Homemade Slimming Tea: Green Tea Slimming Tea Recipes and Twelve Beauty Slimming Teas

Section 6 Homemade Weight Loss Tea

Dieting, exercise, diet pills, beauty and slimming treatments... these seem to be mandatory courses for slim women. But not everyone can afford to spend so much money and time. If you're struggling with this, don't worry, here are a few homemade slimming tea recipes that simplify things, allowing you to easily and calmly drink away fat!

1. Five types of green tea for weight loss

Fragrant green tea has always been a popular and healthy drink for weight loss, but there's a lot to know about how to drink it properly. No wonder many who have tried it complain that no miracles have happened. Below are five green tea recipes for weight loss:

Hakka Lei Cha (擂茶):

Tea recipe: Green tea powder and Job's tears, in appropriate amounts.

Instructions: Place green tea powder in a bowl, then add some roasted Job's tears powder (brown rice powder or soybean powder can also be used), add butter and stir well. Pour hot water over the mixture and it is ready to drink.

Functions: It can nourish and beautify the skin, making it more translucent and tender, and it can also promote diuresis and reduce fat.

Lotus leaf drink:

Tea recipe: 2 grams of green tea powder and 3 mace of lotus leaf.

Instructions: Steep in boiling water and drink as a beverage.

Functions: It is effective for dry mouth and tongue, acne, poor blood circulation, loose and flabby facial skin, and obesity.

Hawthorn Slimming Green Tea:

Tea recipe: 6 grams of green tea powder and 5 mace of hawthorn.

Instructions: Add three bowls of water and boil for 6 minutes. Drink after meals. You can add boiling water to continue drinking. One dose per day.

Functions: It can eliminate excess fat and is also effective in dispersing blood stasis.

Lipid-lowering and health-promoting green tea:

Tea recipe: 6 grams of green tea powder, 3 qian each of Polygonum multiflorum, Alisma plantago-aquatica, and Salvia miltiorrhiza.

Instructions: Add seven bowls of water and simmer until reduced to two bowls of broth. Take one dose daily.

Functions: It can improve anemia, poor metabolism, and edema, and can also reduce fat.

Slimming green tea:

Tea recipe: 1 gram of green tea and half a mace of rhubarb.

Instructions: Simply steep in boiling water and drink.

Uses: This tea can treat bad breath, mouth ulcers, reduce internal heat, relieve constipation, and reduce excess fat. Regular consumption can also have anti-aging effects. However, people with loose stools may experience diarrhea after consuming it and should avoid it.

Note that while you can drink plenty of green tea, you shouldn't brew it haphazardly. When brewing green tea, the water temperature should be controlled at around 80℃-90℃. If brewing green tea powder, use warm water at around 40℃-60℃. The recommended ratio is 2 grams of green tea powder to 450 ml of warm water.

Do not drink the first brew of tea. After pouring in hot water, shake it once and then pour it out. Brewed tea should be consumed within 30-60 minutes, otherwise the nutrients in the tea will become unstable.

Green tea powder should not be brewed too strong, otherwise it will affect the secretion of gastric juices. It is best not to drink it on an empty stomach.

2. 12 Beauty Slimming Teas

This tea isn't the traditional flower tea or black tea, but rather tea made from ingredients you choose according to your needs, such as barley, lotus leaf, lemon, etc. The preparation method is very simple, allowing you to easily make it at home!

Job's tears tea: There are many causes of edema. If it is simply caused by water retention, it is recommended to drink Job's tears tea.

Ingredients: 10g roasted Job's tears, 5g fresh lotus leaf, 5g hawthorn.

Preparation: Boil in hot water, then it is ready to drink.

Efficacy: Clears heat, promotes diuresis, and treats edema.

Barley malt tea: Poor gas expulsion can also cause bloating and stomach distension. Drinking barley malt tea is recommended.

Ingredients: 5 qian of roasted malt and 5 grams of hawthorn.

Preparation: Add rock sugar and mix with water to make a drink.

Efficacy: Improves appetite and strengthens the spleen, regulates the middle and lower body, relieves indigestion and bloating.

