What are the benefits of bamboo shell tea

Bamboo shell tea is very effective in treating summer heat colds, damp heat in the large intestine and other diseases. It is also very good for relieving children's malnutrition and indigestion if it is combined with bamboo shell tea. Bamboo shell tea also contains Chinese herbal medicines such as chicken bone grass, honeysuckle, plantain, and safflower. Especially in the hot summer, drinking these teas appropriately is more beneficial to health.

1. Clear away heat and relieve summer heat

Tea is good at clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting dampness and eliminating stagnation. It is used to treat symptoms such as summer heat, colds, food stagnation, and damp heat in the large intestine.

2. Helps digestion

For a family of three or four, take two tea pills each time, add water and boil for 5 minutes before drinking. The soup tastes bitter but sweet, mellow and pleasant. You can also boil the water and use it for external washing to clear away heat and relieve itching. The main raw material of bamboo shell tea is calabash tea. Gourd tea is an herbaceous plant with leaves that look like an inverted gourd. The leaves are picked and dried to make tea, which is slightly bitter, astringent and cool in nature. It has the effects of clearing the lungs and relieving sore throat, clearing heat and dampness, eliminating stagnation and killing insects. It can treat sore throat, dry cough with blood in sputum, damp-heat diarrhea, summer-dampness syndrome, malnutrition in children, and indigestion. It is often mixed with other medicines to make a herbal tea for clearing away heat and relieving stagnation. It can also be boiled in water and drunk as tea with 100 to 150 grams of it alone.

3. Pest control and health care

The whole herb of gourd tea can be used as a preservative and insecticide. The "Lingnan Herb Collection Record" records: "Put it dry in a clothes box to repel moths and get rid of borers and lice." People in Guangdong use it to pickle salted fish and meat to prevent maggots. Bamboo shell tea has now been made into new dosage forms such as bags and granules. The former has been renamed "health tea" and has joined the ranks of modern Guangdong folk herbal teas.

4. Bamboo shell tea, which contains Chinese herbal medicines such as Schefflera leaves, gourd tea, chicken bone grass, honeysuckle, plantain, smilax china, and jiubiying, is said to have a history of nearly four hundred years of drinking among the people. Bamboo shell tea is good at clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting dampness and eliminating stagnation. It is used to treat summer heat, colds, food stagnation, and damp-heat in the large intestine.