Many people drink cooling herbal teas like ginseng tea or ling yang tea (antelope's horn tea).

This is because they believe it will help to reduce and soothe symptoms such as a dry throat, cough and constipation, all of which are caused by excess heat.

Here are some teas and the benefits you can derive from them according to Ms Zhao Xu Hong, a TCM physician at Raffles Chinese Medicine and Mr Tan Chong Siew, a physician with Eu Yan Sang TCM clinic.