What can hawthorn be steeped with to make tea?
Apr 21, 2025
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Yang Ziqi
Introduction
Lycium barbarum (Goji berry) can nourish the liver and kidneys, and benefit the eyesight. When combined with hawthorn to prepare a tea, it can simultaneously aid digestion and accumulation removal while nourishing the liver and kidneys. This combination is particularly suitable for individuals with liver and kidney yin deficiency accompanied by food stagnation. It can also improve vision and enhance physical resistance, making the beverage beneficial for both health maintenance and wellness. Chrysanthemum has the effects of clearing liver heat, improving eyesight, and dispersing wind-heat. It can be used with hawthorn to prepare a tea.
Hawthorn can usually be steeped in water together with wolfberry, chrysanthemum, lotus leaf, tangerine peel, rose petals, and other ingredients.
1. Wolfberry: Wolfberry nourishes the liver and kidneys and benefits the eyesight. When steeped with hawthorn, it helps to nourish the liver and kidneys while aiding digestion and resolving food stagnation. This combination is suitable for people with yin deficiency of the liver and kidneys accompanied by food stagnation. It can also improve vision and enhance physical resistance, making the beverage both health-nourishing and health-protective.
2. Chrysanthemum: Chrysanthemum clears heat from the liver, improves eyesight, and disperses wind-heat. When steeped with hawthorn, it enhances the effects of clearing liver fire, improving vision, and protecting the eyes, in addition to aiding digestion. It can relieve redness, swelling, and pain in the eyes caused by excessive liver fire, and also alleviate internal heat caused by food stagnation. This combination is suitable for people who frequently use their eyes and have irregular dietary habits.
3. Lotus Leaf: Lotus leaf clears heat to relieve summerheat, raises yang to cool the blood, and stops bleeding. When steeped with hawthorn, it enhances the effects of reducing fat and aiding weight loss, helping to reduce fat accumulation in the body. It is a good choice for overweight individuals or those who want to control their weight. Additionally, it can relieve discomfort caused by summerheat.
4. Tangerine Peel: Tangerine peel regulates qi to strengthen the spleen, dries dampness, and resolves phlegm. When combined with hawthorn, it enhances the function of the spleen and stomach, aiding digestion and resolving food stagnation more effectively. It is particularly beneficial for improving symptoms such as spleen and stomach weakness, indigestion, and qi stagnation due to food accumulation. It also enhances the flavor of the beverage, providing a harmonizing effect on the middle jiao.
5. Rose Petals: Rose petals soothe the liver, relieve depression, and beautify the complexion. When steeped with hawthorn, it aids digestion while soothing emotions and relieving symptoms such as chest and rib distension and emotional discomfort caused by liver qi stagnation. It also promotes beauty and skin health, making it especially suitable for women to consume.
In daily life, excessive consumption may burden the body, so it should be consumed in moderation to avoid overconsumption. Different individuals have different body constitutions and health conditions, so the ingredients should be adjusted appropriately according to one's own situation.
