Many people have the habit of drinking tea for health, some people even say that the cold and fever dizziness, loss of appetite when drinking a cup of hot strong tea will feel better, so the cold can drink tea?
Can you drink tea when you have a cold?
Tea is rich in theophylline, caffeine and tannic acid, theophylline and caffeine have the role of excitement of the central nervous system, enhance blood circulation, promote the role of accelerated heartbeat, tannic acid has an astringent effect, easy to affect the body sweating, preventing normal heat dissipation, fever when drinking tea, body temperature is difficult to reduce in a timely manner, not only delayed recovery, and may lead to aggravation of the disease.
Can you drink black tea when you have a cold?
When you have a cold, you can drink black tea, black tea is baked after fermentation, the tea polyphenols in the role of oxidase will occur under the enzymatic oxidation reaction, the content is reduced, the stimulation of the stomach is also relatively less, and black tea is sweet and warm, rich in protein and sugar, can help strengthen the body's resistance, commonly used black tea gargle or drink black tea can also prevent the flu, more suitable for poor gastrointestinal and weak body It is more suitable for people with poor stomach and weak body to drink.
Can you drink ginger tea when you have a cold?
Many people say that drinking a bowl of ginger tea when you have a cold, sweating is very effective in the treatment of colds, but in fact, there are wind-cold and wind-heat, not all colds are suitable for drinking ginger tea to cure, ginger tea is only suitable for the treatment of wind-cold colds, mainly because ginger is pungent and warm, has the effect of sweating and relieving the surface, dispelling the wind and dispersing cold, Chinese medicine on wind-cold colds are mainly treated by way of pungent and warm relieving the surface, so suitable for drinking ginger tea, while For wind-heat colds, ginger tea is not suitable because it is a pungent and cooling remedy.
You should not drink tea when taking medicine for cold and flu
Tea contains a large number of tannic acid, this substance can be chemically interacted with many drugs, such as quinine, soda contains alkali, and acid encounter can not be dissolved, so it is not easy to be absorbed by the body, but also can not play a full role; furthermore, eat tonic should not be served with tea, tonic generally contain iron, and tannic acid chemical reaction, not only easy to fail, and tannic acid in tea has an astringent effect, easy to cause Stomach discomfort, and even trigger gastrointestinal traffic, diarrhea or constipation symptoms, so take the medicine can not be served with tea.
Can you drink tea to prevent colds?
Although it is not suitable to drink tea when you have a cold, but if you gargle with green tea, it can effectively prevent the symptoms of the flu, the surface of the flu virus has a lot of protein substances, these substances and the mucous membrane cells in the throat or nose combined with each other, it will lead to the occurrence of the flu, and the catechin component of green tea can be combined with these protrusions, preventing the virus and the nose or throat mucous membrane combined with the opportunity, so It is said that gargling with green tea can play a role in preventing influenza.
Precautions for drinking tea
Tea has cool and warm, hot and dry type of body people should drink cool tea, cold body people are best to drink warm tea.
2. black tea is a fully fermented tea, the stomach and intestines are not stimulated, the best way to drink tea at night, especially for people with a weak spleen and stomach, drink black tea with a little milk, can also play the role of warm stomach.
3. It is best to drink less tea at night, and do not drink words and strong tea, pay attention not to drink tea on an empty stomach, drinking tea on an empty stomach is easy to inhibit the secretion of gastric juices, hinder digestion, and in serious cases will also cause palpitations, headaches and other phenomena.
4. Even after taking drugs with plain water, you should also drink tea after a period of time, so as not to mix the tea in the stomach and drugs, resulting in a reduction in the effectiveness of drugs.
