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Chinese love to drink "hot" tea in the summer,.... isn't that kinda hot.

According to TCM understanding, tea has both sweet and bitter flavors and possesses cooling properties. Tea helps to refresh the mind, enhance alertness and boost concentration. Tea can also promote body fluid production, quench thirst, clear heat and phlegm, promotes digestion and urination. Traditionally, it is used as:
A beverage to relieve indigestion and smooth bowel movements. It is especially good when combined with Tetradium ruticarpum (wu zhu yu), ginger or green onion. It is also used to relieve headaches, dizziness, heat stroke and sleepiness.
An antidote to clear toxic heat evils by promoting bowel movements and urination.
When tea is processed with vinegar, it can relieve diarrhea. Decoction of fried tea can treat dysentery.
A concentrated decoction of tea is used to expel phlegm due to wind evil and heat invasion.

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