Say no to edema and obesity! Drink Hawthorn Roselle Pu'er Tea

The New Year holidays are over, but I got fat because I didn’t control my diet! Chinese medicine practitioners point out that overeating or staying up late are the two main culprits of obesity and edema during the New Year holidays. Not only do they damage the spleen and stomach, but high-salt foods can easily cause water to be retained in the body. Over time, this can easily lead to edema-type obesity. They recommend drinking Hawthorn, Roselle, and Pu'er fat-burning tea, or massaging the Zusanli acupoint more often to improve metabolism and stay away from the nightmare of obesity.

Chen Chaozong, chairman of the Taiwan Association of Grassroots Chinese Medicine Practitioners and a practicing Chinese medicine practitioner, pointed out that staying up late and sleeping late during the Chinese New Year period will cause the body's metabolism to deteriorate and weight gain. In particular, people like to eat processed products during the Chinese New Year, such as beef jerky, pork jerky, meatballs, melon seeds, etc., which not only accumulate a lot of fat, but also cause water to be retained in the body due to excessive consumption of these high-salt foods, causing edema-induced obesity.

Eat more onions to eliminate fat

It is recommended that during the New Year holidays, you should consume more low-calorie but filling foods, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, white radish, winter melon, bean sprouts, garlic, onions, ginger, black fungus, etc. These are all very good healthy ingredients and there are many cooking variations.

In particular, garlic has the effect of clearing fat from the blood and also contains some trace elements, so it has high nutritional value. If you are a person with edema-type obesity, it is recommended to choose winter melon, because winter melon has a diuretic effect and can eliminate edema. Onions contain sulfur amino acids, which can lower cholesterol and blood fat, and are also very healthy ingredients.

[Drinking tea can lower blood lipids, strengthen the spleen and remove greasiness]

1. Hawthorn Roselle Pu'er Tea

Ingredients: 1 coin of hawthorn, 2 roselle flowers, 5 chrysanthemums, 1 spoon of Pu'er tea, 2 spoons of rock sugar.

Preparation: Put hawthorn, roselle and tea leaves into a pot, pour in boiling water, add rock sugar and mix well. Wait until the fragrance overflows, sprinkle with chrysanthemums.

Function: Soothe the liver, strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness, eliminate fat and grease, improve eyesight and moisturize the skin.

2. Sanxian Drink

Ingredients: 6 grams each of hawthorn, Shenqu and malt.

Method: Put the above medicinal materials into 1000cc water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 20 minutes before drinking.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and stomach, digests food and eliminates accumulation, and can improve gastrointestinal discomfort.

【Improve gastrointestinal massage 2 acupoints】

1. Zusanli

**【Location】Located on the anterior and lateral side of the lower leg, 3 inches below the outer knee pit (calf nose), and one horizontal finger outside the anterior edge of the tibia.

**【Effects】Regulate gastrointestinal motility, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and improve gastrointestinal discomfort.

2. Taichong

[Location] On the dorsum of the foot, in the depression behind the space between the big toe and the second toe.

[Effects] It can soothe the liver and regulate qi, clear liver fire, enhance metabolism, and promote gastrointestinal motility.

[Method] Press each acupoint for 5 to 10 minutes, twice a day.