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Suitable for hoarseness due to lung heat, sore throat, etc. After pharyngitis, throat itching and chronic pharyngitis occur, Boat-fruited Sterculia can be used to make tea to moisten dryness, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, nourish yin and moisten lungs, and effectively prevent discomfort such as dry throat. Usually 3-5 tablets are soaked in boiling water, or made into sea crystal sugar drinks, or made into sea platycodon grandiflorum tea with platycodon grandiflorum and honey. However, experts remind that boat-fruited Sterculia is sweet and cool, so it is not suitable for long-term drinking. Deficiency of cold in spleen and stomach and deficiency of yang in spleen and kidney are not suitable, and chronic colitis and diarrhea are not suitable. In addition, Boat-fruited Sterculia is mainly suitable for hoarseness caused by wind-heat and lung dryness, so hoarseness caused by wind-cold and lung-kidney yin deficiency is not suitable.
Boat-fruited Sterculia tea: 3 pieces of boat-fruited Sterculia, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash boat-fruited Sterculia with warm water first, and then brew it with rock sugar in boiling water for 15 minutes as a tea substitute. It has the effects of clearing away heat, moistening lung, relieving sore throat and detoxicating, and is suitable for acute and chronic pharyngitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis or itchy throat.