What kind of tea to drink in summer can prevent heatstroke and quench thirst?
1, honeysuckle tea
Honeysuckle tea is cold, which can clear away heat and toxic materials and disperse wind and heat. When the weather is hot in summer, people are prone to fire boils and sores due to the invasion of heat toxin. Drinking honeysuckle tea can effectively clear away heat and detoxify and prevent common febrile diseases in summer.
2. Green tea
Green tea is cold, "cold can clear away heat", which can best dispel fire, promote fluid production to quench thirst, promote digestion and eliminate phlegm, and accelerate the healing of oral cavity and mild gastric ulcer. After brewing, the water color is clear, the aroma is quiet and the taste is fresh.
A study in the United States pointed out that catechins in green tea have a strong antioxidant function. After skin care products containing green tea ingredients are applied to the skin, even if they are exposed to the hot sun, the peroxides that cause sunburn, relaxation and roughness of the skin can be reduced by about 1/3. This proves that the ingredients in green tea have sunscreen function.
3. Chrysanthemum tea
Chrysanthemum morifolium is mild in medicinal properties and has the function of nourishing the liver and improving eyesight. Office workers who use computers for a long time often drink tea soaked in chrysanthemum morifolium, which can relieve symptoms such as dry eyes. Drinking Gongju tea can calm the mind, calm the nerves, clear away heat and reduce fire, clear the liver and improve eyesight. In summer, due to liver fire and excessive use of eyes, you can drink Gongju tea.
4. Winter melon tea
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, winter melon is sweet and cool, and has the effects of diuresis and detumescence, clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing stomach and reducing fire. It is very suitable for "tonifying" in summer, which can diuresis and clear heat. For slimming people who love beauty, it is a good product to lose weight in summer. Some people's skin is prone to pimples in summer. Drinking a bowl of winter melon porridge every day can prevent skin blisters in summer.
You can buy fresh winter melon at home, wash and remove seeds, cut into pieces, stew with water until soft and rotten, and you can drink it directly, or you can use a blender to mash it and filter it, plus a little sugar, which is the original winter melon tea without getting fat.
5. Lotus leaf tea
30 grams of stem lotus leaf, chopped, brewed in boiling water for 20 minutes, instead of tea, has the effects of relieving summer heat, broadening chest, quenching thirst and reducing blood fat. It is also good to collect some lotus leaves for spare when traveling in summer.
6. Lily tea
Lily is rich in protein, sugar, phosphorus, iron and a variety of trace elements, which has high medical and edible value. When making tea, take 2 grams-3 grams of lily each time and stew it in boiling water for about 10 minute. After tea is brewed, its color is golden, its taste is sweet and bitter, and it can ease the fire, cool and moisten the lungs. It is the best summer drink in summer.
7. Jasmine tea
Jasmine flower has a mellow aroma, which has the effects of eliminating cold evil and assisting depression, calming the mood and invigorating the spirit, strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, relieving gastrointestinal discomfort and relieving stomach pain, and is also helpful for women's physiological and reproductive functions, and can moisturize the skin, maintain beauty and relieve dysmenorrhea.