Essay About Herbal Tea

Hong Kong is a multi-cultural city. Traditional Chinese culture can be found easily in our society. Traditional Chinese herbal tea shops is a good example. Currently, some franchise or chain modernized herbal tea shops are common in Hong Kong, such as Hung Fuk Tong, Kung Wo Tong, and Yeung Wo Tong. These shops mainly sell herbal tea, but also some other products, such as Chinese-style soup, sweet soup and snacks. Herbal tea is one of intangible cultural heritage in Hong Kong (Wu Liang, 2007). Herbal tea, also called tisane has a long history since approximately 350 A.D. (Yu, 1974). Herbal tea is a kind of Chinese medicinal health drinks made by boiling herbs with cold and cool nature (Wu Liang, 2007). Hong Kong people drink herbal tea to quench

However, many of them cannot answer the question about the herbal tea correctly. Showing that the do not have enough understanding before drinking herbal tea, they may drink herbal tea in a wrong way. Herbal tea is not suitable for everyone, it depends on the physical constitution (Sheng-nong, 2005). Basically, the Yang and hot type people are suitable; the Yin and cold type people are not suitable. Yang and hot type people often feel hot, the mouth is dry, preferring cold drinks when thirsty, have a reddish complexion, are easily annoyed, tend to suffer from insomnia, and cannot tolerate high temperatures. Yin and cold type people usually feel cold, are aversion to wind, limbs are cold, prefer hot or warm food and drinks, are reluctant to speak, become tired easily, have a pale or whitish complexion, and cannot tolerate low temperatures. If the Yin and cold type people drink the herbal tea, this will further damage the Yang Qi. This lead to cold or weak manifestations such as paleness, sensitive to low temperature, cold limbs, fatigue, and sleepiness. People should make sure that they are suitable to drink herbal tea or