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.
Read biteIn brief
In TCM, a runny or stuffy nose often sits with wind invading the Lung’s surface. This tea uses 3 g Xin Yi, 3 g mint, and 3 g Bai Zhi with boiling water for five minutes. Wrap Xin Yi so fibres do not scratch the throat. Educational food therapy for nasal opening, not Cang Er Zi San and not a substitute for a physician visit.
Recipe
The method
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Wrap Xin Yi
Place 3 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, 3 g mint, and 3 g Bai Zhi into a cup. Pour boiling water over them. Cover and steep for five minutes.
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Sip warm
Drink while warm. Strain if you prefer a clearer cup. This is a kitchen habit, not a medicine dose.
Try today Wrap 3 g Xin Yi, add mint and Bai Zhi, and steep one cup for five minutes.
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Kitchen recipes are educational, not personal medical advice. Seek urgent care for high fever, severe facial swelling, sudden vision change, or breathlessness. Book a consult for a runny or blocked nose that keeps returning.
FAQs
Quick questions
Is this tea the same as Siberian Cocklour Fruit tea?
No. Siberian Cocklour Fruit tea (苍耳子茶) adds processed Cang Er Zi to Bai Zhi, Xin Yi, and mint. This Tea Series cup uses only Xin Yi, mint, and Bai Zhi at kitchen amounts. Do not add raw cocklebur fruit at home.
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.
Is this for allergic rhinitis or a cold?
Both can show as a runny or stuffy nose. This steep is educational food therapy when wind sits on the Lung’s surface. Chronic allergy, yellow-green mucus, or facial pain still need a physician pattern read.
Can I drink this every day?
Use it as a short kitchen reset when the nose runs or feels blocked, 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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