Do you really know Puerh Tea? Chinese medicine practitioners talk about the effects and contraindications of Pu'er tea

Pu'er tea has become one of the most commonly consumed teas in our daily lives, and its most well-known function is to nourish and protect the stomach. Today, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, we will look at the effects of Pu'er tea and what we need to pay attention to when drinking it.

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From the Chinese medicine point of view, Pu-erh tea is red in colour, warm in nature, slightly bitter in taste and also belongs to the fire, it has a light taste and belongs to the spleen and the earth, which has the effect of warming the spleen and stomach and inducing dampness in general. Its growing environment is in Yunnan, where there are many high mountains and the earth's atmosphere is the thickest, so Pu'er tea has a thicker earth than other teas, so the role of Pu'er tea in warming the spleen and stomach and aiding digestion must be stronger than that of other teas. Pu-erh new born tea bitter and astringent taste heavier, seepage diarrhoea power overpowering, digestive power to be stronger, drinking on an empty stomach is not easy to withstand the average person; top grade ripe tea taste mellow and mild, the power of mild and long, easy to withstand, a few bubbles after the warm and light flavour is obvious to the spleen and wet physique of the person is extremely useful.

Efficacy and Role of Pu'er Tea

The efficacy of Pu-erh tea has been recorded as early as in the Compendium of Materia Medica. Chinese medicine practitioners believe that Pu-erh tea has the efficacy of clearing away heat, eliminating summer heat, detoxifying, eliminating food, removing fat and greasiness, inducing diuresis, laxative, expectorating phlegm, dispelling wind and relieving symptoms, relieving cough and generating fluids, benefiting the body's strength and prolonging the life span, and so on. And because Pu'er tea has gone through the process of transformation from raw tea to ripe tea, its raw tea has the efficacy of dispelling wind, relieving the epidermis, clearing the head and eyes, etc., while the ripe tea has the efficacy of lowering the qi, inducing diuresis, laxative, and other sedative efficacies. Therefore, Pu-erh has been known as a kind of attack and complementary medicine.

　　Modern medical research on the efficacy of tea has nearly 20: that is, warming the stomach, weight loss, lowering fat, preventing atherosclerosis, preventing coronary heart disease, lowering blood pressure, anti-aging, anti-cancer, lowering blood glucose, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, reduce tobacco poisoning, reduce heavy metal poisoning, anti-radiation, anti-caries, eyesight, digestive, anti-viral, preventing constipation, alcohol, and so on. Among them, Pu'er tea's stomach warming, weight loss, fat reduction, prevention of atherosclerosis, prevention of coronary heart disease, lowering blood pressure, anti-aging, anti-cancer, lowering blood sugar is particularly prominent.

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How to drink Pu-erh tea to maximise its efficacy

On the one hand, the purchase of Pu-erh tea should recognise the geographical indications, on the other hand, the correct brewing and drinking in order to play the health effects of Pu-erh tea.

　　In reality, although some people say that Pu-erh tea has flavour when it is boiled and drunk, experts clearly point out that Pu-erh tea is still good to be brewed, and it is best not to boil it and drink it. This is because when Pu-erh tea is boiled and drunk, the concentration is easily too high, which will tire the spleen and stomach. At the same time, it is not easy to control the aroma and flavour. Only some old tea leaves can be boiled, but the time should be controlled at 3 to 5 minutes, and the boiling time should not be too long.

　　As you can see, Pu-erh tea is suitable for brewing and drinking, and should not be boiled, as long-term boiling will hurt the spleen and stomach.

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What are the taboos of drinking Pu-erh tea

　　1, should not drink Pu-erh tea on an empty stomach, it is advisable to choose a time to drink, as the saying goes, ‘tea on an empty stomach panic, evening tea is difficult to sleep’. Drinking tea on an empty stomach will dilute gastric acid, inhibit gastric secretion, impede digestion, and even cause palpitations, headache, stomach upset, blurred eyes, upset and other ‘drunken tea’ phenomenon, and affect the absorption of protein.

　　2, Pu-erh tea with bubble drink, avoid drinking overnight Pu-erh tea Pu-erh tea after a long time, the tea will have heavy metals and other harmful substances precipitation, tea polyphenol oxidation, so that the tea colour becomes muddy, reducing the health effect. In addition, thermos cups of puerh tea are not suitable for regular drinking, overnight puerh tea should not be consumed.

　　3, just made pu-erh tea should not drink, from a nutritional point of view, just made the new pu-erh tea did not go through a period of time, the nutrients have not been oxidised, some of the lack of gastric acid and chronic gastric ulcers of the elderly patients long time to drink may produce adverse reactions.

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4, keep the tea utensils clean is very important, drinking pu-erh tea don't forget to wash the cup, some often drink pu-erh tea people like tea cups have a thick layer of ‘tea scale’, that brewing pu-erh tea is more flavourful. In fact, the tea scale is extremely unfavourable to human health, it contains a variety of heavy metal substances, when drinking tea into the body, hindering the absorption of nutrients, but also contains certain carcinogenic substances, it should be timely cleaning of Pu-erh tea tea tea scale, so as not to endanger their health.

　　5, pu-erh tea taboos should drink long, not intermittent drinking pu-erh tea should be fine water, not intermittent, otherwise, it is difficult to play the effect of health and wellness. Ancient famous doctor Hua Tuo ‘food theory’ put forward the ‘bitter tea for a long time, Yi Si Yi’ argument.

　　6, Pu-erh tea should be warm drink, not hot, cold drink ‘light tea warm drink to keep years’, drinking Pu-erh tea temperature to 25 ~ 50 degrees, not more than 60 degrees is appropriate. Often drink cold Pu'er tea on people, especially those who have poor spleen and stomach, mouth, throat, stomach and intestines will produce side effects, and therefore advocate warm drinking, in order to facilitate health.

　　7, Pu-erh tea taboo should be light drinking, should not be strong drinking, long-term drinking too thick Pu-erh tea will make the body's metabolic dysfunction, weaken the gastrointestinal absorption of iron in the food caused by anaemia or vitamin B deficiency.

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8, avoid drinking a lot of Pu-erh tea before and after meals, drinking a lot of Pu-erh tea before meals, will dilute saliva, affecting food digestion. Drinking after meals to choose the time to drink, should not be blind. Before and after the meal is best one hour apart in order to really achieve the best effect of health care.

　　9, drinking Pu-erh tea before going to bed should be moderate, 2 hours before going to bed, it is best not to drink Pu-erh tea (raw tea), will cause mental excitement, affecting sleep, and even insomnia. However, you can drink a small amount of ripe tea that is mild in nature.

　　10, avoid drinking poor quality tea or spoiled tea, storage Pu'er tea should pay attention to the environment, avoid absorbing odours, otherwise easy to absorb moisture and mould. Deteriorated tea contains a large number of harmful substances and germs.

　　11, avoid brewing too many times of pu-erh tea, pu-erh tea brewing too many times will be tea in some of the health of the harmful trace substances soaked into the tea broth, thus unfavourable to health.

　　The above is the efficacy of Pu-erh tea and drinking precautions, you remember?