Liubao tea is a kind of black tea, originally produced in Liubao Town, Cangwu County, Wuzhou, Guangxi. Its production history dates back more than 1,500 years. Liubao tea has a dark brown appearance, rich and bright soup color, old and mellow aroma, and mellow and sweet taste [1]. In 2011, Liubao tea was listed as a National Geographic Indication product protection unit, and in 2014, Liubao tea production technology was listed in the national intangible cultural heritage representative list [2]
The effect of Liubao tea has the function of removing dampness, we need to understand that although tea has a good health effect, there is also the argument that tea medicine has the same origin, but tea is not a medicine after all, can not blindly treat it as a medicine, so everyone needs to drink tea rationally.
What is moisture? "People live by the Qi of heaven and earth and the Fa of four times", the formation of physique is restricted and affected by the natural environment. Therefore, there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine: pathogenic "six evil Qi", namely: wind, cold, heat, wet, dry, fire. Among them, wet is considered to be the "root of all evil." It refers to wet turbidity, also known as "Yin evil", with heavy turbidity, viscous, downward characteristics. It can be simply understood that moisture is the garbage in our bodies, the sticky, dirty stuff.
Not only is it ubiquitous, it can travel everywhere in the body, but it also likes to work in collusion with other evil spirits. For example, in the dog days, wet pinch heat, is summer humidity; In winter, wet and cold, is cold and wet; When the wind blows, it becomes rheumatism. We can feel the presence of moisture in every season. When you feel that the body is heavy, weak, poor mental state, no appetite, and the face is dirty and greasy, it is the body to remind you that the moisture is too heavy! Do not remove dampness for a long time, the body is prone to disease. Because of the wet viscosity, the diseases caused by moisture are often slow in onset, a longer course of disease, and easy to repeat, so it is necessary to remove moisture in time.
Where does the moisture come from?
When it comes to moisture, the first thing that comes to mind is humidity in the southern regions. Yeah, that's one of them. In traditional Chinese medicine, dampness is divided into two kinds: one is external dampness, natural dampness; The other is: internal dampness, the body's own dampness. External humidity is mainly related to climate and environment. The south of China belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, rain, environmental humidity is high, during the plum rain season, the walls can ooze water. Living in this environment for a long time makes foreign water and moisture invade the human body and form diseases. In addition, getting caught in the rain, wading, or doing work that requires constant contact with water can easily allow moisture to invade.
The formation of internal dampness is mainly related to our living habits. Now many people have a phenomenon, stay up late, do not like exercise, greedy cold, greasy food, and rely on air conditioning. All these behaviors damage the Yang qi of the human body, resulting in spleen and stomach deficiency and reduced transportation ability. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen has the function of "transferring water and dampness", and the spleen deficiency can not function normally. The food eaten every day, the water drunk, the spleen and stomach can not digest and absorb the water and food in time, so as to stay in the body to form the body's garbage, resulting in "water wet stop", the formation of internal humidity. Spleen deficiency produces moisture, and heavy moisture will aggravate spleen deficiency, forming a vicious cycle.
Three, how to remove dampness?
Therefore, there is no north or south to remove dampness. Sometimes, the "removing dampness" that the south loves to say and the "strengthening the spleen" that the north loves to say are actually the same thing. External environmental factors are beyond our control, but we can start by protecting the function of the spleen and stomach from moisture. The main ways to expel moisture from the body are sweat and bowel movements. By changing diet and lifestyle habits, such as less craving cold, less staying up late; Do not overeat raw and cold, avoid high-fat, high-protein foods. Do more exercise and drink more water to ensure sweat and excrete moisture; Can also adjust the diet, eat more light food, such as strengthening the spleen and removing dampness of yam, lotus seeds, fried barley and so on.
In addition, many friends also like to choose tea to get rid of moisture. Among many teas, the dampness removal effect of Liubao tea has been recognized by many tea friends. Since ancient times, there has been a folk Liubao tea "heat dispelling dampness, conditioning stomach, curing dysentery", and people pass it on orally, more and more open, it is the life experience handed down by ancestors. In the Qing Dynasty, Liubao tea was very popular in the Nanyang mining area because of its good health effects, which cared for the health of Chinese workers and had the reputation of "life-saving tea".
With Liubao tea receiving more and more attention. In recent years, many scientific research institutions have carried out research on the health effects of Liubao tea. According to some studies, Liubao tea has the effect of improving phlegm-dampness physical state, regulating intestinal microecology and promoting metabolism. It is believed that there will be more scientific research data in the future to uncover the principle of Liubao tea health.