Tea has been a top-grade health product since ancient times. Drinking two cups of tea a day can regulate the five internal organs, clean the blood, activate blood vessels, resist aging, and remove toxins. Winter is cold and dry. A cup of hot tea can not only drive away the cold and keep warm, but also nourish and maintain health. The editor recommends seven health teas that are most suitable for winter drinking. Let's take a look!
Drink black tea to prevent influenza
Drinking tea in winter is the best choice for black tea. Black tea is sweet and warm, which can nourish the body's yang energy. Black tea is rich in protein and sugar, which can nourish the body, promote body fluid and quench thirst, warm the stomach, enhance the body's resistance to cold, and help digestion and remove greasiness.
Drinking black tea can make bones strong. It is recommended to drink a cup of black tea every day and add some warm seasonings to add different flavors to black tea. For example, you can add a small piece of ginger, these seasonings, or match them with some flowers, fruits, milk, honey and other foods, which can not only add flavor to the tea, but also reduce the bitter taste of the tea, and provide a warm feeling. When drinking black tea in winter, you should pay attention to the brewing method. Don't keep it in a draught for a long time. You should use the method of separating tea and soup to ensure that the tea soup is rich but not bitter. At the same time, it can also extend the number of times the black tea can be brewed.
Method: Take 3 grams of black tea, 100 grams of milk, and 2 grams of salt. Put the black tea in a pot, add water and boil for 5 minutes. Filter the black tea leaves and boil the milk in another pot. After the milk is boiled, add the tea juice and stir with salt.
Drinking milk black tea once a morning can effectively replenish qi and blood and strengthen the body. Or brewing astragalus black tea is also good. Take 15 grams of astragalus and 3 grams of black tea. Put the astragalus in a pot, add appropriate amount of water and boil for about 15 minutes. After adding the black tea, boil together for about 5 minutes and you can drink it.
Green tea is the best choice for people with internal heat
The dry climate in winter, coupled with people's love of eating greasy and spicy food, has become a health problem that troubles many people, and brings about consequences such as constipation, dry mouth and even mouth sores, and green tea can be used for help at this time.
Green tea is an unfermented tea, cold in nature, and can clear away heat, so it is the best for clearing away heat, promoting fluid and quenching thirst, digesting food and reducing phlegm, and green tea is rich in theanine, which can soothe nerves and make people happy. It also accelerates the healing of mild gastric ulcers, and can lower blood lipids and prevent vascular sclerosis.
Therefore, people who are prone to internal heat, who usually like to smoke and drink, and who are fat (generally with a hot constitution) are more suitable for drinking green tea; while people with cold stomachs and intestines should not take green tea.
Depression may wish to taste flower tea
Generally speaking, flower tea can nourish the liver and gallbladder, strengthen the limbs, and dredge the meridians. Taking jasmine tea as an example, it can whiten the skin, clean the stomach and intestines, eliminate stool, and effectively remove toxins in the intestines. Honeysuckle tea can clear away heat and detoxify, refresh and quench thirst, and has a relatively ideal effect on sore throats, etc. It is also effective in preventing influenza. Rose tea has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving depression and calming the mind, and improving mood, which is especially suitable for women.
Therefore, it is advisable to choose it appropriately in winter, especially women are prone to depression and irritability during menopause and before and after menstruation. It is advisable to use the method of drinking flower tea to dispel depression.
Black bean tea nourishes the kidney and resists aging
Black beans belong to the spleen and kidney meridians. After the beginning of winter, the body's yang energy begins to be stored inside. The kidneys are responsible for storing essence. Black beans can nourish the kidneys and benefit essence. Drinking black bean water has many benefits. It is recorded in the "Chinese Herbal Manual" that black beans are very effective in delaying aging and treating waist and knee pain. In addition, women who want to nourish the kidneys and black hair can also often use this tea.
The nutritional value of black beans is comparable to that of soybeans, and the medicinal value is higher than that of soybeans. Drinking this tea in the late menstrual period or when the menstrual blood volume is small can protect the weak body. This blood-activating and nourishing tea is not easy to digest, so it is not suitable for patients with poor digestive function, uric acid, and gout to consume excessively.
Method: Take 100 grams of black beans, 10 grams of sappan wood, appropriate amount of brown sugar, and 700 ml of water. Wash the black beans with clean water, drain the water and set aside. Add appropriate amount of clean water, sappan wood and black beans to the pot, cook the black beans and remove the sappan wood and black beans. Then add appropriate amount of brown sugar, stir and melt it before eating.
Red Date Tea Enhances Physical Fitness
Red dates have the effect of enhancing physical fitness and strengthening muscle strength. It contains cyclic adenosine monophosphate, which can dilate coronary arteries and enhance myocardial contractility. It also contains ingredients such as hawthorn acid, which has the effect of inhibiting cancer.
Red dates contain sugars, organic acids, proteins, and vitamins A, B, and C. It is flat in nature, sweet and mellow in taste, can nourish the spleen and stomach, and is used for weak spleen and stomach. Red dates have a high sugar content and generate a lot of heat, so they are particularly suitable for consumption in winter.
Method: It is best to use 10-15 red dates each time. Cut the date skin, put it in a teacup, and brew it with boiling water instead of tea. Regular consumption has a stomach-strengthening and nourishing effect. It is a good therapeutic beverage for all ages.
Drink wolfberry tea for dry mouth and tongue
Wolfberry tea has the effects of relieving fever, treating diabetes, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. In addition, wolfberry tea also has the effects of treating various diseases such as physical weakness, frigidity, stomach-strengthening, liver and kidney diseases, tuberculosis, constipation, insomnia, low blood pressure, anemia, various eye diseases, hair loss, stomatitis, skin care, etc. The medicinal effect of wolfberry tea is very wide, and there will be no side effects if wolfberry is consumed or drunk for a long time.
Method: Take a small handful of wolfberry (about 20 to 30 grains) and 3-4 red dates. Put the wolfberry and red dates directly into a glass and brew them with boiling water or boil them with water before taking them.
If you have a severe dry mouth and tongue after staying up late, or you are very angry, you can add 1-2 white chrysanthemums to drink together. When drinking, do not take it immediately after pouring in boiling water. You should let the wolfberry and red dates soak in water before drinking, which will have a better effect. The red dates can be cut first and then brewed.
Drink Pu'er tea for cold hands and feet
Pu'er cooked tea is a relatively mild tea. It has the effect of nourishing and protecting the stomach for those with problems in the digestive tract, especially the stomach. The temperature in winter is relatively cold, especially girls may often have cold hands and feet. It is particularly suitable for this part of people with cold body.
In addition, it has a certain effect on patients with chronic diseases. Pu'er tea can cause vasodilation, reduce blood pressure to a certain extent, and reduce heart rate. It has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients with hypertension and arteriosclerosis.
Method: Use 3 grams of cooked Pu'er tea and an appropriate amount of honey. Put the Pu'er tea in a cup and brew it with boiling water; when the tea soup cools to 50-60℃, add an appropriate amount of honey according to personal taste.
Both Pu'er tea and honey have the function of detoxifying and cleansing the intestines. The mild tea nature and nourishing effect of ripe Pu'er tea can offset the stimulation of honey on the cold stomach and intestines. Long-term drinking can also prevent colds.
