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【Tea Encyclopedia】Tea Leaves - Life Uses Beyond Brewing Tea

Tea News · Dec 01, 2025

 

We all know that tea leaves have pharmacological effects such as refreshing the mind, clearing heat and relieving summer heat, aiding digestion and resolving phlegm, removing grease and reducing weight, calming the mind and relieving irritability, detoxifying and sobering up from alcohol, promoting salivation and quenching thirst, reducing internal heat and improving eyesight, and treating dysentery and removing dampness. But do you know other uses of tea leaves? Don't worry, below the editor will share with you ten little-known uses of tea leaves, quickly collect them!

China is the homeland of tea.历代"Materia Medica" medical texts mentioning tea all state that it has effects of quenching thirst, clearing the mind, promoting urination, treating coughs, eliminating phlegm, improving eyesight, enhancing thinking, relieving irritability and removing grease, dispelling fatigue and lightening the body, reducing inflammation and detoxifying. Besides these, tea leaves have many other wonderful uses, did you know? Below, the editor tells you about ten uses of tea leaves, quickly collect them!

 

 

1. Treat foot odor: Sterilize and treat foot odor. Tea leaves contain a large amount of tannic acid, which has a strong sterilizing effect, especially particularly effective against the filamentous fungi that cause foot odor. Therefore, people suffering from foot odor can boil tea leaves into a strong decoction every night to wash their feet, and over time it will heal without treatment. However, boiling tea to wash feet requires persistence; significant results will not appear in a short time.

2. Eliminate bad breath: Tea has a strong astringent effect. Often holding tea leaves in the mouth can eliminate bad breath. Frequently rinsing the mouth with strong tea also has the same effect. Tieguanyin efficacy. If you are not good at drinking tea, you can hold the brewed tea leaves in your mouth to reduce the bitter taste, which also has a certain effect.

3. Hair care: Tea water can remove dirt and grease, so after washing hair, rinsing with tea water can make hair black, soft, and full of luster. Moreover, tea water does not contain chemicals and will not harm hair and skin.

4. Wash silk clothing: Silk clothing is most afraid of chemical detergents. If you use brewed tea leaves to boil water for washing silk clothes, it can maintain the original color and brightness of the clothing, making it look like new. Washing nylon fiber clothes has the same effect.

5. Relieve cold symptoms: Inflamed throat and hoarse voice might be due to a cold, but before seeing a doctor, drinking several large cups of strong tea brewed with rock sugar will immediately make the mouth feel fresh and reduce pain. In the past, rural areas used this as a folk remedy.

6. Cook tea eggs: Cooking tea eggs is a delicious food. Some use brewed tea leaves to cook them, some use tea powder. But the best is to use Oolong tea. Because ordinary Oolong tea is inexpensive, and the tea eggs cooked with it have a reddish color and fragrant, delicious taste. The key to cooking tea eggs is to first boil the eggs until cooked, gently crack the eggshells, then put the tea leaves into the water and continue boiling, so that the tea flavor better penetrates the eggs.

7. Tea pillow: Do not discard used tea leaves. Spread them on a wooden board to dry in the sun. Accumulate them over time, and they can be used as pillow filling. It is said that tea pillows can clear the mind, refresh the brain, and enhance thinking ability. Since tea is cool in nature, the theory of clearing the mind and refreshing the brain is not without reason.

8. Repel mosquitoes and insects: Dry the used tea leaves. At dusk in summer, light them; they can repel mosquitoes and insects, and are absolutely harmless to the human body, having the same effect as mosquito coils.

9. Dish seasoning: Tea contains rich pigments, especially the reddish-brown pigment of black tea, which has wider uses. It can be used for mixing drinks, making food. If the kitchen prepares some strong black tea juice as a seasoning for dishes, it is much better than general chemical pigments. Housewives who often have tea at home might as well give it a try.

 

 

10. Plant fertilizer: Brewed tea leaves still contain nutrients such as inorganic salts and carbohydrates. Burying them in flower beds or flowerpots can help the development and reproduction of plants and flowers. Generally, friends who love potted plants know about this use, which is more convenient than disposing of them as garbage.

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