-Drink less.
-drink more tea and stick to it. Tea has always been regarded as a product to prolong life and has the effect of "panacea". Su Dongpo, a famous poet in the Song Dynasty, argued that people who have minor illnesses only need to drink tea instead of taking medicine. A poem said, "Why did Di Wei take a pill and drink seven bowls of tea?" Lu Tong was a famous tea-drinking scholar in the history of Tang Dynasty. In his poem "Xie Meng Suggests Sending New Tea", he described the beauty of drinking tea incisively and vividly: "One bowl moistens the throat, two bowls are lonely and boring, and three bowls seek poverty, but there are only 5,000 volumes of words; Four bowls of light sweat, uneven life, all pores scattered; Five bowls of bones and muscles are clear, six bowls of fairy gas pass, and seven bowls can't be eaten, but I feel gently blowing on both sides. " This is the world-famous "Seven Bowls of Tea in Lu Tong". China is the country with the most premature tea in the world and the hometown of tea. In Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu wrote the world's first tea masterpiece "Tea Classic", and discussed the origin, varieties, planting techniques, processing methods, cooking methods, drinking methods and various utensils related to cooking and drinking. This monograph on tea science and technology has spread the knowledge of tea, which is not only a great contribution to the development of tea in China, but also has a far-reaching impact on the development of tea in the world. The export of tea in China has gradually promoted the development of tea drinking in the world, making tea one of the three major drinks in the world. Why is tea so popular? This is mainly due to the health care function of tea. Tea not only has good curative effect, but also has many functions, which can prevent and treat many diseases. As early as the Tang Dynasty, the medical scientist Chen Zangqi saw this point and put forward that "all kinds of medicines are the medicine for all diseases, and tea is the medicine for all diseases", and spoke highly of the health care function of tea. Specifically, he said, the main function of tea is: (1) refreshing. "The north window snores like thunder, who will send the grass for a dream?" This is an elegant sentence in Lu You's poem "Try Tea", which shows that tea has refreshing effect. Even Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, praised the refreshing effect of tea with the poem "See tea after sleeping". Tea is refreshing because it contains caffeine that can excite the central nervous system. (2) diuresis strengthens the heart. As the saying goes, "tea is too thick to pee." After three drinks, one is easy. "This refers to the diuretic effect of tea, so drinking tea can treat a variety of urinary system diseases, such as edema, cystitis, urethritis, etc.; For urinary calculi, tea also has a certain stone-discharging effect. Fujian Medical University conducted a survey of 1080 people in Anxi tea area, and found that drinking tea is closely related to reducing the occurrence of coronary heart disease. The incidence of coronary heart disease was 3. 1% in people who didn't drink tea, 2.3% in people who drank tea occasionally and 1.4% in people who drank tea frequently. It can be seen that drinking tea often is really good for preventing coronary heart disease. This is because caffeine and theophylline contained in tea can directly excite the heart, dilate the coronary artery, make blood fully input into the heart, and improve the function of the heart itself. (3) Promoting fluid production to quench thirst. " Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Tea is bitter and cold, and ... can reduce fire best. Fire is a disease, and it will be clear. "The Compendium of Materia Medica in the Tang Dynasty also said:" This is the key to quenching thirst and eliminating epidemic diseases. "Especially in summer, tea is a good drink for heatstroke prevention and cooling. (4) Xiaoshi Jiejiu. Drinking tea can get rid of greasy and help digestion. Eating meat with vegetables on holidays and making a cup of strong tea is easy to indigestion. This is because tea contains some aromatic compounds, which can dissolve fat and help digest meat. Some meat-based ethnic minorities in the border areas of China are well aware of this. They said, "A day without oil and salt is better than a day without tea. "The reason why tea can relieve alcoholism is because caffeine in tea can improve the metabolism of substances in the liver, enhance blood circulation, help