Pu-erh Tea is a unique type of tea from Yunnan, China. It is a general term for loose tea and compressed tea made from large-leaf tea varieties native to Yunnan and processed through special techniques. It is primarily produced in regions such as Lincang, Simao, Xishuangbanna, and Baoshan in Yunnan. These areas boast advantages like abundant rainfall year-round, pervasive mist, deep soil layers, fertile land, and a clean, pollution-free environment.
Pu-erh tea can help lower blood lipids. Numerous medical experiments have proven that long-term consumption of Pu-erh tea has the effect of reducing blood lipid levels. The principle behind Pu-erh tea's lipid-lowering effect lies first in its ability to decompose excess fat. As is widely known, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and high blood sugar are often caused by obesity. Most people with these 'three highs' are overweight. Pu-erh tea can decompose the body's excess fat at its source, thereby achieving the goal of lowering the three highs.
It is rich in caffeine, tea polyphenols, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Among these, vitamins can maintain the normal functions of the nervous, cardiac, and digestive systems, promote the body's sugar metabolism; help prevent and treat skin diseases like pellagra; also increase the body's resistance, promote wound healing; lower blood lipids and prevent arteriosclerosis; inhibit carcinogens and the proliferation of cancer cells, having an apparent anti-cancer effect. Tea polyphenols can lower blood lipids; inhibit arteriosclerosis; enhance capillary function; lower blood sugar; provide antioxidant and anti-aging benefits; offer anti-radiation effects; have bactericidal and anti-inflammatory properties; and possess anti-cancer and anti-mutation effects, among others.
Pu-erh tea is divided into raw tea and ripe tea. Raw tea has effects such as dispelling wind, relieving exterior syndromes, and clearing the head and eyes, while ripe tea has descending effects like promoting the downward movement of qi, diuresis, and relieving constipation. Therefore, Pu-erh tea has long been praised as a good medicine that combines both 'attacking' and 'tonifying' properties.