The value of green tea

Green tea is known as the "China's drink". A large number of modern scientific studies have confirmed that tea does contain biochemical components closely related to human health. Tea not only has the pharmacological effects of refreshing the mind, clearing heat and relieving summer heat, reducing food and phlegm, removing greasy and losing weight, detoxifying and sobering up, producing body fluid and quenching thirst, etc. , such as radiation sickness, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer and other diseases, have certain pharmacological effects. The main components of tea with pharmacological effects are tea polyphenols, caffeine and so on. The specific functions are:
1. Anti-aging
Green tea helps to delay aging, tea polyphenols have strong antioxidant and physiological activity, and are scavengers of free radicals in the human body. Studies have shown that 1 mg of tea polyphenols is equivalent to 9 micrograms of superoxide dismutase in scavenging excess free radicals that are harmful to the human body, which is much higher than other similar substances. Tea polyphenols can block lipid peroxidation and remove active enzymes. According to the Japanese Okuda Takuyong test results, it is confirmed that the anti-aging effect of tea polyphenols is 18 times stronger than that of vitamin E.
2. Disease suppression
Green tea helps to inhibit cardiovascular disease tea polyphenols play an important role in human fat metabolism. The human body has high cholesterol and triglyceride content, and cardiovascular diseases such as fat deposition in the inner wall of blood vessels. Tea polyphenols, especially catechins ECG and EGC in tea polyphenols and their oxidized products theaflavins, etc., help to inhibit this plaque hyperplasia, reduce the formation of fibrinogen with enhanced blood coagulation viscosity, and reduce blood coagulation. clear, thereby inhibiting atherosclerosis.
3. Beauty and skin care
Tea polyphenols are water-soluble substances. Washing your face with it can remove the greasy face, astringe pores, disinfect, sterilize, resist skin aging, and reduce the damage to the skin caused by ultraviolet radiation in sunlight.
4. Refresh your mind
The caffeine in green tea can stimulate the central nervous system of the human body, enhance the exciting process of the cerebral cortex, and have the effect of refreshing and clearing the mind. It is also effective in relieving migraine headaches.
5. Relieve fatigue
Green tea contains powerful antioxidants and vitamin C, which not only scavenge free radicals in the body, but also secrete hormones that fight stress. The small amount of caffeine contained in green tea can stimulate the central nervous system and boost the spirit. Because of this, we recommend drinking green tea in the morning to avoid disturbing sleep.
6. Fat lowering
Because green tea has important functions of helping digestion and reducing fat, in today's fashionable language, it is helpful for "weight loss". This is because the caffeine in tea can increase the secretion of gastric juice, which can help digestion. Plus, green tea is rich in catechins, which help reduce belly fat.