tea benefits

Drinking tea to maintain health report

According to reports, British scientists said that drinking 4 cups of tea a day is more beneficial to health than drinking 8 cups of boiled water. Drinking tea can replenish water.

This study shows that in addition to replenishing water in the body, the caffeine in tea can help focus

The key, researchers say, is that tea contains high amounts of antioxidants called flavonoids, which prevent cell damage.

Tea is a natural source of flavonoids. Just 3 cups of tea contain 8 times the amount of flavonoids in an apple.

Scientists say that drinking tea has many benefits for the body. Drinking 4 cups of tea a day can achieve the best effect, but it is not advisable to drink more.

 Boost the immune system

A Harvard study found that people who drank five cups of black tea a day had 10 times more virus-fighting interferons in their bodies than other people after two weeks. Theanine is a key helper in improving immunity and is abundant in black tea, green tea or decaffeinated tea.

Recommended serving size: several cups per day. Shaking the tea bag up and down while making tea can increase the antioxidant content by 5 times.

 Tea’s heat-clearing and fire-reducing effect


Tea is a good drink to prevent heatstroke and cool down. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Tea is bitter and cold, and can best reduce fire. Fire is responsible for all diseases. When fire falls, the upper body will be clear. Warm drinks will reduce fire due to cold air, and hot drinks will use fire air to reduce heat. Shengsan
 
In the dog days of midsummer, when the sun is in the sky and the heat is overwhelming, drinking a cup of herbal tea or a cup of hot tea will make you feel cool physically and mentally, and help you relieve the heat. This is because tea contains tea polyphenols, sugars, amino acids, pectin, vitamins, etc., which react chemically with the saliva in the mouth to moisturize the mouth, so it can produce fluid and quench thirst.
 
At the same time, due to the effect of caffeine in tea, a large amount of energy is emitted from the pores of the human skin. According to reports, drinking a cup of hot tea will dissipate heat through sweating through the pores of the human skin, which is equivalent to 50 times that of this cup of tea, so it can make people feel cool and relieve heat.

 The refreshing effect of tea on thinking


Almost everyone knows that drinking tea can refresh your mind and improve your thinking. There are many medical records in the past dynasties of our country, and the literati, poets and eminent monks of the past dynasties all used their pens to praise the power of tea to refresh the mind and improve thinking.
 
Bai Juyi's poem "To the Thirteenth King of East Neighbors" says: "Join hands with the moon by the pool, and the wind is under the open-necked bamboo. To drive away sorrow, you know the power of wine, and to break sleep, you can see the power of tea." The poem clearly mentions the power of tea to refresh people and break sleep. Su Dongpo's poem said: "Thirty pieces of tea are given to the layman regardless of the taste, and the monk fights the Sand Devil in the monk's room."
 
"Drinking tea can refresh your mind and improve your thinking. Its function mainly lies in the caffeine in tea. Caffeine has the functions of stimulating the central nervous system, improving thinking, and improving efficiency.
 
Therefore, drinking tea can break sleep, refresh your mind, relieve irritability, relieve fatigue, clear your mind, improve your thinking, and can significantly improve your oral defense ability and mathematical thinking response. At the same time, because tea contains polyphenols and other compounds, it offsets the adverse effects of pure caffeine on the human body. This is also one of the important reasons why tea drinking has a long history, continues to flourish, and continues to develop.