Drinking The Wrong Health Tea Can Also Hurt Your Health! How To Drink To Be Really Healthy

Health tea is popular among health lovers of all ages because of its convenience and ease of making. However, these health teas brewed with traditional Chinese medicines have the efficacy and partiality of traditional Chinese medicines. Therefore, you must distinguish the symptoms before drinking them. Drinking the wrong ones will actually be harmful to the body. So, how to drink healthy tea?

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Goji berry and chrysanthemum tea

Lycium barbarum chrysanthemum tea is sweet and refreshing, enters the liver meridian, and improves eyesight. Chrysanthemum is slightly cold in nature and has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Lycium barbarum has calm medicinal properties, nourishes the liver, and improves eyesight. The two soaked in water have a good effect of clearing the head and eliminating fire and have a certain therapeutic effect on insomnia and headache caused by wind-heat cold, high blood pressure. However, due to the cold nature of the chrysanthemum, it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency, yang deficiency, and heavy dampness.

Rose Tea

Rose tea has the functions of soothing the liver and regulating qi, promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, and beautifying the face. It is more suitable for women to take, and it also has a good effect on patients with high blood pressure. You can use boiling water to brew 3~5 dry roses every day, or put them in Add jujube or drink with black tea or green tea according to the constitution.

However, rose tea contains a lot of tannic acids, which combine with protein in food to form tannic acid protein that is not easy to digest and absorb, which can lead to constipation, so people with constipation should not drink it. In addition, rose tea is a warm herbal drink. Do not drink it for those with yin deficiency and excessive heat. Drinking too much can easily lead to aggravation of yin fire.

Longan jujube tea

Red dates are warm in nature and sweet in taste, invigorating the middle and benefiting qi, nourishing blood, and soothing the nerves. It is used for adjuvant treatment of weak spleen and stomach, anemia and cold, loss of appetite, fatigue, loss of body fluids, palpitations, and insomnia. Longan is warm, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, strengthening the brain and nourishing the heart and spleen, and has a good effect on insomnia, palpitations, neurasthenia, memory loss, anemia, etc. The combination of the two plays the role of rights, suitable for people with insufficient qi and blood.

However, the longan meat is warm, and easy to get angry after eating it. It is recommended that the longan shell can be broken and soaked together when making tea, which can neutralize the anger brought by eating the longan meat. In addition, longan and red jujube tea contain high natural sugar, which is not suitable for patients with abdominal distension, hyperacidity, and diabetes.

Honeysuckle tea

Honeysuckle is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxification and dispersing wind heat. Because honeysuckle tea is relatively cold, it is not recommended for people with other constitutions to drink it for a long time, except for people with strong anger and frequent anger. Patients with dysmenorrhea and those with a deficient constitution should avoid taking it as much as possible. In addition, most patients with sore throats belong to virtual fire, and honeysuckle is mainly used to treat real fire. Therefore, such patients are recommended to drink raw licorice in water instead.

Mint tea

Peppermint is cool in nature and pungent in taste and has the effect of dispersing wind and dissipating heat and clearing the head. Indications of wind-heat cold, headache, red eyes, sore throat, and so on. Peppermint is generally not recommended to be used alone, it needs to be used in combination with other medicinal materials. In addition, yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, blood dryness and physical deficiency, and excessive sweating should not be taken.

Cistanche tea

Cistanche tea can invigorate kidney yang, replenish essence and blood, inhibit the appearance of "Yang deficiency" symptoms, and prevent weight loss. Cistanche tea can effectively prevent and treat diseases such as kidney deficiency and impotence in men, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and infertility in women. Citrus cinnamon has the reputation of "desert ginseng", and it is the highest-grade medicine among more than 60 kinds of tonic Chinese medicines found in China. It contains a lot of amino acids, cysteine, vitamins, and minerals. , cavernous body and other sexual organs have a great tonic effect, the impotence, premature ejaculation is even more immediate, fulfilled like a god. Cistanche tea can be used for kidney deficiency, impotence, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, cold pain in the waist and knees, and weak muscles and bones. For the treatment of impotence due to kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, etc., it is combined with Rehmannia glutinosa, dodder seeds, and dogwood meat. It is suitable for men with declining sexual function; women with irregular menstruation, infertility, numbness in limbs, waist and knee pain; elderly people with a weak constitution, hypertension patients, and constipation.

Drinking the right tea is healthy

Drinking tea should pay attention to physical fitness and methods. Only when you drink it correctly, tea can play a real health-preserving role. Do you know the following common sense about drinking tea?

Be careful not to overheat the water when drinking tea. The water temperature of drinking tea is very important. The temperature of tea water should be between 56°C and 60°C, which is more beneficial to health. If the water temperature is too high, the esophageal mucosa is susceptible to chronic thermal damage, which increases the risk of cancer after long-term damage. Especially for people who like smoking and drinking, if they drink hot tea (above 65 ℃), it will damage the ability of the esophagus to resist alcohol and nicotine toxins and have a higher risk of cancer.

The daily amount of tea should be controlled to about 12 grams. Generally speaking, for healthy people who have the habit of drinking tea, the daily consumption of tea can be about 12 grams, and it is more appropriate to brew it in 3 to 4 times. People who love to drink tea and have a greasy diet can increase it appropriately; pregnant women, children, and people with neurasthenia and tachycardia should drink less tea or not drink tea.

Drinking tea needs to be different from person to person and from time to time. People with different constitutions drink different teas. Unfermented tea (green tea such as Longjing, Biluochun, Maojian, etc.) has the functions of clearing heat, diuresis, and promoting body fluid, but because of its coldness, it is not suitable for people with cold stomach or chronic stomach diseases. And semi-fermented tea (green tea such as Tieguanyin, Oolong tea, etc.), fully fermented tea (black tea), and post-fermented old tea (dark tea, Pu'er tea) have the functions of digestion and stagnation, aid digestion, refreshment, etc. These teas have a calm taste. , more suitable for most people.

Of course, what tea to drink depends not only on physical fitness but also on habits. Even if the constitution is not suitable, if you like to drink some kind of tea, you can drink some in small amounts and properly.

Drinking tea should also match the season. In spring and summer, you can drink green tea and oolong tea, which can clear away heat and relieve the heat. In autumn and winter, it is suitable to drink black tea or Pu-erh tea. These two kinds of tea are warm in nature and can play a role in warding off cold.

The following four types of people should not drink tea

1. People who are weak should not drink tea (especially green tea). For patients with gastric ulcers, theophylline in tea will affect gastric acid secretion, affect ulcer healing, and aggravate the condition.

2. People with constipation should not drink tea. Because substances such as tannic acid and caffeine in tea can reduce the secretion of digestive juices in the gastrointestinal tract, and at the same time have an astringent effect, slow down the peristalsis of the bowel, and induce constipation. People with long-term constipation should drink tea with caution.

3. Children and pregnant women should not drink tea. Because tea contains a lot of tannic acids, it may affect the body's absorption of calcium, iron, and other nutrients, and may affect the growth and development of fetuses and children.

4. People who are taking medication should not drink tea. The tannic acid in tea will combine with drugs containing various metal ions or alkaloids in the stomach to form insoluble compounds. If you drink too much tea after taking the drug, it will affect the absorption of the drug. (People's Health Network comprehensively from China Traditional Chinese Medicine News, China Women's News)

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