The custom of drinking tea has been popular since the Shennong era, and has a history of more than 4,700 years. As an important treasure of Chinese culture, tea is known as the "living fossil" of the tea ceremony. It is not only a drink, but also a manifestation of a life attitude and health wisdom. Today, let us explore several classic health tea recipes and feel the secrets of health in the fragrance of tea.

Today I share these tea recipes with you to let you know what methods can help us nourish our spleen and stomach, eliminate food accumulation, and increase appetite in the spring.

One,Tea Recipe for Strengthening the Spleen and Promoting Digestion

Hawthorn Malt Apple Water

Recipe:Use green tea as the base, add 1 cored apple, 10 grams of hawthorn (3 fresh hawthorns or 10 grams of dried hawthorn), 20 grams of roasted malt, add 1000 ml of water and bring to a boil.

effectHawthorn is good at digesting meat, helping the spleen and stomach to digest food, and has the effects of protecting the liver, stimulating appetite, and promoting the production of body fluids and quenching thirst; roasted malt can effectively resolve food stagnation, especially suitable for abdominal distension and discomfort caused by eating too many fruits and vegetables after a meal or in children. This tea recipe is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite, and those who want to protect the liver and strengthen the spleen in spring.

Drinking SuggestionsIt can be used as daily drinking water. If you have indigestion, you can drink it several times a day. If you don't have indigestion, it is appropriate to drink it 2-3 times a week. If you want to add sweetness, it is recommended to use black sugar instead of brown sugar to prevent blood sugar from rising too quickly and causing phlegm.

Precautions：This tea recipe is suitable for most people, but it is more suitable for children over two years old who have already started to eat complementary foods. If the drinker has unformed stools, green tea can be replaced with cooked Pu'er or black tea.

This tea recipe has many advantages.

Nowadays, both children and adults basically eat meat every day. Hawthorn can help us digest meat very well.

Moreover, hawthorn is sour in nature and has good effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, protecting the liver, stimulating appetite and quenching thirst. Children occasionally eating one or two fresh hawthorns is also helpful for strengthening the spleen and stomach.

Roasted malt can help eliminate indigestion, especially after a dinner party, or when children have no appetite or feel uncomfortable in their stomachs after eating too much. Drinking a glass of roasted malt water can effectively digest indigestion caused by foods such as vegetables and fruits.

This tea recipe combination is a good choice for people with weak spleen and stomach, people with no appetite, or people who want to protect the liver and strengthen the spleen in spring.For those who like to drink tea, you can add one or two grams of tea leaves to it, add 1000 ml of water and boil it together, and then you can drink it as drinking water for the day.

If you want the taste to be sweeter and are afraid that the children may find it too sour, you can add a small piece of yellow rock sugar for flavoring. Yellow rock sugar is made from cane sugar.

Question:What kind of people should not drinkHawthorn Malt Apple Water？Are there any taboos?

If people just use it to eliminate food accumulation, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, then it is basically suitable for everyone.

But if you use green tea, because green tea is a bit cold, for those who often have loose stools and have to defecate two or three times a day, it is recommended to replace the tea with fermented ripe Pu'er or black tea.

This tea recipe is suitable for men, women, young and old, but the prerequisite is that it can only be consumed by children who have already started eating complementary foods, preferably children over two years old who can eat fruits and meat.

Question:How often do you drink it?

If you find that you have food stagnation on that day, you can drink this tea that day;

If you haven't had indigestion recently, you can drink it two or three times a week. Because the main function of this tea recipe is to promote the production of body fluids and strengthen the spleen, it is fine to drink it three or four times a week, and it won't have much impact.

Question:Can I put brown sugar?

It is recommended to use brown sugar instead of brown sugar.

Because brown sugar can increase blood sugar on the one hand, and it can easily produce phlegm on the other hand, and it is more likely to stay in our spleen and stomach, so women may get acne after drinking it.

So if you don’t want to add rock sugar, it’s best to buy brown sugar.

When I need to add sugar to my health tea, I always buy the healthy brown sugar, and rarely use brown sugar. Although many people think that drinking brown sugar water occasionally is good, it is not suitable for women, people with weak spleen and stomach, children, and people with diabetes, because eating too much brown sugar can easily cause phlegm.

Two,Tea recipe to warm the stomach and drive away the cold

Ginger and Tangerine Peel Black Tea

Recipe:Take 15-20 grams of ginger (about 3 slices, as thick as a finger), add half a year old Xinhui dried tangerine peel (usually one quarter), and a small amount of black tea, and boil water together.

effect：This tea recipe uses ginger to warm the middle and dispel cold, tangerine peel to regulate qi and strengthen the spleen, and black tea to warm the stomach and nourish the mind. It is suitable for people with cold stomach and excessive stomach acid, as well as women with cold uterus and cold. It is also beneficial to drink it when you have food stagnation or loss of appetite.

