If you want to keep healthy with tea, you can't just drink one kind of tea all year round. You should choose tea according to the season. Spring is suitable for drinking scented tea (such as jasmine tea). Scented tea tastes sweet and cool, and its smell is fragrant and pungent, which is not only conducive to emitting cold in the body, but also promoting the rise of yang, making people feel refreshed.

Generally speaking, it is generally believed that green tea is suitable for drinking in summer. Because green tea is cold, it can best remove fire, promote fluid production to quench thirst, promote digestion and eliminate phlegm. Warm black tea should be drunk in winter. This kind of tea is sweet in taste, warm in nature and can tonify yang. It is also rich in protein and sugar, which can enhance cold resistance, help digestion and get rid of greasy food.

In addition, it is more appropriate to drink oolong tea in autumn, because its tea is moderate, neither too hot nor too cold, which helps to eliminate the residual heat in the body, and also has the functions of moistening the skin, moistening the throat, promoting fluid production and removing accumulated heat in the body.

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The misunderstanding of drinking tea

Myth 1: Drinking tea regardless of physical fitness?

There are many kinds of tea, which can be roughly divided into non-fermented tea, semi-fermented tea and fermented tea. All kinds of teas are different for people. Drinking tea regardless of your constitution may bring some discomfort. For example, green tea is rich in tea polyphenols and caffeine, which is irritating to the stomach. People with bad stomach should drink less green tea, especially not on an empty stomach, otherwise there may be a phenomenon of "drunk tea". Such people can choose black tea that warms their stomachs, or add milk and brown sugar to tea soup.

Scented tea is suitable for women to drink, especially around menstruation or menopause. Drinking scented tea can reduce irritability. Oolong tea such as Tieguanyin and Wuyi Rock Tea has a good effect of reducing blood fat and helping digestion. It can also be drunk when staying up late, which can refresh and relieve fatigue. Pu 'er tea is moist and greasy after fermentation, which is suitable for people who love meat.

Myth 2: soak a handful of tea for a day?

Many people grab a handful of tea leaves and put them in a big cup after arriving at work in the morning and drink them for a day. On the one hand, if the tea leaves are washed too much, they will not taste the fragrance; On the other hand, soaking in high-temperature water for a long time will lead to the oxidative degradation of vitamins, tea polyphenols, flavonoids and other nutrients in tea, and the health care effect will be greatly reduced. It is suggested that you make tea in a small teapot or a teacup with a strainer to separate the water from the tea. Tea leaves should generally be washed 4~5 times, or replaced when there is no taste.

Myth 4: Don't wash old tea?

Black tea or oolong tea is often aged tea, especially Pu 'er tea cake. The older you get, the stronger the fragrance. This kind of tea usually needs to be washed quickly with boiling water (10~20 seconds), and then the tea is turned upside down, which can not only wash the tea leaves, remove possible microorganisms, but also heat the tea leaves, which is beneficial to the volatilization of tea fragrance. Some people are reluctant to pour the first bubble, but the taste is not good, not worth the loss.

Myth 3: Tea should be brewed with boiling water and drunk while it is hot?

Not every kind of tea should be brewed with boiling water. Generally speaking, it is best to use freshly boiled water for black tea, black tea and oolong tea, and tea leaves will be more fragrant. Green tea is very tender. If soaked in boiling water, the polyphenols in it will be destroyed, and the tea soup will not only turn yellow, but also the aromatic substances will be lost. Green tea should be brewed in water at 80℃~85℃ for 2~3 minutes, and it is best to drink it now. It is not recommended to drink tea while it is hot, which will easily burn the gastric mucosa and mouth. Leave the tea for a while before drinking.

Myth 5: Is the tea scale unclear?

Some people who play with teapot don't want to wash the tea dirt off the teapot, thinking that it can raise the teapot. In fact, tea scale is not only bad for health, but also affects the taste of tea. Tea scale is a kind of metal chelate formed by oxidation of tea polyphenols in tea and metal elements in tea rust. Although there is no relevant research to prove that tea stains are harmful to health, it is suggested to wash tea stains in time from the perspective of health, and they can be easily washed off with toothpaste or salt water.

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People's Network-Drinking tea regardless of physical fitness? Six misunderstandings of drinking tea are harmful to health.