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May I ask, what kind of plant is rooibos leaf and can I lower my blood pressure by making tea with it?
Robusta tea is also known as tea flower, wild hemp, red hemp and so on. Produced in Inner Mongolia Gansu, Shaanxi, Jiangsu and other salt salty land. It belongs to the oleander family of herbaceous plants, its stem skin fiber is very long, is a high-quality hemp textile raw materials, in the early summer picking its young leaves in accordance with the tea-making methods, can be made of rooibos tea. Rooibos contains rue glucoside, catechin, amino acids and other ingredients, hypertension dizziness, headache, with curative effects. Hypertensive patients drinking rooibos tea, with obvious antihypertensive effect. At present, the pharmaceutical sector distribution of rooibos tea, there are bulk, tablets, the main compound tablets and other specifications. For medicinal use of rooibos tea, most of which is made of coarse sun-dried, poor taste, astringent flavor is heavier. To improve the taste of rooibos tea, should be picked from its young leaves, according to the production of green tea methods, through the killing, kneading, frying the old fresh leaves (baking) process, so that the flavor is better. Rooibos tea leaves contain a small amount of phenolic substances, but the lack of polyphenol oxidase, so it is not easy to "fermentation", it is also difficult to make "black tea type" of rooibos tea. When drinking rooibos tea, should add a small amount of sugar and orange peel, can greatly improve the flavor and delicious degree.