During the Spring Festival, irregular lifestyles and overeating can easily lead to physical discomfort. From a health preservation perspective, drinking tea can effectively promote metabolism, remove grease and oiliness, detoxify the body, and maintain health. So, what teas should you drink during the New Year?
1. Pu'er Tea
Pu'er tea has a mild nature, warms the stomach without harming it, which is particularly evident in ripe Pu'er tea. Modern science has proven that Pu'er tea contains statins, giving it special efficacy in lowering blood lipids. Lowering blood lipids naturally brings about weight loss effects. As early as the "Compendium of Materia Medica," there is a record that "Pu'er tea tastes bitter, relieves greasiness, beef and mutton toxins... cleanses the intestines and promotes excretion," which mentions Pu'er tea's effect of relieving greasiness and aiding weight loss.
Modern medical research on the efficacy of Pu'er tea concludes that it has multiple benefits, including warming the stomach, weight loss, lipid reduction, preventing arteriosclerosis, preventing coronary heart disease, lowering blood pressure, anti-aging, anti-cancer, lowering blood sugar, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, reducing smoke toxicity, anti-radiation, preventing dental caries, improving eyesight, aiding digestion, preventing constipation, and relieving alcohol intoxication. Among these, the effects of warming the stomach, weight loss, lipid reduction, preventing arteriosclerosis, preventing coronary heart disease, lowering blood pressure, anti-aging, anti-cancer, and lowering blood sugar are particularly prominent.
2. Anhua Dark Tea
The caffeine, vitamins, amino acids, phospholipids, etc., in dark tea help with human digestion and regulate fat metabolism. The stimulating effect of caffeine can increase gastric juice secretion, thereby improving appetite and aiding digestion. Japanese scholars have scientifically proven that dark tea has strong functions of relieving greasiness and aiding digestion, which is why meat-eating ethnic groups particularly like this tea. The food structure of people in ethnic minority areas of Northwest China is based on beef, mutton, and cheese, hence the saying, "Rather go without food for three days than without tea for one day." This is largely related to tea's ability to "remove fat" and "relieve meatiness." Additionally, dark tea can improve the intestinal microbial environment and has bowel-regulating functions. In Chinese folk tradition, old dark tea is used to treat bloating, dysentery, and indigestion.
3. Oolong Tea, Tieguanyin
Modern scientific research at home and abroad has confirmed that in addition to the general health functions of tea, such as refreshing the mind, eliminating fatigue, promoting saliva and diuresis, sterilizing and anti-inflammatory, detoxifying and preventing diseases, aiding digestion and removing grease, and weight loss and bodybuilding, oolong tea also has special effects in preventing cancer, lowering blood lipids, and anti-aging. Moreover, as oolong tea is a semi-fermented tea, its nature is relatively mild, making it suitable for consumption during the Spring Festival. For example, Tieguanyin is a famous tea unique to China, with a long history and exquisite craftsmanship. It has a sweet and mellow taste and a long-lasting rich aroma. Regular drinking can detoxify, aid digestion, remove grease, beautify and lose weight, anti-aging, prevent cancer, increase intelligence, make people smarter, socialize and cultivate temperament, and improve mood.
4. White Tea
White tea is one of the six major tea categories in China. Medical research at home and abroad has proven that long-term consumption of white tea can promote fat decomposition and metabolism, effectively control insulin secretion, decompose excess sugar in the blood, promote blood sugar balance, and effectively prevent diabetes.
The longer white tea is stored, the higher its medicinal value. White tea also contains rich vitamin A原, which, after being absorbed by the body, can make the eyes see more clearly in dim light and prevent night blindness and dry eye disease. At the same time, white tea also contains anti-radiation substances, which have a significant protective effect on the human body's hematopoietic function and can reduce the harm of TV radiation. Therefore, during the Spring Festival while watching TV, drinking more white tea has many benefits and no harm, especially for children and adolescents, who should be encouraged to drink more white tea to protect their eyes and health.
5. Flower Tea or Green Tea
Flower tea can dispel the cold evil accumulated in the human body during winter. The strong fragrant tea can promote the growth of human阳气. In spring, when everything recovers, people are prone to drowsiness. At this time, brewing a cup of rich, fragrant, and refreshing flower tea can not only refresh the mind and clear sleepiness but also help dispel the cold evil in the body and promote the growth of human阳气.