Honeysuckle and Red Bean Drink

Category: Herbal Tea

Herbal Tea Name: Honeysuckle and Red Bean Drink

Chinese Name: 银花赤豆饮

Formula

20 grams of honeysuckle, 30 grams of adzuki beans, 30 grams of lotus root starch, 10 grams of rock sugar

Main Ingredients

How To Make

Sort the honeysuckle to remove impurities, wash it thoroughly, place it in a clay pot, soak in water for a short while, and simmer for 20 minutes. Strain to extract the liquid and set aside. Place the adzuki beans in a pot, add water, and simmer. Stir in the honeysuckle liquid, lotus root starch, and rock sugar to complete.

Efficacy

Clears heat, detoxifies, and fights viruses. Suitable for mumps

Usage

Take one dose in the morning and one in the evening

Commentary

Honeysuckle (Jin-yin-hua) holds the chief position in this formula. Sweet-cold in property, it enters the Lung, Heart, Stomach meridians, and works to clear heat and remove toxins, disperse wind-heat. Adzuki beans (Chi-xiao-dou) act as the deputy ingredient; neutral and sweet, sour in character, it travels through the Heart, Small Intestine meridians to promote urination, drain dampness, reduce swelling and remove toxins. Lotus root starch (Ou-fen) reinforces this deputy action, working to nourish the spleen, calm the spirit and stop bleeding. Rock sugar (Bing-tang) rounds out the formula as the envoy herb, working to moisten the lung and harmonize the formula and moderate the overall properties. In sum, the prescription clear heat, detoxify, fights viruses, aimed squarely at the mumps pattern rather than at isolated symptoms.

Honeysuckle and Red Bean Drink，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Clears heat, detoxifies, and fights viruses. Suitable for mumps

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