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The Yao people are a large ethnic group among the ethnic minorities in China, mostly distributed in Guangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guizhou and other places, and are a typical mountain ethnic group in the south.
Because the Yao people mostly live in the deep mountains, the living environment is very harsh, the clouds and rain are thick all year round, the water and soil are cold, and the miasma is heavy, which can cause a variety of diseases.
In Yao medicine, the most important theory ——— the theory of ternary harmony is to explain the occurrence and development of diseases from the relationship between people and the external environment. The theory shows that human beings cannot survive apart from the external environment, and human life activities must be closely related to the external natural environment, seasonal climate, regional environment, etc., so various factors between heaven and earth are related to human life and health and the occurrence of diseases. The ancestors of the Yao people have long experienced that only three-dimensional harmonious and break-even people can survive healthily.
The industrious and intelligent ancestors of the Yao people were good at taking advantage of the rich forest resources given by nature. At first, they picked a handful of herbs in the mountains, dried them and put them at home in case of unprepared needs, at this time it was beginning to take shape by drinking tea to prevent and cure diseases. With the stability of living conditions and living environment, people gradually regard this drinking and dried herbs as a means of daily health and disease prevention. Because of its easy materials and convenient drinking, it is widely spread and applied by the Yao people. The Yao region is located in the subtropics, rich in natural resources such as light, heat and water, which provides good natural conditions for the cultivation of tea.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="144" > tea drinking and four seasons</h1>
Yao medicine believes that the inside of the human body is a unified internal environment, and the human body and the external environment (nature) constitute a unified whole. Human beings live in nature and rely on the various animals and plants that nature has nurtured to reproduce. Warm spring, hot summer, cool autumn and cold winter not only affect people's physiological functions, but also have a close relationship with the occurrence and development of diseases. If the climate changes abnormally, and people do not know the advantages and avoid the harms, the changes exceed the limits of the physiological regulation function of the human body, which will cause diseases.
As said in Yao medicine, the relative equilibrium between the various organs of the body itself is broken by external environmental factors, which causes diseases to occur. For example, the summer and autumn heat is compelling, or the rain is endless, and the evil qi of summer and humidity is heavy on internal injuries to the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in blocked qi machine, poor blood luck, abnormal lifting and lowering, and imbalance of profit and loss, causing severe pain in the abdomen, wanting to vomit and not vomiting, and even comatose "ant paralysis".
Another example is the winter and spring weather is long rainy and sunny, the climate is humid, then there will be cold and wet coagulation caused by heavy moisture, poor blood and gas operation, and rheumatic diseases that cannot be nourished by various tendons.
According to the characteristics of the four seasons of climate change and the understanding of the break-evenness of the human body, the Yao people drink different teas to adjust or promote the balance between the body and the surrounding environment and the internal organs of the body, so that the body can return to normal.
In the spring, if there is a lot of fire and poison, drink gynostemma blue tea and monk fruit tea that is detoxified by fire; In the summer, if you are hot in the summer, drink some herbal teas that relieve heat and quench thirst, such as stevia plus kudzu root, nine knots of wind plus grass root tea, nine knots of wind root tea can not only relieve the heat, but also have preventive and therapeutic effects on skin infections and intestinal diseases often suffered in summer; In autumn, people are prone to drowsiness, so they drink peppermint and stevia of the wet awakening brain tea; In winter, it is cold and wet, then drink cinnamon ginger tea, its taste is aromatic and sweet, slightly spicy, can dispel the wind and cold, and settle in temperature.
The Habit of the Yao people to drink tea to prevent disease and health care has been integrated into their living habits and spiritual culture, and it is this habit that maintains a relative balance between their own organism and the external environment, thus achieving the role of health care.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="143" > the type of Yao tea</h1>
Yao tea culture is quite long, in the Yao "Panwang Song", there is a sentence "December camellia full of trees red". There are many kinds of Yao tea, in addition to the traditional black tea, green tea, black tea, sweet tea, mostly unleavened fresh tea. The teas related to the treatment of diseases in Yao tea are roughly divided into medicinal teas based on tea leaves, wild teas that are not processed and fermented, and combination teas that are "fried to replace tea" when used with a variety of Yao medicines.
Yao people drink most of the medicinal tea with green tea as the tea base, the health value of tea is well known, which contains proteins, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, etc., are the necessary nutrients of the human body, tea medicine matching, more conducive to play and strengthen the efficacy of drugs and conducive to drug dissolution, absorption.
There are many kinds of Yao tea, and different medicinal teas are generally selected according to different seasons or ages. As the elderly generally drink songluo hangzhou chrysanthemum antihypertensive tea, that is, songluo, hangzhou chrysanthemum, Longjing tea with a cup brewed with boiling water, the tea taste is cool and slightly bitter, fragrant overflowing, often taken to clear the liver and eyes, heat dissipation and blood pressure reduction effect. Blood vine honeysuckle tea is made of chicken blood vine and silver flower decoction, is a drink commonly used by Yao women after childbirth, simple composition but unique effect, usually started after childbirth, can make women feel thirsty, there is no shortage of body.
Another example, in the summer heat, drink more nine knots of wind plus grass root tea or Kuding tea, usually the Kuding tea and green tea are brewed in the same amount, Kuding tea taste bitter and cold, with the effect of clearing heat and reducing fire, while green tea has the effect of clearing heat and shengjin, and the effect of the two is matched to nourish yin and clear heat, and the effect of eliminating thirst is greatly increased. In addition, there are spotsted tea that we often see in herbal tea shops, which are made of honeysuckle, houttuynia cordata, chrysanthemums, mulberry leaves, fresh grass roots, fresh reed roots, light bamboo leaves and other drugs and an appropriate amount of green tea decoction, which has the effect of clearing heat and reducing fire, clearing liver and eyes, and relieving heat and dampness.
