Herbal

The weather is getting colder; autumn is leaving and winter is about to arrive. Winter is dry and can easily cause heatiness. To avoid this, please drink more tea. The greatest function of tea is to reduce heatiness and detoxify the body. Tea is essentially a medicine, all herbal books record the properties, taste, and effects of tea. All these texts consider tea to be cold in nature and bitter in taste. According to Lu Yu's The Classic of Tea, "the use of tea has an extremely cold taste." In the Newly Revised Materia Medica - Section on Wood, it states, "Tea, bitter tea, is sweet and bitter in taste, slightly cold and non-toxic." Chen Cangqi's Supplement to the Materia Medica says, "Tea is bitter and cold, breaking hot qi." Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica: "Tea is bitter and cold, best able to reduce fire." The "extremely cold taste" in The Classic of Tea actually refers to its "extremely cold nature." Ranking of Teas for Reducing Heatiness 1. Unfermented Green Tea: Being the coldest in nature, when the body has excessive heat, based on the principle of generating and overcoming, green tea is best at reducing heat. Green tea…