Chills and clear phlegm? Warm ginger onion soup
Ginger spring onion soup for wind-cold cough
Warming spring onion, ginger, and apricot-kernel soup for wind-cold cough with clear phlegm and chills. Kitchen habit from the cough Insight.
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In TCM, wind-cold on the Lung’s surface often shows as sinus mucus with a recent chill or clear watery discharge. This tea uses 2 g Xin Yi and 6 g Su Ye with 300–500 ml boiling water for about 15 minutes. Wrap Xin Yi so fibres do not scratch the throat. Educational food therapy for nasal opening, not a substitute for a physician visit.
Recipe
The method
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Wrap Xin Yi
Place 2 g biond magnolia flower in a tea bag or small cloth wrap on its own. The buds are fibrous; wrapping keeps them out of the throat.
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Combine and steep
Put the wrapped Xin Yi and 6 g perilla leaf into a heatproof cup. Pour 300–500 ml boiling water over them. Cover and steep for about 15 minutes.
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Sip once
Drink while warm, once a day, when mucus sits in the sinuses and the chill picture still fits. This is a kitchen habit, not a medicine dose.
Try today Wrap 2 g Xin Yi, add 6 g perilla leaf, and steep one cup for 15 minutes.
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Kitchen recipes are educational, not personal medical advice. Seek urgent care for high fever, severe facial pain, or breathlessness. Book a consult for sinus symptoms that last or keep returning.
FAQs
Quick questions
What is Magnolia Flower and Perilla Leaf Tea (辛夷苏叶茶)?
It is the Tea Series kitchen name for Xin Yi (辛夷) with Su Ye (苏叶): 2 g magnolia flower and 6 g perilla leaf steeped about 15 minutes. The cup is framed for sinus mucus after a chill, not as a standing daily medicine.
Why wrap the magnolia flower?
Xin Yi buds are fibrous. Brewing them in a tea bag or cloth wrap keeps the fibres out of the throat while the aromatic oils still steep into the cup.
How is this different from magnolia mint and Bai Zhi tea?
Magnolia mint Bai Zhi tea adds mint and Bai Zhi for a shorter runny-nose steep. This cup pairs Xin Yi with perilla leaf only, at kitchen amounts, when mucus sits with a wind-cold chill picture.
How is this different from Siberian Cocklour Fruit tea?
Siberian Cocklour Fruit tea adds processed Cang Er Zi as the Cang Er Zi San shape for yellow sinus mucus. This brew is the shorter Xin Yi and Su Ye wind-cold cup. Pattern, not preference, decides which fits.
Can I drink this every day?
Use it as a short kitchen reset when mucus sits in the sinuses after a chill, not as an all-season daily habit. Ease off if you feel heaty afterward, or if mucus turns thick and yellow-green.
Can children drink this tea?
Do not give aromatic openers to young children without physician guidance. Paediatric sinus and allergy patterns often use gentler tuina and child-friendly formulas instead.
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