We recommend a tea drink for liver disease patients, jujube and wolfberry chrysanthemum tea. Xu Guangfu, Department of Infection, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine The amount can be combined according to the size of your own tea drinking vessel, as appropriate. We recommend that you use transparent glass cups, beautiful and elegant, inexpensive and easy to clean. Chinese wolfberry and chrysanthemum are commonly used in Chinese medicine, together they have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes, benefiting the kidneys and filling the essence, nourishing the innate essence; together with jujube to nourish the middle and benefit the qi, as well as nourishing the blood and calming the mind, nourishing the innate essence. The combination of the three used as a tea substitute, play a clearing and detoxification, spleen and Qi, nourishing the liver and kidney effect. Jujube is sweet and warm, belongs to the spleen and stomach meridian, has the effect of benefiting the qi and strengthening the spleen, nourishing the blood and calming the mind. It is suitable for patients with liver disease because of the deficiency of Qi and blood and the weakness of the spleen and stomach. The only shortcoming is that when used alone, it can easily lead to fire in some patients with severe dampness and heat, and abdominal distension in patients with dampness in their constitution, so it must be used in combination with other two medicines here, and generally not alone. A good jujube has purple-red skin, large fruit, few wrinkles, thin skin, and small nuclei. It is advisable to break the jujube apart when soaking, otherwise it is difficult to soak. If you want to make a tea with jujube, you should fry it or roast it to increase the sweetness and warmth of the jujube, and to make it more fragrant and easier to extract the nutrients. Note that the stir-fry is not the oil kind of stir-fry, only in the absence of oil traces in the pot, nothing, slow continuous heating, stir-fry, slightly blackened can be. The baking in the oven is also possible, but the skin of the dates can be slightly swollen and blackened. The Chinese wolfberry is sweet and flat, belongs to the spleen and kidney meridian, has the effect of nourishing Yin and replenishing blood, tonifying the liver and kidneys, and benefiting the essence and eyes. As chronic liver disease patients, physical and medical manifestations of damp-heat, accounting for up to 80%, clinical observation, many patients use, easy to fire, help damp, so it must be combined in order to limit its disadvantages. Chinese wolfberry nourishes the yin of the liver and kidneys, every yin seeks yang, nourishes yin without suppressing yang, especially for patients with long-standing liver disease. Chinese medicine is to seek the authentic medicinal herbs effective, wolfberry produced in ningxia for the best, good wolfberry color red, full of particles, the larger the better. Modern research shows that the real active ingredient in Chinese wolfberry is Chinese wolfberry polysaccharide, which plays a two-way regulation of immunity, and can protect the liver, and the bubble tea is difficult to analyze all the active ingredients, resulting in waste, so it is recommended that patients drink tea and chew all the wolfberry. There is information, now the wolfberry, sugar content is relatively high, originally in tianjin hebei coastal area of the mudflat wetlands and saline land, had widely used wolfberry to “pressure alkali”, is to improve the saline land, after planting a few years, the saline land can normally plant other crops, this wolfberry, slightly bitter taste, eat will not be on fire, is the The best Chinese medicine, however, time has changed, this industry is no longer, this wolfberry is also no longer. Chrysanthemum is pungent, sweet and bitter, slightly cold, with the effect of dispersing wind-heat, calming liver Yang, clearing the liver and eyes, clearing heat and detoxifying. The first thing to do is not to choose the chrysanthemums that are too bright and beautiful in color, you should choose the chrysanthemums that have calyx and are green in color, which are the freshest; the ones that are dark in color cannot be chosen, these are aged chrysanthemums and are likely to grow mold; choose the ones that are soft and smooth to the touch, and the ones that have petals that are not disorganized and do not fall off, these chrysanthemums should be picked when they are just open. The usual tribute chrysanthemum and Hangbai chrysanthemum are available. Now there are wild chrysanthemum on the market, wild chrysanthemum pungent, bitter, compared to the chrysanthemum taste bitter, “Compendium of Materia Medica” cloud it has “small poison”, may be due to the lack of understanding, in fact, the taste of wild chrysanthemum bitter can detoxify the liver disease! Patients with liver disease who also have a weak spleen and stomach need not be afraid, as the coldness can be restrained by pairing with jujube.