What are the effects of drinking tea?

China is the hometown of tea, and tea culture is popular all over the world. How to drink tea is an indispensable lifestyle for modern people. The benefits of drinking tea to the human body can be imagined. Drinking tea can not only nourish qi and refresh the mind, moisturize the skin, but also delay aging and prolong life. It is very suitable for middle-aged and elderly people. There are also some rules to follow when drinking tea, otherwise the effects will be different. Below I will introduce to you the many benefits of drinking tea.

Benefits of drinking tea:

1. Refresh the mind, invigorate the spirit and enhance memory.

2. Excite the central nervous system and increase athletic ability.

3. Stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion, increase appetite and eliminate bad breath.

4. Maintain skin, decompose neutral fat, and achieve weight loss and beauty effects.

5. Drink tea before drinking to prevent hangover.

6. Eliminate fatigue and promote metabolism.

7. Protect eyesight, maintain normal retina and prevent senile cataracts.

8. Reduce blood cholesterol and blood lipid levels to prevent cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis, hypertension, cerebral thrombosis, etc.

There is also a science to drinking tea:

1. Don’t drink strong tea. Strong tea not only tastes bitter, but also dilutes the blood and accelerates the heartbeat. It is better to put less tea leaves.

2. Don’t drink it too hot. If it is too hot, it will destroy the vitamins in the tea. Drinking hot tea for a long time can also damage the digestive tract and stomach wall.

3. Don’t drink overnight tea. Overnight tea, the protein in the tea has been destroyed and deteriorated by bacteria, and it will harm the body after drinking it.

4. Don’t drink tea when you are hungry. Drinking tea when you are hungry will cause abnormal secretion of gastric juice, resulting in contraction of the digestive tract mucosa and causing stomach pain.

5. Don’t drink tea before going to bed. Tea contains caffeine, theanine, etc., which have a stimulating effect on the central nervous system. Drinking tea before bedtime can easily cause insomnia.

6. Do not take it with other medicines. If taken together, the ingredients in the tea will mix with the ingredients in the medicine and produce a chemical reaction, making the medicine difficult to dissolve and reducing its efficacy.

It seems that tea cannot be drunk casually. We need to pay attention to the method of drinking tea. Otherwise, it will not only fail to bring benefits to the body, but also have adverse consequences on our health. Not only should you not drink tea after being drunk, but people with insomnia should also drink less tea, because tea can excite the nerve center, so it is best not to drink it before going to bed.