Tea drinking and health preservation

Author: Gong Shuying, Tu Youying (editors)
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book is divided into 7 chapters. Chapter 1 briefly explores the origins, development, and spread of tea, the origins and popularization of tea drinking, and discusses another trend in tea consumption—quick brewing. Chapter 2 introduces the types of tea, explores the reasons for tea aging and the mechanisms of preservation, and provides readers with some methods for preserving tea leaves. Chapter 3 introduces the active components of tea and discusses the various health benefits of tea. Chapter 4 focuses on describing the color, aroma, taste, and appearance of various types of tea; introduces the art of brewing tea, including the selection of water and utensils, the amount of tea leaves, water temperature, brewing time, and the brewing process; and explores the scientific and reasonable methods of tea consumption. Chapters 5 to 7 provide a more detailed introduction to the types of green tea, black tea, oolong tea, scented tea, and Pu-erh tea, their respective appropriate brewing and drinking methods, and major health benefits. Additionally, based on the unique health benefits of different tea categories, corresponding medicinal tea recipes are selected, with detailed explanations of their origins, formulas, efficacy, usage, and precautions. The selected medicinal teas include both traditional formulas and newly developed products in recent years. The unique feature of this book is the introduction of health benefits categorized by tea type, presenting to readers the different health benefits of various tea categories discovered in recent years. This allows readers to choose and consume tea based on their physical conditions, enabling consumers to truly appreciate the essence of tea drinking for health maintenance. This book is not only suitable for family health care in urban and rural areas but also for use as a teaching resource in tea houses and schools.