Can wintersweet be used to make tea?

Wintersweet tea

The flower of wintersweet is also an important one. It contains many medicinal substances. For example, it contains many kinds of essential oils, carotene and other beneficial substances, which can lower blood sugar, clear away heat and detoxify, eliminate summer heat syndrome and other symptoms, so wintersweet flowers can be used to make tea.

How to make tea with wintersweet flowers: First, you can buy processed wintersweet flowers, and then blanch them with boiling water for about 10 minutes.

Secondly, you can also pick the wintersweets yourself, and then dry the wintersweets in the sun until they are dry. Then you can blanch them with boiling water. Because the wintersweets themselves are slightly bitter, you can add sugar or honey and mix them well. You can drink it in about 10 minutes.

The effects of making tea with wintersweet flowers: it can clear away heat and detoxify, prevent and treat colds and flu. Its flower buds can also relieve heat, relieve coughs, and treat vomiting and dizziness.

Wintersweet flowers can also be mixed with bitter melon tea, roses, honeysuckle, ganoderma lucidum, osmanthus, etc. for drinking. It is not only delicious and refreshing, but also can strengthen the body. It really has many benefits.

Side effects of wintersweet tea

Brewing wintersweet flower tea has more than just benefits. There are also side effects.

First of all, wintersweet flowers themselves are cold in nature, so people with a cold body and weak constitution should not drink wintersweet flower tea, as it will increase the coldness of the body, reduce immunity, and make it easy to be infected with colds.

Furthermore, the wintersweet flowers contain a substance that looks like tannin. Drinking too much of it can cause body convulsions or even poisoning, so you need to be careful when using it.

Therefore, although wintersweet flower tea is delicious and has many benefits, it must be consumed in moderation and not continuously to avoid excessive coldness that may harm the body.