Regarding Pu'er tea, Wang Fang, chief physician of the Department of Cardiology of Beijing Hospital, once told a true story:
I have a friend who had coronary heart disease very early on and then had surgery to release the stent. Suffering from a bad stomach, it is impossible to take aspirin for a long time after surgery to reduce thrombosis.
This problem bothered him for a long time, until a chance, came into contact with Pu'er tea. He specifically measured the rate of platelet aggregation before and after drinking tea and found that its effect was no less than that of aspirin, so this drink was eight years old.
By chance, the "accidental" made the friend's physical condition recover well, and now all indicators tend to be normal.
Pu-erh tea can really be said to be the "aspirin" in tea! But the benefits of Pu-erh tea are not limited to this
In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", there is a "Pu'er tea taste bitter carving." Relieve greasy cattle and sheep poison, scrape intestines and vent" records, which mentions the effect of Pu'er tea in relieving greasy weight loss.
In addition, Chinese medicine also believes that Pu'er tea also has the effect of clearing heat, cooling, detoxifying, digesting, degreasing, water, laxative, expectorant, dispelling wind and relieving tables, cough and life, qi, prolonging life and so on. After all, tea as medicine still requires some processing.
The conclusion of modern medicine on the efficacy of Pu'er tea is more exaggerated, that is, Pu'er tea has more than 20 effects such as warming the stomach, losing weight, lowering lipids, preventing arteriosclerosis, preventing coronary heart disease, lowering blood pressure, anti-aging, anti-cancer, lowering blood sugar, bacteriostatic and anti-inflammatory, reducing tobacco toxicity, reducing heavy metal toxicity, anti-radiation, anti-caries, blindness, digestive assistance, anti-toxicity, prevention of constipation, anti-alcohol, etc., and among them, stomach warming, weight loss, lipid reduction, prevention of arteriosclerosis, prevention of coronary heart disease, lowering blood pressure, anti-aging, anti-cancer, hypoglycemia effect is particularly prominent.
Aspirin is well known as a good antipyretic and analgesic medicine, in recent years it has been found that aspirin has an inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation, can prevent thrombosis, and is clinically used to prevent transient ischemic attacks, myocardial infarction, prosthetic heart valves and venous fistulas or other postoperative thrombosis.
So does it seem that the efficacy of aspirin and Pu'er tea is very similar?
Pu'er is called yishou tea
The story at the beginning of the article is definitely not an isolated case, and the "Pu'er Tea Key Technology Research Project" completed by 7 units such as the Institute of Industrial Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Modern Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Peking University has confirmed that Pu'er tea has obvious health care effects such as weight loss and blood lipid reduction!
Chen Zongmao, chief expert of the project and researcher of the Institute of Industrial Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said: The project was verified for the first time through clinical trials of metabolic syndrome, confirming that Pu'er tea has health care effects in weight loss, blood lipid reduction, blood sugar, antioxidant, and regulation of immune function.
1. Help lose weight
In France and Japan, Pu'er tea is known as "slim tea" and "slimming tea". There is also a saying in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": Pu'er tea tastes bitter and carved, and dissolves greasy cattle and sheep poison... Scraping of the intestines is flexed.
2. Lower blood lipids
There are many clinical studies on Pu'er tea that the whole blood viscosity, plasma viscosity, and whole blood reduction viscosity of cardiovascular disease patients who drink tea for a long time are lower than those who do not drink tea.
3. Lower blood pressure
The tea polyphenols in Pu'er tea can help stabilize the body's blood pressure. In addition, the caffeine and catechins in Pu'er tea have a vascular relaxation effect, and the diastolic blood pressure decreases when the blood flows through the blood vessels.
4. Strong blood vessels
The catechins in Pu'er tea slow down the rate of atherosclerosis to some extent. The aromatic glycosides in Pu'er tea can maintain the normal resistance of capillaries, which is equivalent to enhancing the toughness of the blood vessel wall.
5, Pu'er raw tea weight loss and lipid reduction, cooked Puyang stomach cold protection
Professor Yang Li of Xiyuan Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences said that in ancient times Pu'er tea was used as a medicinal use, of which raw Pu'er tea was rich in gas, the content of tea polyphenols was high, it was a good drink for cancer prevention, in addition to the effect of lowering lipids, detoxification, diuresis, and fire removal, and it was an effective partner for women to lose weight; and cooked Pu'er was mildly fermented, basically warm, with the effect of nourishing the stomach and warming the body, so it is more suitable for people with cold stomachs to drink.
