Pine Needle Water, or Pine Needle Tea, works as follows:
1, pine needles for sedation, hypnosis and related effects on brain neurotransmitters.
2, pine needles are rich in mangiferic acid, mangiferic acid has an antibacterial effect, and is an important precursor to oseltamivir phosphate, an effective drug for the deadly avian influenza virus H?N?
3, pine needle essential oil and pine needle flavonoids have a unique water solubility, can and pine needles contain unsaturated fatty acids through the blood vessel wall into the blood.
4, there is a wealth of pre-cyanidin, biological brass, can effectively remove free radicals in the body, increase the elasticity of blood vessels, so that the human body to achieve antioxidant anti-aging effect, increase the body's immunity.
Expanded Information:
1, pine needles should not be used on the side of the road polluted pine tree picking, to the mountains to pick non-polluting.
2, there are more than twenty varieties of pine trees in China, to the oil pine, ponytail pine, red pine three kinds of good.
3, pine needles can be boiled and brewed several times, each time the taste and composition are different, usually can drink instead of tea, to health care as the goal, no need to decoct very thick; the amount of tea and tea is about the same. Cooked overnight do not drink.
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