It is good to drink Kuding tea often. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Kuding tea is bitter, slightly sweet, and cold in nature. It enters the liver, gallbladder, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of dispersing wind and heat, clearing the head and eyes, eliminating polydipsia, stopping diarrhea and dysentery, and treating blood in the stool. Our country has also long had a theory about bitter tea. Written records of Dingcha. The benefits of drinking Kuding tea regularly:
1. Kuding tea is rich in a variety of beneficial ingredients
Modern pharmacological research shows that Kuding tea not only contains caffeine, saponins, tannins, Bitterness, vitamins and various amino acids necessary for the human body, as well as trace elements such as zinc and manganese, are clinically used to inhibit bacteria, lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, increase myocardial blood supply, and resist arteriosclerosis, so it is called "green gold" ".
2. Kuding tea can relieve many diseases
Kuding tea is indeed bitter than ordinary tea, but its characteristics of being bitter at first and then sweet are not comparable to ordinary tea. Kuding tea is more suitable for people who often suffer from internal heat, dry mouth, constipation, and people suffering from high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, chronic cholecystitis, and chronic urinary system inflammation. It also plays a certain role in health care.
3. Kuding tea is widely used
Kuding tea has the functions of relieving heat and detoxification, anti-inflammation and sterilization, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, strengthening the stomach and removing accumulation, refreshing the brain, reducing weight, preventing cancer and anti-radiation. , lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, lower cholesterol and other effects. It is praised as health tea, longevity tea and beauty tea by consumers at home and abroad. It is a natural multi-functional plant beverage with extremely wide application.
IV. Medicinal uses of Kuding tea
1. Methods of treating "three highs" with Kuding tea
The benefits of drinking Kuding tea are crucial The best thing is that it can help treat "three highs". Generally speaking, the concentration of Kuding tea when used as medicine is 2-3 times that when used as tea. The method of drinking is: brew 2-3 sticks each in the morning, afternoon and evening, and chew it until it is tasteless. The effect of drinking tea buds is more obvious when absorbed through the gastric mucosa; if you feel that the condition has been relieved, you can appropriately reduce the concentration; if you feel that the condition has not improved significantly, you can increase the dosage appropriately. For patients with diseases such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia, after drinking Kuding tea to lower their blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar, they can appropriately reduce the drinking concentration, but do not stop completely to avoid recurrence of the condition.
2. Kuding honey tea can treat throat discomfort
Method: Take 3 to 10 grams of Kuding tea, brew it with boiling water, or wrap 10 grams of Kuding tea in gauze. Put it into a tea cup, brew it with boiling water, add a tablespoon of honey after it cools down, stir well and set aside. Gargle for 2 to 3 minutes each time, several times a day, and a course of treatment lasts for 5 to 7 days.
There are so many benefits of drinking Kuding tea, so, do you know how to brew Kuding tea? There are two ways to drink Kuding tea: brewing alone or mixing with other tea leaves and medicinal materials. Soaking method. Simply brewing Kuding tea with its original flavor, sweetness and refreshing taste is also a kind of enjoyment. And when it is mixed with other teas, such as oolong tea, green tea, Longjing tea, Maojian tea, scented tea, etc., it will not only have the aroma of these teas, but also have the advantages of sweetness and throat soothing of Kuding tea. For those who are drinking Kuding tea for the first time, brewing Kuding tea according to the correct and appropriate brewing method is the key to ensuring the original flavor of Kuding tea, and it can also give full play to the health care effects of Kuding tea.
How to brew Kuding tea:
1. Take 1 to 2 sticks (first-time drinkers only need to take 1 stick, and later you can gradually add to 2 to 3 sticks, or even More, there is a process of getting used to the taste.) Put the Kuding tea into the tea cup, pour a little boiling water (just cover the tea leaves completely), shake the tea cup gently for 5-10 seconds, and then pour out the water. This process is called "washing tea", which is a traditional procedure for brewing Kuding tea. The purpose is to wash away possible dust and impurities in the tea leaves.
2. Pour boiling water into the tea cup again. The amount of boiling water poured each time is generally about 150 ml. After drinking several times, the specific amount of water can be increased or decreased according to personal taste.
3. After brewing for 3-5 minutes (for first-time drinkers, the time can be shortened to about 1-2 minutes. The longer the brewing time, the stronger the flavor of the tea), put the tea in the brewing cup. Pour out all the boiling water and put it into the cup containing the tea soup, and you can start drinking.
Who is not suitable for drinking Kuding tea:
People with colds and colds: Winter is the season when colds are most common. People suffering from colds and colds should eat more warm foods, such as Ginger, etc., can dispel the cold in the body. If you drink Kuding tea at this time, it will hinder the dispersion of wind and cold and is not conducive to the cure of colds.
Those with a deficient and cold constitution: The most prominent characteristic of those with a deficient and cold constitution is that they are particularly afraid of the cold in winter and often feel cold hands and feet. People with this kind of constitution like to eat warm foods such as mutton and dog meat, and they are not easy to get angry. However, after drinking cold Kuding tea, the symptoms of cold hands and feet will be aggravated, which is not conducive to the improvement of cold constitution. In severe cases, Symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea may even occur.
Patients with chronic gastroenteritis: Patients with chronic gastroenteritis often have varying degrees of spleen and stomach deficiency. When the abdomen is cold or eats cold food, they are prone to stomachache or diarrhea. Kuding tea will aggravate these symptoms. . In addition, the spleen and stomach functions of the elderly are relatively weakened, and the spleen and stomach functions of infants and young children are not yet complete, so it is not suitable to drink Kuding tea, otherwise it may easily cause side effects such as indigestion, anorexia, and diarrhea.
Menstruating women: During the menstrual period, women are in a state of blood loss and their resistance is reduced. If they drink cold Kuding tea at this time, it will easily cause qi and blood to stagnate due to coldness, and the menstrual blood will not be discharged smoothly, causing dysmenorrhea. Severe cases can cause irregular menstruation. Women who often have dysmenorrhea should drink less Kuding tea even if they are not during their menstrual period.