Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that different teas have different properties, such as cold, warm, or hot natures...

People with different body constitutions should choose teas that correspond to their own bodies. Knowing the 'pitfalls' of tea drinking helps maximize benefits and avoid harm, ensuring that drinking tea is only good and not bad!

Choose Based on Your Constitution!

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

Cold and Deficient Constitution: Suitable for warming teas, such as jasmine, plum blossom, rose, Chinese rose, and saffron, to promote blood circulation and dispel cold.

Qi and Blood Deficiency: Suitable for warming and nourishing teas, such as goji berries, longan, astragalus with jujube, or codonopsis 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, and tangerine peel tea.

Detoxification and Stress Relief: Cassia seed tea, licorice green tea, osmanthus black tea, and jasmine tea.

Don't Drink the Same Type of Tea Long-Term, For Example...

Drinking the same type of tea long-term can also accumulate its negative effects. For instance, the following 8 commonly consumed teas each have their pros and cons. Making appropriate adjustments can help maximize benefits and avoid harm.

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

Honeysuckle: Its medicinal nature is cold. No one should consume it long-term, especially those with spleen and stomach cold deficiency, qi deficiency, or women during menstruation.

Senna Leaf: Brewing it as tea can relieve constipation, but long-term use for chronic or habitual constipation can lead to dependence. Increasing doses may eventually become ineffective. It is absolutely unsuitable for women during breastfeeding, menstruation, or pregnancy.

Goji Berry: It has a strong warming effect on the body. However, it is not suitable for people with high blood pressure, irritable temperaments, or those who consume large amounts of meat and have a flushed face.

Sterculia Seed: Suitable for hoarseness caused by wind-heat pathogens invading the throat. It is ineffective for hoarseness due to other reasons. The elderly with sudden loss of voice or those with spleen deficiency should use with caution.

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

Chrysanthemum: Belongs to cold-natured herbs. Although it clears heat and detoxifies, it is not suitable for those with yang deficiency constitution.

Ginseng Slice: Can tonify primordial qi, promote fluid production, calm the mind, and strengthen the spleen and lungs. However, strong and healthy individuals should avoid long-term or excessive consumption.

5 Types of People Should Not Drink Tea Casually!

1. Avoid Tea During Fever: The caffeine in tea leaves can raise body temperature and reduce the effectiveness of medication.

2. Liver Disease Patients Should Avoid Tea: Most substances like caffeine in tea are metabolized by the liver. If the liver is diseased, excessive tea consumption beyond the liver's metabolic capacity can damage liver tissue.

3. Those with Neurasthenia Should Drink Tea Cautiously: Caffeine in tea stimulates the central nervous system. Drinking strong tea, especially in the afternoon and evening, can cause insomnia and worsen the condition for those with neurasthenia.

4. Ulcer Patients Should Drink Tea Cautiously: Tea is a stimulant for gastric acid secretion. Drinking tea can increase gastric acid secretion, exacerbating irritation to the ulcer.

However, for mild cases, drinking some weak tea two hours after taking medication, such as sweetened black tea or milk tea, can help reduce inflammation, protect the gastric mucosa, and may benefit the ulcer.

5. Pregnant Women Should Avoid Tea: Especially strong tea. Tea contains large amounts of polyphenols, caffeine, etc., which can adversely affect fetal development in the womb.