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Tea and health

	The categories of tea		How to find tea

	Evaluating tea		Storing tea

	The composition and functions of tea		Tea tree species

	Simple tea tasting utensils		Introduction to the teapot

	Small teapot tea tasting utensils		Basic tea brewing knowledge

	Tea and health

Tea and health

The Shennong Becao Jing records that “Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, he encountered many poisons, and he used tea to resolve them,” so we can see from this that the healing properties of tea were already known in ancient times. Recently because of the improvements in technology; scientist want to explain the physiological effects of the natural health drink “tea,” they have undergone many animal experiments and even clinical experiments, they all prove that tea indeed has many health preservation and disease prevention effects.


The team members of the Chingshin Tea Team.	test the tea

· There is more vitamin C in green tea then compared with black tea, because black tea is fully-fermented, so the vitamin C has been damaged; the vitamin B1, B2 is also 1-2 times more then black tea, the vitamin P content is also higher. Black tea has more caffeine, is more effective in lifting spirits and increasing urination, black tea has less tea polyphenol, and is a milder beverage for patients with weak digestive systems. Some think that the slightly bitter green tea has a cold temperament and is suitable for drinking in the summer time with alcohol; it allows people to feel light and cool. The less bitter, slightly sweet black tea is a more suitable drink for the summer, especially with sugar and milk; it will warm the body and increase heat.

· Spring teas have many nutritional components, such as more vitamin C and amino acids compared to summer and winter teas.

· Anti-aging: Tea tannins and vitamin P have anti-fat oxidation effects and vitamin C and P have anti-aging properties, also during the period of drinking tea, the amount of vitamin C released through urine is decreased.

· Prevents cancer: Oolong tea can decrease the chances of cancer, green tea can obviously control the effects of lung cancer.

· The affects on the immunity system: Oolong teas, floral teas, and green teas have the effects of strengthening the immunity system.

· Prevents heart and circulatory diseases: Tea can increase capillary resistance (decrease brittleness) in patients, Oolong tea can decrease cholesterol and blood viscosity.

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Tea drinking reminders:

1. For individuals with spleen and stomach weakness or have stomach and duodenal ulcers, it is not good to drink strong teain order to avoid over-stimulation, and causing discomfort in the stomach. These types of patients can drink diluted tea after meals.

2. Strong tea should not be drunk on an empty stomach, especially for individuals that do not often drink tea, drinking tea on an empty stomach will suppress gastric juice; and drinking too much will trigger heart palpitations, lightheadedness, stomach discomfort, and low blood sugar, this is the so called “tea drunkenness” phenomenon. If these situations occur, these symptoms can be relieved by eating some sugar or drinking some sugar water.

3. When eating Chinese or Western medicine, tea should be drunk after waiting for a period of time; medicine with iron should not be eaten along with tea in order to prevent the loss of the medicine effects.

4. When the weather is hot, microorganisms reproduce quickly, if the tea is not appropriately stored and is placed in the open air for a prolonged period of time, its inner components can easily go bad and it will no longer be appropriate to drink.

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