What are the benefits and effects of drinking honeysuckle tea?
Everyone knows that honeysuckle has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, so what other effects does honeysuckle have? Below we will introduce the benefits and effects of drinking honeysuckle tea.
Benefits and Effects of Drinking Honeysuckle Tea
1. Clearing heat and detoxifying. According to the records in Ben Cao Zheng, honeysuckle is "sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and slightly cold in property," and has a very significant effect on clearing heat and detoxifying. Especially in the hot summer, if you can drink a cup of cool and delicious honeysuckle tea, it will surely relieve the summer heat and cool you down, leaving you refreshed and relaxed.
2. Preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Drinking honeysuckle tea can help the body promptly clear fat and harmful substances from the blood, increase blood flow in the vessels, and effectively prevent dangerous cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction.
3. Preventing flu. Research has found that honeysuckle can inhibit and resist a variety of bacteria that cause colds, and drinking it can increase our antiviral capacity and boost human immunity. It can be called the "Chinese herbal antibiotic" in the field of traditional Chinese medicine.
4. Clearing heat and relieving summer heat. According to the records in Zhi Wu Ming Shi Tu Kao: "In Wuzhong during the summer months, flowers are added to tea for drinking, and tea houses value newly delivered honeysuckle." This shows that drinking honeysuckle tea is a good medicine for relieving summer heat.
5. It has the effect of dispersing heat and expelling pathogens, and has a certain effect on externally contracted wind-heat or the early stage of warm disease, with symptoms such as body heat and headache, restlessness and little sleep, mental confusion and crimson tongue, and dry mouth and throat;
6. It has the effect of cooling blood and stopping dysentery, and has the effect of detoxifying, stopping dysentery, cooling blood and soothing the throat for heat-toxin dysentery, dysentery with pus and blood, damp-warmth obstructing the throat, and sore and swollen throat.
How to Make Honeysuckle Tea
1. Honeysuckle tea: 20 grams of honeysuckle, decocted in water as a tea substitute or brewed as tea, to treat sore and swollen throat and prevent upper respiratory tract infections.
2. Three-flower tea: 10 grams each of honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, and 3 grams of jasmine, brewed with boiling water for drinking. It can clear heat and detoxify, and treat headache, thirst, and sore and swollen throat. If this tea is decocted in water and used for external washing, it can also treat dermatitis.
3. Three-flower boat-fruited sterculia tea: 4 grams of chrysanthemum, 3 grams each of honeysuckle and camellia, 3 boat-fruited sterculia seeds, and 10 grams of rock sugar, brewed with boiling water for 5 minutes, then drunk, 1 dose per day, for 3 consecutive days. It can clear heat and detoxify, soothe the throat and moisten it, and mainly treats influenza and dry, itchy, and painful throat.
4. Honeysuckle mint tea: 10 grams each of honeysuckle and mint, brewed with boiling water, covered and steeped for 15 minutes, then add an appropriate amount of honey and drink. In summer, it is used to clear heat and relieve summer heat, and to clear prickly heat.
5. Honeysuckle licorice tea: 15 grams of honeysuckle and 3 grams of raw licorice, brewed with boiling water for drinking. In summer, it is used to prevent heatstroke, cool down, clear heat, and quench thirst. If this tea is decocted in water and used as a gargle, it can also treat pharyngitis and oral ulcers.
6. Honeysuckle rhubarb tea: 10 grams of honeysuckle and 3 grams of rhubarb, brewed together for drinking, and seasoned with an appropriate amount of honey. It has the effects of clearing heat, purging water, and moistening the intestines to relieve constipation, and is used to treat habitual constipation.
7. Honeysuckle drink: an appropriate amount of honeysuckle and hawthorn, brewed with boiling water, and drunk as a tea substitute. It is used to stimulate appetite and aid digestion.
Although the effects of honeysuckle tea are numerous and beneficial, it is not suitable for people with spleen cold and kidney deficiency to drink much of it, because honeysuckle tea is cool in nature, so people who are already weak and people with spleen cold will instead damage the spleen and chill the stomach if they drink it. Moreover, honeysuckle water is not suitable to be eaten together with cold-natured ingredients such as crab and watermelon, otherwise it is easy to harm the spleen and the body. Overnight honeysuckle water should not be drunk either, because it can produce a lot of nitrites, which can cause us to develop cancer.