In recent years, the wild tea in Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County has received a lot of attention from the outside world because its tea amino acid and tea polyphenol content is higher than that of ordinary tea, the most prominent of which is wild white cow tea and wild Stone Cliff tea.
According to the data, tea amino acids have antihypertensive, tumor-assisting and other effects, while tea polyphenols have antioxidant and other effects, perennial drinking can prevent diseases and cure diseases, health care and strengthen the body. Jinxiu local villagers will be carefully preserved every year white cow tea, usually stored for more than 30 years of aged tea medicinal value is quite high, with clear heat and dampness, phlegm and cough effect, for the treatment of dysentery, lung tracheal disease and stomach disease has a better effect. Wild Stone Cliff tea is also known as "fairy tea" in the folk, which does not contain caffeine, so it will not affect sleep after drinking, and it is currently found to be the plant with the highest flavonoid content in natural plants, with the effect of clearing heat, detoxification, stomach digestion, etc., and has obvious effects on obesity, diabetes, hypertension and high blood lipids.
In addition to these wild teas discovered in recent years, gynostemma and sweet tea, which are the geographical landmark products of the Yao region, have indescribable edible and medicinal value. Gynostemma blue, known as "southern ginseng", is a fine product in Yaoxiang tea, which contains a large number of gynostemma saponins, long-term drinking can prevent cardiovascular diseases, prevent cancer, improve immunity, and regulate various physiological functions of the human body. At the same time, it also has the effect of anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, cough and expectorant, and the people often pick their stems and leaves to boil water as a refreshing drink in the summer.
As a natural sweetener and food, sweet tea has a long history of folk application for hundreds of years, which contains flavonoids, polyphenols and sweet tea, which has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Because of its sweet taste, people often boil it to drink, with heat and detoxification, lungs, expectorant cough.
In addition to the above-mentioned medicinal teas and wild teas, there are also Yao medicinal teas unique to the Yao area, which are composed of several or even more than a dozen Yao medicines, the most representative of which is the liver tea and lung tea blended by the Yao Medical Hospital of Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County.
According to the theory of the harmony of heaven, earth and people, the growth of all things and the break-even theory, in spring and summer, patients are supplied with liver tea composed of chicken bone grass, large green leaves, light bamboo leaves and other multi-flavored Yao medicines; In autumn and winter, it is served with lung tea composed of Thousand Layer Paper, Mao Holly, And Size Meter and other Yao medicines. In addition, there is a clear throat tea composed of dried persimmon cake, luo han guo, and fat sea, which has a clear throat and relieves pain, cough and swelling. Sugar-reducing tea composed of goji berries, Huai yam and smallpox pollen; As well as fresh hawthorn, locust flowers, poria composed of fat-lowering tea and other health care tea.
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It is said that "one side of the water and soil nourishes the other side", but one side of the water and soil can also raise one side of the disease. Due to the mist and dew in the Yao areas, the cold and humidity are quite heavy, if you do not pay attention to protection at ordinary times, it will cause a variety of local diseases that are cold, hot and wet. Thanks to the habit of drinking camellia oleifera all year round, this condition is rarely seen by locals.
Oil tea is a kind of salty oil tea similar to the dish, its processing method is very simple, first boil the water or bone broth, and then put ginger, peanuts, green onions, garlic, tea leaves together into the stone mortar after knocking, beating, rubbing into a puree, put into a pot with oil stir-frying, and then add boiling water or bone broth to boil it. Oil tea in the drinking with fried rice, fried peanuts, green onions, sesame seeds, fresh melon vegetables, pork liver, pork belly and other side dishes, just began to taste the spicy bitter and salty, the five flavors are complete, after adding water again to fry, the tea is sweet and sweet, refreshing.
According to the "Pingle County Chronicle", "Oil tea is the same as the local people's favorite, because the local drinkers drink the river water is cold, but long drinking oil tea avoids it, especially in winter." The first drinker tastes salty and bitter, and for a long time, he becomes addicted. "Why does it seem like ordinary oil tea, but it can play a role in disease prevention and health care?" The tea leaves in the original oil tea have the effect of refreshing heat, anti-inflammatory, swelling, replenishing qi and refreshing, and releasing a large number of rich theophylline and trace elements after stir-frying and decoction, which plays a role in systemic conditioning; Ginger has cold and damp, antipyretic and analgesic effects. Tea helps yin, ginger helps yang, one cold and one hot, smoothing out yin and yang. Garlic disinfection; Peanut rice contains three micro-elements that are essential to replenish energy. Regular drinking can refresh the mind, dispel dampness and avoid miasma, cure diseases and replenish the body.
The custom of playing oil tea in the Yao area has a history of hundreds of years, the Yao people drink oil tea every day, oil tea runs through daily life and social interactions, every time before and after marriage, baby full moon, the birthday of the elderly, worship the ancestors of heaven and earth, reception of distant relatives and friends will appear when the figure of oil tea. Camellia oleifera can not only fill hunger and fitness, dispel evil spirits and dehumidify, appetize and rejuvenate, drive away moisture and avoid miasma, but also prevent colds, long-term drinking can relax the meridians, adjust physiological functions, and is an ideal health drink and home-cooked food for generations of Yao people who have lived in humid and miasma in the mountains.
(Angen team excerpted from Xu Hong: Yao tea and the treatment of disease)
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