In China among the most common herbal teas is wang lao ji or wong lo kat in Cantonese. Wang lao ji is supposedly a product which was commercialized and marketed by Wang Zebang from Heshan in Guangdong state in 1828.
What Is The Chinese Herbal Tea Wang Lao Ji Made From?
Currently sold as a herbal beverage, using the ingredients being seven distinct sorts of Chinese herbal plants: “Water, white sugar, mesona, dan hua, Bu Zha ye, flowers, jin yin hua, Prunella vulgaris, and licorice.
This is a seven part series exploring the contents of Wang Lao Ji seven herbal tea beverage on Liangcha-Herbal Tea.
One of the important herbs in Wong Lo Kat is Xia ku cao, or Prunella vulgaris popularly called self-heal, heal-all, heart-of-the-earth, and is a medicinal plant in the genus Prunella. It’s a perennial herb found throughout Europe, Asia and the North America and develops by dispersing it’s roots underground. The flowers bloom depending upon the climate and other conditions but normally from June to August.
For medicinal purposes, the whole plant is harvested when the flowers bloom, and dried. The leaves and little flowers are edible.
Heal all is both medicinal and edible and may be used in salads, soups and stews. Medicinally cure all has been used in alternative medicine for centuries on pretty much every continent on earth and for pretty much every ailment.
Plant’s components
Betulinic acid, D-camphor, delphinidin, hyperoside, manganese, oleanolic acid, rosmarinic acid, rutin, ursolic acid, and tannins.
Medicinal properties
Antibacterial, antipyretic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, antiviral, astringent, carminative, diuretic, styptic, and tonic.
Medical Uses
Fevers, diarrhea, sore throat and mouth, internal bleeding, and weaknesses of the liver and heart
Conclusion
There is clinical evaluation demonstrating it’s antibacterial action, inhibiting the growth of pseudomonas, Bacillus typhi, E. coli, Mycobacterium tuberculi. Therefore, encouraging its use as an alternative medication internally and externally as an antibiotic and for difficult to heal wounds and diseases.
