Tea is a traditional Chinese medicine
In ancient times, tea was medicine and was recorded in medical books. In “Shennong Materia Medica Classic,” there is a record that “shennong tasted all hundred herbs, met 72 poisons every day, and was cured by tea.” It can be seen that the origin of tea should be used as medicine. In the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties when the custom of drinking tea had just taken shape, tea making technology was not simple and naive, which reflected that tea making technology had been fully developed before tea became a hobby drink. This development has been accomplished in the field of medicine. From the beginning of tea becoming a hobby drink, on the premise of keeping the biological characteristics of tea, making tea more delicious has become the most noticeable goal of tea making technology development in this stage. Tea has taken a different path in the world of the hobby of drink. Although it has diverged from medicine in concept, it has not fundamentally changed in technology.
The Traditional Chinese Medicine Effect of Tea
Since the Han Dynasty, many ancient historical books and ancient medical books have recorded a lot of discussions on the medicinal value of tea and the fitness of drinking tea. According to incomplete statistics, there are 20 of 16 ancient medical books in China that record the health effects of tea, 219 kinds of drug effects, such as refreshing the eyes, quenching thirst and curing dysentery, eliminating greasy and sobering up. “Shennong Herbal Classic” : “tea taste bitter, drink it makes people benefit four, less sleep, light body, bright eyes.” “Shennong Food Classic” said: “tea for a long time to take, people powerful and pleasant.” “Guangya” said: “Jing Ba tea between the cake drink sober, sleepless.” Lu Yu said in “The Book of Tea” : “Tea for use, taste to cold, for drinking the most appropriate, fine practice of frugal people, if hot thirst congeal stuffy, brain pain, eyes astringent, limbs vexed, a hundred sections of discomfort, chatting four or five sipping, and Daigui Ganlu contend also.” “New repair Materia Medica · Mubu” said: “Tea, bitter tea, taste sweet and bitter, slightly cold and non-toxic, the main fistula sore, urine, to phlegm hot thirst, less sleep, spring harvest. Bitter tea, the main qi, small shelter food.” Also known as “lower qi digestion, drink, add dogwood, onion, Jiang Liang.” In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yu Zai’s “Ancient and modern Hebi Matters” recorded: “Tea has the effect of headache, drinking and eating, and not sleeping.” Li Shizhen “Compendium of Materia Medica” : “Tea is bitter and cold, the best way to reduce fire and also cure the poison of alcohol and food, so that people can open their minds and stay awake, this tea is also good.”
In the Tang Dynasty, Chen Zangqi said “tea is the medicine for all diseases” in his book of Herbal relics. Su Jing et al. wrote the “New herbal medicine” listed tea in the wood part of the product, its taste sweet, bitter, slightly cold, non-toxic, its effects have qi, phlegm, heat, thirst, less sleep, sleep, relieve urine, fistula ulcer and so on. Later generations of doctors are adhering to its theory, and continue to develop the medicinal effects of tea. Lu Yu compiled the book “The Book of Tea”, which is not only rich in content, but also established the important position of tea in the entire history of China, making people realize that tea has become a part of the Chinese cultural gene while recognizing the efficacy of tea. Fei Wen “tea” cloud “its nature is fine and clear, its taste is Haojie, its use of cleaning trouble, and its work.” Take a hundred products and not mixed, the more numerous drinks and alone high “and Lu Tong’s” seven bowls of tea “” a bowl of throat kiss moisten, two bowls break lonely stuffy. Three bowls of search, only 5000 scrolls. Four bowls of light sweat, life uneven things, to the pores scattered. I can’t eat five bowls, but I feel that my armpits are fresh and fresh…” The effect of tea rises to an abstract spiritual perception, and a positive affirmation of the health significance of tea is made. There are also many Tang poems to euloge the contribution of tea, such as Li Bai’s “root keke spilling aromatic fluid, drawing blood to moisten muscles and bones”, Yan Zhenqing’s “Flowing Hua purifying muscles and bones, whipping away heart source”, Lv Yan’s “Zenglu Qingqi entering the skin”, indicating that tea has the effect of removing oil, moistening muscles and bones: Another example is Cao Ye Yun, “six fu-organs sleep God, several dynasties poetry thinking clear” Qi Ji poem, “taste poetry