Healer's Tea | A TCM Formula for Jing & Qi
- tinydragontonics
- Jun 16
- 4 min read
The "healers tea" traditionally refers to a combination of these tonic herbs: Licorice root (Glycyrrhizae uralensis) and Dendrobium (Suk Gok). When Goji berries (Lycium Fruit) and Schisandra berries (Schizandrae Fructus) are added to this classic formula, healer's tea's benefits expand significantly, creating a powerful tonic brew that supports overall radiant health, vitality, and longevity.
This is why we have created our Restored Essence (based on this classic Healer's Tea formula) with the 4 herbs - Licorice root (Glycyrrhizae uralensis), Dendrobium (Suk Gok), Goji berries (Lycium Fruit) and Schisandra berries (Schizandrae Fructus)
Before we begin, we would like to acknowledge and thank the work of Master Tonic Herbalist Ron Teeguarden, without which we would not have discovered Healer's Tea... Nor would we be able to write this wonderful post!
Here are the primary benefits of this comprehensive "healers tea" formula:
Primary Benefits of the Core "Healers Tea" (Dendrobium & Chinese Licorice):
• Provides "healing energy": Specifically recommended for those involved in the healing arts, as it's believed to supply energy that can be expended in service to others
• Prevents fatigue and breakdown: It helps prevent the fatigue and breakdown common among people dedicated to helping others.
• Rejuvenating power: Many consumers attest to its rejuvenating effects
• Increases power and endurance: For those performing healing arts, regular consumption can increase their power and endurance.
• Aids recovery from stress: It is especially useful during and after heavily stressful circumstances.
• Recovers from sexual overindulgence: This combination quickly replaces lost energy and relieves fatigue resulting from excessive sexual activity, sometimes called "honeymooner's tea"
• Replenishes Kidney Yin Jing energy: Dendrobium specifically replenishes the Yin Jing stored in the Kidneys, considered the body's reservoir of Jing, thus replenishing the whole being.
• Increases generative force and sexual fluids: Dendrobium increases sexual fluids in both men and women.
• Strengthens lower back and knees: Areas traditionally associated with Kidney health.
• Nourishes saliva: Dendrobium nourishes the "Precious Fluid" of saliva.
• Maintains fluid balance and moistens skin: Dendrobium helps balance hot and dry conditions, replaces lost fluids, and contributes to beautiful, moist skin.
• Harmonizes and detoxifies: Licorice Root is a "Great Harmonizer" and "Great Detoxifier," used to harmonize other herbs, eliminate side-effects, drive out poisons and toxins from the system, and clean the blood and Liver.
• Boosts energy and concentration: Licorice builds energy, regulates blood sugar balance, and sharpens the power of concentration.
• Supports digestion and builds muscle: Licorice is tonic to the Spleen, Stomach, and Kidney, regulates the Stomach, aids assimilation of nutrients, and helps build strong muscle tissue.
Additional Healer's Tea Benefits from Goji Berry (Lycium Fruit):
• Superb Yin Jing and Blood tonic.
• Promotes longevity and vigorous, happy life.
• Brightens eyes and improves vision: It is considered the primary tonic for vision in Chinese herbalism.
• Strengthens the legs: A favorite among martial artists and athletes.
• Enhances immune function: Contains polysaccharides that improve immunity, increasing T cell transformation and white cell interleukin-2 activity.
• Improves appetite and sleep.
• Fundamental sexual tonic: Increases sexual fluids and enhances fertility, especially when combined with other tonic herbs.
• Beautifies the skin: Contributes to radiant and firm skin due to its rich carotenoid content.
Additional Healer's Tea Benefits from Schisandra Berry:
• Youth preserver and beautifier: Highly valued for its beauty-enhancing qualities, helping skin retain moisture and elasticity, resulting in a youthful appearance and glowing, clear skin. Protects skin from sun and wind damage.
• Powerful sexual tonic: Increases sexual fluids and staying power in men, and sensitivity and "female elixir" (vaginal secretions) in women. Possesses aphrodisiac qualities, especially with Kidney-tonifying herbs.
• Premium mind tonic: Sharpens concentration, improves memory, and increases alertness without causing nervousness.
• Premier adaptogen: Increases the body's resistance to stress and protects the adrenal glands.
• Primary detoxifying herb for the liver: Helps detoxify the liver and protects it from poisons.
• Strengthens respiratory capacity: Leads to deeper and more powerful breathing, with expectorant and antitussive actions.
• Possesses all five classical tastes: Believed to embody the essence of the five elemental energies, making it a comprehensive tonic.
Synergistic Benefits of the Combined Formula:
• Comprehensive Jing (Essence) Tonification: Dendrobium (Yin Jing), Goji (Yin Jing), and Schisandra (Jing) collectively provide profound support for the body's fundamental life force, including the Kidney energy, which governs aging, reproduction, and vitality.
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Enhanced Sexual Health and Vitality: The combination of Dendrobium's fluid-replenishing properties, Goji's role as a fundamental sexual tonic, and Schisandra's ability to increase sexual fluids and endurance creates a potent blend for sexual vigor and fertility in both men and women.
• Radiant Skin and Anti-Aging: Goji and Schisandra are both renowned beauty tonics that contribute to moist, elastic, and glowing skin, working synergistically with Licorice's beautifying effects and Dendrobium's moistening qualities to promote a youthful appearance and protect against environmental damage.
• Mental Clarity and Stress Adaptation: Schisandra's mind-sharpening and adaptogenic qualities, combined with Licorice's ability to sharpen concentration and relieve stress-related tension, contribute to improved mental function and resilience.
•Liver and Blood Cleansing: Schisandra aids liver detoxification, and Licorice cleanses both the blood and Liver, supporting the body's natural purification processes. Goji is also a blood tonic.
• Overall Harmonization and Bioavailability: Licorice acts as the "Great Adjunct" and "Great Harmonizer," enhancing the effects of the other herbs and ensuring their smooth absorption and activity within the body, making the entire formula more effective and palatable. The overall taste is described as delicious.
This comprehensive Healer's Tea formula, combining these four "superior herbs," provides a broad spectrum of benefits aimed at achieving "radiant health" by nourishing the "Three Treasures" (Jing, Qi, and Shen) and regulating the body's fundamental energies.
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