Dried Ginger, Mugwort, and Brown Sugar Tea，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Warms the meridians, unblocks the channels, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by blood cold, characterized by delayed menstruation, scanty flow, dark red menstrual blood with clots, cold pain in the lower abdomen, or amenorrhea, accompanied by a white tongue coating and a deep, tight pulse.
Dried Ginger, Mugwort, and Brown Sugar Tea
Herbal Tea Name: Dried Ginger, Mugwort, and Brown Sugar Tea
Chinese Name: 干姜艾叶红糖茶
Formula
20 grams of dried ginger, 10 grams of mugwort leaves, and 30 grams of brown sugar.Main Ingredients
How To Make
Wash the dried ginger and mugwort, let them air-dry, then chop them finely. Place them together in a clay pot, add water, and let them soak for a moment. Simmer for 20 minutes, then strain through clean cheesecloth to remove the solids. Return the liquid to the clay pot, add brown sugar, and simmer over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Stir well to combine.
Efficacy
Warms the meridians, unblocks the channels, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by blood cold, characterized by delayed menstruation, scanty flow, dark red menstrual blood with clots, cold pain in the lower abdomen, or amenorrhea, accompanied by a white tongue coating and a deep, tight pulse.
Usage
Take one dose in the morning and one in the evening.
Commentary
Taking dried ginger (Gan-jiang) as the chief herb, the formula draws on its pungent flavor and hot property: it travels through the Spleen, Stomach, Heart, Lung meridians and works to warm the middle and disperse cold, revive yang and dry dampness. Mugwort leaves (Ai-ye) stand in the deputy (minister) seat, bitter, pungent-warm in property, acting through the Spleen, Liver, Kidney meridians to warm the channels, stop bleeding, disperse cold and regulate menstruation. Brown sugar (Hong-tang) rounds out the formula as the harmonizing herb, working to warm the middle, activate blood and harmonize the formula and moderate the overall properties. The overall effect is to warm the meridians, unblock the channels, regulate menstruation, restoring balance within the blood and cold framework.