the alcohol in the blood to be excreted, and reduce and eliminate the stimulation caused by alcohol. Therefore, a good cup of tea after drinking will help sober up and relieve alcoholism. (5) sterilization and anti-inflammation. Experiments show that tea can inhibit Escherichia coli, staphylococcus and virus, because polyphenols such as catechin and theaflavin in tea can bind with virus protein, thus reducing the activity of virus. Tea extract or decoction has antibacterial effect on all kinds of Shigella dysenteriae, and its antibacterial effect is equivalent to that of Coptis chinensis. (6) Lowering blood pressure and resisting aging. Tea polyphenols, vitamin C and vitamin pp are all effective components in tea, which can reduce blood fat, blood pressure and improve vascular function. According to "Foreign Tea Trends", there are 80 hypertensive patients, and 50 patients can return to normal blood pressure within 5 days after drinking tea. It is generally believed that green tea is better than black tea in lowering blood pressure. The anti-aging effect of tea is the result of the comprehensive action of vitamin E and various amino acids contained in tea. In Japan, it is said that "tea ceremony" people live long, have good complexion and moist skin, which has a lot to do with their frequent drinking of tea. Therefore, some people in Japan call "tea is a fairy medicine". In addition to the above functions, tea has many health care and medical functions. Therefore, drinking tea often is good for health. But we must also pay attention to methods and know how to drink tea scientifically. The specific methods are as follows: First, according to different physique, age, working nature and living environment, choose different kinds of tea and drink it in different ways. Physically, healthy adults can drink red and green tea; For the elderly, it is advisable to drink black tea. You can drink a cup of green tea or scented tea indirectly, but the tea soup should not be too strong. For women and children, light green tea is generally suitable, and children can also advocate gargling with tea in the morning. Girls are irritable before and after menstruation, and drinking scented tea can soothe the liver and relieve depression, regulate qi and regulate menstruation; For menopausal women, drinking scented tea is also desirable. Drinking green tea properly during pregnancy is beneficial, because green tea contains more trace element zinc; Women should drink black tea before delivery, such as adding brown sugar. Patients with gastropathy or duodenal ulcer should drink black tea instead of strong tea. People with habitual constipation should drink light black tea. People with poor sleep should drink light tea at ordinary times, and be careful not to drink tea before going to bed. For patients with coronary heart disease with bradycardia or sinus block, drink more red and green tea to increase heart rate. People with enlarged prostate should drink scented tea. Patients should drink high-grade green tea after operation to facilitate wound healing. From the nature of work, manual workers, soldiers, geological prospectors, and people who are often exposed to radiation and toxic substances should drink some strong tea; Mental workers should also drink some advanced green tea to help them think. Secondly, we should pay attention to the water used for making tea. Spring water is sweet and delicious, so spring water is the best water for drinking tea. Spring water is the best way to make tea, so the river is not beautiful. Bai Juyi, a great poet, once wrote a poem praising Jiang Shui for cooking tea. The poem says: "Shu tea is wonderful, and Wei water is fried and precious." "However, the river is easy to be polluted near towns and industrial and mining areas, so it is best to extract clean water from places far away from towns and industrial and mining areas. In addition, well water can also be used to make tea, and the water quality of some well water is also very good. However, well water is generally hard water, because there are more dissolved substances and higher hardness in the laminar flow. Moreover, the well water is dark in color, less in contact with air, less in dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide gas, and the tea is not fresh enough. Therefore, Cha Sheng Lu Yu said that making tea from well water is the next step. Pond water, which is small but not flowing, is difficult to purify itself after pollution, and the water quality is often poor, so it is the most unsuitable for making tea. Also, choose