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What kinds of herbal tea are there?
Herbal tea can generally be roughly divided into four categories in terms of efficacy:

1, heat-clearing and detoxicating tea: suitable for people who are hot and easy to get angry. Representative medicinal materials such as honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, Fructus Gardeniae, Huang Cen, etc., but it is too cold in winter, so it is not suitable for drinking.

2, Jiegan tea: also known as "cold tea", suitable for drinking when exogenous cold, small cold and weak fever. Representing medicinal materials such as Radix Isatidis.

3, heat-clearing and moistening tea: in autumn, the sky is dry and dry, which is most suitable for drinking this kind of tea that can produce saliva, relieve cough and moisten the lungs. Representative medicinal materials such as Polygonatum odoratum, longan leaves, Ophiopogon japonicus, tremella, etc.

4. Heat-clearing and dampness-removing tea: it is suitable for people who are wet and hot, have heavy breath, have sores on their mouths, are afraid of thirst, and have yellowish complexion. In summer, ordinary people can also drink it in moderation to remove summer heat. Representative medicinal materials such as honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, Fu Ling, etc.

Herbal tea is the general name of traditional Chinese herbal medicine plant beverage. Guangdong herbal tea is the representative of traditional herbal tea culture in China. Herbal tea is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine which is cold in nature and can dispel the internal heat of human body, so as to eliminate the summer heat in human body or treat the sore throat caused by dryness in winter.

On May 20th, 2006, herbal tea was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. Herbal tea is neither cold nor tea. It's a drink made of compound or single native herbs commonly used by people in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Chinese herbal medicines with cold properties and capable of dispelling internal heat are decocted as drinks to eliminate summer heat in human body or sore throat caused by dryness in winter. Herbal tea is a kind of beverage which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, eliminating fire and removing dampness, etc., based on the local climate, soil and water characteristics, in the process of long-term disease prevention and health care, guided by the theory of TCM health preservation and taking Chinese herbal medicine as raw materials. It has specific terms to guide people's daily drinking, and there is no dose limit and no doctor's guide list.