The transition period between spring and summer is also a season with more rainfall, especially in the south where rain is even more frequent. This damp climate can easily increase internal dampness in the body, especially for friends with poor lifestyle habits who already have significant dampness; they are more prone to attracting dampness or even falling ill. How to dispel dampness? One can exercise and drink some traditional Chinese medicine to remove dampness. Drinking medicine itself isn't ideal, as all medicine has some toxicity. For friends who also dislike exercise, why not drink some tea to remove dampness? Because drinking tea promotes diuresis, drinking tea promotes qi movement. Urine can also expel internal dampness from the body, and promoting qi movement is the best way to expel dampness from within.
Green Tea, a Good Helper for Removing Dampness
For drinking tea to remove dampness this season, green tea is of course the first choice. Green tea itself is unfermented; the tea leaves are not oxidized, which can maximally preserve the various substances of the fresh leaves. The large amounts of caffeine, tea polyphenols, and other components in green tea can be relatively comprehensively retained. Therefore, drinking green tea is more conducive to diuresis. For example: Dongting Biluochun, West Lake Longjing, Huangshan Maofeng, Xinyang Maojian, Anji White Tea, etc., are all famous Chinese teas. Green tea is cooling in nature. Friends with inherently cold constitutions must pay attention to their body's reaction and drink less or stop if there is a reaction. Tea friends with stomach problems should also pay attention to their stomachs. If discomfort is found, drink less or not at all. For normal individuals, once their constitution improves, they can consider drinking it along with other teas, such as drinking green tea in the morning and other teas in the afternoon.
Those with Poor Spleen/Stomach Function and Cold Constitutions, Please Drink Oolong Tea
Most people with heavy dampness have poor spleen and stomach function, and some people belong to cold constitutions. In this case, please choose oolong tea, Da Hong Pao, black tea, and other warm-natured teas that nourish the stomach. The characteristic of these teas is that they have good tea energy (qi), which can help promote qi movement. Of course, no matter what tea, it has diuretic function. So, their dampness-expelling function is also quite good.
If you also want to lose weight, of course choose Da Hong Pao and Tieguanyin; this is the most ideal choice. It's just a bit regrettable not to be able to experience the first bud of spring - green tea. You cannot share the experience of spring's arrival with others.
To Lower the Three Highs, Why Not Drink Some Pu-erh and Dark Tea
Whether it's Pu-erh tea or dark tea, lowering the three highs is their common function. Pu-erh tea is divided into raw tea and ripe tea. Raw tea is slightly cooling and can reduce internal heat, but it is more stimulating to the stomach (aged and transformed raw tea is less so). Some people prefer ripe Pu-erh, but it needs one or two years of aging to remove some off-flavors, making it more comfortable to drink. Dark tea is a fermented tea that can be stored and transformed. It protects the stomach and is a warm-natured tea. These two types of tea are not very 'heating,' but they can also help remove dampness.