Dark Plum and Ginger Tea
Ingredients
- Dark plum flesh 50g
- Ginger 20g
- Green tea to taste
Principle
Dark plum astringes lung and intestines, promotes fluids, and calms roundworms—useful for chronic diarrhea and dysentery; ginger warms the middle and dispels cold; green tea clears heat, stops dysentery, and dries damp. The formula warms the middle, astringes with sourness, and stops diarrhea—suited to deficiency-cold or mixed cold-heat chronic diarrhea.
Effects & uses
Daily tea substitute for long-standing diarrhea with middle-jiao deficiency-cold (syndrome differentiation required); materials note good antidiarrheal effect.
Method
- Mince dark plum; shred ginger.
- Brew a pot of green tea; add minced plum and ginger; steep about 30 minutes.
How to use
- Drink warm frequently as tea.
Caution
Not during acute enteritis with damp-heat excess. Use cautiously with hyperacidity or peptic ulcer. Daily dietary prescription; not a substitute for medication.
Source
People’s Net—Life Times; recommended by Dai Jingang, associate researcher, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Medical Experiment Center. To be manually verified.