Drinking tea can preserve health and even cure diseases. This is the experience and wisdom formed by Chinese ancestors over thousands of years.
Tea, this magical drink, can be traced back to the ancient Shennong. According to Lu Yu's "The Classic of Tea", "tea as a drink originated from Shennong". Legend has it that when Shennong was boiling water in the wild, several leaves accidentally fell into the pot.
The boiled water is slightly yellow in color. After drinking it, it quenches thirst and refreshes the mind. With the experience of tasting hundreds of herbs, Shennong judged that this kind of leaf has medicinal value, and thus discovered tea, which is also the earliest source of tea medicinal use.
After thousands of years of development, tea drinking has become a tradition of the Chinese nation and has formed a unique tea culture. According to modern scientific research, tea contains more than 600 chemical components (tea polyphenols, caffeine, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, etc.), which not only have the effects of health preservation, health care, beauty, weight loss, refreshing, improving eyesight, and refreshing the brain, but also can prevent and treat certain diseases and benefit the body and mind.
"Drinking tea for health preservation" is already a well-known fact, but if you want to achieve real health preservation through drinking tea, you must also follow the four principles of "early, less, light, and warm". Drinking tea scientifically can make the body healthy and will not have a negative impact on the body.
Early - Drinking tea in the morning is the best time
After a day and night of metabolism, the human body consumes a lot of water, and the blood concentration is high. Drinking a cup of light tea in the morning can not only replenish water, but also dilute the blood and prevent damage to the gastric mucosa. Especially for middle-aged and elderly people, drinking a cup of light tea after getting up early is very beneficial to health.
Small - Drinking tea in small amounts is better
Drinking tea in excess is not advisable. A large amount of tea entering the blood vessels will increase the burden on the heart. In addition, caffeine and theophylline in tea are stimulants that can speed up the heartbeat. If you drink a lot of tea, you will experience "tea drunkenness" symptoms such as chest tightness and palpitations. In addition, drinking a lot of tea will dilute gastric juice and reduce the concentration of gastric juice, resulting in symptoms such as indigestion and abdominal distension.
Light - Drinking tea in light amounts is better
When the human body drinks a large amount of strong tea, the combination of tannic acid and iron will become more active, which will hinder the body's absorption of iron. Elderly people who drink strong tea will show iron deficiency anemia. In addition, tannic acid can also combine with protein in food to produce a tannic acid protein that is difficult to digest and absorb, which will have a serious impact on people with constipation and aggravate the symptoms of constipation.
Warm - Drinking tea in warm amounts is better
Related scientific experiments have shown that drinking warm tea can reduce the body's "fire" due to the coolness of tea and excrete it with urine. Drinking tea that is too hot to burn your mouth will cause strong irritation to the throat, esophagus and stomach, and may also cause mucosal lesions in these organs, affecting your health.
In summary, friends who want to drink tea for health must follow the four principles of "early, less, light, and warm". Only by drinking tea scientifically can you drink health, pleasure, and happiness.