The efficacy of Lycium barbarum was comprehensively discussed in Jing Shu of Shennong Herbal Medicine by Mo Xiyong in Ming Dynasty: Lycium barbarum is warm and nourishing, and it can also clear away heat, but it is good at tonifying kidney, moistening lung, promoting fluid production and benefiting qi, which is an important medicine for tonifying liver and kidney for deficiency of true yin and fatigue. Nine times out of ten, old people are yin deficient, so gluttony is good for their eyes.
2. Soaking Lycium barbarum with tea is not only effective for dizziness, decreased vision, soreness of waist and knees, nocturnal emission, etc. Caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney, it also has a certain auxiliary effect on hyperlipidemia, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and diabetes.
Tea leaves and American ginseng slices are soaked and drunk together.
Using the function of nourishing yin and tonifying deficiency of American ginseng and its sweet and cool taste, brewing American ginseng tea with tea leaves has good effects of benefiting lung and stomach, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, clearing deficiency fire and reducing fever.
4. Tea leaves and white chrysanthemums are soaked and drunk together.
The combination of the two can not only calm the liver and suppress yang, dispel wind and clear heat, cool blood and improve eyesight, but also make the unique fragrance and sweetness of white chrysanthemum enhance the fragrance of tea soup and have good palatability.
5. Tea leaves and orange peels are soaked and drunk together.
Making tea with orange peel can regulate qi, eliminate phlegm, resist bacteria and diminish inflammation. It is beneficial for people with cough and phlegm to drink.
6. Tea and mint are soaked together.
Mint contains menthol and menthone. When you make tea with it, it will not only feel cool, but also dispel wind, clear heat and induce diuresis.
Something similar to tea
1, tea and sugar:
Tea tastes bitter and cold. The purpose of drinking tea is to stimulate the digestive gland and promote the secretion of digestive juice with the help of the bitter taste of tea, thus enhancing the digestive function. Then use the coolness of tea to achieve the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.
If sugar is added to tea, this function will be inhibited. However, in ancient books, there are also remedies to treat diseases with tea instead of sugar, which can be used as diet therapy. If you drink tea at ordinary times, it is not appropriate to mix sugar.
2. Tea and eggs:
Boiled eggs are accompanied by tea, which has a high concentration and strong tea contains much tannic acid. Tannic acid can turn protein in food into indigestible solidified substance, which affects the absorption and utilization of protein by human body.
Eggs are high-protein foods, and it is not appropriate to cook eggs with tea.
3. Tea and wine:
Many people like to drink tea after drinking, trying to achieve the effect of moistening dryness, relieving alcoholism, promoting digestion, and dredging waterways, but this is not good for the kidneys.
Because drinking tea after drinking, theophylline produces diuretic effect, at this time, acetaldehyde converted by alcohol has not been completely decomposed, that is, it enters the kidney due to the diuretic effect of theophylline, and acetaldehyde has a great stimulating effect on the kidney, which is easy to cause damage to renal function. So kidney cold, impotence, frequent urination, testicular pain and other symptoms are related.
In addition, alcohol is very irritating to the cardiovascular system, and strong tea also has the effect of exciting the heart. Drinking tea after drinking will double stimulate the heart, increase excitability and increase the burden on the heart, which is even more inappropriate for people with poor heart function.