Drinking Suggestions: It is usually recommended to drink it in the morning, but it can also be drunk at night due to special circumstances such as cold. When women have abdominal pain during menstruation, drinking it in the morning can help relieve the discomfort.

Precautions：：This tea recipe is suitable forPeople who often suffer from cold stomach and excessive stomach acid, women who often have a cold stomach, and people who have been exposed to cold wind and caught a cold outside.However, it is more suitable for children with cough and phlegm or mycoplasma infection, because tangerine peel has the effect of reducing phlegm. When purchasing Xinhui tangerine peel, you should choose those with natural color, pure aroma, and fresh taste without sour taste after soaking in water, and avoid inferior products with too dark color or strange fragrance.

Doctor Han Mingcheng recommended a similar tea recipe, with some improvements, so it is not so spicy. If you can tolerate the spiciness and have a minor cold, you can increase the amount of ginger, squeeze it into juice and mix it with water to drink. It has a certain effect on some minor colds, coughs, and fevers caused by cold.

This tea recipe can also be consumed when you have indigestion or loss of appetite.

However, because it contains ginger, it is recommended to drink it only in the morning. If you come back at night and find that you have caught a cold, have a cold stomach, or feel chilly, you can also drink it at night.

But if it is for daily health care, such as getting rid of stomach cold, getting rid of cold air in the body, or for stomach pain during menstruation, it is recommended to drink it in the morning and not drink it after the sun goes down.

Regarding this tea recipe, some mothers asked if children can drink it. If the child has a cough and a lot of phlegm recently, or has a mycoplasma infection during the conditioning period, this tea recipe would be more suitable than hawthorn malt apple water, because it contains tangerine peel, which is also very effective in reducing phlegm.

In clinical practice, we often recommend that parents boil Xinhui dried tangerine peel directly in water and give it to children who are coughing as drinking water for the day.

There are also mothers asking how to select from the many fake Xinhui dried tangerine peels.

A few points to remember:

Don’t choose ones that are too dark in color or have a weird aroma;

After soaking, taste the water and make sure it tastes fresh and not sour.

The color of dried tangerine peel should be close to the natural color of orange peel, neither too dark nor too yellow. Only the color close to the dried orange peel at home or the freshly peeled orange peel is good tangerine peel.

If it looks too beautiful and has a particularly bright gloss, it is probably smoked with sulfuric acid. Next time I buy new tangerine peel, I can take a photo for you to compare, because the price of tangerine peel varies greatly now, and it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake. Many of the tangerine peels on the market are said to be Xinhui tangerine peels, but they are actually fakes.

If you are interested later, I can share with you in detail how to identify the quality of tangerine peel.

Good tangerine peel has a color close to its natural color. The water soaked with it has a fresh tangerine fragrance without any sour taste. Moreover, the tangerine peel can be brewed multiple times and the taste will only become more and more refreshing without becoming astringent.

If the tangerine peel has been smoked with sulfur or processed by special means, after soaking it several times, the taste will be particularly bitter or slightly sour.

There are also mothers who say that the dried tangerine peel is prone to mold when they cook it themselves. The preservation of dried tangerine peel is indeed very important because it must be protected from moisture and is particularly prone to mold.

Especially in the south, during the return of the south wind, it may get moldy if you are not careful. If you want to preserve the tangerine peel for ten or fifteen years, it will easily get moldy if there is no good storage place, or if you don’t take it out to dry frequently or take good care of it.

Three,Gentle stomach-nourishing tea recipe

Black Tea

introduce: Black tea, such as Anhua black tea, is made through fermentation and brewing. It has a mild nature and will not hurt the spleen and stomach even if you drink it on an empty stomach.

effect: Suitable for women, frequent drinkers, people with poor gastrointestinal function, patients with enteritis and people with high blood lipids. It helps regulate intestinal flora, improve gastrointestinal health, and is also beneficial for people with "three highs".

Drinking Suggestions: Can be consumed daily, especially suitable for those who want to regulate their gastrointestinal tract through tea drinking.

Precautions：: Black tea is suitable for most people, but people with renal insufficiency should drink it in moderation.

Anhua black tea is made by fermenting ordinary tea leaves. After fermentation, this tea is not too harmful to the stomach and spleen when drunk on an empty stomach, and its nature is relatively mild.

For women, men who drink frequently, have gastrointestinal problems, and people with enteritis, they can soak or boil black tea in water and drink it.

People with high blood lipids can also drink black tea on a daily basis.

Some herdsmen in the north often boil water with black tea and beef and mutton to treat gastrointestinal diseases. There is a saying that "tea can cure any disease" that is popular among them.

