Pregnant women should not drink wintersweet tea.

Wintersweet tea is warm and bitter. Compendium of Materia Medica records that Wintersweet tea can relieve summer heat and promote fluid production. Modern research shows that Chimonanthus praecox contains a variety of volatile oil, myristyline, Chimonanthus praecox glycoside and β -carotene Pharmacological experiments show that cranberry alkaloids have similar effects to strychnine (which can excite nerve center, but is more toxic), and also have the effects of lowering blood sugar and exciting uterus and intestine. Has the effects of relieving summer-heat, promoting salivation, stimulating appetite, relieving depression, detoxicating, promoting granulation, regulating qi and relieving cough.

Modern pharmacological analysis shows that Chimonanthus praecox contains borneol, eucalyptus oil essence and linalool. Chinese medicine believes that Chimonanthus praecox is slightly sweet, pungent and cool, and has the effects of relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production, stimulating appetite, relieving depression, detoxifying and promoting granulation, and relieving cough. Indications: dizziness, vomiting, fever, polydipsia, qi stagnation, stuffy stomach and cough. People often give wintersweet soup to babies, which has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Because wintersweet can excite the uterus, pregnant women should not drink wintersweet tea.

Efficacy: Chimonanthus praecox can clear liver, improve eyesight, relieve sore throat, and can treat headache, sore throat, bad breath and other symptoms if it is often drunk; Clearing heat and relieving depression, smoothing qi and relieving cough, can clear away heat and toxic materials, prevent and treat infections and colds, and its flower buds can also relieve summer heat, relieve cough, treat vomiting and dizziness.

Indications: phlegm-heat cough.

Specific soaking method of wintersweet tea

1, wintersweet tea can be brewed directly.

Chimonanthus Chimonanthus tea is a kind of scented tea made by collecting the petals of Chimonanthus Chimonanthus and drying them in the sun. When brewing, you can put three to five grams of scented tea directly into the cup, and then add boiling water above 95 degrees for brewing. After pouring boiling water, cover the cup and stew for about five minutes, then open it to cool and drink.

2. Add sugar or honey.

Secondly, you can also pick wintersweet yourself, then dry wintersweet in the sun until it is dry, and then blanch it with boiling water. Because wintersweet itself is slightly bitter, you can add sugar or honey and mix well, and you can drink it in about 10 minutes.

3, wintersweet tea with drinking

Chimonanthus praecox tea can be brewed directly or drunk together with other scented teas, such as balsam pear tea, saussurea involucrata, ginseng flower and sherry flower. Can be brewed with wintersweet tea. The brewing method is similar to brewing Chimonanthus tea alone. After brewing, you can add some honey or rock sugar to taste, which will make the brewed tea taste more attractive. Chimonanthus praecox can also be mixed with balsam pear tea, Rose, Honeysuckle, Ganoderma lucidum and Osmanthus fragrans. Not only is it delicious and refreshing, but it can also strengthen the body.