Lipid-Lowering Tea Drinks Sequel: The Preparation and Efficacy of Various Lipid-Lowering Tea Drinks

**Wheat Bran and Job's Tears Tea**

Ingredients: 60g Job's tears, 30g wheat bran powder, 10g green tea, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Instructions: Boil green tea in water to extract the juice, add Job's tears and bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until the porridge is cooked. Add wheat bran and white sugar, mix well and bring to a boil.

Efficacy: Clears heat and relieves irritability, strengthens the spleen and removes dampness, reduces lipids and lowers blood pressure.

Suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia due to spleen deficiency and dampness.

**Chenpi and Cassia Seed Slimming Tea**

Ingredients: 10g dried tangerine peel, 20g cassia seeds.

Instructions: First, clean the dried tangerine peel, air dry or bake it, and then chop it into small pieces for later use.

Wash the cassia seeds, crush them, and put them into a clay pot with chopped dried tangerine peel. Add water and simmer twice, 20 minutes each time. Filter out the decoction, combine the two decoctions, and simmer over low heat until about 300 ml remains.

Efficacy: Dries dampness and resolves phlegm, clears the liver and lowers lipids.

Suitable for all types of hyperlipidemia.

**Gynostemma pentaphyllum tea**

Ingredients: 10 grams of Gynostemma pentaphyllum.

Instructions: Clean the Gynostemma pentaphyllum, put it in a teacup, pour in boiling water, steep for 2-3 minutes, and then drink.

Efficacy: Clears heat and detoxifies, lowers blood pressure and lipids.

Suitable for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and fatty liver.

**Lotus Flower and Longan Tea**

Ingredients: One lotus flower, 100 grams of longan, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Instructions: Tear the lotus flowers into small pieces and wash them; peel and pit the longan and wash it; put the lotus flowers and longan into a pot, add 500 ml of water and bring to a boil, remove the residue and take the juice, add white sugar and stir well.

Efficacy: Calms the mind and soothes the nerves, improves intelligence and nourishes the brain.

Suitable for hyperlipidemia.

Five-Flavor Drink

Ingredients: 12g each of Poria cocos and Chinese yam, 10g of lily bulbs, 10 jujubes, 250g of fresh lotus root, and a little white sugar.

Instructions: Wash the poria cocos, yam, and lotus root, and slice them.

Remove the pits from the dates and wash the lilies.

Place all ingredients in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 30-40 minutes. Remove the dregs and keep the liquid, add white sugar and stir well, then drink frequently.

Efficacy: Nourishes the lungs and spleen, clears heat and resolves phlegm.

Suitable for hyperlipidemia.

**Cordyceps and Ginkgo Leaf Tea**

Ingredients: 10 grams of Cordyceps sinensis powder, 15 grams of Ginkgo biloba leaves.

Instructions: Clean and wash the ginkgo leaves, sun-dry or oven-dry them, grind them into coarse powder, mix them thoroughly with cordyceps powder, divide them into two cotton paper bags, seal them and hang them with a string, and set aside.

Efficacy: Nourishes the kidneys and yin, resolves phlegm and relieves asthma, lowers lipids and nourishes the heart.

It is suitable for all types of hyperlipidemia, and is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly patients with hyperlipidemia of the liver and kidney yin deficiency, yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, or spleen deficiency and dampness.

**Fruit Milk**

Ingredients: 30g each of grapes and strawberries, 40g of apple, 80g of papaya, 15g of instant oatmeal, and 120ml of low-fat milk.

Instructions: Wash and remove the stems from the strawberries; wash and finely dice the apples and papayas; wash and set aside the grapes.

Place the instant oatmeal in a bowl, pour in low-fat milk and mix well. Then, put it into a blender with the other ingredients and blend until smooth.

Efficacy: Reduces fat and promotes weight loss, beautifies and moisturizes the skin.

Suitable for hyperlipidemia and obesity.

**Artemisia capillaris lipid-lowering tea**

Ingredients: 5 grams each of Artemisia capillaris, Alisma plantago-aquatica, and Pu

Instructions: Pick out any impurities from Artemisia capillaris, Alisma plantago-aquatica, and Pueraria lobata, wash them with water, dry them in the sun, and put them together in a large teacup.

