Did you know that cooling herbal tea is not for everyone even though we are all living in the same hot and humid environment? 🥵
When drank appropriately, cooling herbal tea consisting of cooling herbs can help to expel heat, detoxify, retrench thirst, and clear water retention.
However, due to the differences in body constitution, some people might experience discomfort after drinking herbal tea as some herbs might be too “cold” 🥶 for their body.
The 4 categories of people that should avoid cooling herbal tea are listed in the image below:
People with a yang deficiency body constitution tend to have cold limbs and are prone to diarrhea due to a lack of yang energy. Having cooling herbal tea frequently will worsen their symptoms, leaving them with further discomfort.
If you wish to find out more about all the 9 types of TCM body constitutions, do visit our previous blog post here.
There are different kinds of herbal teas we can easily purchase from the medical halls around us. Although they are all generalized and referred to as “liang teh” (凉茶) which translates to “cooling tea”, some can be more cooling than the other, and each of them serves different functions. For updates on the functions of the different kinds of herbal tea, do follow us on our instagram!
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