🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Benefits of Drinking Tea
Tea drinking in China has a history of over four to five thousand years, accumulating rich experience. Ancient people had profound insights into tea’s health benefits: "Add tea before water, order matters." "Shennong encountered poison and found relief through tea." "The teapot holds the sun and moon, nurturing character and prolonging life." "Long-term green tea drinking enhances thinking." "Drink green in summer, red in winter, flowers in spring and autumn." "Winter tea wards off cold, summer tea relieves heat annoyance." "Ginger tea treats dysentery, sugar tea soothes the stomach, chrysanthemum tea clears vision." "Tea after meals aids digestion, afternoon tea boosts spirit." "Hot tea refreshes, light tea is gentle and suitable." Compared to Westerners, Chinese people suffer less from atherosclerosis and heart disease, partly due to their preference for green tea.
Tea was originally discovered for medicinal use, later recognized for its beverage value. As medicine, tea is called "the universal remedy"; as a drink, it ranks as the best among the world’s three major beverages (coffee, Coca-Cola, tea).
According to research, tea contains caffeine, theobromine, theophylline, choline, xanthines, flavonoids and glycosides, tannins, catechins, terpenes, phenols, aldehydes, alcohols, acids, esters, aromatic oils, carbohydrates, multiple vitamins, proteins, amino acids, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, fluorine, iodine, manganese, aluminum, zinc, selenium, copper, germanium, and magnesium. These components collectively benefit health, playing a significant role in disease prevention and resistance. Hence the folk saying: "One cannot live without tea."
Specifically, regular tea drinking can extend lifespan. Scientific studies confirm this. Research shows that black, floral, and green teas not only reduce animal mortality rates by half and extend average lifespan, but also significantly increase maximum lifespan, with a dose-dependent trend. Experiments prove tea’s anti-aging effect is 18 times stronger than vitamin E. Tea alkaloids stimulate the central nervous system, enhancing cerebral cortex excitation, boosting mental alertness, improving thinking, eliminating fatigue, and increasing work efficiency. Tea can prevent and treat diseases, serving as an effective remedy for many ailments. For example, tea inhibits malignant tumors; tea polyphenols and caffeine prevent cholesterol elevation and help prevent myocardial infarction; tea polyphenols promote vascular patency, delay and prevent lipid plaque formation in vessel walls, thus suppressing atherosclerosis, hypertension, and cerebral thrombosis; tannins kill various bacteria, effectively preventing oral, pharyngeal, intestinal, and dysenteric infections; tea strengthens teeth, improves vision, aids weight loss, and quenches thirst—benefits unmatched by any other beverage or drug.