Chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea is made by brewing chrysanthemum and wolfberry together. Use 10 grams each of white chrysanthemum and wolfberry each time, add it to a large teapot, add hot water, and drink it after 10 minutes. So what are the effects and functions of chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea? Let’s take a look.
Effects and functions of chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea
Modern medicine has proven that chrysanthemum has a good regulating effect on modern people’s chronic diseases such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and sub-health. Chrysanthemums are rich in vitamin A, which is an important substance for maintaining eye health. Chrysanthemum tea can make people clear-headed and bright-eyed. It is especially effective for dry eyes caused by excessive liver fire and excessive eye use. For computer users who often feel that their eyes are dry, drinking more chrysanthemum tea is beneficial and harmless.
Lycium barbarum has a sweet and mild taste. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can nourish the liver and kidneys, improve eyesight and nourish blood, and enhance people's immunity. For modern people, the most practical effects of wolfberry are anti-fatigue and lowering blood pressure.
In addition, wolfberry can protect the liver, lower blood sugar, soften blood vessels, reduce blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and has certain curative effects on patients with fatty liver and diabetes. According to clinical medical verification, wolfberry can also treat chronic renal failure.
Based on the above, white-collar office workers and computer workers are most suitable to drink chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea. Daily drinking of chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea can reduce eye fatigue. Students who are studying might as well have a drink.
Precautions for drinking
Although wolfberry chrysanthemum tea has good nourishing and therapeutic effects, it is not suitable for everyone. People with weak constitution and poor resistance should usually eat more wolfberry; however, wolfberry has a strong effect of warming the body. Therefore, it is best not to eat it if you are suffering from cold, fever, inflammation, or diarrhea.
Chrysanthemums are cool in nature, and wolfberry contains plant hormones that can affect endocrine, so it is best not to drink it by the following types of people: people with cold stomachs, menstruating women and pregnant women, and people with physical weakness and diarrhea.
The best way to drink it: five or six chrysanthemums, five or six wolfberries, brewed with boiling water, 2-3 times a week.