The Uniqueness and Pharmacological Effects of Black Tea

Black tea is one of the six major categories of tea, belonging to post-fermented tea. Traditional black tea uses highly matured black hairy tea as the main raw material for compression. The black tea manufacturing process generally includes four processes: killing green, rolling and twisting, fermentation, and drying. Now let's learn more about black tea.
 

  [The uniqueness of black tea raw materials]

The unique quality of black tea comes from its distinctive raw materials. Black tea generally uses raw materials with a certain maturity, which are refined through unique processing techniques. The mature leaves contain multiple times more tea polysaccharides, proteins, special oxygen-based acids, tea pigments, tea saponins, and other substances than young buds. The aroma components are mostly retained in the mature tea stems and leaves. Therefore, the health benefits of black tea are closely related to the maturity of the raw materials. In addition, highly matured tea leaves are more conducive to the post-fermentation of black tea, so the quality of aged black tea is more prominent.

  [What is Fu tea]

"Black tea has a variety of varieties, among which the most characteristic is Fu tea." In the past, it was called "Fu tea" because it needed to be made during the hottest days of summer. Due to its brick-shaped form, it is also called "Fu brick tea". Fu tea undergoes unique fermentation and flowering processes to produce "golden flowers", which have the effects of promoting metabolism, aiding digestion, reducing body lipids, cholesterol, blood lipids, blood sugar, and have the pharmacological health effects and pathological prevention effects in traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is also called "Fu tea". Fu tea is highly regarded in the black tea category because of its beneficial dominant bacterial strain "golden flowers" contained in it. It is known as the "mysterious tea on the ancient Silk Road".

  [The pharmacological effects of black tea]

During the post-fermentation process of aged Fu brick tea, a large amount of polyphenol oxidase, cellulase, peroxidase, pectinase, and protease are produced. It also contains various essential amino acids, vitamins, and trace elements for the human body, which effectively inhibits the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines in the human body.

During the storage of aged Fu brick tea, hundreds of precious enzymes are produced, which can nourish the kidneys and eliminate turbidity, and have a good effect on kidney disease. Due to the strong penetration of aged Fu brick tea, it can reach the deep parts of the prostate that ordinary drugs are difficult to reach and produce unique effects. Mongolian doctors believe that black tea is reasonable for kidney nourishment.
 

Black tea is an essential beverage for people in the northwest frontier of China. Japanese people call it slimming tea, Korean people call it beauty tea, Chinese people call it healthy digestive tea, and the world calls it the healthy drink of the 21st century. "Better to go without food for three days than without tea for a single day" speaks to the benefits of black tea for centuries.

According to authoritative experts through animal experiments, human clinical trials, toxicology research, safety evaluation, and epidemiological investigations, it has been shown that various extract components of "golden flowers" in Fu tea have an activating effect on PPARYPPAR6. Two new active substances in "golden flowers", Fu tea extract A and Fu tea extract B, have significant effects in reducing body lipids, blood lipids, blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, etc. Long-term consumption of Fu tea can promote the regulation of metabolism, enhance physical fitness, delay aging, and have an effective pathological prevention and conditioning effect on the human body.

  [Precautions]

Cold drinking of Anhua black tea can only temporarily lower the surface or local temperature, but cannot provide long-lasting relief from heat or thirst. On the other hand, drinking hot tea is more beneficial for cooling down and quenching thirst. After drinking hot tea, blood vessels expand, sweat gland secretion increases, and sweating is smooth. A large amount of sweat is excreted through the pores on the skin surface and evaporates, taking away a lot of body heat and reducing the surface temperature by 2-3 degrees Celsius. In addition, the theophylline in Anhua black tea has a diuretic effect, and urination can also take away some heat.

Anhua black tea also contains rich tea polyphenols, tea pigments, amino acids, etc., which can stimulate saliva secretion and react with saliva, moisturizing the oral cavity and producing a cool sensation. However, this effect is not obvious when drinking cold Anhua black tea.