Can tea help sober you up

Everyone generally recognizes the health-preserving and wellness effects of tea. In our country, there is a saying among the people that tea can sober up. In fact, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, drinking tea after drinking alcohol is harmful to the body, because tea contains a large amount of tea polyphenols, which will react chemically with the body. Not only will it fail to achieve the effect of sobering up, it will also cause certain damage to the kidneys. Therefore, we recommend that you do not drink tea immediately after drinking alcohol.

Drinking strong tea after being drunk is also bad for the kidneys. Because most of the alcohol has been converted into acetaldehyde in the liver and then into acetic acid, which can be decomposed into carbon dioxide and water and excreted from the body through the kidneys. The tea alkali in strong tea can quickly exert a diuretic effect on the kidneys. This will promote the premature entry of acetaldehyde that has not yet been decomposed into the kidneys. Since acetaldehyde is highly irritating to the kidneys, it can cause damage to kidney function. Severe cases may be life-threatening

Medical research also shows that alcohol is very irritating to the cardiovascular system, and strong tea also has the effect of stimulating the heart. The combination of the two increases the stimulation to the heart, which is very bad for people with poor heart function. Therefore, it is not advisable to drink tea after drinking alcohol, especially strong tea. To sober up. You can eat some fruits such as oranges, pears, and apples, and it is better to have watermelon juice. If there is no fruit, drinking a glass of juice or sugar water can help to sober up. For Chinese medicine, you can boil kudzu flowers in water and drink it instead of tea, or boil kudzu root and mung beans to drink the juice, which can also help to sober up.

Although there are many folk remedies for sobering up, we recommend that you drink in moderation in your daily life. After alcohol enters the human body, it is metabolized through the liver and kidneys, which not only easily puts a certain burden on the liver and kidneys, but also leads to metabolic disorders. Especially for people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, drinking will stimulate blood flow and is extremely harmful to their health.