What are the types of tea and the benefits of drinking tea?

Drink green tea, because green tea is not fermented tea, with clear soup and green leaves, fragrant and mellow, natural, color, fragrance and taste. High content of vitamin C and tea polyphenols. It has the effects of clearing heat, dissipating heat, detoxifying, calming the nerves, brightening the eyes, and quenching thirst.

Drinking it in summer, it gives it a green, cool feeling. If you add a few chrysanthemums, honeysuckle or a few drops of lemon juice to the tea, it can play a more refreshing role in cooling off the heat.

Drinking white tea, white tea is cool, has the effect of strengthening the stomach and refreshing, reducing fever and reducing fire. Zhou Lianggong's "Min Xiaoji" recorded that "there are green snow buds in Taimu Mountain, (now known as Baihao) color and fragrance, and especially Hongxue Cave is the most, the producer is cold, the merit is the same as rhino horn, it is the holy medicine of measles, it is sold abroad, and the price is the same as Jinqi." "Drinking white tea in summer can prevent heatstroke and cool down.

There are many benefits to drinking tea. Depending on the season, different teas should be chosen:

Spring Flower Tea: Flower tea is made from green tea. Drinking this tea in spring can dissipate the winter cold and evil accumulated in the human body, and promote the growth of yang energy in the body.

Summer green tea: Green tea, also known as non-fermented tea, has high nutrients and has medicinal values such as lowering blood lipids and preventing arteriosclerosis. After brewing, the water color of this tea is clear and fragrant. Drinking in summer has the effect of clearing heat and relieving heat, detoxifying and quenching thirst.

Autumn drinking green tea: green tea is neither cold nor hot in nature, which can eliminate the dryness and heat in the human body and achieve the effect of dryness.

Winter black tea: black tea is a fully fermented tea, characterized by a red soup after brewing, sweet and warm, rich in protein, with refreshing thoughts, relieving fatigue and other effects. In winter, the cold is easy to hurt the yang energy in the body, drinking this tea can replenish the yang energy, help digestion, and strengthen the body.

Drinking tea has the effect of refreshing, digesting, relieving hangover, and delaying aging, and drinking tea in moderation is good for the body, but it is not advisable to drink too much tea or drink too strong tea.

The benefits of drinking tea are that the first helps digestion, and the second is good for our eyesight eyes. Tea is rich in vitamins that are just needed by the eyes, so it has a health care effect, so drink more tea.

1. Improve muscular endurance.

Studies have found that tea contains an antioxidant called "catechin", which can increase the body's ability to burn fat, improve muscular endurance, help fight fatigue, and increase the time spent in physical activity. Drinking green tea often has the most significant effect.

2. Resist ultraviolet rays.

Tea polyphenols are water-soluble substances, washing the face with tea can remove facial oiliness, astringent pores, have the effect of disinfection, sterilization, anti-aging, and also help reduce the damage of ultraviolet rays in the sun, and is a natural "sunscreen".

3. Keep in shape.

In the Tang Dynasty's "Collection of Materia Medica", the discussion on tea once mentioned that "eating for a long time makes people thin", and modern scientific research has confirmed this. The caffeine in tea can promote gastric juice secretion, help digestion, and enhance the body's ability to decompose fat. Foreign studies have also shown that regular tea consumption can reduce waist circumference and reduce body mass index (BMI), thereby helping to prevent diabetes and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

4. Resist radiation.

Foreign studies have shown that tea polyphenols and their oxides can absorb some radioactive substances, protect cells from radiation damage, and also help repair damaged cells. Clinical studies have shown that tea extract can cause mild radiation sickness in tumor patients during radiation, and the effect is very good for radiation-induced reduction of blood cells and white blood cells.

5. Improve memory.

Tea polyphenols help the brain to carry out local regulation, improve memory, and improve learning efficiency. Foreign studies have confirmed that drinking tea can prevent and ** neurological diseases, especially senile dementia. In addition, caffeine can promote the excitement of the central nervous system, which is refreshing, beneficial and clear.

Effect. 6. Improve bone density.

Although tea contains caffeine, which promotes the loss of calcium through urination, the amount is very low. Even black tea, which is quite high in caffeine, is only 30-45 mg per cup. In fact, tea contains more substances that help reduce calcium loss, including fluoride, phytoestrogens and potassium.

A study in Taiwan found that people who drink tea regularly have higher bone density and a lower chance of hip fracture.

1. Dryness and dampness, dissipation of food accumulation, antibacterial.

Grass fruit is the fruit of the plant of the genus Cardamom in the ginger family, also called grass fruit and old cardamom. It is a kind of spice, but also a Chinese herbal medicine, its taste is pungent and hot, can enter the spleen meridian and stomach meridian, contains rich volatile oil substances, can play a role in dampness, malaria, digestion and food, antibacterial and other effects.

1. Dryness and dampness: Grass fruit can enter the spleen meridian, which can help improve spleen dampness and relieve symptoms such as phlegm accumulation, headache and back pain caused by excessive dampness.

2. Dissipation and digestion: Grass fruit has a special fragrance and is rich in a large number of volatile oils and minerals. After eating, it can promote the secretion of digestive juices, promote the digestion and absorption of food in the intestines as soon as possible, and have the effect of eliminating food and accumulating.

3. Antibacterial: Grass fruit contains pinene, which is an antibacterial substance with strong anti-inflammatory effect, which can inhibit a variety of fungal activities in the human body, prevent its regeneration and reproduction, and achieve the purpose of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory.

2. Suitable population: hypothermia, cough, edema, unfavorable urination, and pediatric heat shock.

3. Contraindications: Qi deficiency or blood deficiency, no cold, dampness and evil.

Fourth, it is not advisable to eat together: hot food.

If eaten with hot food, it will aggravate the heat and dryness in the body, which can easily cause symptoms of fire, and can also lead to redness, swelling and pain or constipation.

5. How to eat:

1. Soak in wine: clean the grass fruit and hawthorn, remove the surface moisture, put it in a sealable container, add an appropriate amount of high liquor, and seal and soak for about three months.

2. Soup: Wash the beef and cut it into small pieces, and wash the grass and fruit with water. Put the two into the pot together, add enough water, boil slowly over low heat until the soup is formed, and add salt to taste after the beef is soft and rotten.