Therefore, if your intestinal flora is not very good, you have intestinal diseases, and you want to improve your gastrointestinal condition by drinking tea, black tea is a good choice.

For women and some people with "three highs", black tea is also a better tea. It can be said that among all teas, black tea is relatively suitable for all people and is more universal than Pu'er.

4. Heat-clearing and digestion-promoting tea recipe

White Tea

effect: White tea has the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying, and beautifying the skin. It is suitable for children and adults with severe dampness and heat.

Drinking Suggestions: High-quality white tea is more expensive, so you can choose cost-effective varieties for daily use.

Precautions：: Children with severe dampness and heat can eat fermented foods appropriately, such as cooked Pu'er, to clear away dampness and heat.

Pu'er is divided into raw Pu'er and cooked Pu'er. Raw Pu'er is cold and not suitable for women and people with weak spleen and stomach.

Ripe Pu'er is relatively mild and has certain effects of strengthening the spleen and protecting the gastrointestinal tract.

Many people do not know much about the techniques of tea identification, and it is difficult for them to distinguish the authenticity of raw Pu'er tea and cooked Pu'er tea.

If you are afraid of buying tea that is not suitable for you, you can give priority to black tea. This is one of the reasons why China's Anhua black tea sells particularly well all over the world.

Question:After drinking black tea, I felt very comfortable after drinking it. Black tea is warm in nature, which is different from the warmth of red tea?

answer:Black tea can easily make people feel hot, while dark tea sinks downwards and can help regulate the qi in the middle burner. It can be drunk by people suffering from abdominal bloating, diarrhea, and constipation.

Question:What kind of tea is suitable for children with more dampness and heat, and some adults with more dampness and heat in their constitutions?

answer:You can try white tea, which I think has the effect of clearing away heat and beautifying the skin. Good white tea is very expensive, such as Baihao Yinzhen, which costs several thousand yuan per catty or even more. I don’t know if there is any hype, but good white tea does cost thousands of yuan per catty.

If you want to be more economical, I recommend black tea. For children with severe dampness and heat, it is recommended to eat fermented food for a period of time, such as cooked Pu'er, which helps to clear dampness and heat. People who like to drink tea on a daily basis are also recommended to drink black tea.

Question:Can people who have poor sleep drink tea?

At present, there is no particularly clear research to show that tea can excite the brain nerves and affect sleep. What may really affect sleep is the higher content of theanine in milk tea. For common sleep disorders, it is still necessary to distinguish the causes of poor sleep, which may not be closely related to tea.

However, if the tea is boiled to a thick consistency like the tea soup made in the Northern Song Dynasty, the theanine content is too high, which may affect nerves and sleep quality. As we usually use a health pot, putting one to three grams of tea leaves in the water, it rarely affects a person's sleep.

But it does vary from person to person. Some people cannot sleep that night after drinking a little tea or milk tea. On the one hand, it may be because the theanine content in milk tea is too high. On the other hand, it may be because they are allergic to theanine.

For people who are allergic to theanine, it is recommended not to drink tea after the afternoon. If you want to drink tea, it is better to drink it in the morning and not drink it after 2 pm. Drinking tea occasionally has a good maintenance effect on intestinal flora and spleen and stomach.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, tea leaves, especially the tip of the buds, have a stronger growth potential. Strong tea is more likely to cause insomnia, but soft tea generally does not affect sleep, unless the person has weak kidney qi.

For people who are prone to insomnia and want to drink tea, it is recommended not to drink it. If you must drink it, you can add something that can calm the nerves together, such as Chinese jujube seeds, Schisandra chinensis, Psoralea corylifolia, etc. These have the effects of calming the nerves, replenishing kidney qi, and astringing kidney qi.

The price of Chinese jujube kernels is relatively expensive now, but just putting a little bit when making tea is enough, and the cost will not be very high.

Because many of us have not developed the habit of drinking tea every day, the tea recipes shared today are recommended for daily conditioning and maintenance of the spleen and stomach. You don’t need to drink it every day, three to four times a week is enough.

These tea recipes do have high requirements for ingredients. For example, the yellow rock sugar must be pure, the tangerine peel must be real, and the black tea must be good.

You can choose apple malt hawthorn water for daily drinking twice a week. There is no fake malt, apples are not fake, and hawthorn is also easy to buy. However, hawthorn is cold in nature. For children with weak spleen and stomach, if they drink this tea recipe for indigestion, it should not exceed three days. Drinking it once a week is very good.

Summary: The tea recipe has high requirements on ingredients. You can choose apple malt and hawthorn water. Children with weak spleen and stomach should pay attention to the duration and frequency of drinking this tea recipe.