How to make a floral sun tea using one of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s top herbs

Enjoy this refreshing summertime tea using one of Traditional Asian Medicine’s top medicinal flowers. Honeysuckle, called Jin Yin Hua, is a time-honored herb with anti-inflammatory, protective, cleansing and replenishing properties.

In early summer, a traditional ethnobotanical practice in China is gather the flower bud and emerging blooms of honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica, for food and medicine. Energetically, it’s sweet and cool nature is perfect refreshment for a warm summer day.

This delicious recipe using honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), blood orange and mint to cool and revitalize your body and nourish healthy glowing skin. Psychospiritually, this beautiful aromatic flower grounds you into present time and boosts appreciation of the here and now.

Honeysuckle Sun Tea Benefits:

• Detoxify your body

• Improve your skin’s health. Eases acne, boils, rashes, dryness, eczema and psoriasis

• Enhance your digestion

• Bolsters immunity; clears wind-heat in TCM

• Support lung health; eases cold/flu symptoms and upper respiratory infections.

• Support healthy blood sugar levels

• Elevate your mood

• Cleanses and protects your liver

• Nourishes hydration and body’s yin fluids

Honeysuckle Sun Tea acts upon the following acupuncture channels/meridians for inner strength and harmony: 

• Lung

• Heart

• Stomach

How to:

In a pitcher of spring or purified water add 1/4 cup of fresh or dried honeysuckle flowers, thinly sliced blood orange with rind and a handful of fresh mint such as peppermint, spearmint or chocolate mint.

Let the flowers, citrus and herb infuse in the sun for at least 2 full hours for full flavor and benefit.