Nowadays, many people mistake TCM for "keeping in good health", "health care" "preventing diseases", neglect confuse TCM treatment. Added to the herbs are natural plants, often considered to be non-toxic can be used at will. Thus, the folk spread a lot of recuperation prescriptions, drugstores, consumers can be freely compatible with these "folk prescriptions" home to drink water, supermarkets sell many beautifully packaged "qingxin tea", "Mingmei tea", "throat tea", "yan Yan tea", "sleeping tea"... Are these really good for you? Whether also can have hidden trouble undesirable effect?

Chrysanthemum tea clearing heat detoxification, ginseng tea invigorating vitality, orange peel tea anti-inflammatory, phlegm, appetizer, fat sea moisten throat, cassia seed tea qinggan mingmu, ginkgo leaf tea reducing blood fat... These teas are very common in People's Daily life. Chinese medicine experts believe that the tea with Chinese medicine belongs to the category of Chinese medicine decoction pieces instead of tea. It is a serious drug abuse behavior for people to add Chinese medicine decoction pieces into tea at will."

The so-called substitute tea drink is: take one several traditional Chinese medicines, put boiling water in the cup, cover the lid soak for a few minutes, then you can drink it as usual. This so-called substitute tea drink is much more convenient than decocting traditional Chinese medicine. But the traditional Chinese medicine brewing tea knowledge, to know.

Usually of traditional Chinese medicines can be used to make tea with ginseng, American ginseng, ganoderma lucidum, medlar, eucommia bark, longan meat, dried tangerine orange peel, senna, rhubarb, cassia occidentalis, lotus seed, ginger, boat-fruited sterculia, basil, mint, plum, hawthorn, fructus momordicae, total (olive), herba artemisiae, fresh money grass, fresh perrin, ageratum, watermelon skin, cogongrass rhizome, peach blossom, honeysuckle, sophora japonica, etc., with light body loose flavour gan light leaves, flowers, fruit, seeds, sold drugs, some qualitative hard, bitter taste, toxic, stimulating such as traditional Chinese medicine, such as tortoise plastron, rhizoma coptidis, aconite, magnolia flower can't make tea. Make tea in principle to choose after standard processing yinpian, some even want to cut thin slices, fruit Chinese medicine such as Luo Han guo, green fruit to break tea.

Chinese traditional medicine makes tea also must differentiate syndrome decoction are same, Chinese traditional medicine makes tea also should according to the performance of Chinese traditional medicine, union oneself constitution, disease syndrome, climate, seasonal wait for syndrome differentiation to use, ability achieves expected result, cannot be taken in one's hand by no means. If the cold of the fat sea, can clear lung heat, benefit throat, clear bowel to defecate, effective to the pharynx pain, hoarseness, constipation caused by wind heat evil poison, but ineffective to the pharyngeal pain caused by incomplete vocal cords excessive alcohol tobacco. For example, honeysuckle is a well-known antipyretic antipyretic poison, which is more suitable for those who suffer heat heat in summer, but can be used for those with deficiency of spleen stomach, will cause diarrhea if abused. In addition, some drugs can cause allergies, some drugs may hurt the fetus, is a special group can be indiscriminate use. To this end, before choosing medicine to brew tea, should follow doctor's guidance.

Generally speaking, making tea is the best choice of single Chinese medicine, because of the need of treatment illness, you can use the formula, but choose medicine at most 4~5, too much medicinal taste will lose the significance of making tea. The dosage of traditional Chinese medicine for making tea varies with medicine use. Generally speaking, the dosage of fresh medicine should be large, while that of dry medicine should be small. The dosage of health care should be small, the amount of treatment of diseases should be large. For example, tangerine peel, fresh products can be up to 12~20 grams, dry skin can be 6~10 grams; White root as a fire health medicine, each time with 10 grams, the treatment of blood fever caused by the blood certificate needs 30~50 grams. In addition, drinking herbal tea, more advocate warm take, frequency drink, a daily dose. Special circumstances can be flexible.

Homology list of 87 drugs food:

Star anise, angelica dahurica, gingko, white hyacinth bean, white hyacinth bean flowers, lily, mint, rice bean, clove, sword bean, seville orange flower, herba lophatheri, SSP, donkey-hide gelatin, bergamot, poria cocos, honey, pea, viper, raspberry, licorice root, medlar, galangal, radix puerariae, yellow mustard, Chinese prickly ash, lotus leaf, rhizoma polygonati, black sesame seed, black pepper, sophora japonica, sophora japonica, ageratum, Cassia seed, chicken's gizzard-membrane, honeysuckle, ginger, ginger, dried ginger, tangerine peel, platycodon grandiflorum, chrysanthemum, chicory, orange peel, kelp, longan meat (longan), fructus momordicae, radish seed, lotus seed, purslane, papaya, fire maren, oysters, malt, boat-fruited sterculia, dandelion, Gordon euryale seed, shawl, nutmeg, cinnamon, yam, hawthorn, hippophae rhamnoides, amomum villosum, mulberry leaf, mulberry, zizyphus jujube kernel, walnut meat, black tip snake, ebony, fennel, field thistle, almonds, sweet, bitter, citron, Chinese mosla herb, fresh cogongrass rhizome, fresh rehmannia root, scallions, white jade bamboo, emblic leafflower fruit, bunge cherry seed, cordate houttuynia, fructus alpiniae oxyphyllae, coix seed, jujube, jujube, zizyphus jujube, black) hovenia dulcis thunb, Gardenia, Perilla, Perilla seed.

As a daily health drink, prepared slices of Traditional Chinese medicine should be in accordance with the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China under the administration of the State Food Drug Administration. The Measures for the Administration of Health Food promulgated by the Ministry of Health are its specific implementation measures. When buying Chinese medicine health drinks, consumers should first look at the package to see whether there is a small blue hat logo approved by the State Food Drug Administration "health food" logo, as well as the number of the national food health character identity symbol, these two are whether the health food produced formal channels, with national approval of the IDENTITY ID.