Pu'er tea has many functions such as lowering blood lipids, losing weight, inhibiting bacteria and aiding digestion, warming the stomach, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, sobering up and detoxifying, etc. It can clear the stomach and promote fluid production, digest food and reduce phlegm, relieve hangover and detoxification, diuresis and dispel cold, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, and lower blood lipids and cholesterol. So what are the top ten health functions of Pu'er tea?

Pu'er Ripe Tea Cake

Pu'er tea health functions 1. Anti-oxidation and anti-aging: Modern medical research shows that the most important cause of human aging is the generation of excessive free radicals due to lipid peroxidation, and tea has a strong antioxidant effect and free radical scavenging effect, because it has an obvious anti-aging effect.

It is worth mentioning that the effect of drinking Pu'er tea that has not been oxidized and fermented (that is, raw tea) is more obvious. This is because this type of tea retains more active ingredients.

Pu'er tea health functions 2. Weight loss: Pu'er tea contains higher saponins and vitamin P than other teas, and has unique effects on reducing greasiness, lowering blood lipids, and losing weight. Therefore, in France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau and other countries and regions, Pu'er tea has the reputation of slimming tea, slimming tea, beauty tea, longevity tea, slim tea, and scraping oil tea.

Pu'er Ripe Tea Soup

Pu'er tea health functions 3. Lower blood lipids, lower blood pressure, and prevent cardiovascular disease; drinking tea can reduce the content of harmful cholesterol in human blood, increase the content of good cholesterol, and have the effect of lowering blood pressure. At the same time, it can reduce blood viscosity and prevent platelet aggregation, so it is effective in preventing cardiovascular diseases (such as cerebral thrombosis, coronary heart disease, etc.). For example, according to the results of a recent epidemiological survey conducted in the Netherlands, people who drink more tea can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by 45%.

Health functions of Pu'er tea 4. Radiation protection: Drinking tea can reduce the harm of computer radiation to computer users. The health effects of raw Pu'er tea. According to the research results conducted by He Guofan of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong and others using Pu'er tea, drinking Pu'er tea soup can relieve the damage caused by cobalt 60 radiation. China Tea Research Institute cooperated with Tianjin Health and Epidemic Prevention Station and other units to subcutaneously inject tea polysaccharide into mice and then irradiate them with 60CO. The irradiation dose was 0.20-0.22C/kg (766-840). As a result, the survival rate of mice injected with tea polysaccharide was 30% higher than that of the control group.

Pu'er Ripe Tea Soup

Health functions of Pu'er tea 5. Improve immunity: The body's immunity reflects its resistance to disease. Human immunity can be divided into blood immunity and intestinal immunity. Drinking tea can increase the number of white blood cells and lymphocytes in the blood and improve blood immunity. Recently, it was reported in the United States that the theanoxylic acid in tea can cause blood immune cells to resist external invasion in the human body. In addition to blood immunity, drinking tea can also increase the number of beneficial bacteria (such as bifidobacteria) in the intestines and reduce the number of harmful bacteria, thereby improving intestinal immunity.

Pu'er tea health functions 6. Sterilization and antiviral: Drinking tea has a long-lasting effect on killing intestinal disease bacteria. In Russia, patients with diarrhea are encouraged to drink strong tea juice for treatment. Japanese and American scientists have proven that EGCG in tea has a strong inhibitory effect on the influenza virus and prevents the virus from adhering to cells. During the SARS epidemic last year, experts from WHO and Taiwan Province of my country suggested that drinking tea can prevent the invasion of coronavirus.

Pu'er Ripe Tea Soup

Pu'er tea health functions 7. Care of the gastrointestinal tract (cooked tea is relatively good): Drinking Pu'er cooked tea at a suitable concentration will not only not cause irritation to the gastrointestinal tract, but after the viscous, sweet, and mellow tea enters the human gastrointestinal tract, it will form a film that adheres to the surface of the stomach, providing beneficial protection to the stomach. Long-term drinking of Pu'er tea can protect and nourish the stomach. Pu'er tea also has the function of promoting gastrointestinal motility, and drinking it helps digestion and laxatives.

