What are the Chinese medicines for drinking in water?

There are many common Chinese medicines. When choosing Chinese medicine, you must first understand it so that you will know how to use it. Different Chinese medicines have different effects on the body. Therefore, when using Chinese medicine, you cannot do it blindly. What are the Chinese medicines that can be soaked in water? Many people are not clear about this. The following is a detailed introduction so that you can have some understanding.

Chinese medicine for drinking in water:

Mint: This Chinese medicine has therapeutic and preventive effects on headaches, red eyes, and sore throat caused by summer heat. Mint comes in two types: dry and fresh. Fresh is better. It can be brewed alone or added to tea.

Honeysuckle: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It is an ancient holy medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying. Modern medical research has confirmed that honeysuckle has a strong antibacterial effect and is widely used in treating wind-heat colds, sore throats, oral erosions and red eyes, as well as surgical skin sores, erysipelas and other diseases. In the hot summer, honeysuckle can clear away heat, reduce temperature, and relieve summer heat. It also has a good effect on preventing summer children's prickly heat, carbuncle and other diseases. It can be taken alone or added to tea.

Chrysanthemum: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the Chinese medicine chrysanthemum is pungent, sweet, bitter, and slightly cold in nature, and has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, detoxifying, clearing the liver and improving eyesight. Modern pharmacological research has confirmed that chrysanthemum has obvious antipyretic and blood pressure lowering effects, and can treat colds, headaches, and red and swollen eyes caused by liver fire. Using chrysanthemum in summer can not only relieve heat, but also treat dizziness, fainting and heatstroke. It has therapeutic and preventive effects on headaches, red eyes, sores, boils, etc. caused by summer heat. The three varieties of white chrysanthemum, yellow chrysanthemum and wild chrysanthemum can be taken alone or added to tea.

Panax notoginseng flower: cool in nature and sweet in taste, it has the effects of clearing heat, calming the liver and lowering blood pressure. Used for the treatment of hypertension, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, and acute pharyngitis. Lowers blood pressure, lowers blood lipids, loses weight, promotes salivation and quenches thirst, refreshes the mind and replenishes energy. It is not recommended to consume Panax notoginseng flower together with other scented teas, because Panax notoginseng flower works best when consumed alone.

American ginseng: It has therapeutic and preventive effects on thirst, irritability, sweating and weakness in the limbs caused by summer heat. It can be taken alone or taken orally, or added to tea leaves.

Ophiopogon japonicus: It has therapeutic and preventive effects on dry mouth and cough caused by summer heat. It can be taken alone or added to tea.

Scrophularia: It has therapeutic and preventive effects on thirst and irritability caused by summer heat, and has a certain antihypertensive effect on high blood pressure. It can be decocted and then taken orally.

After understanding the Chinese medicines that can be soaked in water, you can choose the above medicines when using them. However, you should be careful not to drink too much each time. Drinking too much will have some effects on the body. This should be paid attention to when drinking Chinese medicine water.