Chapter 2 【Tea Gong Praise】

As a worldwide beverage, tealeaves is increasingly subject to people's welcome.Whether it is a developed country or a developing country, the consumption of tea has been increasing in recent years.This is related to the function of the tea itself. According to the research of scientists and the long-term practice of tea drinkers, tea contains five nutrients: protein, vitamins, fats, sugars, and minerals. All have multiple pharmacological effects, so tea is a multi-dimensional, low-sugar and multi-functional cheap and high-quality health drink. "The main functions of tea are as follows"

(1. Functions in medicine) Tea was found to be medicinal.Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons every day, and got tea to cure them.This legend is well known, thus proving that tea has detoxifying properties "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" says: Tea tastes bitter, drinking it makes people think better, less lying down and light body to improve eyesight.Hua Tuo, a genius doctor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, said in "Food Theory" that bitter tea is beneficial for a long time. "Compendium of Materia Medica" summarizes the pharmacological effects of tea more systematically. The book says: tea is bitter and cold, and it can best reduce fire.Drinking it warm will lower the fire due to the cold air, while drinking hot tea will cause the tea to rise and dissipate due to the fire air, and it also has the function of relieving alcohol.

In addition, tea can lower blood pressure and prevent atherosclerosis.According to reports from the former Soviet Union, clinical trials were conducted on 80 hypertensive patients. As a result, 32 patients had arterial blood pressure returned to normal within five days after treatment with tea, and cholesterol in the blood decreased. This function of tea It has long been discovered by the ancients that in "Supplements to Materia Medica", long-term consumption of tea can make people lose fat.This is also the weight loss effect of tea. Tea polyphenols contained in tea have miraculous effects in treating dysentery.According to research, tea polyphenols can inhibit the growth and reproduction of Escherichia coli/staphylococcus/pneumonia bacteria. If cholera bacteria are soaked in strong tea soup for more than six minutes, most bacteria will lose their ability to move.Tea also has the function of improving eyesight.There are many records in ancient medical books and prescriptions.Among the folk remedies, tea is used to wash the eyes and treat flare-ups.

(2. Health function of tea) The health benefits of tea have also been discovered by people very early.Ancient documents such as "Materia Medica", "Book of Medicine" and "Tea Spectrum" all talk about the effects of tea on quenching thirst, clearing the mind, digesting food, diuresis, removing phlegm, improving eyesight, benefiting thinking, eliminating annoyance, removing greasy, less lying down and light body, Anti-inflammatory and detoxification effects. (3. Tea is an antidote to mental regulators) Since Tangning in my country, the style of writing has flourished, and many literati and scholars have taken tea as their honor, such as Bai Juyi, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Dongpo, Lu You, Yan Zhenqing, Fan Zhongyan, Tang Bohu, etc. are all celebrities in the literary world and masters of tea tasting.They taste tea to feel the taste of tea drinking, cultivate their temperament, and use tea as the content to recite poems and compose Fu, leaving many good sentences with nouns that do not express their meaning.

People use their aesthetic ability to appreciate, comment on, and associate with the beauty of tea, and enter into the realm of beauty, thereby inducing inspiration and writing like moisture.Just as wine strengthens the hero's courage, tea is also called the scholar's literature.Tea culture is the embodiment of the noble and elegant style of the Chinese nation, and the crystallization of artistic life.