Bamboo Shavings and Dried Tangerine Peel Tea

Why people make this tea

In Cantonese food therapy tradition, the postpartum period is when families pour enormous care into feeding the new mother — and sometimes that care tips into excess. Rich, warming tonics taken too liberally can leave a woman feeling restless, overheated, bloated, headachy, and unable to sleep. This gentle two-ingredient tea is the traditional corrective: bamboo shavings and dried tangerine peel work together to cool the stomach, ease nausea, and move stagnant qi in the digestive tract.

Beyond postnatal recovery, Nourilo recommends this tea for anyone with regular stomach discomfort — the kind marked by bloating, belching, nausea, or a feeling of heat rising upward. And for people who have experienced a stroke, traditional food therapy suggests that phlegm obstruction often plays a role in blocking the channels; this tea is traditionally valued for supporting smooth flow of phlegm and qi, and can be incorporated as a regular preventive beverage.