Operation: Just a few chrysanthemums, and Lycium barbarum can be added appropriately.

Applicability: Acne, throat inflammation, exogenous wind-heat, headache, oral ulcer and other symptoms caused by dry fire, as long as you drink chrysanthemum tea in moderation, you can effectively achieve the effect of reducing fire.

Honeysuckle tea

Operation: Drink honeysuckle with boiling water.

Application: clearing away heat and fire, beauty beauty, lowering blood pressure, removing spots and relieving summer heat.

Sanhuacha

Operation: honeysuckle10g, chrysanthemum10g, jasmine 3g, add boiling water to make tea.

Application: clearing away heat and toxic materials, and treating headache, thirst and sore throat.

green tea

Operation: Add green tea and a little honey to warm water.

Application: It can clear away heat, relieve sore throat, moisten lung and promote fluid production.

Extended data

Tea, (scientific name: Camelliasinensis? (L.)O.Ktze.), shrub or small tree, with glabrous shoots. Leaves leathery, oblong or oval, blunt or sharp at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, shiny on the top, hairless or initially pilose below, serrated at the edge, and glabrous on the petiole. The flowers are white, and the flower stalks are sometimes slightly longer; Sepals broadly ovoid to round, glabrous, persistent; Petals broadly ovoid, slightly jointed at the base, glabrous on the back, sometimes pubescent; Ovary densely covered with white hairs; Style glabrous. Capsule 3 is spherical or 1-2 is spherical, and its height is1.1-0/.5cm. Each ball has 1-2 seeds. Flowering period 10 to February of the following year.

Wild species are found all over the mountainous areas of the provinces south of the Yangtze River in China. They are small trees with large leaves, often more than 10 cm long. For a long time, after extensive cultivation, the hair coat and leaf shape have changed greatly. Tea can be used as a drink, which contains many beneficial ingredients and has health care effects.

Can reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and death.

According to research reports, Japanese researchers conducted a follow-up survey on more than 40,000 middle-aged and elderly people aged 40 to 79 in a certain place from 1994. It was found that compared with those who drank less than 1 cup of tea a day, the average risk of death from cerebrovascular disease in men who drank more than 5 cups of green tea a day decreased by 22%, and that in women by 3 1%, with the most obvious decline in cerebral infarction in men. According to the Daily Mail, a new study found that drinking three cups of tea a day can reduce the risk of myocardial infarction by 70%. Studies in Finland and France also show that drinking 2-3 cups of tea a day can reduce the risk of stroke.

It can lower cholesterol and blood pressure.

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong found that drinking tea can reduce blood total cholesterol levels by 25%. Another investigation on the relationship between drinking tea and the incidence of hypertension found that the incidence of hypertension was 10.55% for people who didn't drink tea, and 6.95% for people who often drank tea. Tea did have a certain antihypertensive effect.

Helps reduce the risk of diabetes.

A long-term follow-up observation of 1.7 million men and women aged 40 -65 found that those who drink more than 6 cups of green tea a day have a 33% lower risk of diabetes than those who drink less than 1 cup a week. There is also information that drinking cold boiled green tea has a better effect on preventing and treating diabetes.

Helps prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease.

Tea has a protective effect on brain cells. Tea can effectively delay brain degeneration and help maintain the health of cerebral vessels. The latest research shows that drinking more tea can improve memory and prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Has anti-stress and anti-anxiety effects.

Modern life and work are fast-paced and stressful, which often causes psychological symptoms such as anxiety, tension, irritability and depression. Green tea contains theanine, which is a relaxant with no sedative effect, and can help the brain to increase the generation of gamma waves. Gamma waves can help control anxiety, improve attention, and improve mental state and overall function. Generally, 3-4 cups of green tea can contain100-200mg of theanine, which makes green tea have better effects in anti-stress and anti-anxiety.

Can improve immunity

Harvard University researchers pointed out that people who drink five cups of tea every day for two weeks will produce a lot of antiviral interferon in their bodies, and its content is 10 times that of people who don't drink tea. This protein that can resist infection can improve human immunity and effectively help people resist influenza.

Can improve the bactericidal power.

In May 2008, there was a report that some scholars in Egypt tested 28 kinds of germs with "green tea plus antibiotics". The results show that green tea can greatly increase the antibiotic efficacy, and the highest sterilization efficiency can be increased by more than 3 times. Moreover, it can also reduce the drug resistance of various bacteria.

Has slimming effect.

The researchers found that compared with non-drinkers, those who drank tea 10 for more than 0 years reduced their body fat by about 20% for men and 30% for women. It's a beautiful thing to lose weight in tea tasting! Not only that, tea is also a beauty agent that has a good protective effect on the skin, and people who drink more tea are beautiful.

Other health care functions

Tea can also relieve fatigue, refresh, improve eyesight, promote digestion, induce diuresis and detoxify, prevent dental caries and eliminate bad breath. Is tea an alkaline drink, which is beneficial to the correction of acidic constitution? .

Beneficial component

Tea polyphenols is the most soluble component in tea, and it is also the most important substance for tea to play its health care role. The most typical one is catechin (phenol), which has many functions, such as antioxidation (eliminating oxygen free radicals), anti-inflammation, reducing the incidence of cardiovascular disease, preventing cancer, reducing blood lipid, reducing body fat formation, antibacterial, changing the ecology of intestinal flora and so on. Studies show that after drinking a cup of tea for half an hour, the antioxidant capacity (the ability to resist oxygen free radicals) in the blood increases by 4 1%~48%, and can last at a high level for one and a half hours.

Tea pigment

Mainly including chlorophyll, β-carotene, etc., it has the functions of anti-swelling, anti-aging and beauty.

theanine

Can improve brain function, enhance memory and learning ability. It can be used for preventing Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and autonomic nervous dysfunction.

Tea polysaccharide

It is a complex mixture. Tea polysaccharide has the functions of anti-radiation, increasing the number of white blood cells, improving immunity and lowering blood sugar. The folk practice of soaking and drinking coarse tea to treat diabetes is mainly to play the role of tea polysaccharide.

υ-aminobutyric acid

It is not much in natural tea, but its content is greatly increased after processing. The main function of gamma-aminobutyric acid is to dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure, so it can be used as an adjuvant treatment for hypertension. It can also improve cerebral blood circulation and enhance the metabolic ability of brain cells, which is helpful for the rehabilitation of stroke (stroke) and cerebral arteriosclerosis sequelae. ?

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