What tea is good for clearing liver fire?
Nov 25, 2024
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Zhang Xiuhong
Introduction
Under normal circumstances, to relieve excessive liver heat, one can choose to drink an appropriate amount of chrysanthemum tea, honeysuckle tea, green tea, cassia seed tea, or gardenia tea. Chrysanthemum has a pungent, sweet, and bitter taste, is slightly cold in nature, and enters the lung and liver meridians, offering functions such as dispersing wind-heat, soothing the liver to improve vision, and clearing heat while detoxifying. Honeysuckle is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the lung, heart, and stomach meridians, effectively clearing blood toxins.
Generally, to alleviate excessive liver heat (liver fire), one can choose to drink适量 (appropriate amount) of chrysanthemum tea, honeysuckle tea, green tea, cassia seed tea, or gardenia tea. If discomfort occurs, timely medical consultation is recommended. Detailed analysis is as follows:
1. Chrysanthemum Tea
Chrysanthemum has a pungent, sweet, and bitter taste, with a slightly cold nature. It acts on the lung and liver meridians, and has functions of dispersing wind-heat, soothing the liver to improve vision, and clearing heat to detoxify. Drinking chrysanthemum tea can effectively relieve symptoms such as red, swollen, and painful eyes, dizziness, and blurred vision caused by excessive liver fire.
2. Honeysuckle Tea
Honeysuckle has a cold nature and a sweet taste, acting on the lung, heart, and stomach meridians. It can clear blood toxins and effectively relieve symptoms such as dry mouth and sore throat caused by excessive liver fire.
3. Green Tea
Green tea has a cool nature with a bitter and sweet taste, acting on the heart, lung, and stomach meridians. It has functions of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, promoting body fluid to relieve thirst, and stimulating the heart and mind. Drinking green tea helps clear internal heat and fire, and can relieve irritability and thirst caused by excessive liver fire.
4. Cassia Seed Tea
Cassia seed tea is made from processed cassia seeds. It has a sweet, bitter, and salty taste, with a slightly cold nature, acting on the liver and large intestine meridians. Cassia seeds can clear the liver to improve vision and lubricate the intestines to relieve constipation. It can alleviate symptoms such as red, swollen, and painful eyes, photophobia with excessive tearing, headache, and dizziness caused by excessive liver fire.
5. Gardenia Tea
Gardenia has a cold nature and a bitter taste, acting on the heart, liver, lung, stomach, and triple burner meridians. It has functions of clearing heat, cooling the blood, relieving irritability, and detoxifying. Drinking gardenia tea can clear liver fire and help regulate symptoms such as irritability, anger, insomnia, and vivid dreams caused by excessive liver fire.
Avoiding excessive anxiety, impatience, and anger, and maintaining a cheerful mood, also helps reduce the occurrence of excessive liver fire.
