Facing the scorching sun and sultry air outdoors, heatstroke is inevitable. Additionally, many people nowadays suffer from conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar.

In the summer, boiling a pot of water and brewing a cup of tea not only helps beat the heat but also aids in digestion. Why not give it a try?

1. Flower Tea

Longjing Chrysanthemum Tea: Longjing tea has the effect of soothing emotions, while chrysanthemum has the effects of dispelling wind, reducing heat, and detoxifying. The combination of the two can help drive away external summer heat, disperse internal dryness, and calm the irritability caused by hot weather. Kuding Tea: Kuding tea is a commonly used natural health drink in places like Pu'er and Lincang. It has a fragrant and bitter taste, with a mellow flavor and a mild aftertaste. It has the effects of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, improving eyesight, and quenching thirst.

Black tea is rich in nutrients, cools the body, strengthens the spleen, and benefits the stomach, ensuring normal work and good health. In summer, the digestive function weakens, resistance decreases, bacteria in food multiply easily, and food spoils quickly, leading to intestinal diseases such as diarrhea, acute enteritis, and acute dysentery. Since ancient times, there has been a folk remedy in Anhua for treating gastroenteritis: aged Anhua black tea.

3. White Tea

White tea not only beautifies but also promotes health. It has a fresh and fragrant aroma, a clear yellow-green liquor, a light and sweet taste, and is rich in amino acids. It has the effects of reducing fever, relieving summer heat, and detoxifying.

Zhuyeqing Tea: One of China's famous teas, it belongs to the green tea category. Zhuyeqing was recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" as an excellent product for relieving summer heat and dispelling dampness. This tea has a bright yellow-green liquor, a fresh and fragrant taste, and a tender and mellow flavor with a chestnut aroma. It has the effects of quenching thirst, clearing heat, detoxifying, and resolving phlegm.

Songluo Tea: This tea is a medicinal tea. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Songluo tea from Huizhou specializes in aiding digestion." Long-term consumption of this tea can treat more than ten diseases, including constipation, turbid urine, dysentery, eye diseases, and colds. Folk summaries of Songluo tea highlight its "three increases, three resistances, three reductions, and three lowers." The three increases refer to increased energy, intelligence, and strength; the three resistances are anti-aging, anti-radiation, and anti-radioactivity; the three reductions are anti-inflammatory, disinfectant, and deodorizing; and the three lowers are lowering blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar.

Drinking Songluo tea in summer can prevent many ailments. Every morning or after an afternoon nap, take three grams of Songluo tea and place it in a glass cup, steeping it with 90-degree hot water. A cup of rich green tea full of spring flavor appears before your eyes, offering health benefits as you savor it.

Black tea can quench thirst and relieve summer heat because the polyphenols, sugars, amino acids, and pectin in the tea react with saliva, stimulating its secretion and making the mouth feel moist and cool. At the same time, caffeine regulates the hypothalamus's temperature center, balancing body temperature. It also stimulates the kidneys to promote the excretion of heat and waste, maintaining physiological balance.

Drinking black tea in summer also has various antibacterial effects and can prevent colds. The flavonoids in black tea can kill harmful bacteria in food and deactivate flu viruses. In addition to preventing colds, gargling with black tea can relieve sore throats caused by colds.