Guang Huo Xiang Leaves (Pogostemon cablin) — Dried Food-Herb Aromatic Leaf for Tea & Soup

Guang Huo Xiang Leaves (Pogostemon cablin) are the dried leaf of a highly revered aromatic food herb known in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as Guǎng Huò Xiāng (广藿香), also written simply as Huò Xiāng (藿香). For centuries, Huo Xiang has been prized as a fragrant, damp-transforming, and summer-heat-clearing herb, traditionally used to refresh the spirit, ease heaviness in the chest, settle the stomach, and harmonize the middle burner during humid and hot seasons. Its nature is pungent and slightly warm, making it a gentle yet distinctly aromatic herb for moving qi, drying dampness, and awakening the spleen.

Key Selling Points

• Traditional aromatic food herb (药食同源)
• Dried Guang Huo Xiang leaf from Guangdong
• Pogostemon cablin, sliced and dried
• Suitable for summer teas, soups, and congee
• New-crop 500g pack, clean and fragrant

Quality & Sensory

Each batch is carefully sliced and dried to preserve its deep green color, soft leafy texture, and strong, unmistakably aromatic camphor-like fragrance. When brewed, the leaves release a warm, pungent, slightly bitter herbal aroma with a refreshing, cooling aftertaste, filling the cup with the classic scent of southern Chinese summer herbal teas.

Technical Specifications

Usage Scenarios

• Summer herbal tea and cooling infusions
• Chinese-style soup and broth
• Congee and grain porridge
• Seasonal damp-weather food therapy
• Herbal tea blends with other food herbs

Traditional Uses

In folk herbal practice, Huo Xiang is decocted into summer teas, soups, and congee to support the body through humid, hot weather. It is a classic ingredient in southern Chinese summer herbal drinks, where it is brewed alone or blended with ingredients like perilla leaf, tangerine peel, and mint. In medicinal food tradition, it is added to light broths and rice congee to awaken the appetite and harmonize the middle burner during the long damp season.

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