Category 1: Expelling Surface Heat
Representative Tea: Peppermint Flower Tea
If you often feel dry mouth, throat, headache, and red eyes after using a fan or air conditioner, you may have surface heat-toxin symptoms. This is the early stage of heat toxin invasion. You can use a specially prepared peppermint flower tea to remove dryness and heat. Take 3g of fresh mint leaves, 5g of chrysanthemum, and 5g of bupleurum, put them into a teapot, and brew with boiling water for 10 minutes before drinking. It can effectively improve dry mouth and throat conditions, while promoting bowel movement and reducing abdominal fat.
Category 2: Expelling Internal Heat
Representative Tea: Herbal Bitter Tea
If you notice a thick yellow coating on your tongue, often feel chest tightness, feverish, extremely thirsty, and irritable, then heat toxin has invaded your body internally. You may also experience dry stool, facial acne, and night sweats. To expel internal heat toxin, choose Herbal Bitter Tea. Soak 5g of trichosanthes root in boiling water for 10 minutes, then use that water to boil 3g each of licorice and gentian root. Simmer on low heat for 30 minutes, filter out the herbal residue, and drink the tea after it has cooled. This bitter tea can quickly expel internal heat toxin, restore gastrointestinal and metabolic functions, promote blood circulation, and accelerate fat metabolism.
Category 3: Expelling Blood Heat
Representative Tea: Double Flower Cool Tea
If heat toxin has entered your blood, you may experience frequent heat pimples all over the body, enlarged pores, excessive sweating, weak stomach and intestines, and a constant feeling of heat. At this stage, you may crave cold drinks and prefer staying in air-conditioned rooms, which slows blood flow and worsens the heat toxin condition, leading to bloating and obesity. You can boil 4g each of moutan bark and red peony root in a pot for 20 minutes, add a little rock sugar for taste, and drink it after cooling. This tea can accelerate blood circulation, purify blood heat toxin, help restore metabolism and circulation, and reduce bloating.