1. Ginger Black Tea

Method: Black tea 5 grams, ginger powder 2 grams, brown sugar to taste. Put the black tea and ginger powder together into a cup, brew with water above 90°C; add brown sugar when slightly warm and drink.

Efficacy: Black tea is sweet and warm, nourishing the body's阳气 (yang energy); black tea is rich in protein and sugar, generating heat and warming the abdomen, enhancing the body's ability to resist cold. People with cold hands and feet or stomach cold symptoms, especially women, should drink more in winter. Black tea paired with ginger enhances the effect of warming the interior and dispelling cold. Additionally, as appetite increases in winter, drinking black tea can also aid digestion and reduce greasiness.

2. Milk Black Tea

Method: Black tea 3 grams, milk 100 grams, salt 2 grams. Put the black tea into a pot, add water and decoct for 5 minutes. Filter out the tea leaves. In another pot, heat the milk. After the milk boils, add the tea liquid and salt, then stir.

Efficacy: Drinking this once every morning can effectively replenish qi and blood, strengthening the body.

3. Brown Sugar Ginger Tea

Method: Brown sugar, golden thread dates, ginger. Place the brown sugar, pitted golden thread dates, and ginger slices into a stewing pot; add an appropriate amount of clean water (mineral water is best); cover with a lid and stew for half an hour.

Efficacy: Brown sugar has the effects of nourishing and activating blood. Added to ginger soup, it can improve superficial circulation and treat common colds. It is important to note that ginger and brown sugar water is only suitable for wind-cold type colds or stomach cold after exposure to rain, and should not be used for summer-heat colds or wind-heat colds.

4. Longan and Red Date Tea

Method: Longan meat 40 grams, red dates 10 pieces. Add all ingredients to 3000 ml of clean water and boil for 30 minutes.

Efficacy: Longan is warm in nature and sweet in taste, beneficial for supplementing the heart and spleen, and boosting qi and blood; red dates can tonify the middle warmer, nourish blood, and promote fluid production. This tea is quite suitable for friends who tend to have cold hands and feet in winter. However, it is not suitable if you have cold symptoms, sore throat, dry mouth and tongue, or excessive internal heat.

5. Astragalus Black Tea

Method: Astragalus 15 grams, black tea 3 grams. Put the astragalus into a pot, add an appropriate amount of clean water and boil for about 15 minutes; then add the black tea and boil together with the astragalus for about 5 minutes, then the tea soup can be taken for drinking.

Efficacy: Astragalus has the effects of supplementing qi and yang, harmonizing the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and promoting fluid production, etc. It can tonify qi and strengthen the stomach, improving conditions of physical weakness. Black tea has the effects of supplementing qi and yang, generating heat and warming the abdomen, etc. Drinking it for health preservation in winter can enhance the body's ability to resist cold.