a good tea set. There are many kinds of tea sets in common use, each with its own characteristics, but the best is the purple sand teapot in Yixing, Jiangsu, and the white porcelain or porcelain teacup in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. In different tea sets, even if the same quality of tea leaves and water are put in, the brewed tea will have different colors, smells and tastes. And pay attention to scientific brewing methods. It is best to make tea in a teapot, and then pour the tea soup into a teacup, which is not only conducive to the preservation of tea fragrance, but also saves tea. Making tea directly with a teacup is easy to make the tea fragrance disappear, and the tea soup is bitter first and then weak, which affects the effect of drinking tea. Drink ordinary red green tea, each cup of about 3 grams of tea, 200 ml of boiling water for three to five minutes, you can drink. But some famous teas have specific brewing methods, such as Fujian oolong tea. After the first brewing, you should continue to drink. The second brewing time is a little longer, about one minute, and then it will be extended with the brewing times, but not too long. Although tea is extremely beneficial to the human body, it is not "without any harm". If you drink tea too much or improperly, it will often bring many bad consequences. For example, theophylline and tannic acid in tea can stimulate gastrointestinal tract. Drinking strong tea, especially on an empty stomach, can cause stomach discomfort and stomachache, and induce and aggravate gastric or duodenal ulcer. Tannic acid in tea has astringent effect, and studies have found that many young people's serious constipation is related to drinking too much tea. In addition, drinking too much tea can lead to anemia. Tea is a common drink for infants in Israel, where the incidence of iron deficiency anemia is as high as 26% ~ 68%. This is because tannic acid in tea can form insoluble ferric citrate with iron in intestine, which cannot be absorbed and utilized by human body. Because the absorption of iron is affected, the storage of iron is reduced, and anemia occurs over time. Some people like to drink tea and take medicine, which is also wrong. Tea can't be drunk with baking soda, sleeping pills, quinine, iron and other drugs at the same time, because tea contains a lot of tannic acid, which can react with protein, alkaloids, metal salts and so on in drugs, resulting in precipitation, which affects the curative effect of drugs and even fails. It should also be pointed out that not drinking a lot of strong tea before going to bed will cause insomnia, even taking sedatives will not help. Tea has a long history as a drink for people to eat, but it is a recent thing to use it as a tea bath. Tea bath is actually a kind of medicinal bath. The effective components of various tea leaves dissolved in bath water enter the body through the absorption of skin capillaries, and some effective components of tea leaves can evaporate with steam, enter the body through respiratory tract, and play a synergistic role in tea bath. Modern medical research believes that taking a bath with tea is good for health. Because tea contains tannic acid, caffeine and aromatic oil, it helps to remove dirt and body odor, make people feel refreshed after bathing and eliminate fatigue. Tea also contains tannic acid and lipopolysaccharide. People who often watch TV or work in the scorching sun for a long time often take a bath with tea, which helps to prevent the damage of light radiation to the skin. Finally, introduce some commonly used health tea. (1) ginseng jasmine tea. Ingredients: northeast five-year-old ginseng, jasmine, astragalus, green tea. Production: decoction, whenever it is used for tea, functions: tonifying qi deficiency, suitable for shortness of breath, physical weakness after illness, mental fatigue, spontaneous sweating, bad diet, palpitation and dry mouth. (2) Buttered tea (see prescription). Ingredients: ghee 150g (that is, cream, refined from fresh milk), appropriate amount of brick tea, appropriate amount of refined salt, and a cup of milk. Production: First, pour 100g ghee, about 5g salt and milk into a clean tea barrel, then pour about 2000ml boiled tea leaves, and then beat them up and down with a thin wooden stick for 5min, then add 50g ghee and beat them for 2min. After cooking, pour it into the teapot and heat it 1min (don't boil it, otherwise the tea oil will precipitate and it won't taste good. Shake it gently when drinking, so that water, milk, tea and