Dandelion Tea

Why people make this tea

Hong Kong’s flu seasons fall in summer and winter, and flu hits harder than a common cold — fever, cough, runny nose, aching muscles, fatigue, sometimes even vomiting and a long-lingering cough. Children and older people, whose defenses are weaker, need to take extra care at the peak. Nourilo offers this simple dandelion tea, traditionally used to clear heat and toxin, to help the body through the season.

Method

1. Put the dandelion into a pot and rinse once with boiling water.
2. Pour in fresh boiling water and steep, covered, for about 10 minutes. Drink.

Nourilo’s Tips

This tea is fragrant and not bitter, traditionally used to clear liver heat and resolve heat-toxin, and it is also associated with inhibiting H. pylori. But dandelion is cooling, so those with yang deficiency, cold conditions or a weak spleen and stomach should not drink it.