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It's hot. What kind of herbal tea tastes good?

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The summer heat consumes gas and damages body fluids, so the medicinal materials used in herbal tea have the effects of clearing away heat and benefiting qi, nourishing yin and suppressing yang. Some of these Chinese herbal medicines can be used as medicine and food, while others can only be used as medicine. Even medicinal materials that can be used as food have the same four flavors of traditional Chinese medicine. For example, honeysuckle, rose, kudingcha, chrysanthemum, Eupatorium, Ophiopogon japonicus and bamboo leaves, which are often used by people, taste mostly sweet and cold. After soaking, more than half of the active ingredients will be dissolved in water. Although the efficacy is not as strong as that of decoction, if it is drunk in large quantities, it will clear away heat and relieve summer heat, nourish yin and subdue yang, and at the same time, it will also damage the yang divergence of human viscera. Therefore, herbal tea is also a kind of medicine, which can be used to relieve summer heat at an appropriate time, but it should be drunk moderately.