Drinking tea can inhibit cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
The so-called cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is a collective term for heart blood vessels and cerebrovascular diseases. Nowadays, people’s living standards have generally improved, but due to the accelerated pace of life and change, many people suffer from the ‘three highs’, that is, high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high blood fat. Especially in the older people, nearly 40% to 45% of the elderly over 60 years of age suffer from high blood pressure, and they also suffer from high blood sugar or high blood fat. For this reason, the inhibition of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases need to get our attention.
1. Tea can prevent heart disease
Experts studying the effects of tea have analysed that tea in high-temperature water can release a high concentration of theophylline. This kind of tea pigment not only can the arterial wall hardened atherosclerotic material except, make the arteries
pulse tissue gradually return to normal, but also can prevent cholesterol-like substances deposited in the arterial wall, so as to prevent the occurrence of atherosclerosis. Thus, it seems that the boiling tea can play a role in treating both symptoms and root causes of many diseases of the heart.
2. Drinking tea can lower blood pressure
Long-term use of drugs to lower blood pressure has both benefits and disadvantages for people. However, through the tea can achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure, but also can not let the body by the harm of drugs. Here are a few types of tea that can lower blood pressure.
(1) Cornhusk tea. Cornhusk has the effect of lowering blood pressure, make tea to drink several times a day, each time 25-30 grams. In the clinical application of cornhusk tea treatment due to nephritis caused by oedema and hypertension is particularly effective.
(2) Ganoderma lucidum tea. Ganoderma lucidum tea into the five viscera, replenish the whole body’s qi, heart, lungs, liver, spleen, kidney weakness, can be served. Ganoderma lucidum tea has the effect of strengthening the body, enhancing the immune system, improving the body’s resistance and lowering blood pressure.
3. Drinking tea can lower blood sugar and treat diabetesSugar in the blood is called blood sugar, and most of the energy needed for the activities of human tissues and cells comes from glucose. Although blood sugar is indispensable to human beings, it should not exceed the standard and must be maintained at a certain level. And high blood sugar people can drink tea to reduce blood sugar, diabetic patients can also drink tea to slow down the disease. Because tea contains tea polyphenols, can maintain the normal toughness of the microvessels, moderation of microvascular permeability, so this tea polyphenols can make the microvascular fragile diabetic patients to restore the normal microvessels, so as to achieve the effect of treatment of diabetes.
4. Lowering blood lipids
Lipids refer to the lipids in plasma, including cholesterol, triglycerides, phospholipids and free fatty acids. Drinking tea can lower blood fat, there have been a lot of reports at home and abroad. China’s tea area residents blood cholesterol content and the incidence of coronary heart disease is significantly lower than other regions.
Foreign scientists have used oolong tea on adult women to lower blood lipid experiments: daily drinking 7 cups of oolong tea of conventional concentration, lasting 6 weeks, scientists found that those who drink oolong tea adult women, their plasma triglycerides and phospholipids in the content of the level of a significant decline, which shows that tea does have the effect of lowering blood lipids.
In addition to oolong tea, pu-erh tea also has the same function of protecting cardiovascular health. Bittering tea softens blood vessels and lowers blood lipids better than other teas, and is most suitable for people with high blood pressure and a fat body with a hot and dry constitution to drink long term to maintain their health. Pu-erh tea, on the other hand, is mild in nature and suitable for people with a cold constitution.