Tea Knowledge - Drink white tea in summer, and the heat won't bother you!

White tea is a treasure among teas with a long history. Its elegant and fragrant name has been around for more than 880 years.

Why is white tea so famous? Its efficacy and effects are indispensable. So what exactly does white tea do?

White tea has the health benefits of not only the three anti- and three-reducing effects that everyone is familiar with, but also the health benefits of reducing fire and heat, anti-inflammatory and summer heat relief, diuresis and detoxification, nourishing the liver, nourishing the heart and refreshing, eliminating fatigue, and many other health benefits. As more and more people understand the health benefits of white tea, it also promotes the consumption of white tea.

Deep-processed products related to white tea have appeared one after another, and white tea beverages and white tea skin care products have been listed at home and abroad.

◆ Reduce internal heat, clear away heat, and avoid summer heat

White tea can reduce internal heat, relieve anxiety, calm the mind, and help improve sleep quality. In particular, aged new-process white tea (aged old white tea) has outstanding effects in reducing internal heat, relieving inflammation, clearing away heat, and detoxifying.

Suggestions: Drink scented tea in spring, white tea and green tea in summer to prevent heatstroke and cool down, drink green tea in autumn, and drink black tea and dark tea in winter to nourish the stomach; tea should be drunk in combination, not just one type, and white tea should be drunk regularly, not intermittently. To some extent, white tea has the best effect in preventing heatstroke and cooling down, and the health benefits of white tea require long-term drinking to have a good health care effect.

◆ Treat wind and fire, toothache

The local people of Fuding have been using white tea to cook and drink since ancient times, which is used to treat wind and fire, toothache. The specific method is: add 10g of aged white tea with clean water, preferably aged for more than three years, cook for 3 minutes until the juice is thick, filter out the tea, wait until it cools to 70 degrees, add large pieces of rock sugar or honey and drink it while hot. This kind of white tea tastes mellow and unique.

◆ Diuretic and detoxifying

More than 2,000 years ago, "Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica" recorded: "Shennong tasted white grass, encountered 72 poisons every day, and got tea to solve them." Tea is tea. Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty "The Classic of Tea" concluded that "tea as a drink originated from Shennong and was known to Zhou Lugong."

The high content of flavanol compounds in tea polyphenols in Fujian white tea can stimulate renal vasodilation, increase renal blood flow, thereby increasing the glomerular filtration rate, eliminating lactic acid in urine, and achieving a diuretic and detoxifying effect.

◆ Anti-allergic reaction

Clinical allergic reactions can be divided into two categories and four types according to the type of onset: immediate type (type I, II, III) and delayed type (type IV). Allergic dermatitis has a very high clinical incidence in newborns, accounting for about 20% to 30%, and the incidence in adolescents is also more than 2% to 3%.

The catechins and unique tea polyphenols contained in white tea are the main anti-allergic active ingredients. White tea can also effectively reduce dermal edema at the site of inflammation, achieving the health-care and anti-allergic effect of white tea.

◆ Eye care

White tea is also rich in provitamin A. After being absorbed by the human body, it can be quickly converted into vitamin A, which can prevent night blindness and dry eye disease, and play a role in eye care. It is especially suitable for office workers and teenagers who face computers for a long time.

◆ Protect the cardiovascular system

The flavonoids of white tea retain quercetin better during processing, which is an important component of vitamin P and has a significant effect on reducing blood vessel blockage and maintaining vascular permeability.

◆ Enhance immunity

Theanine is decomposed into ethylamine in the human liver, which can mobilize human blood immune cells called "gamma-delta T cells" to respond to external invasion, and then T cells promote the secretion of interferon, forming a "chemical defense line" for the human body to resist infection. According to the research results of Dr. Bukovsky, an American scientist at Harvard Medical School, drinking white tea can increase the secretion of interferon in human blood immune cells by 5 times. Long-term drinking of white tea can improve the body's resistance to disease and enhance immunity.

◆ Liver nourishment and liver protection

Dr. Yuan Dishun, director of the Chinese White Tea Research Institute of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, emphasized the liver protection effect of white tea at the forum. He introduced that compared with the control sample, the health care effect of white tea dried at 120℃ can significantly reduce the pathological operation of CC14 on liver cells, and the protection effect of high-dose treatment is better than that of medium and low-dose treatment, indicating that white tea has a liver protection effect. At the same time, it shows that the simple and unique withering and baking processing technology of white tea has a greater impact on the liver protection effect. His research results show that white tea baked at 30℃ can also significantly reduce the pathological damage of CC14 to liver cells. Long-term withering is the key processing link of white tea's liver protection effect.

◆ Eliminate fatigue, nourish the heart, and refresh the mind

Caffeine and flavanols in white tea can promote the activity of the pituitary gland in the brain, strengthen muscle contraction, eliminate fatigue, make people clear-headed and refreshed, and help thinking. White tea is resistant to brewing. A cup of tea a day on the journey can well relieve fatigue and refresh the mind.

◆ Treating acclimatization

Local people often use aged white tea with a small amount of salt as a folk remedy for treating acclimatization, and the effect is very good.