Now, tea has become the most popular, popular and healthy green drink in the world. Tea integrates heaven and earth, and advocates "a family of tea people in the world". Tea has the curative effect of strengthening the body and curing diseases, and is full of appreciation interest, which can cultivate sentiment. Tasting tea and entertaining guests are elegant entertainment and social activities of China people, while sitting in teahouses and tea parties are tea activities of social groups in China.
Motherland medicine advocates: drink scented tea in spring, green tea in summer, green tea in autumn and black tea in winter.
(1) Drink scented tea in spring
Most parts of China have a monsoon climate with four distinct seasons: high temperature in spring, hot in summer, cool in autumn and cold in winter. In the days of spring, the spring breeze recovers, and the sun is the spirit, bringing vitality to everything. But at this time, people generally feel sleepy and weak, and there is a phenomenon of spring sleepiness. People drinking scented tea can alleviate the adverse effects of spring sleep. Scented tea tastes sweet and cool, but its fragrance is pungent, which is beneficial to dispel the cold evil accumulated in the human body in winter, promote the growth of yang in the body, make people feel refreshed and make the "spring sleep" disappear on its own. Scented tea is a combination of tea fragrance and floral fragrance. Tea absorbs flowers, and flowers add tea flavor, which complement each other. It not only maintains a rich and refreshing tea fragrance, but also has a fresh and fragrant flower fragrance. The brewed product is smoky, fragrant, full of sweetness and refreshing. Scented tea not only has the efficacy of tea, but also has a good pharmacological effect, which is beneficial to human health and has the functions of excreting feces, regulating gastrointestinal circulation and expelling toxins. It has the functions of beauty and skin care, body slimming, detoxification and deodorization, and it is best to help thin abdomen.
(2) Drink green tea in summer
Summer is hot, the sun is like fire, people sweat like rain in it, their physical strength is very high, and their mood is low. At this time, it is better to taste green tea. Because green tea belongs to unfermented tea, it is cold in nature, "cold can clear away heat", which can remove fire, promote fluid production to quench thirst, promote digestion and eliminate phlegm, and accelerate the healing of oral cavity and mild gastric ulcer. But also has high nutritional components and medicinal values of reducing blood fat and preventing arteriosclerosis. This kind of tea has clear water color, elegant fragrance and fresh taste after brewing. It can be drunk every day in summer to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, strengthen the body and benefit the body.
From the five elements, summer belongs to fire, five internal organs belong to heart, and heart belongs to fire. Therefore, summer health should first pay attention to nourishing the heart. Green tea contains flavonol, which has good antioxidant effect, can also prevent thrombosis and platelet aggregation, and can effectively reduce cardiovascular diseases.
(3) Drink green tea in autumn
In autumn, the sky is high and the clouds are light, the golden wind is bleak, the flowers and trees are withered, and the climate is dry, which makes people thirsty and chapped. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it "autumn dryness", so it's time to drink green tea. Green tea, also known as oolong tea, belongs to semi-fermented tea, which is between green tea and black tea. The colors are blue and brown. After brewing, you can see that the middle of the leaves is blue and the edges are red. It is called "the edge of green leaves". It has both the fragrance and natural floral fragrance of green tea and the mellow fragrance of black tea. Not cold or hot, mild. It has the effects of moistening skin, moistening throat, promoting fluid production, eliminating accumulated heat in the body, and adapting the body to changes in natural environment.
(4) Drinking black tea in winter
It is freezing in winter, everything is dormant, cold evil attacks people, the physiological function of human body declines, and the yang gradually declines. Chinese medicine believes: "In the cold winter, everything is alive and hidden, and the physiological activities of the human body are in a state of inhibition. The way to keep healthy is to keep out the cold, so black tea is the top grade in winter. Black tea is sweet and warm, which can nourish human yang; Black tea is rich in protein and sugar, which can warm the abdomen by heating, enhance the cold resistance of human body, and help digestion and greasy. Black tea is also called fully fermented tea because it is fully fermented during processing and oxidizes tea tannins. Fresh tea leaves are oxidized to form red oxidative polymerization products-theaflavins, thearubigins and theabrownins. Some of these pigments are dissolved in water and brewed into black tea soup. In some parts of China, there is also the habit of drinking black tea with sugar, milk and sesame seeds, which can not only warm the abdomen, but also increase nutrition and keep fit.
In addition, black tea is rich in carotene, vitamin A, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, caffeine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, glutamic acid, alanine and aspartic acid. In the process of black tea fermentation, the chemical reaction of polyphenols makes the chemical composition of fresh leaves change greatly, producing theaflavins, thearubigins and other components, whose aroma is obviously higher than that of fresh leaves, forming the unique color, aroma and taste of black tea.