Treatment of tea
The so-called therapeutic tea is to use "tea" or "medicinal tea" to prevent and treat various diseases by drinking tea (that is, imitating tea medicinal tea, taking medicinal tea and drinking it at any time), which is called therapeutic tea. Tea processing has a long history. It has gone through three evolution forms: "replacing medicine with tea", "combining tea with medicine" and "taking medicinal tea"
Substitute tea for medicine
It is composed of a single tea, also known as "replacing medicine with tea". Highlight the medicinal value of tea, and use its multiple functions to treat diseases and protect health.
The earliest discovery and utilization of tea began with medicinal use and was first used for detoxification. The earliest existing pharmacological monograph in China, Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, records that "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered 72 poisons a day, but he solved them with tea". Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, mentioned in his Treatise on Food that "bitter tea is beneficial for a long time", which shows that tea has a refreshing effect. The above data show that the application of single tea can not only cure diseases, but also protect health. Its form is "taking tea as medicine", which belongs to the embryonic form of tea original prescription treatment. The earliest record of using tea as medicine in the history of China, the earliest written record of using tea as medicine is Fan Jiang written by Sima Xiangru in Han Dynasty, which includes: "Black peck, Platycodon grandiflorum, Daphne Daphne, Fritillaria, Berberis, Fructus Trichosanthis, Polyporus, Paeonia lactiflora, Cinnamomum cassia, Rhaponticum, Cheap, Pheasant and Pheasant. As the first official pharmacopoeia in China, the newly revised Materia Medica in Tang Dynasty recorded the efficacy and usage of tea. The article "Tea is fragrant and bitter" says: "Its taste is sweet, bitter, slightly cold and non-toxic. Treating hemorrhoids, diuresis, eliminating phlegm, quenching thirst, making people sleep less ... Treating qi and promoting digestion, adding Cornus officinalis, onion and ginger has a good drinking effect, which embodies the medicinal value of tea and has also been recognized by the Tang government.
Key points: After tea was discovered by our ancestors, the way of using it went through several stages of development and evolution, such as chewing fresh leaves, boiling raw soup, drying in the sun, steaming green tea to make cakes, frying green tea, etc., before it developed into the way of making loose tea and drinking it today. The invention of drinking tea is of great significance in the history of human civilization, affecting the process of social civilization and the quality of human life.
China's contribution to human beings in the tea industry mainly lies in the earliest discovery and utilization of this plant, which has developed into a splendid and unique tea culture in China, the East and even the whole world. According to China history books, before drinking tea, "the ancients drank water in summer and soup in winter", and they always used warm soup to quench their thirst. Drinking tea has changed people's bad habit of drinking raw water and greatly improved people's health. As for tea, it is regarded as "undoubtedly the best gift from the East to the West" in Europe and America, "Without the introduction of tea and coffee in Europe, drinking would be more luxurious", "The benefits of tea to mankind are immeasurable", "I am sure that tea is one of the saviors of mankind" and "a great comfort" and so on.
As a "medicine", western medicine believes that tea has the following pharmacological effects: stimulating and refreshing, inducing diuresis to stop dysentery, preventing constipation, preventing caries, helping digestion, improving eyesight, resisting aging, reducing the toxicity of smoking to the human body, diminishing inflammation and sterilization, sobering up, preventing radiation, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat and atherosclerosis, lowering blood sugar, resisting cancer, resisting mutation and so on.
Combination of tea and medicine
The combination of tea and traditional Chinese medicine, tea and traditional Chinese medicine complement each other, so that therapeutic tea can play a more ideal role in treating diseases and health care. The combination of tea and medicine includes taking medicine with tea or compatibility of tea and medicine.
The earliest record of medicinal tea is Andy Yi Guang Ya, in which the description of tea is: "If you want brew tea, first bake it red, pound it in porcelain, cover it with soup, and drink it with onion, ginger and orange, which will sober you up and make people sleepless. This paper expounds the tea made of onion, ginger and orange. It has the functions of sobering up and keeping people awake.
