Tea has always been regarded as a multifunctional Chinese medicine. There are at least 200 herbal tea prescriptions recorded in medical books of past dynasties. There are single flavors and compound flavors; Some are used to treat diseases, and some are used to preserve health and prolong life. There are many varieties, which is the best in Chinese medicine.
In the long history of more than 4000 years, tea has been mainly used as medicine for more than 3000 years. For example, Shennong Materia Medica, the earliest existing pharmaceutical monograph in China, clearly records the function of tea: "Tea tastes bitter, and drinking it makes people think good, lie down less, and strengthen their bodies and improve their eyesight." There is also "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered seventy-two poisons a day, so he got a tea solution." According to legend, when Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, he was poisoned by gold and green balls, which happened to fall under the tea tree and the dew entrance on the tea, which made him wake up and be saved. Although this is a legendary story, it records the fact that tea has detoxification function.
Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the Three Kingdoms period, wrote in On Food that "bitter tea is beneficial for a long time" and pointed out that drinking tea has a refreshing effect. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Han Dynasty, recorded in Treatise on Febrile Diseases that "tea is very effective in treating fecal pus and blood". Tao Hongjing, a famous doctor in Liang Dynasty, said, "Drinking tea for a long time can change your body." . Although this is somewhat exaggerated, it also shows that tea has the function of strengthening the body and prolonging life.
During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Su Jing and others said in the Tang Materia Medica written by the imperial court: "Tea is sweet and bitter, slightly cold and non-toxic, which is beneficial to treating fistula, adverse urination, excessive phlegm and thirst, and stagnation of qi and food. Relieve digestion, drink, add Cornus officinalis, onion and Jiang Liang. " Chen Zangqi's Collection of Materia Medica also records that "breaking heat, eliminating miasma and benefiting the large intestine." The thirty-first volume of the famous medical scientist Wang Tao's "Secrets of Foreign Taiwan Province" contains a section "New Formula of Tea", which describes in detail the production, use and treatment of diseases of medicinal tea, creating a precedent for the production of medicinal tea.
Sun Simiao, the drug king, wrote "A Thousand Daughters' Prescriptions" and "A Thousand Daughters' Wings", which called tea "powerful and pleasing" and recorded more than ten kinds of tea prescriptions. Meng Xi's Dietotherapy Materia Medica also records that herbal tea is used to treat "intractable low back pain" and "toxic heat diarrhea".
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