For China people, drinking tea for health preservation is a tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years. In fact, every kind of tea has a natural partner, and drinking together can double the health care effect of drinking tea. Let's have a look!
Green tea and lemon can protect the heart better.
Polyphenols, such as catechol, are recognized as key components in green tea, which have many health functions, including preventing cancer, improving cardiovascular health, losing weight and resisting ionizing radiation.
Purdue University found that adding some citrus foods rich in vitamin C to green tea can improve the absorption efficiency of catechol and improve the health care effect of catechol by four times. Experiments show that lemon has the best effect in citrus food.
Lemon with green tea is refreshing and sour, especially suitable for drinking in summer. Put the soaked green tea at an edible temperature, then add one or two pieces of cut lemon, or drop a few drops of lemon juice, so as to avoid the loss of vitamin C caused by high temperature.
Oolong tea+osmanthus is more appetizing.
Oolong tea is a semi-fermented tea, such as Tieguanyin and Dahongpao. It is rich in active substances such as tannic acid, tea polyphenols and plant alkaloids, which can help digestion and eliminate boredom.
With sweet-scented osmanthus, it can strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, relieve dry mouth, bad breath and toothache in the throat, and make people's appetite open. Osmanthus fragrans is pungent and warm, which is very suitable for drinking with flat oolong tea.
Oolong tea is best brewed in a teapot or a cup with a bowl cover. It needs boiling water at 100℃, and about 3 grams of dried osmanthus can be added after brewing. However, it should be noted that people who are prone to insomnia rarely choose this collocation, because osmanthus fragrans also has the effect of refreshing their minds and is not easy to fall asleep after drinking.
Black tea+ginger to warm up.
From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, black tea is warm, which can warm the middle and drive away cold, especially suitable for people with cold stomach, cold hands and feet, physical weakness and diarrhea. Ginger, on the other hand, tastes pungent and warm, and is good at dispelling cold, warming stomach and strengthening yang.
Both of them have a warm-up effect, and the effect is doubled when they are matched together. In midsummer, many people get "air conditioning disease" because of cold and humidity. This combination can be used to dispel cold and relieve superficial symptoms.
To brew black tea, you should use freshly boiled water and add a little ginger slices or shredded ginger. The soaking time can be relatively long, which is beneficial to the full dissolution of flavonoids in black tea and is beneficial to health. It should be noted that people with hot constitution are not suitable for ginger with black tea, and drinking too much is prone to internal heat symptoms.
Jasmine tea+chrysanthemum is more eye-catching.
Jasmine tea is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which not only has the functions of aromatic dampness, spleen and stomach, but also can clear liver and improve eyesight. Chrysanthemum belongs to the liver meridian, and also has the effects of calming the liver, clearing away the liver and improving eyesight. The combination of the two can be described as "strong cooperation."
When brewing jasmine tea with boiling water, add five or six white chrysanthemums, and you can also add a few medlars with the same function of nourishing liver and kidney to enhance the eyesight of jasmine tea.
Soak jasmine chrysanthemum tea in 10~ 15 minutes to drink. Chrysanthemum is cold, people with general yang deficiency constitution (usually afraid of cold) and spleen and stomach deficiency cold (eating cold food, stomachache and stomach discomfort) should pay attention to drinking less.
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