The Benefits of Drinking Tea
3 min readDrinking a suitable amount of tea has the functions of thirst quenching, refreshing, digestion helping and phlegm reducing, detoxification and sobering up.
Furthermore, it has some pharmacological functions on radiation sickness, cardiac and brain artery diseases, and cancer.
Suitable Amount of Tea Could Promote Diuresis and Recover from Fatigue
The caffeine contained in tea leaves could stimulate the kidneys to make urine discharging more rapid, increase the filtering rate of the kidneys and reduce the time of harmful materials stopping in kidneys. Besides, it could also help discharge the excessive lactic acid in urine. This can help people get rid of fatigue quickly.
Especially during the time of hard work, tea is the best refreshing drink. However, there is a precondition,i.e. drinking suitable amount of tea, since drinking too much tea and too strong tea would over stimulate kidneys and make the body discharge much urine, which in turn would do harm to the functions of kidneys; and if there are little water in the body, it may also result in constipation.
Suitable Amount of Tea Could Prevent Radiation
Sickness Researches prove that the catechin and its oxidizing materials contained in tea have the ability of absorbing radioactive matter Sr 90 and Co 60. According to the clinical experiments carried out by some medical institutions, when tea essence was given to tumor patients to cure mild radiation sickness caused by radiation therapy, the effective rate was 81.7%. It was effective in curing leukocytopenia caused by radiating.
Suitable Amount of Tea Could Prevent Cancer and Restrain Cardiovascular Diseases
In tea leaves there is an ingredient called catechin, which is able to stop the composition of many carcinogen such as nitrous acid ammonium, etc, and has the effect of killing cancer cells directly and strengthening immune ability of the human body. Besides, it also plays an important role in the metabolism of human fat.
The cholesterol and three-acid glyceride in human body are too high, there will be fat deposition inside the blood vessel walls, the proliferation of vessel smooth muscle cel1s will cause cardiovascular diseases such as atherosis. Catechin can prevent this kind of proliferation by reducing fibrinogen and cleansing blood clotting factor, so that it can prevent atherosis.
Tea is helpful in Facial Parlor, Losing Weight, and Delaying Aging
The catechin and caffeine contained in tea leaves could have the effects ofprotecting skin, losing weight, and delaying aging to some extent and is very popular among the females. Catechin is a water-soluble matter, and using it to clean the face could clean out the greasiness, astringing pores, and also has the effects of decontaminating and destroying bacteria, resisting the aging of skin, and reducing the skin damage caused by ultraviolet radiation in the sunlight etc.
The caffeine in tea leaves could also increase the amount of gastric juice that excreted, which could help digestion and enhance the body’s ability of decomposing fat. Therefore, drinking tea could help lose weight. Catechin has strong antioxidation and physiological activity, which is the removing agent of body free radicals; it could stop fat peroxidization and removing the effects of active enzyme.
