Also known as box tea, the name comes from the source Jilin's Gan and tea, because packaged in a small box). Is a small cold can be brewed or boiled packets to drink, no specific herbs to make cold tea. Efficacy has sweating fever, enhance autoimmune resistance.
The earliest is produced by the source of Jilin, in the Qing Dynasty Daoguang years by the source of the three brothers Huichang, Hechang, Yingchang created, because the pharmaceutical company will be processed first after the infusion of medicinal herbs, and then pressed into a fine brick type, packaged in a small box, so the name of the Box Chai Tea.
Cold and flu tea originated in the south of Lingnan, China. Due to the hot and humid climate, wind-heat or summer-dampness colds are very common. Therefore, the main function of cold tea is to eliminate heat, cure bone pain, headache, cold fever, fullness and bloating symptoms. It is effective in reducing fever through sweating and strengthening autoimmune resistance. Cold and flu tea is suitable for patients with small colds, brewing or cooking medicine bags need to add ginger and scallions.
There is no specific prescription for cold tea, but the Chinese medicines used are mainly to expel wind and relieve symptoms, and to eliminate food stagnation. For example, yellow ling, water weng hua, gold cherry root and gongmei root, and so on.
Four Seasons Cold and Flu Tea (formula): 1 patchouli 3 money to stop vomiting
2 forsythia 3 money to dispel wind
3 burdock 3 money to ease the pharynx and disperse swelling
4 jingdao 3 money to expel wind and expel the surface of the body and cure colds
5 fengfeng 3 money to expel dampness and relieve pain
6 platanodium root 3 money to open the lungs to dispel phlegm
7 licorice 1 money to reconcile the properties of the medicinal herbs
8 Chrysanthemum 5 qian to clear the eyes
9 Ginger 3 slices to expel wind, stop vomiting and relieve cough
10 Apricot 3 qian to relieve cough and calm it down
11 Chuan Gong 3 qian to invigorate blood circulation and promote circulation of Qi
Decoctions: Decoction: 3 bowls of water, decocted and stored in 1 bowl, to be taken at warm temperature.
Functions: four-seasonal colds, nasal congestion and headache, throat unfavorable, phlegm and cough, eliminating summer heat and promoting dampness.
Contraindications: General can drink.