magic chaos, fragrant search sleep thinking clear”, indicating that tea can calm the mind and make talents think fast; The poetry monk “tea song” not only shows that tea can remove loneliness and boredom, Mingxin see sex, but also let people be reborn and become immortal products. To the rapid development of tea industry in Song Dynasty, the use of traditional Chinese tea therapy methods and application gradually expanded, such as “Taiping Huimin and prescription Bureau” is listed as a special chapter on medicinal tea. The tree flower tea party, she leaves on tea party, acacia flower tea party, heather flower tea party no longer focus on herbal tea in efficacy research, but the focus to the tea manufacture craft and the serving drinks method used in the formula, which makes the tea of traditional Chinese medicine therapy on the development of a new step. At the same time, with the highly developed social civilization in the Tang and Song dynasties and the fusion of various thinking, the tea ceremony culture produced by the combination of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and tea came into being. In the process of formation and development, the tea ceremony culture and the theory and practice of traditional Chinese medicine to adjust the spirit of health constituted a positive interaction. After years of precipitation, the tea ceremony health care method centered on tea was established. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Li Shizhen systematically summarized tea in the Compendium of Materia Medica, pointing out that “tea is bitter and cold, Yin in Yin, sinking and descending, and can best reduce fire.” Fire is a hundred diseases, fire fall on the Qing Yi. But fire has five, fire has emptiness and reality. If the young stomach healthy people, heart, lung, spleen and stomach fire more, it is suitable for tea. Warm drinking causes fire to fall due to cold, hot drinking causes tea to rise through fire and disperse, and it is also the poison of alcohol and food, so that people can feel refreshed and not faint or sleep, and the function of this tea is also…” In the article, there are 16 tea prescriptions and 10 “substitute tea drinks” without tea, all of which are carefully researched and recorded. After this, not only have a large number of effective tea therapy prescriptions come out and have been promoted, but clinicians pay more attention to the application of making art clothing drinks in clinical practice. Such as: tea therapy dosage form from the original decoction, pill, developed into decoction, pill, powder, powder, tea drink and other kinds of; The application methods have developed into drinking, blending, kimono, taking, filling, gargling, dropping, blending, sticking, rubbing, coating, smoking, etc. In the “Cixi Guangxu Medical prescription Selection” there are a large number of examples recorded, it can be seen that Chinese tea therapy was prevalent in the world at that time. There are a lot of tea people who talk about health tea therapy in their works, the most representative chapter is the chapter of “tea spring class” in Zunsheng Eight Chi, focusing on tea knowledge, tea picking, tea brewing and other tea activities can bring people a state of health close to nature. The “twelve hours without disease” mentioned in Shoushiqing’s Compilation emphasizes the important position of tea in health care. This health-oriented traditional Chinese tea therapy focuses on the expression of culture, close to daily life, and naturally integrates into society
Under this background, tea therapy of TCM has stepped into a new period of development and innovation. Under the active promotion of new scientific experimental methods such as pharmacology and biochemistry, people have a deeper understanding of the medicinal effective components and their functions of tea. More than 450 kinds of chemical components in tea were studied, among which the main components were tea polyphenols, alkaloids, tea polysaccharides, tea pigments, vitamins, amino acids, mineral elements, etc.This new perspective has brought a new treatment method to tea therapy of traditional Chinese medicine. With the continuous progress of the refining technology of traditional Chinese medicine, the health care products made of effective components into capsules have become popular commodities nowadays. More and more simple tea drinking methods, such as tea bags, instant tea, concentrated tea and canned tea, have been designed to make people more and more willing to accept this innovative tea treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.
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