People who are suitable for tea health

Song Tianli, Department of Medicine, Hubei University for Nationalities

The beginning of tea, originally called "tea", now called "tea"

ancient tea

According to literature, tea has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, producing body fluid and quenching thirst, sobering up, and removing fat

Clearing heat, "purging heat", "removing heat", "purifying heat", "clearing heat and reducing fire", "breaking heat", "clearing heat without hurting the yin", "the most effective for treating heat syndrome", and "removing stomach heat" indicate that tea is effective for febrile diseases.

Relieving summer heat "treats injury and heat" and "can cure heat disease", and has a relieving effect on epigastric nausea, fatigue and tiredness caused by heat stroke in summer months

Lishui tea has the functions of "diuresis", "waterway" and "large intestine", and it is very beneficial for urination, stagnation or dripping

The nature and taste of Xiaoshi tea is "slightly sweet, and has the wonder of refreshing the stomach and nourishing the spleen".

Tea for promoting body fluid and quenching thirst can "relieve thirst", "quench thirst", "clear stomach and promote body fluid" and "quench thirst and promote body fluid".

Hangover tea can "relieve hangover" and "sober up", which is beneficial to nausea, vomiting and abdominal fullness after drinking

Soothing tea can "break the lonely", "refresh the mind", "clear the mind", "clean up the trouble", "remove the trouble", "wish the mind", "keep the food for a long time and benefit the meaning"

To remove fat tea "long-term eating makes you thin", "lightweight", "remove greasy", "relieve meat and fishy", "remove greasy", "remove fishy and greasy", "remove fat" and "remove burning poison"

To cure hunger, "the leaves are edible, cook to remove the bitterness two or three times, wash them out, adjust the food with oil, salt, ginger and vinegar" "to save the muscles, the tender leaves or winter leaves can be boiled for soup"

people suitble

According to the production process, tea can be divided into six types: green tea, black tea, yellow tea, white tea, green tea, and dark tea

Green tea Green tea is non-fermented tea, sweet in taste and cold in nature; it can supplement the vitamins consumed by smoking, which can reduce the harm of nicotine to a certain extent; it can reduce the damage of radiation to normal cells of the human body, and is more suitable for occupations that are often exposed to radiation.

　　Black tea Black tea is a complete enzymatic fermented tea (full fermented tea), warm in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, able to neutralize the stomach, invigorate the spleen and eliminate food, especially suitable for people with gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer caused by frequent social interaction , elderly people with habitual constipation and those who are physically weak after surgery

　　Green tea Green tea is semi-fermented tea, which is rich in pigments, minerals, etc.

　　White tea White tea is a lightly fermented tea with acrid, sweet taste and cool in nature.

　　Yellow tea Yellow tea, sweet and mild in taste, cool in nature, can strengthen the spleen and stomach, eliminate accumulation and eliminate dampness, loss of appetite, indigestion, abdominal distension, dysentery and other people with weak spleen and stomach
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　　Dark tea Dark tea is post-fermented tea, which enters the kidneys, and is especially suitable for surgical patients, cancer patients, and the elderly to drink
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　　"China Food News" (August 11, 2022 Edition 07)

　　(Editor-in-charge: Yuan Guofeng)