Nature, read with precision
Herbs, blends and teas from the Chinese materia medica, selected and traced. Every product page sets out nature, flavours and traditional use.
End of Heat 处暑 Chǔshǔ
The great heats withdraw; a time of anchoring and of transformation before the harvest.
The long end of summer, moist: the tradition goes to the sweet and bland flavours — while moderating heavy sweetness (淡渗利湿).
Five worlds
Herbs, teas, infusions, blends and equipment: five families through which to approach the Chinese materia medica.
By thermal nature
In the Chinese tradition every herb carries a nature — its thermal register. Five degrees, from cold to hot.
Chinese tradition
Find your season of the moment
A few questions, a reading of your season of the moment in the classical register, and a selection to match.
Products
Eight Treasures Infusion
八宝茶 · Ba Bao Cha
4,83€
Royal red ginseng
红人参精 · Hong Ren Shen Jing
5,83€
Royal ginseng
人参精 · Ren Shen Jing
5,83€
Passing on the tradition, rigorously
BotaQi was born of a simple conviction: the traditional Chinese materia medica deserves to be passed on with rigour, clarity and respect.
From France, we select herbs, blends and teas from identified and controlled supply chains. Every product page makes the language of the Chinese tradition legible — natures, flavours, Phases — so you grasp the logic of a plant before choosing it.
Reading a Chinese herb
Every BotaQi product page gives the nature, the flavours and the Phases of a herb. Here are the keys to reading them.
Nature
From cold to hot — the thermal register the tradition assigns.
Flavours
Sweet, bitter, pungent, sour, salty — each orients how a herb is read.
The Phases
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water — the five Phases and their affinities.