oil can be integrated. Function: It is suitable for the infirm and sick to drink frequently, which can stimulate appetite, strengthen the body and speed up recovery. Old people often drink alcohol, which can increase their physical strength; Drinking more can increase milk and replenish the body. (3) oolong health tea (see "Good Medicine"). Raw materials: 4 grams of oolong tea, 24 grams of Sophora japonica, 24 grams of winter melon skin, 40 grams of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, and 20 grams of hawthorn meat. Production: Put oolong tea in a container, boil it with the remaining liquid medicine, brew it with fruit juice, and use it as tea. Function: preventing diseases and protecting health. Regular use can strengthen the body and prolong life. (4) Oolong playing with beads and jujube tea (see Compendium of Materia Medica). Raw materials: Cangzhou Jinsixiaozao, Fujian Oolong Tea. Production: put the tea filter paper bag directly into the cup, brew it with boiling water, and drink tea instead. Function: Suitable for gastropathy, neurasthenia and various chronic diseases. (5) Acanthopanax senticosus Jasmine Tea. Is prepared from acanthopanax senticosus, jasmine flower, green tea, etc. Drink frequently at any time. It has the functions of improving intelligence and calming nerves, and is suitable for shortness of breath, fatigue and mental fatigue. (6) Qin fish tea. Ingredients: Qin Yu10g, 3g of green tea. Production: Remove scales and impurities from soft-shelled turtle, wash it with clear water, dry it, stir-fry it slightly (not burnt), dry it, and keep it in porcelain bottles. Every time you brew with boiling water, drink tea instead, once a day. Function: Moderate appetite, suitable for dyspepsia. (7) Honey black tea (see medicinal diet cookbook). Ingredients: 5g black tea, appropriate amount of honey and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Production: put the black tea in a thermos cup, boil it with boiling water, cover it and soak it for 10 minute, then mix honey and brown sugar, and drink it frequently while it is hot, three doses a day. Drink before meals. Function: Warming the middle warmer and nourishing the stomach, which is suitable for those with hyperactivity of liver qi and poor spleen and stomach function in spring. (8) Erhuashen Wheat Tea (see journal of traditional chinese medicine, Jiangxi). Ingredients: 3g of magnolia officinalis flower, 3g of bergamot and 3g of black tea, 6g of dangshen and 6g of fried malt. Production: Mash the raw materials into coarse powder and brew with boiling water. Drink slowly at all times, not tea. Function: Regulating qi and relieving pain, suitable for qi stagnation, abdominal distension, phlegm retention and food retention. (9) Mannan tea (see Integration of Ancient and Modern Medicine). Raw materials: 0/20g of dried tangerine peel/kloc-,24g of linderae root, 24g of Miao hawthorn, 24g of Pu Chuan fried with ginger, 30g of Fructus Aurantii fried with bran, 45g of Massa Medicata Fermentata fried with bran and 90g of tea. Production: First, soak the orange peel in salt water, fry it dry, grind it into coarse powder, mix it evenly, sieve it, bag it, 9 grams per bag, one bag at a time, add a slice of fresh ginger, and drink tea with boiling water instead. Function: regulating qi and promoting digestion, suitable for epigastric fullness caused by food stagnation. Regardless of diet and acclimatization. Avoid cold and greasy things. (10) Xiangfu Chuanxiong Tea (see China Medicinal Diet). Ingredients: Rhizoma Cyperi, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong and tea 3g each. Production: grind the medicine into coarse powder, brew it with boiling water, and often drink it for tea. Function: Soothing liver and relieving depression, suitable for chronic headache caused by stagnation of liver qi. (1 1) Plum tea (see "Common Diseases Research Resources"). Ingredients: 6 grams of green tea and 6 grams of green sepals. Production: The first two flavors are brewed with boiling water, which is often used instead of tea. Function: regulating qi and relieving pain, suitable for symptoms such as liver and stomach gas pain, fullness in both sides, depression, loss of appetite and so on. (12) Yin Qing tea. It is made of green tea, black tea, more than ten kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, vinegar, sweeteners, aromatic oil, vitamins and so on. It has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, clearing away heat and refreshing, and relieving dry mouth and throat discomfort to varying degrees.