minutes, filter out residue, add sugar to taste, and drink.
Dried Tangerine Peel and Ginger Tea: Quenches thirst, cools the body, stops cough, transforms phlegm, strengthens digestion.
Tips: Use 20 grams dried tangerine peel, 10 grams ginger slices, 5 grams licorice, 5 grams tea, 1000 ml water. Boil water, add ingredients, steep for 10 minutes, filter out residue, and drink.
Ginseng Tea: Tonifies primordial Qi, calms the spirit, and generates body fluids—ideal for replenishing Qi.
Tips: Place 5 grams ginseng slices in a cup, pour boiling water, cover tightly, steep for 20 minutes. Can be re-steeped 2–3 times until the slices lose flavor.
Rhubarb Tea: Clears heat, detoxifies, induces purgation. Small daily doses aid digestion, relieve stomach fire, increase appetite, regulate blood and Qi, strengthen the body, prevent disease, and slow aging. Used for constipation, abdominal pain, red eyes, sore throat, and styes.
Tips: Use 3–9 grams raw rhubarb in a cup, pour boiling water, cover and steep for 10 minutes. Long-term use maintains smooth bowel movements and reduces reabsorption of toxic substances in the intestines.
Reishi Mushroom Tea: Tonifies the middle energizer, strengthens bones and muscles, maintains youthfulness, and keeps skin fair and smooth.
Tips: Use 10 grams reishi mushroom, a small amount of green tea. Slice reishi thinly, pour boiling water, add green tea, and drink.
Skincare and Beautifying Fruit-Flower Tea
Rose Flower Tea: Rose flowers cool blood and nourish skin, helping improve dry, flaky skin. Due to their strong fragrance, rose tea also effectively treats bad breath.
Tips: Rose tea aids digestion and fat reduction, so it’s ideal for weight loss—best consumed after meals.
Apple Tea: Apple tea has remarkable effects on treating headaches.
Tips: Cut one apple into thin slices, simmer with water, remove residue, and drink as tea. Continuous use for ten days shows visible results.