Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that different teas have different properties, such as cooling, warming...

People with different constitutions should choose teas that correspond to their bodies. Knowing how to avoid the 'pitfalls' of tea drinking, to seek benefits and avoid harm, makes tea drinking only good and not bad!

Choose the right tea based on your constitution.

Heaty constitution: Suitable for cooling teas, such as Prunella vulgaris, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, pagoda tree flower, etc., to clear heat and detoxify.

Cold/deficient constitution: Suitable for warming teas, such as jasmine, plum blossom, rose, Chinese rose, saffron, etc., to promote blood circulation and dispel cold.

Qi and blood deficiency: Suitable for warming and tonifying teas, such as goji berries, longan, astragalus with jujube, or codonopsis root decoction.

Spleen and stomach disharmony: Suitable for teas that strengthen the spleen and harmonize the stomach, such as Pu'er, barley, jujube with black plum, tangerine peel tea, etc.

Detoxification and stress relief: Cassia seed tea, licorice green tea, osmanthus black tea, jasmine tea, etc.

Drinking one type of tea long-term can also accumulate its negative aspects. For example, the following 8 commonly drunk teas each have their pros and cons. Making appropriate adjustments can help seek benefits and avoid harm.

Cassia Seed: Although it can lower blood lipids, it can also cause diarrhea. Long-term consumption by women may lead to irregular menstruation or even abnormal endometrium. Use with caution for those with diarrhea, low blood pressure, and pregnant women.

Honeysuckle: Its medicinal property is偏向寒性. No one should drink it long-term, especially those with spleen-stomach cold deficiency, qi deficiency and weak constitution, and women during menstruation.

Senna Leaves: Brewing it into tea can relieve constipation, but long-term use for chronic, habitual constipation can lead to dependence, requiring increasing doses until it becomes ineffective. It is absolutely unsuitable for women during breastfeeding, menstruation, and pregnancy.

Goji Berries: Their effect of warming the body is quite strong. Not suitable for people with high blood pressure, irritable temperaments, or those who eat a lot of meat and have a reddish complexion.

Sterculia Seed: Suitable for hoarseness caused by wind-heat pathogens invading the throat. It is ineffective for hoarseness from other causes. Use with caution, especially for sudden loss of voice in the elderly and those with spleen deficiency.

Licorice Root: Although it can tonify the spleen and qi, and clear heat and detoxify, long-term use can cause edema and elevated blood pressure.

Chrysanthemum: Belongs to cooling medicinal herbs. Although it clears heat and detoxifies, it is not suitable for阳虚体质.

Ginseng Slices: Can tonify primordial qi, promote fluid production, calm the spirit, tonify the spleen and benefit the lungs. However, long-term or excessive consumption by strong and healthy individuals can do more harm than good.

5 types of people should not drink tea casually!

1. Avoid tea when having a fever: The caffeine in tea leaves can not only raise body temperature but also reduce drug efficacy.

2. Patients with liver disease should avoid tea: Most substances like caffeine in tea are metabolized by the liver. If the liver is diseased, drinking too much tea beyond the liver's metabolic capacity can damage liver tissue.

3. Those with neurasthenia should drink tea cautiously: Caffeine in tea excites the nerve center. Drinking strong tea, especially in the afternoon and evening, can cause insomnia and worsen the condition for those with neurasthenia.

4. Patients with ulcers should drink tea cautiously: Tea is a stimulant for gastric acid secretion. Drinking tea can increase gastric acid secretion, aggravating the stimulation on ulcer surfaces. However, for mild cases, drinking some weak tea 2 hours after taking medicine, such as sugared black tea or milk black tea, can help reduce inflammation and protect the gastric mucosa, and may have some benefits for ulcers.

5. Pregnant women should avoid tea: Especially strong tea. Tea contains a large amount of polyphenols, caffeine, etc., which pose many unfavorable factors for the growth of the fetus in the womb.