Crab feet can also drink you know?
In Yunnan Lancang and other old tea area of the ancient tea tree, parasitic called crab feet of parasitic plants. It and the old tea tree grow together, sucked the tea tree's aura, they also become a spirit.
The crab's foot is a parasitic organism in the higher age of the tree tea tree. It is green (brownish-yellow after picking and drying), shaped like a small coral, with hair, such as crab feet, so it is locally known as "crab feet".
The color of the soup is yellowish-green and translucent, with a strong special fragrance when fresh, and a strong medicinal flavor after aging.
The crab's foot is usually found on ancient tea trees that are hundreds of years old, and is extremely rare in the wild because of its extremely slow growth and excessive harvesting.
The crab's foot on the authentic ancient tea tree has a fragrant flavor, is smooth in the mouth, has a strong aftertaste and quenches the thirst. The Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine states that it is "hard and warm, dispelling wind, activating blood circulation, removing dampness, relieving cough and expelling phlegm".
According to medical experts, crab legs have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, clearing the gallbladder and diuretic, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure and so on.
Crab legs can be consumed alone, but also with Pu'er tea tea brewed together, can also be used to make chicken soup.
However, the crab foot is not cool enough to drink, the average person drinking twice a month is enough.
There are two kinds of fake crab legs on the market, one is simply fake with ordinary tea, the other is not growing in the ancient tea tree on the authentic crab legs, but other miscellaneous wood on the parasitic plants.
Their biggest difference is: the ancient tea tree on the crab foot branches and knots more short round, after drying the color should be brownish yellow. And the crab's foot branches on the miscellaneous trees flat and long, with prominent stripes, green color.