"Serious illness doctor, minor illnesses to drink herbal tea" Cantonese long complex of herbal tea, Cantonese is "to drink herbal tea grow up", the very young, do not want to drink herbal tea will also be forced to drink their parents, they are in Guangdong "four treasures" one. The Guangdong Lingnan, damp, hot summer and warm in winter, our ancestors in order to dehumidify the heat, put a number of detoxification, the summer heat dehumidification of herbs formulated into a wide variety of herbal tea, every summer, herbal tea will be Cantonese essential drink.

The so-called herbal tea, refers to herbal cold and heat of Chinese herbal medicine Jianshui digestion can make soft drinks to eliminate the summer heat in the human body, or winter caused by dry throat pain and other disorders. Herbal tea is the main ingredient Prunella, mulberry leaves in winter, wild chrysanthemum, cotton due to Chen, Centella asiatica, Kong Mei, plantain, gall head, water Weng flowers, honeysuckle, basil, mint, paniculata, lobelia and many more. There are also advertised "18 mei herbal tea" or "herbal tea RedBull" of sorts, but in fact mostly similar.

Guangzhou has a long history of herbal tea, herbal tea many varieties, there are Wong Lo Kat herbal tea, herbal tea three tiger Church, Huang Zhenlong Chinese herb tea, herbal tea loud-hailer, Shi Qi herbal tea, herbal tea RedBull, gourd tea, health, Jin Yinju five tea, bitter gourd and other dry; even even paste soup, raw fish GE soup, carrot bamboo cane water, has become the Guangzhou people love the traditional old herbal tea.

"Goose, lychee, herbal tea." Simple sentence but fully describe the characteristics of Guangzhou. Supper already ate roast goose, a meal, a person leisurely Guangzhao end of the street and alley, bought some lychee round, bowl of herbal tea drink herbal tea streaky yard. There are three main forms of selling herbal tea. First, the pharmacy, the size of the sale of manufactured herbal tea bag or dry goods, after customer buy decoction, or with boiled water. The second category is herbal tea shop, in addition to selling dry goods other than large tea bags, for the convenience of the masses, they also set up shop to sell thoroughfares have a good ready-made herbal tea pot, drinking supply passing and neighborhood. The third category is herbal tea stalls, mostly individual stalls, and more generally to repurchase pharmacy herbal tea bags, but also since the purchase of herbs formulated, processed fried to bowl or cup sold.