Tea can be categorized into three types: non-fermented, semi-fermented, and fully fermented. Non-fermented tea refers to green tea, semi-fermented tea refers to oolong tea, and fully fermented tea refers to black tea. Green tea has a cooling nature and is known for its detoxifying and brain-boosting effects. Oolong tea is considered to be between green tea and black tea in terms of its properties. It neither has a cooling effect nor a warming effect, and it is known for its refreshing, thirst-quenching, digestion-enhancing, phlegm-clearing, diuretic, anti-aging, and anti-fatigue effects. Black tea is slightly warming and is known for its digestion-regulating and cholesterol-reducing effects.
In general, some patients and pregnant women should avoid drinking tea. Even for ordinary people, tea selection should be based on individual preferences and conditions. This is because different individuals have different constitutions based on factors such as gender, age, body weight, coldness or heatiness, and deficiency or excessiveness. Therefore, tea consumption should vary from person to person.
1. People with a cold stomach and aversion to cold should regularly drink Da Hong Pao, strong aroma Tie Guan Yin, and black tea, while avoiding green tea and light aroma Tie Guan Yin.
2. People with a hot and excessive body constitution can regularly drink light aroma Tie Guan Yin, white tea, and green tea.
3. People with a weak stomach and deficiency in spleen can regularly drink aged aroma Tie Guan Yin, as well as aged rock tea and black tea.
4. People with kidney deficiency and frequent urination can regularly drink aged oolong tea stored in tin cans.
5. People who are overweight can drink strong fat-reducing teas such as Pu-erh tea and oolong tea.
6. People who are relatively weak can drink black tea and add some sugar to the tea to increase energy and nutrition.
7. People who enjoy eating meat can choose black teas such as Fuling tea from Hunan, Qingzhuan tea from Hubei, and compressed tea from Yunnan, as well as Pu-erh tea.
8. Women who experience irritability before and after menstruation or during menopause can drink flower teas that have the effects of soothing the liver, relieving depression, regulating qi, and regulating menstruation.
9. Physical laborers can regularly drink black tea, while mental laborers can regularly drink green tea.
10. Elderly individuals with liver and kidney yin deficiency or both yin and yang deficiency can appropriately drink black tea.
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