Yesterday it was ambushed, and it has entered the hottest period of the year. Today I will talk about herbal tea, traditional health herbal tea.
Three volt days, drink a bowl of herbal tea, refreshing and healthy!
Drinking a bottle (cup) of herbal tea has become an indispensable element of our modern daily life, especially in the hot summer. In fact, herbal tea was originally popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong, tea drinks containing traditional Chinese medicine, that is, traditional health tea, which is a necessity for their daily life.
Guangdong Province is an important inheritance of traditional Lingnan culture in China, with a unique style in terms of language, customs and living habits. Most parts of Guangdong Province have a subtropical and tropical climate, with hot and humid climates for many times of the year.
Guangdong herbal tea is the Lingnan people according to the local climate and water and soil characteristics, in the process of long-term prevention of diseases and health care, guided by the traditional Chinese medicine health theory, to medicinal cold or can digest the internal heat of the Chinese herbal medicine, developed a variety of heat and detoxification, thirst quenching, fire and dehumidification and other effects of health tea, accompanied by people's daily life tea beverages, that is, the famous Lingnan herbal tea, such as "Wang Laoji" or "Jiaduobao", is developed from a famous Lingnan herbal tea.
In the tea shops in the streets and alleys of Guangdong, you can see all kinds of herbal teas everywhere, which are boiled into herbal teas of varying prices according to the amount and value of the medicinal materials used in the formula. Daily drinking herbal tea has become an important form of health care that the people are accustomed to, and herbal tea, as a unique regional and traditional Chinese medicine culture, has been recognized by the state, and was included in the first batch of national "intangible cultural heritage" as early as 2006.
As we all know, China is the hometown of tea and the birthplace of medicinal tea. According to China's first Chinese medicine monograph "Shennong Materia Medica" as early as the Spring and Autumn Warring States period of more than 2,000 years, "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons every day, and got tea to solve it", also known as, "tea tastes bitter, drinking makes people think, less lying down, light body, clear eyes". It can be seen that our people have long used tea to cure diseases and health care.
Our ancestor Shennong not only invented farming, fishing and hunting, traditional Chinese medicine and other technologies, but is also said to be the first to discover the therapeutic and health care value of tea. In the process of collecting plants, Shennong must try it himself to identify its taste and clarify its effect. Once, after eating a poisonous plant, he felt dizzy, dry and numb, and weak, so he lay down under a tree to rest. At this time, a gust of wind blew through the tree, and many green leaves fell on the tree, shennong grabbed a few leaves with his hand, put them in his mouth and chewed them, feeling that although the taste of this leaf was bitter, but the root of the tongue was strong, the numbness gradually disappeared, and the mind was clear. So I collected this leaf and went home to study, and found that it did have a detoxification effect, so I beckoned the people to use this leaf. The people drank this leaf water, and gradually found that this leaf has the effect of quenching thirst, stopping diarrhea, detoxifying, refreshing, etc., and later named this tree a tea tree, and the leaves on it are tea leaves.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, there was the term "tea medicine". Tea Saint Lu Yu (Tang, Hubei Tianmen), in his monograph, and also China's first monograph on tea" said, "Tea is to drink, originate from the Shennong clan, smell in Lu Zhougong." Lu Yu has a lifelong tea lover, proficient in tea ceremony, is a disseminator of tea culture, known as "tea fairy" and "tea saint". It has promoted the development of Chinese tea culture.
Sun Simiao, a great physician of the Tang Dynasty, recorded more than ten medicinal tea recipes in his monographs such as "Preparing for Emergencies and Thousand Golden Formulas" and "Thousand Golden Wing Fangs".
The Song Dynasty scholar Lin Hong said in his book "Mountain Family Qing Confession", "Tea, that is, medicine also". It can be seen that tea, that is, medicine, has long been included in medical monographs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tea, bitter, sweet, cool, into the heart, lungs, stomach meridians, has the effect of clearing heat and vitality. Therefore, the tea itself can also be called herbal tea, so herbal tea was first used as a raw material for tea. Later, in order to enhance or increase the other effects of tea, some other Chinese medicines were added to the tea leaves, most of which were added to the chinese medicines with the effects of dispelling dampness, dissolving the table, and relieving the heat.
Herbal tea was widely used after the Song and Yuan dynasties. In the Song Dynasty's official compilation of the Fang Shu "Taiping Shenghui Fang", it is contained, "Mint tea, cure typhoid fever nasal congestion headache irritability." Another example is the Baby Tea for the Royal Family to drink in the Yuan Dynasty, "Lan Paste Tea", "Shortening Tea" and other ways of frying with ghee and tea are not only in the court, but also very popular outside the court.
Later, although many herbal teas have the name of tea, they are actually composed of some Chinese herbal medicines. With the continuous extension of the concept of herbal tea, all drinks and even foods that can play a role in clearing heat and relieving heat, dispelling dampness and stagnation, quenching thirst, refreshing the mind, etc., and even food, are collectively referred to as herbal tea.
Now, herbal tea is not only popular in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Fujian and other places, but also has become a daily health care necessities for our people nationwide. There is a folk saying that "always drink herbal tea, better than to find a doctor".
Sour plum soup
Attached: Three volt days to cool off the essential herbal tea, sour plum soup
Raw materials: ume, raw hawthorn, orange peel each appropriate amount, licorice, osmanthus flower each a little, rock sugar appropriate amount (diabetics do not add).
Directions: Wash the ume, raw hawthorn, tangerine peel, osmanthus and licorice separately, add water to soak for half an hour, then boil in a casserole dish over high heat and change to low heat for another 30 to 40 minutes, add rock sugar and turn off the heat. Pour out, filter out the residue, let cool and drink.
Effect: It can quench thirst, appetize and cool off.