Chinese herbal tea or herbal tea is a beverage made from herbs used to relieve sore throats caused by heat in summer or dryness in winter.

Drinking herbal tea is an ancient custom in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, where the climate is hot and humid and people living there are prone to internal fever. In order to resist humidity and heat in the body, people collect herbs from the mountain gully to clear heat and remove dampness and make herbal tea.

After years of practice, different herbal teas have been developed that can relieve different symptoms.

Herbal tea is suitable for drinking all seasons and has the effect of relieving summer heat and dampness.

The functions of herbal tea can be divided into inducing sweat, dispelling cold, moistening dryness and diuresis. The herbal tea that induces sweat and solves internal heat is suitable for people with excessive internal heat. Honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, scutellaria and other medicinal materials are the main raw materials of this herbal tea, which is suitable for spring, summer and autumn.

Herbal tea (Chinese herbal medicine store) with isatis root as the main component, suitable for four seasons drinking.

The moist and hot herbal tea made from the root of ladybug, vetiver, lentil tuber, tremella tremella and other herbs has a good relieving effect on cough, dry mouth and burnt tongue in autumn.

Herbal tea that clears heat and dips dampness is good for people with bad breath and red and yellow complexion. Its ingredients include honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and wild poria, suitable for summer drinking.

In general, herbal tea should be consumed before the weather gets cold. Since the medicinal properties of most herbs are cold, excessive drinking will cause damage to the spleen and stomach, especially for people who lack positive qi and are easy to feel cold. Therefore, women during menstruation, children and the elderly are not suitable for drinking herbal tea.