As medicine for cough and cold in early China
nope
they drank tea as medicine before exporting to europe
Native Americans used pumpkins in several different ways: when they cleaned the seeds out they used them for medicine .They will boil them and make them kind of a tea that they drank for different sicknesses .
hebal tea
yes. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!Tea bricks were in fact the preferred form of currency over metallic coins for the nomads. The tea could not only be used as money and eaten as food in times of hunger but also prepared as supposedly beneficial medicine for treating coughs and colds.
Green tea.
* To sweeten beverages, such as tea or coffee * To sweeten cereal * For baking and cooking * To make the medicine go down
"The Chinese have consumed tea for thousands of years. People of the Han Dynasty used tea as medicine (though the first use of tea as a stimulant is unknown). China is considered to have the earliest records of tea consumption, with records dating back to the 10th century BC." (taken from the following wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea#Origin_and_history)
It's a small red fruit that's used in Chinese and Korean traditional medicine, where it's believed to alleviate stress. It's used as a tea in Japan.
2 popular herbal medicines are green tea and yellow tea.
Bitter Melon is the English name for Gobyab. Gobyab is from the gourd family. Its flesh is used in Asian cooking and a tea or broth for cooking can be made from dried bitter melon. The tea is very mild and does not have a strong bitter flavour. In traditional Chinese medicine, bitter melon can be used to aid digestion and lower blood sugar.