Tea knowledge - Tips for drinking tea in summer to help adapt to seasonal changes!

Summer is here, the temperature is gradually rising, and the hot summer has officially begun. In this season of strong yang energy, a cup of suitable tea can not only quench thirst and relieve heat, but also regulate the body and help us better adapt to seasonal changes.

• Benefits of drinking tea in early summer

1. Replenish potassium salts and water

Hot weather will cause people to sweat a lot, and potassium salts in the body will be lost with the discharge of sweat. Tea contains a large amount of potassium. Drinking tea can help effectively replenish the large amount of potassium lost, while maintaining the body's normal physiological metabolic activities.

2. Remove heat and reduce heat, promote body fluid and quench thirst

The caffeine contained in tea can enhance the excitement process of the cerebral cortex, thereby invigorating the spirit, enhancing thinking, and improving efficiency. The aromatic substances in tea are also a cooling agent, which can take away the heat from your body during the volatilization process. In addition, the water-soluble pectin, tea polyphenols, aromatic substances in tea can stimulate the oral membrane and promote saliva secretion, thereby playing a role in promoting body fluid and quenching thirst.

3. Prevent gastrointestinal diseases

If you don't pay attention to hygiene in summer, bacteria will multiply in large numbers, and it is a season with a high incidence of digestive diseases. Tea polyphenols in tea have a bactericidal effect and have a good effect on typhoid bacteria, hanging mess bacteria, dysentery bacteria, etc. In particular, catechins in tea polyphenols can kill or inhibit a variety of bacteria that are harmful to the human body.

Therefore, drinking tea can not only inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria, but also promote the proliferation of beneficial bacteria and improve the immune function of the intestine.

• What kind of tea should I drink in early summer?

1. Green tea

Green tea is a non-fermented tea that retains the natural substances in the fresh leaves to the greatest extent. It is rich in tea polyphenols, caffeine, amino acids and other ingredients, and has the effects of clearing heat, relieving heat, detoxifying, removing fire, and reducing dryness.

2. White tea

White tea is not stir-fried or kneaded, but only needs withering and drying, so it better retains the rich contents such as amino acids, and therefore has a significant effect on reducing fire and removing dryness.

White tea can be brewed hot or cold. Soak in cold water for 6-8 hours, the tea soup is clear and sweet, which can not only replenish water, but also avoid excessive intake of caffeine, especially suitable for children and people with poor sleep.

3. Oolong tea

Semi-fermented tea, the tea nature is between green tea and black tea, with rich aroma, can boost appetite and relieve greasiness. After eating a lot of fish and meat, brewing a pot of oolong tea can effectively help digestion, reduce the burden on the stomach, and remove moisture from the body, making the body lighter and more comfortable.

4. Jasmine tea

Jasmine tea has both the freshness of green tea and the fragrance of jasmine, and has the effects of regulating qi and relieving depression, eliminating filth and harmonizing the middle, and refreshing and relieving fatigue. In early summer, the weather is unpredictable, and people's emotions are easily affected and become irritable. At this time, a cup of fragrant jasmine tea, the elegant floral fragrance seems to dispel the haze in the heart and make people happy.

The evening breeze into tea, drink with nature, there is always a cup of tea that can remind you of the beauty of life.

Starting from this summer, every ordinary day, turn into a poem after another.