How to drink tea correctly during the hot summer?

"Twenty-four solar terms" said: "Summer is in the middle of June. Summer, hot ... it's very hot in Judah now. " The summer solar term is the hottest period in a year, just before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival in dog days.

In hot summer, people in China have the custom of drinking tea. Fu Cha, as its name implies, is the tea you drink in the dog days.

In ancient times, it was a custom in many rural areas to put some tea in the pavilion at the entrance of the village for passers-by to drink for free, and there were also people in the pavilion who cooked tea all day to ensure the supply.

Drinking tea in summer has many benefits.

1. It can dissipate heat and cool down, promote fluid production and quench thirst.

Caffeine in tea plays an important role in regulating the body temperature center;

The aromatic substance in tea itself is a kind of cooling agent, which can drive away the heat in the pores of human skin during volatilization;

Caffeine in tea has diuretic effect;

In addition, tea polyphenols, amino acids, water-soluble pectin and aromatic substances in tea soup can promote saliva secretion and help to promote fluid production and quench thirst.

2. It can prevent gastrointestinal diseases.

In hot summer, bacteria are easy to multiply, and tea has the functions of antibiosis, sterilization and improvement of intestinal microbial structure.

Drinking tea can not only inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria, but also promote the proliferation of beneficial bacteria and improve the immune ability of the intestine.

3. It can replenish substances lost in the body.

People sweat a lot in summer, and a large amount of potassium salt in the body will be lost with the discharge of sweat.

At the same time, due to the consumption of physical strength, the intermediate products of metabolism, such as lactic acid and carbon dioxide, accumulate more, which leads to imbalance of pH in the body, metabolic disorder and arrhythmia, which often makes people feel tired, anorexia, fatigue and even dizziness.

Drinking tea can supplement potassium salt and water, just for relief.

What kind of tea should I drink during the hot summer?

In order to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, you can drink balsam pear tea, honeysuckle tea, Yinju tea, Chenpi tea and lotus seed tea.

Healthy spleen and stomach, can drink yellow tea. Yellow tea will produce a lot of digestive enzymes in the process of stuffy yellow, which can be drunk by people with poor appetite, laziness and obesity.

To reduce dryness and refresh yourself, you can drink green tea. Green tea belongs to unfermented tea, which is cold in nature, "cold can clear away heat", and it can best remove fire, promote fluid production to quench thirst, promote digestion and eliminate phlegm.

But green tea can't be drunk on an empty stomach, otherwise it will be "tea drunk"; People with a cold and a bad stomach should not drink green tea.

Studies have proved that the cooling capacity of hot tea greatly exceeds that of cold drinks. Drinking hot tea can promote pore opening, sweat gland secretion, diuresis and cooling.

In addition, tea is a natural beverage, which is more ecological and healthier than drinks containing a lot of chemical additives.

However, due to the medicinal properties of tea sets, drinking tea depends not only on the solar terms, but also on your own physique, so you can choose the right tea at the right time.