Jasmine tea is one of the top ten famous teas in China. It is a combination of blooming jasmine flowers and tea leaves picked from the spring. It has the aroma of spring flowers and the freshness of tea leaves. It is a popular scented tea with a sweet taste.
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It was listed as a tribute during the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 150 years. Fuzhou jasmine tea originated from the Han Dynasty. The innovation of traditional Chinese medicine promoted the birth of Fuzhou jasmine tea. The Song Dynasty Traditional Chinese Medicine School fully understood the aroma and health-care effects of tea, which triggered a fragrant tea craze and produced dozens of fragrant teas. Since the founding of New China, Fuzhou jasmine tea has been the country’s foreign affairs gift tea. Jasmine tea is made by blending and scenting tea leaves and jasmine flowers so that the tea leaves absorb the fragrance of the flowers. Its aroma is fresh and long-lasting, the taste is mellow and fresh, the soup is bright yellow-green, and the bottom of the leaves is tender and soft. Jasmine tea, which is made through a series of technological processes, has the effects of calming the mind, relieving depression, strengthening the spleen and regulating qi, anti-aging, preventing radiation, and improving the body's immunity. It is a healthy drink

Methods of consumption include jasmine scrambled eggs, jasmine winter melon soup, jasmine honey bean slices, wolfberry jasmine chicken, jasmine porridge, jasmine tofu, jasmine tremella soup, etc.

1. 120 grams of jasmine chicken slices, raw chicken breast, 24 jasmine flowers, and 2 eggs. Remove the yolk from the egg and leave it clear; remove the tendons from the chicken breast, wash it, cut it into thin slices, soak it in cold water, pick it up and press it with a dry cloth, add salt, wet starch and egg white, mix well, and mix the chicken slices; remove the stem of the jasmine flower, wash it; bring it to a boil. Remove from the fire, put the chicken slices into the pot one by one, turn up the heat and simmer for a while, take them out; boil the chicken broth, mix it with salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, and cooking wine. Fill the hot soup with the chicken slices, put them into a soup bowl, add jasmine flowers, and pour in the chicken broth. Serve. This soup has the effect of replenishing deficiency and strengthening the body. It is suitable for people with weak internal organs and weak fire, especially for those with anemia and fatigue. What healthy people eat can prevent diseases and strengthen their health.

2. Jasmine Rose Porridge: 10 grams of jasmine, 5 roses, 100 grams of japonica rice, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Remove impurities from jasmine flowers, rose flowers, and japonica rice and wash them separately. Put the japonica rice into a pot with an appropriate amount of water. After boiling, add jasmine flowers, rose flowers, and rock sugar. Change to a simmer and cook into porridge. This porridge has the effects of soothing the liver and relieving depression, strengthening the spleen and stomach, regulating qi and relieving pain. It is suitable for chest and hypochondrium pain caused by stagnation of liver qi, intercostal paralysis and pain after chronic hepatitis, and women's dysmenorrhea.

3. Jasmine sugar drink: 5 grams of jasmine flowers and an appropriate amount of white sugar. Fry jasmine flowers and white sugar with 1500 ml of water, remove the residue and drink. This drink is sweet and fragrant, has the effects of soothing the liver, regulating qi, stopping dysentery and detoxifying, and is suitable for chest and flank pain, diarrhea and abdominal pain, sores, swelling and toxins.

4. 25 grams of jasmine white fungus and 24 jasmine flowers. Put the white fungus in a bowl and soak it with warm water. Wash it clean and soak it in cold water; remove the stems of the jasmine buds. Wash; add water, refined salt and monosodium glutamate to the pot and bring to a boil, remove the foam, pour into a soup bowl, sprinkle with jasmine flowers and serve. This soup has a mellow smell and has the effects of soothing the liver and relieving stagnation, nourishing yin and reducing fire. It is suitable for cough, hemoptysis, chest and hypochondriac pain and other symptoms caused by liver qi stagnation and fire damage to the lungs.

5. Jasmine Kumquat Drink: 5 grams of jasmine flower, 10 grams of kumquat cake, and 100 grams of japonica rice. Grind the jasmine flowers into fine powder, cut the kumquat cake into dices; wash the japonica rice, add water and cook it into a gruel, then boil the kumquat cake for two to three minutes; add the jasmine powder into the porridge and it is ready to eat. This drink is fragrant and delicious. It has the effects of soothing the liver and regulating qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and stopping dysentery. It is suitable for diseases such as plum core qi, abdominal distension and pain, and dysentery.

Some people with poor health cannot drink it regularly. First of all, people with gastrointestinal obstruction should not drink jasmine tea frequently, because there are some substances in jasmine that can damage the smoothness of the gastric mucosa. People with poor nerves or stress who often suffer from insomnia should not drink jasmine tea frequently, especially before going to bed at night, because jasmine tea contains caffeine, which can make people more energetic and make the brain in an excited state, making it harder to fall asleep. People with physical weakness and anemia should not drink jasmine tea frequently, because the high content of some elements in scented tea can reduce the body's absorption of iron. Patients with a serious disease are not suitable to drink jasmine tea because it causes the body to feel weak and cool, which is not conducive to the treatment of the disease

Jasmine has pungent, sweet, cool, heat-clearing, detoxifying, diuretic, soothing, and sedative effects. It can treat diarrhea, abdominal pain, red and swollen eyes, sores, swollen and toxic diseases, etc. Jasmine tea not only maintains the bitter, sweet and cooling effect of tea leaves, but also becomes a warm tea due to the roasting process. It has a variety of medicinal and health-preserving effects. It can remove stomach discomfort, integrates the health-care effects of tea and floral fragrance, and "removes cold evil and helps depression".

For women, regular drinking of jasmine tea can not only beautify the skin, whiten the skin, but also resist aging. It can also clear the human gastrointestinal tract, relieve constipation, clear the brain, lower blood pressure and blood lipids. It also has great effects and effects on resisting bacteria and viruses and treating cancer. The caffeine in tea can stimulate the central nervous system, drive away drowsiness, eliminate fatigue, increase vitality, and concentrate thinking; tea polyphenols, tea pigments and other ingredients can not only be antibacterial and virus-inhibiting, but also have anti-cancer and anti-mutation effects.

(Editor: Li Fei)

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