Today, the editor will introduce the benefits of drinking Pu-erh tea.

1. Helps prevent and treat radiation damage.

Tea polyphenols and their oxidation products have the ability to absorb radioactive substances and mitigate their harm. According to clinical trials by relevant medical departments, for mild radiation sickness caused during radiotherapy in cancer patients, treatment with tea extracts achieved an effectiveness rate of over 90%; for hematocytopenia, the treatment effectiveness rate reached 81.7%; the therapeutic effect is even better for leukopenia caused by radiation.

2. Helps protect the liver.

Pu-erh tea contains relatively high amounts of tea polyphenols, tea polysaccharides, and theanine, which have good effects against cancer, lowering blood lipids and blood pressure, and enhancing memory. It can also effectively control the degree of damage alcohol causes to the liver, effectively protecting the liver. People with frequent social engagements should drink more Pu-erh tea.

3. Helps with skincare and beauty.

Tea polyphenols are water-soluble substances. Using them to wash the face can remove facial grease, tighten pores, and has effects such as disinfection, sterilization, anti-aging of the skin, and reducing skin damage from ultraviolet radiation in sunlight.

4. Helps delay aging.

Tea polyphenols have strong antioxidant and physiological activity, acting as scavengers of free radicals in the human body. They can block lipid peroxidation reactions and clear active enzymes.

5. Helps as a diuretic and relieves fatigue.

The caffeine in tea can stimulate the kidneys, prompting the rapid discharge of urine from the body, increasing the filtration rate of the kidneys, and reducing the retention time of harmful substances in the kidneys. Caffeine can also remove excess lactic acid from urine, helping the human body eliminate fatigue more quickly.

6. Helps prevent and fight cancer.

Tea polyphenols can block the synthesis of various carcinogens such as nitrosamines in the body and have the effect of directly killing cancer cells and improving the body's immune capacity.

7. Helps refresh the mind.

The caffeine in tea can stimulate the central nervous system of the human body, enhancing the excitatory process of the cerebral cortex, resulting in effects such as refreshing the mind, boosting thinking, and clearing the heart.

8. Helps reduce fat and aid digestion.

There are records stating that tea has the effect of "making people thin after long-term consumption." Ethnic minorities in China's border regions have a saying, "Not a day without tea." This is because tea has the important effect of aiding digestion and reducing fat. In today's fashionable language, it helps with "weight loss." This is due to the caffeine in tea, which can increase the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion, and enhance the ability to break down fat.

9. Helps protect teeth and improve eyesight.

The relatively high fluoride content in tea is beneficial for preventing dental caries and protecting and strengthening teeth. Components like vitamin C in tea can reduce the opacity of the eye lens. Regular tea drinking has positive effects on reducing eye diseases and protecting eyesight.

10. Helps inhibit and resist viruses and bacteria.

Tea polyphenols have a strong astringent effect, can significantly inhibit and kill pathogens and viruses, and have obvious effects on reducing inflammation and stopping diarrhea.

Historical Records

(1) Tao Hongjing of the Liang Dynasty wrote in "Miscellaneous Records": "Bitter tea lightens the body and changes the bones." "Tang Mu Chapter" says: "Ming, bitter tea, tea tastes sweet and bitter, slightly cold and non-toxic, mainly treats fistulas, promotes urination, removes phlegm, quenches thirst, and makes people less sleepy."

(2) Chen Cangqi said in "Ben Cao Shi Yi": "The value lies in tea, reaching up to the heavenly realm, benefiting humanity below. All medicines are medicines for a hundred diseases, tea is the medicine for ten thousand diseases."

(3) Tang Dynasty Tea Sage Lu Yu wrote in "The Classic of Tea" about the efficacy and functions of Pu-erh tea: "The use of tea, its flavor is extremely cold, most suitable as a drink, for refined, frugal, and virtuous people. If suffering from heat, thirst, congestion, headache, eye dryness, limb fatigue, or discomfort in all joints, drinking four or five sips can rival ambrosia and sweet dew." He also pointed out that tea has effects such as "detoxification, treating illness, sobering up from alcohol, stimulation, quenching thirst, etc."

(4) The famous Ming Dynasty medical scholar Li Shizhen wrote in "Compendium of Materia Medica" about the efficacy and functions of Pu-erh tea: "Tea is bitter and cold, most effective in reducing fire. Fire is the cause of all diseases; when fire is reduced, the upper body becomes clear. Drinking it warm causes it to descend due to cold energy; drinking it hot causes the tea to rise and disperse with the help of fire energy. It also relieves the toxicity of alcohol and food, making one's spirit refreshed, neither drowsy nor sleepy. This is the merit of tea."

Article source: Tea Art