Tea drinking nourishes health, and the tea ceremony nurtures the soul. The “therapeutic effects” of tea lie in its ability to calm the mind, resolve confusion, turn sorrow into joy, and transform worry into happiness.
In a bustling and restless society, find a tranquil spot, steep a cup of tea, clear your mind and cultivate your spirit, setting aside all troubles and melancholy.
Social pressures are high today, and people often lack suitable places and methods to relieve their worries. However, tea can help alleviate these concerns, soothing the inner restlessness.
It can dissipate pent-up emotions and heal emotional wounds, making one's mood calm and composed, setting aside all troubles and melancholy, allowing the soul to rejuvenate, restoring confidence, and seeing hope even in despair.
When feeling disappointed, helpless, or frustrated, brew a cup of clear and sweet Pu'er raw tea, meditate, and you'll realize that life is woven from both bitterness and joy. After experiencing bitterness, one can appreciate the richness and fragrance of life;
When angry, anxious, or irritable, steep a cup of clear and fragrant Green Tea, calm your mind, and let your spirit return to tranquility, finding peace, broadness of mind, and composure; when exhausted and overwhelmed, brew a cup of bitter Tuo tea, with a yellowish-red broth, refreshing and invigorating.
Drinking Tea to relieve worries can clear the mind and enlighten, teaching us wisdom. It can prevent situations where “anger harms the liver, and fear harms the lungs.”
Besides, as summer arrives, what practical problems can tea solve for tea enthusiasts?
The answer is: Yes, it can!
One, Dry Mouth and Throat: Come to Tea
The tea polyphenols, amino acids, water-soluble pectins, and aromatic compounds in tea can stimulate the oral mucosa, promoting saliva secretion and having a quenching effect.
Note that tea is the most natural beverage. When thirsty, have a cup of tea!
Two, Cooling and Heat Prevention: Come to Tea
Experienced tea drinkers know that drinking hot tea makes one feel more comfortable.
The temperature of hot tea promotes sweating, which helps cool the body through evaporation and heat dissipation. Additionally, the Caffeine and other components in hot tea stimulate the kidneys and promote excretion. The more sweat evaporates, the better the body cools down, achieving the effect of cooling and heat prevention.
Three, Digestive Health: Come to Tea
During the hot summer months, if food hygiene isn't properly maintained, bacteria can multiply rapidly, making summer a peak season for digestive diseases.
Scientific studies show that tea has antibacterial, germicidal, and beneficial effects on the intestinal microflora. Drinking tea can inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria while promoting the proliferation of beneficial bacteria, enhancing the immune function of the gut.
Four, Hydration: Come to Tea
Summer temperatures are high, causing people to sweat more, losing significant amounts of potassium salts. Tea is a potassium-rich beverage.
Drinking tea in the summer replenishes potassium salts, maintaining normal physiological metabolic activities. This is why it's beneficial to drink tea during the summer when one sweats profusely.
Five, Fatigue Relief: Come to Tea
Summer brings excessive sweating, which depletes sodium, potassium, magnesium, and other elements, leading to fatigue.
Tea contains caffeine and other components that stimulate the nervous system. Tea polyphenols react with saliva, moisturizing the mouth, providing quenching and invigorating effects.
Six, Sun Protection and Anti-Aging: Come to Tea
Summer is also the peak period for melanin deposition, and facial blemishes can be a major concern for many.
Green tea is rich in catechins, tannic acid, and vitamin C, which have potent antioxidant functions. The antioxidants in polyphenols can eliminate active oxygen produced by factors such as ultraviolet rays, smoking, food additives, and stress, preventing the depletion of vitamin C and maintaining delicate and fair skin.
Seven, Weight Loss and Body Shaping: Come to Tea
It is said that if you don't lose weight in May, you'll lament in June. With June approaching, weight loss becomes particularly important!
Aside from stimulating the activity of fat-decomposing enzymes in the pancreas and reducing the absorption of sugars and fats, tea can also increase the body's heat production, promoting fat burning, especially reducing abdominal fat accumulation.
Eight, Mood Regulation: Come to Tea
Taiwanese writer Lin Qingxuan once said, “The highest realm of tea drinking is to break down the character ‘tea,' placing oneself amidst grass and trees, achieving harmony between heaven and humanity.”
During the scorching summer, it's easy to become irritable, but indulging in the world of tea leaves little time for self-induced worries. Even if they do come, a cup of tea provides time for self-reflection or contemplation. Tea lovers tend to handle matters simply, openly, and with grace.