Efficacy: Clears heat and promotes diuresis, reduces turbidity and lipids.

It is suitable for lowering cholesterol, triglycerides, lipoproteins, etc., and is especially suitable for hyperlipidemia of the damp-heat type.

**Lily and Pear Drink**

Ingredients: 30g lily bulbs, 1 pear, rock sugar to taste.

Instructions: Soak lily bulbs in water overnight. The next day, pour the lily bulbs and water into a clay pot, add more than half a bowl of water, and cook for one and a half hours. Wash the pear, cut it into chunks, and once the lily bulbs are cooked until tender, add the pear and rock sugar, and cook for another 30 minutes.

Efficacy: Nourishes Yin and moistens the lungs, promotes the production of body fluids and quenches thirst

Suitable for hyperlipidemia.

**Loofah Flower Honey Drink**

Ingredients: 10 grams of loofah flowers, 15 ml of honey.

Instructions: Wash the loofah flowers, put them in a cup, pour in boiling water, cover the cup and steep for 10 minutes, add honey, stir well and drink.

Efficacy: Clears heat and relieves cough, lowers qi and relieves asthma.

Suitable for hyperlipidemia.

**Double Flower Hawthorn Honey Juice**

Ingredients: 50 ml each of honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, hawthorn, and honey.

Instructions: Wash and slice the hawthorn, and put it in a pot with honeysuckle and chrysanthemum. Add 2000 ml of water, simmer for 30 minutes, and then filter out the liquid.

Add water and boil again, combine the two decoctions, add honey and stir well, then bring to a simmer.

Efficacy: Relieves summer heat and aids digestion.

Suitable for hyperlipidemia.

**Hawthorn Honey Drink**

Ingredients: 100 ml fresh hawthorn juice, 10 ml honey.

Instructions: During the hawthorn harvest season, take fresh hawthorns, wash them, and juice them (if fresh hawthorns are unavailable, commercially available hawthorn jam can be used).

Mix hawthorn juice and honey evenly, then add an appropriate amount of warm water and stir well before drinking.

Efficacy: Promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, regulates qi and relieves pain, lowers blood pressure and lipids.

Suitable for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, stomach pain, and dysmenorrhea.

**Hawthorn and Peach Kernel Drink**

Ingredients: 1000g fresh hawthorn, 60g peach kernels, 250g honey.

Instructions: Wash the hawthorns and crush them with a knife; wash the peach kernels and grind them into a fine powder.

Place hawthorn and peach kernels in a pot, add enough water to cover them, soak for half an hour, then decoct to extract the juice. Add the same amount of water and decoct again. Combine the two liquids and put them in a bottle. Add honey and mix well. Cover the bottle and steam for one hour. Remove from heat and let cool before use.

Efficacy: Promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, clears the meridians and relieves pain, lowers blood lipids, and aids digestion.

Suitable for hypertension and hyperlipidemia.

**Alisma and Polygonum cuspidatum slimming tea**

Ingredients: 10 grams each of Alisma plantago-aquatica and Polygonum cuspidatum, 10 jujubes, and 20 grams of honey.

Instructions: First, wash the dates, soak them in warm water for 30 minutes, remove the pits, and put them in a large bowl along with the soaking water.

Wash the Alisma plantago-aquatica and Polygonum cuspidatum separately, cut them into slices, put them into a clay pot, add water and decoct twice, 30 minutes each time. Combine the two decoctions and put them back into the clay pot. Add the jujubes and their soaking liquid, simmer over low heat until reduced to 300 ml, add honey, stir well and it is ready.

Efficacy: Clears heat and detoxifies, nourishes blood and replenishes deficiency, eliminates phlegm and lowers lipids.

Suitable for all types of hyperlipidemia.

Banana Tea

Ingredients: 50g banana juice, 10g tea leaves, and honey to taste.

Instructions: Place tea leaves in a cup, pour in boiling water, steep for 15 minutes, then extract the liquid and set aside.

Mix banana juice and honey in a bowl, then pour in tea and mix well.

Efficacy: Clears heat and calms the liver, moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movements, reduces lipids and lowers blood pressure.

Suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia due to yin deficiency and yang excess.