A while previously a reader requested me to jot down some recipes for the festivals involving Phoenix dancongs. Barely than using this very explicit subcategory of oolongs in a recipe for entertaining, I take into account it further as a therapy, significantly on this time of the 12 months, when the next festivals are however to come back again and the winter is bitter.
Dancongs
Let’s switch once more one step first. Dancongs — [dahn-chawngs] really translated as single bushes, is a gaggle of distinctive mannequin oolongs which could be historic by the use of every processing method and cultivars inside the Fenghuang (Phoenix) area in Guangdong — are themselves good teas for entertaining, or pacifying, counting on the way in which you present and manifest them. Their superior and completely different traits can ship good experiences merely purely in themselves.
They’re good cures too.
The trauma of seeing hell on Earth
Just a few years previously, as soon as I used to be nonetheless working brick and mortar shops, a small group of outdated prospects received right here in our foremost retailer tea bar, wanting drained, sick and depressed. It was my flip to be tending that afternoon, so that’s first hand experience.
They talked about they’d merely returned from a go to to research the situation inside the “AIDS Village” in China, after which went on to clarify the horrific circumstances by means of which the victims had been residing. I wouldn’t go into particulars, nevertheless it certainly was hellish. A large man talked about he appeared to have contracted a flu or one factor. His eyebags appeared really darkish. His face swollen. I prepared for him significantly a variety of barely stronger rounds of Eight Immortals. As soon as they accomplished pouring out their tales and on the purpose of go home, the big man thanked me for making him actually really feel okay as soon as extra. As a tea man, I merely did what I’d do.
A pinch of caffeine, theanine and floral aroma do help to fluctuate the chemistry inside the nervous system to ship a few little little bit of calmness. Nonetheless, there’s one thing else distinctive in Phoenix dancong oolongs that truly does the trick.
I’ve drunk an entire lot of completely completely different teas, repeatedly for a few years now and there is not a gaggle of teas which may be almost nearly as good in serving to to lower that drag of heaviness a cold or flu brings. I can uncover no analysis on this matter nonetheless empirically one can experience the excellence.
For people who understands just a little little bit of TCM concepts, dancongs are notably helpful amongst teas in serving to to drive the “humid evil” inside the deranged “qi” of the physique. The prevail of humid evil can manifest as indicators of colds and flus.
Uncertain whether or not or not it’s that particular group of cultivars, the actual processing mannequin, the enlargement environment, or the combination of all these, there’s one thing explicit in dancongs that provides not solely their distinctive type characters, however moreover this supplementary revenue.
Now, let start to discuss this “hangover tea”.
Hangover tea recipe
( moreover for colds and flus, and head-wind variety problems )
- Ginger 15g
- Chan pei 1 complete
- Phoenix dancong tea 7 g
- Water 250ml (after boiling)
- Darkish raw sugar 3 teaspoonfuls (Shouldn’t use yellow sugar or white sugar)
I am going to make clear regarding the parts later underneath nonetheless let’s bear the straightforward course of first.
- Thinly slice the ginger
- Wash and tear the chan pei into small objects. Scissor it if needed
- Boil them in water for 10 to fifteen min, in low heat
- Use the water to infuse your tea for 8 min, ideally in a thick ceramic vessel with an an identical web functionality of 250 ml
- Put the sugar in a serving cup. Decant the infusion into the cup. Stir to mix the sugar and luxuriate in it whereas scorching.
Maybe it was the local weather, probably it was my age, I’ve expert a pair episodes of delicate problems this winter. Significantly the morning after just a little little bit of alcohol the sooner night, or when the temperature drops immediately.
I’d self-diagnose in TCM time interval that “wind” was trapped in my head and if it was not dissipated, it should forestall the circulations of assorted energies and completely different sicknesses would develop and persist. So I thought of the normal recipe with Wuyi oolong and ginger (as described on this recipe proper right here), nonetheless maximise the influence with Phoenix as a substitute and add chan pei for its supplementary benefits.