wonderbread

This is less food related but I spent a summer in Hong Kong and had a terrible allergic reaction to some mosquito bites there. We went to a Chinese herbal doctor, and he prescribed boiling a tonic out of lemongrass stalks and dabbing it on the bites. I experimented with making tea out of dried lemongrass from the spice store and found it was too warming - too much yeet hay, made my tongue dry. Anyone else had a similar reaction?