Tea is one of the common items in our lives. It is not only one of the essential drinks to refresh your mind, but if you maintain a good habit of drinking tea, it is also an effective way to help the body detoxify. At the same time, if tea is used properly, it is still an expert in helping to prevent diseases.

According to modern scientific analysis and identification, tea contains more than 450 chemical components that are beneficial to the human body, such as chlorophyll, vitamins, lipids, caffeine, tea polyphenols, lipopolysaccharides, proteins and amino acids, carbohydrates, minerals, etc., which all have good nutritional value and pharmacological effects on the human body.

Pu'er tea is the best among teas. Pu'er tea is a post-fermented tea that contains a variety of probiotics and is beneficial to human health. The efficacy and role of Pu'er tea are best reflected.

1 To resolve poisoning, if you accidentally take silver, aluminum, digitalis, quinine, iron, lead, zinc, cobalt, copper, nux vomica and other metal salts or alkaloid poisons, and drink strong tea, the tannic acid in the tea leaves can combine with the poisons and precipitate, delaying the absorption of the poisons to facilitate rescue.

　2In the treatment of bacillary dysentery, whether it is acute or chronic bacillary dysentery, drinking strong tea has a significant effect. According to pharmacological studies, tea leaves decoction has obvious antibacterial effects on Shigella dysenteriae.

3 To treat acute enteritis and abdominal pain and diarrhea caused by unclean diet, you can make a cup of strong tea and drink it. If the diarrhea still does not stop, add 15 grams of tea leaves and decoct it in water and take it twice.

　4. Treatment of biliary colic. When patients with gallstones experience an acute attack of biliary colic, they may wish to drink a cup of strong tea. Because theophylline has the effect of relaxing the smooth muscle of the bile duct, it can temporarily relieve severe pain in the biliary area, and you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment immediately.

　5 To treat herpes zoster, make a cup of strong tea, cool it down, dip it in fine flower tea powder and apply it to the affected area, 3 times a day, and use continuously.

　6. To treat dental caries. When drinking tea, hold the tea in your mouth for a moment and soak the teeth more than 10 times a day, which can effectively prevent and treat dental caries.

　7. Delay aging. Tea polyphenols have strong antioxidant properties and physiological activity, and are scavengers of free radicals in the human body. According to research conducted by relevant departments, 1 mg of tea polyphenols is as effective as 9 micrograms of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in scavenging excessive free radicals harmful to the human body, which is much higher than other similar substances.

Tea polyphenols can block lipid peroxidation and remove active enzymes. According to the test results of Japan's Okuda Takuyu, it is confirmed that the anti-aging effect of tea polyphenols is 18 times stronger than vitamin E.

　8. Helps inhibit cardiovascular disease. Tea polyphenols play an important role in human body fat metabolism. The human body has high levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, etc., fat deposits on the inner walls of blood vessels, and vascular smooth muscle cells proliferate to form atherosclerotic plaques and other cardiovascular diseases.

Tea polyphenols, especially the catechins ECG and EGC in tea polyphenols and their oxidation products theaflavin, etc., help to inhibit this plaque-like proliferation, reduce the fibrinogen that forms blood coagulation viscosity, and make blood coagulation clearer, thus inhibiting atherosclerosis.

　9. Helps prevent and fight cancer. Tea polyphenols can block the synthesis of various carcinogens such as nitrite in the body, and have the effect of directly killing cancer cells and improving the body's immunity. According to relevant data, tea polyphenols (mainly catechin compounds) in tea are beneficial in the prevention and auxiliary treatment of various cancers such as gastric cancer and intestinal cancer.

　10 Helps prevent and treat radiation damage. Tea polyphenols and their oxidation products have the ability to absorb the poison of radioactive substances strontium 90 and cobalt 60. According to clinical trials conducted by relevant medical departments, tea extract has an effective rate of more than 90% for treating mild radiation sickness caused by cancer patients during radiotherapy; for treating hematocytopenia, the effective rate of tea extract reaches 81.7%; and for leukopenia caused by radiation, the treatment effect is better.

　11. Helps inhibit and resist viral bacteria. Tea polyphenols have a strong astringent effect, have obvious inhibitory and killing effects on pathogenic bacteria and viruses, and have obvious effects on reducing inflammation and diarrhea. Many medical units in our country use tea preparations to treat acute and chronic dysentery and amoebic dysentery, with a cure rate of about 90%.

12. It is helpful for beauty and skin care. Tea polyphenols are water-soluble substances. Using them to wash your eyelids can remove facial greasiness and shrink pores. It has the functions of disinfection, sterilization, anti-skin aging, and reducing damage to the skin caused by ultraviolet radiation in the sun.

　13. Helps wake up the brain. Caffeine in tea can excite the central nervous system of the human body, enhance the excitement process of the cerebral cortex, and have the effect of refreshing the mind and clearing the mind.

　14. Helps diuresis and relieve fatigue. Caffeine in tea can stimulate the kidneys, prompt urine to be quickly excreted from the body, increase the filtration rate of the kidneys, and reduce the retention time of harmful substances in the kidneys. Caffeine can also eliminate excess lactic acid in urine, helping the body eliminate fatigue as soon as possible.

　15 Helps lower fat and aid digestion. The "Supplementary Materials on Materia Medica" of the Tang Dynasty records the efficacy of tea as "eating for a long time makes people thin". There is a saying among the ethnic minorities in my country's border areas that "you can't live without tea for a day."

Because tea has important functions in helping digestion and reducing fat, in today's fashionable language, it helps "lose weight." This is because the caffeine in tea can increase the secretion of gastric juice, which can aid digestion and enhance the ability to break down fat. This is the truth behind the so-called "eating for a long time makes you thin".

16, Helps protect teeth and improve eyesight. Tea contains a high amount of fluoride. The fluoride content per 100 grams of dry tea is 10 mg to 15 mg, and 80% is water-soluble. If each person drinks 10 grams of tea per day, he or she can absorb 1 mg to 1.5 mg of water-soluble acid. Moreover, tea is an alkaline drink that can inhibit the decrease of calcium in the human body, which is beneficial to preventing dental caries, protecting teeth, and strengthening teeth.

According to relevant data, the dental caries rate can be reduced by 80% by conducting a "tea therapy mouthwash" test among primary school students. According to a survey by relevant medical units, 28.6% of cataract patients have tea drinking habits; 71.4% have no tea drinking habits. This is because the vitamin C and other components in tea can reduce the opacity of the eye lens. Regular drinking of tea has a positive effect on reducing eye diseases, protecting eyes and improving eyesight.

　(Editor: Bonnie)

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