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Essiac tea made from four ingredients: sheep sorrel,Indian rhubarb root,slippery elm,and burdock root is an herbal drink, which is widely reported to provide numerous healing benefits including cancer teatment, but it is not supported by published scientific studies.
Rooibos tea originates from South Africa and is made with mesquite and needle-shaped acid-resistant plant. It has medical effects on improving insomnia, relieving skin discomfort and preventing diabetes.
Matcha, also called Maccha in Japan, originated from Wei-Jin Period in China, and is made with tender tea leaves picked in spring, which are steamed to remove water and made into cake tea (namely mass tea) for storage. Cake tea is placed on fire for drying before drinking, and then grounded into powder, poured into a tea bowl and brewed with boiling water. Tea infusion shall be fully stirred with tea whisk to produce foam to drink.
Ephedra tea is a drink used to induce sweat, dispel exogenous evils and quench coughing.Raw materials include 1g ephedra, 3g almond, 3g cassia twig, 3g liquorice and 3g green tea.
Pekoe tea from Lingyun County, originally called raw white tea as it is fully covered with pekoe on back, mainly grows in Old Cengwang Mountain and Qinglong Mountain shrouded by mist all year long. The advantaged natural environment makes it a rising star among all famous Chinese teas, featured in jade green color, numerous pekoe, mellow fragrance, strong taste and endurance. It was listed into the first batch of national high-quality tea varieties in 1984.
Artemisia, also called selengensis, can be used as a vegetable by cold cooking or stir-frying, and also as tea leaves after baking. Artemisia is rich in various micro elements, also called “body cleaning agent”, and have effects of lowering blood pressure and blood fat in a long term, clearing away in-body waste and enhance immunity. It also has the reputation of “guardian angel for human body” and can nourish stomach and spleen, dispel effects of alcohol and protect liver and many other human organs.
Different from teas that we have at ordinary times, made with leaves picked from tea trees and being a quite safe traditional drink, chickweed tea is made with a stellaria herb of caryophyllaceae family, called “chickweed”. It is named myosoton aquaticum in Compendium of Materia Medica, also called endarachne binghamiae, malachium aquaticum, water chickweed, etc. in local places.
Stevia tea is brewed with 2-4 dry stevia leaves in a cup, and tastes sweet, somehow like green grass. Stevia, also called stevia rebaudian, of composite family, is a plant that can be cultivated in garden, and originates in South America. It is over 200 years ago that stevioside was firstly used in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and some places in Brazil.