Bitter Melon Green Tea
Ingredients
- Fresh bitter melon 1 piece
- Green tea 3g
Principle
Bitter melon is cold and bitter, clears heat and resolves toxins, relieves irritability and thirst; clinical and animal studies suggest adjunct blood-glucose lowering. With green tea, cools heat, boosts qi, and quenches thirst, for mild diabetes daily support.
Effects & uses
For mild diabetes with thirst, heat, and polydipsia; also daily care when diabetes tends toward internal damp-heat (syndrome differentiation required).
Method
- Wash and slice bitter melon.
- Place slices and 3g green tea in a cup.
- Infuse with hot water.
How to use
- Drink in divided doses.
Caution
Not for deficient cold spleen-stomach. Long-term large amounts may harm the spleen-stomach. Daily food-care only; not a substitute for medication.
Source
Health Times, from Integrated TCM–Western Chronic Disease Management Strategies for Diabetes (Tang Xianyu, Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of TCM). To be manually verified.