Introduction to Flower Tea Types and Their Benefits: A Full Guide to Common Flower Tea Varieties

Flower tea, also known as scented tea, is a tea made by infusing the flowers, leaves or fruits of plants, and is also a type of reprocessed tea unique to China. China has a wide variety of flower teas, mainly produced at present in Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Sichuan, Anhui, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Yunnan and other places. So what are the common flower teas we know?

1. Jasmine tea

Jasmine tea is made by blending tea leaves with fresh jasmine flowers. It has a beautiful appearance and a rich fragrance, and when brewed for drinking it is fresh, mellow and refreshing. Regularly drinking jasmine tea has benefits such as clearing the liver and brightening the eyes, promoting bowel movements and urination, lowering blood pressure and resisting aging.

2. Rose flower tea

Rose flower tea is one of the favorite flower teas of women friends, and is also one of the most common flower teas. After brewing, rose flower tea gives off a refreshing fragrance that makes people feel clear-headed and refreshed. The rose is a precious medicinal material, beautifying and nourishing the face, and has significant curative effects on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular conditions, high blood pressure, heart disease and gynecological conditions.

3. Honeysuckle tea

Honeysuckle belongs to the Caprifoliaceae vine plants, and there are two types of honeysuckle on the market: one is fresh honeysuckle blended with a small amount of green tea, and the other is made by blending dried honeysuckle, either oven-dried or sun-dried, with green tea. Both types of honeysuckle tea have the medicinal effects of honeysuckle, and are health beverages suitable for all ages. Honeysuckle tea has the benefits of clearing heat and detoxifying, and relieving summer heat and irritability, but honeysuckle tea is somewhat cold in nature and is not suitable for long-term drinking, especially for friends with a cold constitution.

4. Chrysanthemum tea

Chrysanthemum tea refers to chrysanthemum, among which the more famous ones are Hangzhou white chrysanthemum from Tongxiang, Zhejiang and Huangshan tribute chrysanthemum from the foot of Huangshan, both of which are among the four famous chrysanthemums of China. Chrysanthemums can be divided into wild chrysanthemum and cultivated chrysanthemum. Cultivated chrysanthemum clears the liver and brightens the eyes, while wild chrysanthemum removes toxins and disperses internal heat, and lowers the three highs; among wild chrysanthemums, Kunlun snow chrysanthemum is the best.

5. Osmanthus tea

Osmanthus is the flower of Osmanthus fragrans, a plant of the Oleaceae family, with flowers in flower color or white, and extremely fragrant. Osmanthus tea is made by scenting tea leaves with fresh osmanthus, and the tea carries a rich osmanthus fragrance. The main production areas of osmanthus tea are Guilin in Guangxi, Xianning in Hubei, Chengdu in Sichuan, Chongqing and other places. The main benefit of osmanthus tea is that it has the effect of promoting qi flow and harmonizing the stomach; for example, it has a preventive and therapeutic effect on stomach cold and stomach pain, can moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements, and relieves gastrointestinal discomfort caused by bloating. It is a flower tea suitable for elderly people with weak stomach function. Osmanthus tea also has the benefits of stopping cough and resolving phlegm, and nourishing health and moistening the lungs; at the same time, osmanthus tea can also purify body and mind and balance the nervous system.

6. Lily flower tea

Lily flower tea is a tea made from processed and prepared fresh lily flowers, retaining the original bioactive factors of lily flowers. Lily flowers have a graceful posture and a rich fragrance, and are known as the fairy of cloud garments; because lily flowers also carry the meaning of a harmonious union lasting a hundred years, they are widely popular. Lily flowers have relatively high nutritional value and medicinal value, and are a superior tonic, with the reputation of a fresh flower ginseng.

The above is an introduction to the types of flower tea. Flower tea makes use of the characteristic of tea being good at absorbing odors: fragrant fresh flowers and new tea are sealed together, and after the tea absorbs the fragrance, the dried flowers are sifted out. The finished flower tea has a rich fragrance and a deep-colored tea infusion.

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