This book focuses on two major Chinese cultural traditions: TCM and tea drink. It illustrates Shanxi herbal tea, an important carrier of TCM health maintenance culture represented by Shennong who is the Holy Farmer, from the dual perspective of human history and TCM. The book features rich content and attractive illustrations, covering a wide range of issues from the historical origin of Shanxi materia medica, the development of modern herbal tea industry, to various categories of Shanxi herbal tea products. It vividly manifests the intertwined relations between tea and medicine. As herbal medicine is used to make tea, the tea takes the taste and function from the medicine, and the medicine is integrated into tea with unimpaired efficacy. Such integration serves as a good paradigm for those enthusiastic toward health maintenance, TCM, and tea drinks.

Shi Huaisheng, as a researcher, is the director of Shanxi Development and Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), former leader of functional food experts of Shanxi Development Leadership Group for the TCM Industry, and Secretary General of Shanxi Herbal Tea Expert Committee.
Qi Yonghong is the expert of the TCM technical guidance panel of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Deputy Chief of Shanxi TCM Industry System, expert of Shanxi 12316, an agricultural service platform.