Ingredients: 2 kg of wax gourd, a little ginger.

Practice: melon peeled and seeded, washed and cut into pieces. Boil water in a pot, add ginger slices and wax gourd, simmer for 40 minutes, cover the lid and simmer for 20 minutes.

Efficacy: This is a well-known beverage and is considered as the best health tea to relieve dryness and swelling.

Osmanthus and winter melon tea

Raw materials:

Osmanthus fragrans 10g, winter melon seeds 10g, dried tangerine peel 10g.

Osmanthus fragrans: slightly bitter in taste and slightly cold in nature. Tonifying the liver and improving eyesight.

Winter melon seeds: sweet in taste and cold in nature. Clearing heat and promoting diuresis, resolving phlegm and promoting bowel movement, reducing swelling and discharging pus.

Chenpi: It tastes bitter and warm. Regulating qi and strengthening spleen, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm.

Method:

After mixing, brew with boiling water 15 minutes.

Usage:

One dose a day instead of tea.

Efficacy:

Tonify liver and spleen, and regulate air spots.

Indications:

Used for facial black spots and freckles.

Modern research:

Black spots and freckles are caused by endocrine disorders, and Chinese medicine believes that they are closely related to liver, spleen and kidney.

Kelp and winter melon tea

Seaweed contains a lot of mineral iodine, which can promote human metabolism and is an indispensable substance for thyroid formation. If iodine is insufficient, it will cause abnormal skin and dry hair. Wax gourd can induce diuresis, clear away heat and detoxify, and contains protein, fat, sugar, minerals and carotene. However, people with deficiency of spleen and stomach should not drink this health tea often.

material

Fifty grams of kelp, one hundred grams of wax gourd, and a proper amount of honey.

The way of doing things

Put kelp and wax gourd into a pot, add a proper amount of water, cook to half the amount, remove the residue to leave juice, and add honey after cooling.