Tea is currently a very trendy wellness product in the world. Nowadays, more and more people in society are discussing wellness and talking about healthcare. What should we use for wellness? What should we use for healthcare? This is receiving increasing attention from everyone. In fact, everyone has a great treasure right by their side, and that is tea! Tea can help you calm your mind and detoxify your body. It is the best treasure in Chinese wellness practices and represents a rational return. However, this awareness is not yet deeply rooted in people's minds.
Tea is a non-alcoholic beverage
After entering the 21st century, four major categories of plant extract products have developed rapidly in the international market. The first category includes weight loss, blood lipid-lowering, and blood sugar-lowering products; the second category includes brain-boosting, intelligence-enhancing, and anti-brain-aging products; the third category includes products for improving vision and preventing age-related macular degeneration; and the fourth category includes anti-cancer products and those that enhance the body's own immunity. Among all the popularly used plant extracts, only tea covers these four major categories, highlighting its high medicinal and health value.
"Tea is the national drink." More people should care about tea and study it. When tea was first discovered, it was used as a medicinal substance for detoxification. When Chinese tea was first exported to the West, it was also accepted by Westerners as a "magical oriental herb" due to its medicinal value. In some Western European countries in the early days, tea could only be purchased in pharmacies. Tea has now become one of the world's three major non-alcoholic beverages. Currently, developed countries' application and development of tea are no less than China's, especially regarding the main tea leaf extract, tea polyphenols.
Drinking weak tea is beneficial for children
Experts particularly point out: "Some people now believe that children cannot drink tea. In fact, children should not drink strong tea, but drinking a little weak tea is beneficial for their health. Especially in Japan, elementary school students are encouraged to drink a cup of tea every day when they go to school because drinking tea can enhance memory and resistance."
Elderly people who regularly drink tea are mostly clear-eyed and sharp-eared because the essential components in tea, such as tea polyphenols and tea pigments, play a very good role in the body's energy metabolism. Tea also contains a high level of theanine, which has certain effects in enhancing memory and preventing cancer. Tea also has some clever uses; for people with bad breath, putting a handful of tea leaves in the mouth in the morning and finally eating them can keep the mouth much less smelly throughout the day.
Tea polyphenols can also regulate body fluids, protect the skin, prevent eye diseases, and prevent scurvy. Doctors and nurses who are regularly exposed to radiation or biological agents must insist on drinking tea because tea has strong anti-radiation functions.
Experimental results show that if tea, especially coarse and old tea leaves, is brewed with cold water, it can help treat diabetes, as recorded in "The Classic of Chinese Tea." Currently, in Japan, some people also have diabetics drink coarse, old tea leaves. Therefore, drinking tea does not necessarily require spending a lot of money on good or tender tea.