Pu'er tea health functions 8. Sober up and detoxify from cigarette smoke (cooked tea is best used to detoxify from hangover, and raw tea is best used to detoxify cigarettes)

Because the tea polyphenols in Pu'er tea can promote ethanol metabolism and have a protective effect on the liver. It can normalize ethanol metabolism and increase vasoconstriction function; theophylline also has a diuretic effect, which can promote the rapid excretion of alcohol from the body and reduce the harm of drunkenness. It can also supplement the vitamin C required for alcohol hydrolysis and stimulate the brain center paralyzed by alcohol.

Pu'er raw tea cake

Using Pu'er tea to relieve hangover will not harm the spleen and stomach, and will not cause drunken people to vomit a lot and cause nausea. After Pu'er tea enters the intestines and stomach, it will form a layer of mucous membrane attached to the surface of the stomach, forming a beneficial protective layer for the stomach. Moreover, Pu'er tea contains more soluble sugar than other teas, so it has a special effect on hangover

Smoking can cause vitamin C in the human serum to combine with carcinogens such as carbon monoxide, nicotine, and formaldehyde in the smoke, and then transform into non-toxic compounds or non-mutated substances that are excreted from the body, greatly reducing the content of vitamin C, leading to a large accumulation of free radicals in the human body, leaving hidden dangers for the human body, and aggravating the damage of free radicals to various normal cells.

Pu'er raw tea

Pu'er tea is rich in vitamin C, especially raw tea. Under normal circumstances, the leaching rate of vitamin C in tea can reach about 80%, and the vitamin C in tea soup is rarely destroyed at a temperature of 90°C. Smokers can take in an appropriate amount of vitamin C, especially if they insist on drinking raw Pu'er tea, which can completely supplement the lack of vitamin C caused by smoking, maintain the dynamic balance of the production and removal of free radicals in the body, and enhance the body's resistance.

Pu'er tea health care functions 9. Prevent dental caries: Drinking tea can inhibit an enzyme secreted by dental caries bacteria in the oral cavity, so that dental caries bacteria cannot stick to the tooth surface. At the same time, the tea polyphenols in the tea can also kill the dental caries bacteria; at the same time, the fluorine in the tea can make the enamel of the teeth stronger, thus playing the role of preventing dental caries.

Pu'er raw tea soup

Pu'er tea health care functions 10. Purify blood: Due to the improvement of the quality of life, excess nutrition and lack of exercise, it is easy to cause cholesterol to accumulate in the blood vessel walls, causing stroke. Pu'er tea contains an ingredient that is equivalent to Clofibrin, which inhibits the increase in blood pressure. It can neutralize blood fat and produce a blood purifying effect. Tea is also rich in chlorophyll, which can prevent the absorption of cholesterol in the body and further help digest cholesterol. If you can get used to drinking it, it can excrete animal fat from the body, increase good blood circulation, and promote metabolism. Rural people in Banna have kept a tea vat in hand for generations, and all they drink is hand-fried Pu'er tea. However, there are very few cases of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in rural areas.

Things to note when drinking Pu'er tea

1. It is taboo that the water temperature is too low. Generally, boiling water is needed for brewing.

2. Don’t drink too much at one time. Due to the particularity of Pu’er tea production process, drinking Pu’er tea in moderation will avoid “tea drunkenness” and other phenomena.

3. It is taboo to drink it right away. Generally speaking, Pu'er tea is mostly a tea product that has been transformed after later storage, so the tea needs to be washed once.

　4. Do not place it in a humid place, because tea products are highly absorbent and easily absorb water, so they are prone to mold.

To drink Pu'er tea, you must smell it while it's hot. Hold the cup in front of your nose. At this time, you can feel the aroma of the old fragrance coming to your nostrils like a spring. Its elegant and refreshing feeling is not inferior to the orchids and chrysanthemums. Pu'er tea needs to be tasted carefully and sipped in the mouth to get its true flavor. Although the tea soup is slightly bitter in the mouth, when the tea soup stays in the mouthpiece for a while, you can feel the tea soup penetrate the teeth and penetrate the gums, and produce ganjin from the root of the tongue and send it back to the tongue. At this time, the mouth is full of fragrance, and the nectar "generates body fluids", which makes people feel refreshed and refreshed.

　(Editor: Bonnie)

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