Chinese Herbal Tea Recipes
It is very important to stress that we should not try to invent the Chinese herbal tea recipes ourselves. These herbal tea recipes are not the prepacked nourishing soup mix that you can buy in Chinese grocery stores. It is always wise to let the Chinese herbalists prescribe the herbal medicine. Only they could provide correct instructions and doses to meet our needs. Below is a list of a few recipes and how they are pronounced in Chinese. Any knowledgeable Chinese herbalist should know which formula is right for you and be able to make the formula as well. Formula and IngredientsAI FU-NUAN-GONG-WAN Indications: Yang deficiency, lengthened menstrual cycle, abdominal pain, weak and / or aching lower back Ingredients: Ai-Ye (Folium Artemisiae Argi) 90g Bai-shao-yao (Radix Paeoniae Alba) 90 g Chuan-xiong (Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong) 90g Dang-gui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis) 90g Huang-qi (Radix Astragali Seu Hedysari) 90g Ron-gui (Cortex Cinnamomi) 15g Shui-di-huang (Radix Rehmanniae Praeparatae) 30g Wu-zhu-yu (Fructus Euodiae) 90g Xiang-fu (Rhizoma Cyperi) 180g Xu-Duan (Radix Dipsaci) 45g
Instructions: Grind into powder to make tablets and take 9g of tablets twice a day.
BAO-HE-WAN Indications: Distension or fullness in the abdomen, disharmony between the spleen and stomach, loss of appetite Ingredients: Ban-xia (Rhizoma Pinelliae) 10g Chen-pi (Pericarpium Papaveris) 10g Fu-ling (Poria) 10g Lai-fu-zi (Semen Raphani) 10g Lian qiao (Fructus Forsythiae) 10g Shan-zha (Fructus Crataegi) 10g Shen-qu (Massa Medicata Fermentata) 12g
Instructions: Decotion for single-day consumption
DA-BU-YIN-WAN Indications: Hyperactivity of fire caused by deficiency of Yin, night sweats, ringing in the years Ingredients: Gui-ban (Plastrum Testudinis) 180g Huang-bai (Cortex Phellodendri) 120g Shu-di-huang (Radix Rehmanniae Praeparatae) 180g Zhi-mu (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae) 120g
Instructions: Grind into powder and make tablets. Take six to nine tablets twice a day. If decotion is used, reduce dosages.
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