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13 Winter Warm-Up Teas to Improve Cold Hands and Feet

Tea News · Sep 02, 2025

In winter, as temperatures drop, many people feel afraid of the cold and experience cold hands and feet. How to regulate cold hands and feet? What kind of tea can improve cold hands and feet? Below are 13 recommended warm-up teas that can help improve cold hands and feet.

 


 

1. Brown Sugar, Goji Berry, Old Ginger Tea

Prepare one piece of old ginger, 50g goji berries, 50g brown sugar, and 500g water. Wash the old ginger and goji berries, put all ingredients into a pot, and boil over medium heat for about 15 minutes. Brown sugar is warm in nature, sweet in taste, enters the spleen meridian, and has the effects of replenishing Qi and blood, warming the spleen and stomach, and promoting blood circulation to remove stasis. Old ginger (ginger mother) has a pungent taste and can nourish blood and activate collaterals.

2. Rose Tea

Rose tea has significant efficacy and functions; it is warm in nature and has obvious effects in regulating Qi to relieve depression, promoting blood circulation to remove stasis, and regulating menstruation to relieve pain. It warms and nourishes the heart and liver blood vessels and舒缓体内郁气 (soothes stagnant energy in the body). Regular drinking of rose tea can improve blood circulation, so it works very well for friends who are afraid of the cold in winter.

3. Chinese Rose Tea

Place Chinese rose flowers and a tea bag into a porcelain cup. Pour 300ml of boiled water into the cup, cover the cup and let it steep for about two minutes before drinking. You can drink it for several consecutive days as a course of treatment. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that Chinese rose is sweet in taste, warm in nature, enters the liver meridian, and has the effects of activating blood to regulate menstruation and reducing swelling and detoxification. Due to its obvious effects in removing stasis, promoting Qi, and relieving pain, it is often used to treat menstrual disorders and dysmenorrhea.

4. Goji Berry Black Tea

People with Yang deficiency who fear cold can appropriately drink black tea instead of green tea, because green tea has the effect of clearing heat and reducing fire. To increase the "tonifying Yang" effect, you can add goji berries, red dates, etc., to black tea.

5. Red Date Longan Tea

First, peel and remove the seeds from the red dates and longans separately. Then brew with hot water (about 1 pot) for 8-10 minutes. Finally, add granulated sugar. If adding honey, the water temperature for brewing the red date tea should not exceed 60 degrees Celsius, otherwise it will destroy the nutritional components of the honey. Red Date Longan Tea can replenish women's blood and Qi, promoting blood circulation, warmth, and beauty effects. It is recommended to drink it long-term for more pronounced effects.

6. Ginger and Red Date Tea

Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that ginger has the effects of dispelling wind and cold, nourishing the stomach, and stopping vomiting. It is particularly effective in regulating middle-aged and elderly people with weaker Yang energy and women with uterine cold who fear cold. Ginger and Red Date Tea is a recommended hot drink for winter health preservation, very suitable for friends with spleen and stomach deficiency-cold and fear of cold. Every day, slice an appropriate amount of ginger and red dates, boil them, let them cool slightly, add some honey, and drink a cup. This can effectively drive away cold, moisten dryness, and resist the severe winter.

7. Rose Pu-erh Tea

Put Pu-erh tea into a teacup, pour in boiling water, brew it and then discard the first brew; add roses, pour in boiling water to brew, wait for the water temperature to cool slightly, add an appropriate amount of honey, mix well and drink. Rose has many efficacy and effects. Brewing it with Pu-erh tea not only makes it fragrant and pleasant but also relieves symptoms of chest tightness and irritability. It has good effects on alleviating tension and depression. In addition, drinking Pu-erh tea in winter for health preservation also has a stomach-warming effect.

8. Saffron Tea

Each time, take 5-8 strands and brew with 3-4 cups of water. Drink for three days and stop for one day, or use a small amount every other day. Saffron is sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, and归心、肝经 (returns to the heart and liver meridians). It can activate blood, cool blood, and detoxify. Modern medicine believes that saffron has significant effects in improving myocardial blood and oxygen supply and anti-fatigue. It can be used to prevent and treat menstrual disorders, blood deficiency and body weakness, general pain, injuries from falls, neural weakness, and other diseases.

9. Peony Tea

Some women often feel cold hands and feet, actually because their blood circulation is not smooth. Therefore, drinking Peony Tea is advocated to promote blood circulation and discharge stagnant blood accumulated everywhere in the body. The method is very simple: boil 15g of wild, sun-dried peony root with 400ml of water. When only half remains, add ginger, dates, and honey.

10. Red Date and Goji Berry Tea

First, remove the pits from the red dates and wash them and the goji berries separately, soaking them briefly; put the soaked red dates and goji berries into a blender, add an appropriate amount of water, and blend into a mixed juice; filter out the fruit pulp residue with a strainer; heat the red date and goji berry juice with rock sugar until boiling, and it's ready to drink.

11. Glutinous Rice Black Tea

50g glutinous rice, 5g black tea. Wash the glutinous rice and put it into a pot; add an appropriate amount of water and cook; add black tea to the cooked glutinous rice and it is ready to drink. It can replenish Qi and blood, improving symptoms of physical weakness and insufficient Qi and blood.

12. Milk Black Tea

3g black tea, 100g milk, 2g salt. Put the black tea into a pot, add water and decoct for 5 minutes; filter out the tea leaves, use another pot to boil the milk; after the milk boils, add the tea juice, add salt and stir. Drink once every morning to effectively replenish Qi and blood and strengthen the body.

13. Osmanthus Tea

Put dried osmanthus flowers and tea leaves into a cup in a ratio of 1:2, then brew with boiling water for six minutes. This can be consumed directly. It is best to drink one cup each morning and evening.

Osmanthus is not only fragrant but also has great medicinal value. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that osmanthus is warm in nature. After consumption, it has the effects of nourishing and warming the stomach. It is very effective for treating cough, poor appetite, hemorrhoids, stomachache, etc. In addition, this Osmanthus Tea can also effectively treat hypertension.

The above are the recommended warm-up teas that can improve cold hands and feet. Friends who are afraid of the cold and often have cold hands and feet can brew more of the teas recommended above. It will play a very good role in improving cold hands and feet.

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