Cassia seed tea: For people with slow intestinal motility (especially obese dieters during weight loss), constipation is likely to occur due to the accumulation of stool in the body. Cassia seed tea is recommended.

Ingredients: Cassia seed tea.

Preparation method: Steep in hot water.

Efficacy: Clears the liver and improves eyesight, promotes urination and relieves constipation.

Oolong tea: When dieting to lose weight, eating less results in insufficient food residue, sometimes leading to constipation as bowel movements occur only every few days. Oolong tea is recommended.

Ingredient: Oolong tea.

Preparation method: Simply pour boiling water over it.

Efficacy: It can relieve indigestion, clear phlegm and heat, detoxify alcohol and oily food, and reduce fat when consumed in large quantities.

Lotus leaf tea: Low mood and high stress may increase intestinal sensitivity, leading to constipation. Drinking lotus leaf tea is recommended.

Ingredients: 3 grams of lotus leaf, 6 grams of roasted cassia seed, and 3 rose petals.

Preparation method: Pour boiling water over the ingredients.

Efficacy: Clears heat and dampness, treats edema, and promotes hair growth.

Pu-erh tea: Undigested food in the stomach not only affects gastrointestinal function but also prevents the normal metabolism of fats and sugars, leading to weight gain. Pu-erh tea is recommended.

Ingredients: Pu-erh tea leaves, 5 dried chrysanthemum flowers.

Preparation method: Steep in hot water.

Benefits: Aids digestion and eliminates grease.

Lemon tea: It can help reduce fat and oiliness, and also whiten the skin.

Ingredients: Sliced ​​lemon.

Preparation: Squeeze out lemon juice, dilute with warm water, and add an appropriate amount of honey.

Benefits: Reduces fat, aids digestion, whitens skin, and moisturizes the lungs.

Rose tea: Roses are versatile; they can be used to make tea or infuse alcohol. Drinking more of them can protect your stomach.

Ingredients: 5 grams of rose petals.

Preparation: Steep in warm water.

Efficacy: Promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis; treats liver and stomach pain.

Tangerine peel tea: If you accidentally eat too much oily food, no problem, brew a pot of tangerine peel tea to get rid of the greasiness.

Ingredients: 4 grams of dried tangerine peel.

Preparation method: Steep in boiling water.

Efficacy: Regulates Qi and harmonizes the middle Jiao, soothes the liver and strengthens the spleen, and promotes digestion and eliminates stagnation.

Chrysanthemum tea: The most convenient drink for clearing heat and losing weight.

Ingredients: A few dried chrysanthemums.

Preparation method: Steep directly in hot water.

Efficacy: Clears heat and detoxifies, reduces fat, and lowers blood pressure.

Hawthorn tea: Hawthorn tea is more suitable for obese people who like to eat meat.

Ingredients: 10 grams of hawthorn.

Preparation method: Boil in water.

Efficacy: It can eliminate grease, help excrete waste from the body, and disperse blood stasis and phlegm.

Sour root tea: an absolutely great drink for weight loss. Brew a cup after meals to achieve your weight loss goals while enjoying its delicious sweet and sour taste.

Ingredients: 10g hawthorn root, 10g shepherd's purse flower, 10g corn silk, 10g tea tree root, a little sugar.

Preparation: Grind all the above ingredients into coarse powder, decoct them into a soup and extract the juice.

Efficacy: Diuretic and lipid-lowering, suitable for obese people and people with high blood pressure.

Cindy Crawford's classic tip: To lose weight, start by preventing further weight gain, meaning controlling the addition of new excess fat. Then, through a balanced diet, burn an average of 700 to 800 grams of fat per week. With patience, you'll see initial results in just three months. You must learn to balance your daily diet with nutritious foods, replacing harmful "eating less" or even "not eating" with "eating right." Eat more farm-grown, naturally grown produce and less factory-produced vegetables and meats. Alternate between beef on Mondays and fish on Tuesdays to avoid a monotonous diet. Fiber-rich vegetables can also aid in weight loss.