Fragrant lipid-lowering teas: Multiple tea recipes that promote diuresis, remove oil, and eliminate edema.

**Fragrant Lipid-Lowering Tea: Diuretic, Oil-Removing, and Edema-Eliminating**

**Osmanthus-flavored Ginger Milk Tea**

**[Ingredients]** 1 small cinnamon stick, 5 slices of ginger, 5 grams of black tea, 300 ml of fresh milk, and honey to taste.

**practice**

Place cinnamon sticks, ginger slices, and black tea in a pot and simmer over low heat for 3-5 minutes. Add fresh milk and stir well with a spoon.

2. Once the aroma of ginger and cinnamon has been released, filter the tea leaves, pour them into a cup, and add honey to taste.

**Plantago asiatica and mung bean tea**

**[Ingredients]** 60g mung beans, 30g plantain, 600ml water.

Soak mung beans in water for 2 hours, wash them, drain and set aside; rinse plantain clean.

2. Put mung beans and plantain in a pot, add water and boil.

Once the tea has been boiled down to half its original volume, turn off the heat, remove the dregs, and pour the liquid into a cup to drink.

**American Ginseng and Lotus Seed Tea**

**[Ingredients]** 5 grams of American ginseng, 10 lotus seeds, and rock sugar to taste.

Wash the American ginseng and lotus seeds separately, drain them, and set aside.

2. Add water to a clay pot, add American ginseng and lotus seeds, and simmer for 1 hour.

3. Finally, add rock sugar and simmer for another 10 minutes. After pouring out the liquid, you can eat the lotus seeds and drink the tea.

**Oolong Sesame Tea**

**[Ingredients]** 5 grams each of black and white sesame seeds, 2 grams of oolong tea, and 250 ml of hot water.

1. Briefly wash and drain the black and white sesame seeds; rinse the oolong tea briefly with hot water to remove impurities, then drain.

2. Put black and white sesame seeds in a pot and stir-fry until fragrant. Remove from the pot and let cool slightly before grinding into coarse powder.

Add coarsely ground sesame seeds and oolong tea to a cup, pour in hot water, let it steep for 1-2 minutes, and then drink.

Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Tea

**[Ingredients]** 6 grams each of violet, rose, and lavender, 1 fresh lemon, and appropriate amount of boiling water.

1. Grind lavender, violet, and rose petals together into small pieces, sew them into a small bag made of clean gauze, and make a tea bag.

Place the tea bag and fresh lemon into a teapot, pour in boiling water, and steep for 5-10 minutes before drinking.

**Rush wick and bamboo leaf tea**

**[Ingredients]** 15g of rush pith and 30g of bamboo leaves.

**practice**

1. Wash and drain the bamboo leaves and rush pith separately, then chop them into small pieces and set aside.

2. Place the tea leaves in a pot, add 750 ml of water, bring to a boil, strain, and drink the liquid.

**Helpful Tips**

This tea can clear heat and reduce internal fire, quench thirst, and relieve irritability. Drinking it once a day before bed is very effective for insomnia caused by physical weakness and irritability. It is not suitable for children and the elderly.

Lophatherum gracile has a sweet and bland taste, and is slightly cold in nature. It enters the heart, stomach, and small intestine meridians and can clear heat and relieve irritability, promote urination, and help with weight loss and fat reduction.

**Rose Mint Tea**

**[Ingredients]** 4-5 dried rosebuds, 1 gram of Imperata cylindrica root, 2 mint leaves, and appropriate amount of boiling water.

1. Place dried rosebuds, Imperata cylindrica root, and mint leaves into a cup and add an appropriate amount of boiling water to steep.

2. Cover and steep for 10 minutes. The tea will be even more refreshing after it cools down.

**Goji Blossom and Cassia Seed Tea**

**[Ingredients]** 20g cassia seeds, 10g each of chrysanthemum and honeysuckle, 5g goji berries, 1000ml boiling water.

1. Wash the cassia seeds and goji berries, drain and set aside.

2. Place honeysuckle and chrysanthemum in a teapot, add 1000 ml of boiling water, then add cassia seeds and goji berries and steep for 5 minutes.

3. Filter out the residue and drink the juice.