The climate is hot in summer, which is the season most prone to water shortage. When people work under the scorching sun in summer, it is easy to consume a lot of physical energy and become mentally depressed. At this time, there is nothing more refreshing than drinking a cup of summer-relieving tea. Compared with ordering an expensive cold drink in a beverage shop, making your own tea with your favorite flavor at home is a healthy and affordable option.
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1. Scented tea

Longjing chrysanthemum tea: Longjing has the effect of soothing emotions, and chrysanthemum has the effects of dispelling wind, dissipating heat, clearing away heat and detoxifying. The combination of the two can drive away the external heat, dissipate the heat in the body, and have the effect of soothing the irritable mood in hot weather. Kuding tea Kuding tea is a popular pure natural health drink among the people in Pu'er, Lincang and other places. The fragrance is bitter, the taste is mellow, and the sweet aftertaste is not strong. It has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, improving eyesight and improving intelligence, producing body fluids and quenching thirst.

2. Dark tea

Dark tea is rich in nutrients, relieves summer heat, strengthens the spleen and stomach, and ensures people's normal work and health. In summer, people's digestive function weakens and their resistance decreases. Bacteria in food are easy to breed, and food deteriorates quickly, which can easily cause intestinal diseases, such as diarrhea, acute enteritis, and acute bacillary dysentery. Since ancient times, Anhua folk have had a secret recipe for treating gastroenteritis, which is Anhua old black tea.

3. White tea

White tea is not only good for your skin, but also good for your health. White tea has a fresh fragrance, a clear yellow-green color, a light and sweet taste, and is rich in various amino acids and has the effects of reducing fever, dispelling heat, and detoxifying.

IV. Green tea

Bamboo Leaf Green Tea: One of the famous Chinese tea series, it is a green tea. Bamboo leaf green has long been recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" and is a good product for clearing away heat and removing dampness. The tea soup is bright yellow-green, fragrant and delicious, fresh and mellow, with a chestnut aroma. It has the effects of promoting body fluids and quenching thirst, reducing heat and detoxification, and resolving phlegm.

Usnea tea: This tea is a medicinal tea. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Huizhou Usnea specializes in transforming food." This tea has been used for a long time and has curative effects on more than ten diseases such as laxatives, white turbidity, dysentery, eye diseases, typhoid and colds. Folks have summarized the effects of Usnea tea as "three increases and three resistances" and "three eliminations and three decreases". The three increases are to increase energy, intelligence, and strength; the three anti-aging are anti-aging, anti-radiation, and anti-radiation; the three eliminations are anti-inflammation, disinfection, and deodorization; and the three lowerings are to lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, and lower blood sugar.

Drinking Usnea in summer can cure all diseases. Every morning or after a nap in the afternoon, take three-dollar usnea tea, place it in a glass, and soak it in 90-degree hot water. A cup of thick green tea full of spring appears in front of you, and you can enjoy your health while drinking it.

Green tea is the most suitable tea for people to drink in summer. Because it has the functions of promoting body fluids, quenching thirst, digesting food and reducing phlegm, it can help people spend this hot summer and make people feel comfortable physically and mentally.

5. Black tea

Black tea can quench thirst and relieve heat because the polyphenols, sugars, amino acids, pectin, etc. in the tea react chemically with saliva and stimulate saliva secretion, causing the mouth to feel moist and cool. At the same time, caffeine controls the body temperature center of the hypothalamus and regulates body temperature. It also stimulates the kidneys to promote the excretion of heat and waste and maintain physiological balance in the body.

Drinking black tea in summer also has various antibacterial effects and can prevent colds. The flavonoids in black tea have antibacterial effects such as killing poisonous bacteria in food and making influenza viruses lose their infectivity. In addition to preventing colds, some people gargle with black tea when they have a sore throat due to a cold.

6. Sophora nectar drink

Ingredients: 5g of dried Sophora japonica flower, 30ml of Sophora japonica flower honey, appropriate amount of boiling water.

Method: Take 5g of dried Sophora japonica flowers, soak them in warm water, wash them, and remove the branches; squeeze out the water from the Sophora japonica flowers and put them into a cup; pour in boiling water, and after the water temperature drops, add Sophora japonica honey and mix thoroughly.

Warm tips: Sophora japonica has a cool nature, so eating it in summer can help you relieve the heat with its effect of clearing away heat and cooling blood. Sophora nectar is the top grade of honey and has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. The combination of the two can have a complementary effect of relieving heat and cooling, but friends with weak spleen and stomach should use it with caution.

Seven. Chrysanthemum, Lotus Seed and Mung Bean Drink

Materials: mung beans, lotus seeds, chrysanthemums, rock sugar.

Method: Boil mung beans, rock sugar and water; pour the boiled mung bean water into a cup with chrysanthemum and lotus seed hearts, and drink it iced after cooling.

Mung beans should not be overcooked to prevent organic acids and vitamins from being destroyed and reducing heat-clearing and detoxifying effects. Mung beans are cool in nature, so people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more. In addition, chrysanthemum contains ingredients such as chrysanthemum, amino acids and trace vitamins. It has the effects of cooling the wind, dissipating heat, improving eyesight and detoxification. It is also the best summer drink to relieve heat, clear the liver and improve eyesight. Mung beans are rich in inorganic salts and vitamins. Taking mung bean soup as a drink in a high-temperature environment can replenish lost nutrients in time to achieve the therapeutic effect of clearing away heat and relieving heat.

In summer, you can eat more heat-clearing and heat-relieving foods, which can not only clear away summer heat, but also clear away the internal heat produced by the body. You can also take some pungent and cool or sweet and cold Chinese medicine, such as mint, chrysanthemum, lotus leaf, honeysuckle, etc., to relieve the heat in the heart and dissipate heat.

(Editor: Li Fei)

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