Scallion and Ginger Tea

[Composition] 5g scallion stalk, 25g ginger, 15g black tea.

[Preparation] Cut the scallion stalk into small sections and slice the ginger into shreds. Place all three ingredients into an earthenware pot, add water, decoct to make a tea substitute for drinking. One dose per day.

[Efficacy] Scallion stalk can induce sweating, promote yang, detoxify, improve blood circulation, stimulate perspiration, and promote digestive fluid secretion. It is mainly used for headaches, cold abdominal pain, constipation/dysuria, and dysentery. Suitable for colds presenting with headache, fever, chills, and absence of sweat. Additionally, applying crushed scallion stalk juice to the nose and throat can effectively prevent colds.

Ginger can release the exterior, dispel cold, stop vomiting, and resolve phlegm. Modern pharmacological studies show that ginger extract promotes blood circulation and metabolism, enhances immunity, and has antibacterial and antiviral effects. Effective for wind-cold colds with symptoms like aversion to cold, abdominal pain, low-grade fever, limb soreness, stuffy nose with clear discharge, vomiting, and phlegmy cough.

Three Flowers Herbal Tea

[Composition] 15g honeysuckle flowers, 10g chrysanthemum flowers, 3g jasmine flowers.

[Preparation] Place honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, and jasmine flowers in a teacup, steep with boiling water for 10-15 minutes, and drink as a tea substitute.

[Efficacy] Chrysanthemum can dispel wind and clear heat, calm the liver and brighten the eyes. Used for wind-heat colds, headache, dizziness, red swollen painful eyes, boils, and sores.

Jasmine can regulate qi, relieve depression, calm the mind, and harmonize the middle. Mainly used for dizziness, headache, abdominal pain with diarrhea, etc.

Cold-Relief Herbal Tea

[Composition] 30g Qianghuo (Notopterygium root), 12g Baizhi (Angelica dahurica), 15g Huangqin (Scutellaria root).

[Preparation] Steep the above three herbs with boiling water. One dose per day.

[Efficacy] Qianghuo has the functions of dispersing cold, expelling wind, removing dampness, and relieving pain. Modern medical research indicates that Qianghuo extract can directly kill influenza virus in mouse lungs and enhance lung resistance to influenza virus infection. Treats fever, chills, and headache from external wind-cold. Baizhi dispels wind-dampness, unblocks orifices, promotes pus discharge, generates flesh, and relieves pain. Can be used for wind-cold cold headache, toothache, sinusitis, etc.

Flu Tea

[Composition] 30g Banlangen (Isatis root), 30g Guanzhong (Cyrtomium fortunei), 15g Gancao (Licorice root).

[Preparation] Steep the above three herbs with boiling water for 10 minutes. One dose per day.

[Efficacy] Banlangen clears heat and cools blood. Suitable for warm disease fever, wind-heat cold, sore throat, as well as epidemic encephalitis B, hepatitis, mumps, etc.

Guanzhong has heat-clearing, detoxifying, and hemostatic effects. It is effective against intense heat-toxin pathogens and also has the function of dispersing wind-heat. Can be used for wind-heat colds and preventing influenza.