6. Skin care
Pu'er tea is rich in trace element manganese, which has a good protective effect on the skin.
7. Warm up and drive away the cold
Pu'er tea is very suitable for drinking in winter. Song Xin, department of nutrition of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, said that pu'er tea is mild in nature and suitable for people with weak constitutions to drink.
8. Eye protection
Qiu Lixin, director of the Department of Ophthalmology of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Eye Center of Beijing Tongren Hospital, introduced that when the eyes are tired, you can choose to use warm tea such as cooked Pu'er, add some goji berries, dates, ginger slices, a little chrysanthemum, rock sugar, drink a small amount and warmly each time, nourish the yin and yang and soothe the spleen and stomach.
Pu'er is divided into raw and cooked, and the drinking method is exquisite
Pu'er tea is divided into raw and cooked, mainly depending on whether the fermentation is sufficient:
Raw tea has not been fermented by Wodui, the soup color is lighter, chestnut red, yellow-green, crystal clear, tea soup with astringency, quick return to sweetness;
Cooked tea is artificially fermented and processed, the soup color is dark red or brownish red, the taste is sweet, pure and thick.
There is also a difference between the two drinking methods.
1. Drink raw pu in the morning
Morning spirits drink raw tea In the morning you can drink Pu'er raw tea when working. The degree of ripening and oxidation of raw tea is not high, the taste is rich, and the refreshing effect is good.
2. Drink cooked pu in the afternoon
At night, I ate big fish and big meat, afraid of indigestion, and drank Pu'er cooked tea. Cooked tea after fermentation, gentle and mellow, not only does not stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, but also conducive to conditioning the gastrointestinal tract, a small amount of drinking will not affect sleep.
3. Drink well before going to bed
Do not drink raw tea before going to bed, because substances such as theophylline in raw tea have a significant excitatory effect on the central nervous system. If you want to drink, you can drink some light cooked tea, cooked tea is warm, the theophylline content is less than 20%, not only will not stimulate the central nervous system, but also play a role in sleeping.
4, spring drink chrysanthemums
Professor Yang Li introduced that the mature Pu'er is warm, the yang of the human body rises in the spring, and it is easy to catch fire when drinking cooked Pu'er. In the spring, if there is a fire to drink cooked Pu'er, it is recommended to add some chrysanthemum tea to drink, because chrysanthemums are cool and can neutralize the warmth of cooked Pu'er.
In addition, drinking Pu'er tea in the spring should control the amount and soaking time, try to brew the tea lighter, if the tea leaves are put more, the soaking time should be shortened.
5, 2 hours after meals to drink the best
Some people like to drink Pu'er tea immediately after eating to relieve greasy consumption, which is actually not conducive to health. Pu'er tea contains tannic acid, drink immediately after meals, will make the stomach undigested protein will be combined with tannic acid, the formation of indigestible coagulation substances, affecting the digestion and absorption of protein. It is best to drink Pu'er tea 2 hours after meals, which does not affect nutrient absorption and can also lose weight and reduce fat.
6. 12 grams a day
Healthy, often drink tea adults, drinking tea about 12 grams a day, divided into 3 to 4 times of brewing is more appropriate;
People who consume a lot of physical labor, eat a lot, prefer tobacco, alcohol and greasy food, and are often in a high temperature environment and are exposed to more toxic substances can increase the amount of tea they drink to 20 grams a day.
However, it is necessary to pay attention to not drinking tea after drinking, otherwise the heart will be double stimulated and increase the burden on the heart, in addition, constipation patients, people with iron deficiency anemia, patients with stomach diseases and fever patients should not drink tea, especially strong tea.
Many people only know that to protect the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular to drink green tea, but green tea is cold, many middle-aged and elderly friends are somewhat yang deficiency, if you drink green tea for a long time and do not pay attention to the yang, it is easy to take care of this and know the other. Compared with green tea, Pu'er has no problem at all!
Tell more friends, let's start this year, drink Pu'er tea, control blood lipids, blood pressure, and then no vascular diseases will come to look for.
The article comes from the WeChat public account of Yunnan Pu'er Tea