Xiaobian has always liked to drink honey grapefruit tea, but the honey grapefruit tea bought on the market has drunk too much, and the throat feels that there is phlegm stuck. Because it is so sweet, and then a little greasy, it is easy to produce phlegm. Let's look at the ingredient list and we'll see.
If you do not use sweeteners, gums, acidulants, honey grapefruit tea made of pure natural ingredients, do not make it too sweet, there will be no drawbacks of phlegm.
Grapefruit peel, grapefruit, rock sugar, honey, are all ingredients of honey grapefruit tea.
Among them, yuzu, rock sugar and honey are lung-moisturizing, sweet acidification yin, is raw and moist, but if only they are, drink too much will produce phlegm.
The addition of spicy grapefruit peels plays a balancing role. Generally, we only use the outermost layer of yellow, oil-filled skin, which is spicy and has the effect of rational gasifying phlegm. And that layer of cotton wool white urn, is bitter, has no effect of sputum dispersion, is to be removed.
Next, let's look at the preparation of honey grapefruit tea -
Honey grapefruit tea DIY, more sweet and refreshing than the one bought on the market, moisturizing the lungs and dissolving phlegm are all done!
Honey grapefruit tea made by yourself is still sour and sweet overall, but there is no sweet feeling at all, and there are some spicy and bitter tastes, and the spice can be rationalized without the problem of phlegm, and even can dissolve phlegm; bitter and cool, it can clear the fire, and there is no risk of asplenic cold with the harmony of honey and rock sugar.
Cure phlegm cough: use luan, pitting, cutting, soaking wine in a sand bottle, sealing overnight, boiling, honey mixing well, always swallowing.
- Compendium of Materia Medica
The earliest prototype of honey grapefruit tea in ancient texts may have come from the Compendium of Materia Medica. The ancient method mainly uses grapefruit peel, because the purpose is to treat coughs with phlegm, so-called to take its power to disperse sputum. Then the grapefruit peel is soaked in rice wine for one night, and the wine is spicy and upward, which can not only increase the strength of its spice dispersion, but also carry the medicinal effect up and between the throat. Then cooked, most of the alcohol will volatilize, mixed with honey, honey is used to moisten the lungs, directly scoop a spoon in the mouth to swallow, than soaking water to drink the effect is much better.
It should be noted that the homemade honey grapefruit tea is filled and sealed, put in the refrigerator, and the shelf life is about one month. Therefore, it is better to eat it as soon as possible.