Hawthorn, Malt, and Radish Seed Tea

Why people make this tea

After a holiday meal — or really any occasion involving mooncakes, roast meats, or a particularly generous spread — Nourilo reaches for this simple three-ingredient tea. Where the roselle-hawthorn combination focuses on fat and blood metabolism, this formula targets the classical TCM concept of “food stagnation”: the heavy, overfull, distended feeling when food sits in the stomach without moving along as it should. All three ingredients in this tea have a long history as digestive aids in Chinese folk medicine, and together they cover most types of after-meal discomfort.