The earliest record of tea in TCM prescriptions can be found in the Tang Dynasty's "For Urgent Use". The word "medicinal tea" has not appeared in the book, but there are two prescriptions for medicinal tea. One of the prescriptions is Wu Mei Pill in Chapter 6 of Treatise on Fever, Fever and Malaria, which is mainly used for "chronic malaria, fever, emaciation, phlegm in the chest, reduced diet, or chronic illness and fatigue". The usage is "honey pills, hollow fried fine tea, and thirty pills. The other is the prescription in Chapter 6 of "Da Chang Jing Fu Yin Tan", which is used to treat "syncope and headache caused by phlegm syncope and qi going up to the chest diaphragm". Only one kind of tea is used for boiling and drinking, and it is necessary to induce vomiting properly before drinking. In severe cases, it is necessary to "stop vomiting bile without harming people, and quench thirst with pain". There are about 6,000 volumes of "The Secret of Huaitai", which contains 6 herbal tea prescriptions. Later, in the Song Dynasty, there were 1 14 herbal tea prescriptions in Taiping Shenghui Fang. There were 38 kinds of herbal tea prescriptions in Yuan Dynasty. There are about 1500 herbal tea recipes recorded in Puji Fang in Ming Dynasty, and there are 62 herbal tea recipes in Zong Yi Jinjian in Qing Dynasty.
herb tea
The prescription does not contain tea, and it is all made up of traditional Chinese medicine, without tea (the biggest difference from traditional Chinese medicine decoction is that it is not limited by time).
Pharmacological tea (prescription) was first recorded in the Tang Dynasty (752) in the "Secret of Outer Taiwan" as a "new formula for drinking tea instead of tea". The formula does not contain tea, and the group often contains "Radix Astragali, Tetramedulla Tetrapanacis, Poria, Zingiberis Rhizoma, Radix Puerariae and Cortex Mori", while the formula does not contain tea, and the group often contains "Radix Astragali, Tetramedulla Tetrapanacis, Poria and dried".
Medicinal tea and medicinal tea
Medicinal tea and medicinal tea are different names for the same substance. Medicinal tea emphasizes medicinal drinks; Tea emphasizes the oral administration of drugs taken by boiling water or decocting.
Tea recorded in the Pharmacopoeia of China refers to oral preparations which are soaked or decocted with boiling water, with or without tea. Divided into camellia oleifera abel., teabag and tea making. Tea block refers to tea made of coarse powder, chips and suitable binder. Teabag refers to tea leaves, coarse powder of medicinal materials or some medicinal materials that absorb the extract and dry it and then bag it (bag). Tea bags are also called teabags. Decocting tea refers to putting tablets, blocks, segments, silk or coarse powder into bags (bags) to make tea decoction. Boiled tea made of coarse powder is also called boiled powder. Tea has the following characteristics: ① small size, easy to store and carry, and easy to use; (2) taking boiling water as solvent, the enzyme can be quickly destroyed when the drug is soaked, so as to avoid the decomposition and destruction of effective components; (3) The drugs that make up the tea leaves are coarse powder, filaments or small segments, so that the surface area is increased, and then the contact surface with the solvent is increased, so that the effective components are easy to dissolve out; (4) Tea leaves are generally made of containers such as teacups, which have good thermal insulation performance, and the water temperature can generally be maintained at 80-90 degrees Celsius, ensuring that effective components can be fully dissolved without being destroyed; ⑤ Save medicine. Generally, decoction is discarded after 2-3 times, which wastes medicine, while tea leaves can be soaked repeatedly; ⑥ The curative effect is reliable. Tea can avoid losing some effective components in other dosage forms due to long-term decoction, so the curative effect is reliable; ⑦ Local medication is good. Some oral diseases, such as nasopharynx, esophagus, stomach and other diseases, use tea directly to contact the affected parts, give full play to the advantages of local medication, and receive good results every time; ⑧ The therapeutic effect is better. Tea can avoid the disadvantages of adding sugar to granules and syrups for treating diabetes and bronchitis with cough and asthma. In addition, for some colloidal drugs (such as donkey-hide gelatin, antler glue, etc. ), drugs that are not resistant to high temperature, and drugs containing volatile components (such as chrysanthemum and honeysuckle). ) or drugs that should not be decocted for a long time (such as mulberry leaves and senna leaves). ), more suitable for making tea.
With the development of society, the therapeutic function of tea has been weakened, and it is mainly used to prevent diseases. Since modern times, people have paid more and more attention to the health care function of medicinal tea, and the types and functions of medicinal tea have been enriched and expanded. Medicinal tea has become a major feature of disease prevention and health care in China. I believe that tea, as a way of medication, will play an increasingly important role in the process of health preservation.