24 flavors
24 flavors is a Cantonese herbal tea, consumed for medicinal purposes. Its name refers to the fact that it is a combination of many different ingredients. The recipe is not fixed, and thus may vary according to the producer.
The tea is somewhat bitter in taste and may be consumed by a person who has too much '熱氣' or 'hot air'.
Typical ingredients (will vary by producer)
- Mulberry leaf
- Chrysanthemum flower
- Japanese Honeysuckle flower
- Bamboo leaf
- Peppermint
- Imperata cylindrica
- Siraitia grosvenorii
- Agastache rugosa
- Perilla frutescens
- Elsholtzia
- Fermented soybean
- Cleistocalyx operculatus flower
- Microcos paniculata leaf
- ''Ilex rotunda''