There is no such thing as sugar-lowering herbal tea, and there is no such thing as sugar-lowering in Chinese medicine. For patients with high blood sugar, it belongs to the category of “consuming thirst” and “spleen disease” in Chinese medicine. You can drink some of the tea with maitake and bamboo, etc., to relieve the symptoms of thirst and irritability caused by elevated blood sugar.
Ophiopogon belongs to heart, lung and stomach meridians, and can nourish yin and promote the production of fluids, moisten the lung and clear the heart. It is used for dry cough, cough with deficiency of yin, paralysis of the throat (redness, swelling and pain in the pharynx, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or itchy discomfort in the pharynx, difficulty in swallowing), sore throat, thirst due to injury of the body fluid, thirst due to internal heat (internal fever accompanied by symptoms such as eating, drinking and urinating), insomnia, and constipation due to dryness of the intestines.
Yucca enters the lung and stomach meridians, and can nourish yin and moisten dryness, and promote the production of fluids to quench thirst. It is used for lung and stomach yin injury, dry and hot cough, dry throat and thirst, internal heat and thirst.
It should be noted that the specific tea substitute needs to be prescribed by a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, tea substitute can not replace drug therapy. Patients with high blood sugar should take hypoglycemic drugs on time according to the doctor’s instructions, and exercise properly under the guidance of the doctor.