24-Herbs Tea

Dirty air. Diseases. Stress. Viruses. How can you cope?

View large image Start drinking 24-herbs tea: a bitter-tasting refreshment which is the Chinese equivalent of a smart-bomb for what ails you.

It's an acquired taste. You can buy it ready-to-drink from shops with giant brass urns out front, have the raw ingredients selected for you by a Chinese-medicine specialist (for boiling at home), or even pick up a box of easy-to-use tea-bags.

The box explains the benefits of consumption:

... specially selected from twenty-four herbs with scientific process.

It is the ideal tea to drink during the flu season. It is said to be able to enrich vital energy, clean away internal heat, eliminating dampness and heat, cooling and refreshing to the system for influenza, fever, poor appetite, strengthening of body and improves general resistance.

It is suitable for everybody as a health daily drink.

If that's not enough to convince you, consider this laundry-list of conditions this tea soothes:

Cold and cough, fever and headache, eruptive disease, tiredness, infantile summer fever, pathogenic dryness and heat in combination, and constipation, eliminating dampness and heat, promoting the production of body fluid to quench thirst, halitosis, anorexia, abdominal dissension, fidget, lack of physical strength, dizziness, pimples acne.

Because you never know when you'll suffer from fidget.

Despite the claims, I like this tea; I feel better when I drink it. I used it the last time I caught a bug (which had threatened to develop into a nasty respiratory infection) and it did the trick — a far better alternative than running to the doctor, who more often than not will reach for the prescription pad to dole out useless antibiotics.

Try a cup before you commit to buying more for home use. Corner shops often supply a small sachet of sugar or honey if you find it too bitter.

I like it fine the way it is. It smells great, too.

Enrich your vital energy today!