Mint is a commonly used ingredient in summer, especially when used to make mint tea. Mint tea not only helps to refresh the mind, but also has a great cooling effect to relieve heat. This is mainly because of the cool and refreshing taste of mint. Now let's learn about the benefits and effects of mint!
【How to choose mint tea?】
When buying mint tea, first carefully observe its appearance. Mint leaves are thicker and usually oval-shaped, and the leaves are slightly larger than other tea leaves.
If it is made from tender shoots, the appearance is robust, curled, and basically without hairs. Mint tea has a good luster and is mostly dark green or gray-black in color, with a natural appearance.
After observing these, you can also try the feel of the tea leaves. Grab a handful of tea leaves and feel that there are no particles, powder or other impurities in your hand. Good tea leaves have more middle leaves and evenly cut strips.
If you clearly feel dust when lifting the tea leaves, or a continuous sense of foreign objects, it may contain other impurities, and such tea leaves should not be purchased.
【Benefits and effects of mint】
1. Anti-inflammatory
Mint leaves have a strong bactericidal and antibacterial effect. Applying mint water locally has a cooling, anti-itch, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic effect.
2. Reducing fever
A small amount of mint can stimulate the central nervous system, causing peripheral capillaries to dilate and dissipate heat; and promote sweat gland secretion and sweating. Therefore, it has a role in lowering body temperature.
3. Promoting ventilation
Mint can increase the secretion of respiratory mucus. It removes mucus attached to the mucosa, reduces foamy sputum, and increases the effective ventilation of the respiratory tract.
4. Promoting digestion
Mint oil has a digestive effect and has a therapeutic effect on experimental gastric ulcers; it has a strong choleretic effect and also has a hepatoprotective effect.
【Methods of consuming mint】
1. Mint tea
Ingredients: 4 grams of dried mint, a little rock sugar, a little green tea. Boil water in a pot, add mint leaves and green tea, turn off the heat and let it steep until the water cools down, then filter out the residue and add sugar to drink.
Benefits: Mint can eliminate summer heat and gastrointestinal depression. If you have a summer cold, this is a very good drink.
2. Mint porridge
Ingredients: 5 grams of mint, 50 grams of glutinous rice. First cook the glutinous rice porridge, when it is nearly cooked, add mint, and then boil for a while until it releases fragrance.
Benefits: It disperses wind and heat, treats wind-heat cold, and is suitable for those who have fever, aversion to wind, dizziness, sore throat, and thirst.
