When it's cold, I always want people to have a cup of hot tea, but I am afraid that if I drink too much tea, I can't sleep or make my stomach upset. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have pointed out that drinking tea will cause you to be unable to fall asleep and have a distended stomach, which is affected by theanine and caffeine, and in fact, you can solve the problem by choosing a specific type of tea.
Why can't I sleep and have a bloated stomach when I drink tea?
Dr. Huang, a Chinese medicine practitioner, pointed out that some people will have the problem of stomach distension and inability to sleep after drinking tea, because there is an ingredient called "theanine" in tea, and theanine itself has the good function of antioxidant and anti-free radicals, but it will also irritate the stomach wall.
And the fact that you can't sleep when you drink tea is related to "caffeine". When adenosine binds to nerve receptors in the body, it will activate the body's sleep mechanism, but caffeine will hinder the binding process of adenosine, which will easily make people unable to sleep, and will also cause excitement and increased metabolism.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, "drinking tea".
Dr. Huang said that in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", tea has a bitter, sweet and slightly cold taste, and is cool, if you are a person with a weak constitution, drinking too much tea will indeed cause symptoms such as cold hands and feet, gastrointestinal discomfort, etc., but you can also use some warm food or medicinal herbs to neutralize, such as ginger with ginger to make ginger tea.
Tea also has many benefits, tea has the effect of lower qi, digestion, phlegm, etc., if there is often cough, phlegm or even too full to feel greasy in the mouth, can be relieved by drinking tea, but all diet should not be excessive, if you want to use tea to maintain health, this is not only to nourish life, but also to nourish life, to balance from it, so as not to maintain health, causing more harm to health.
How to choose the right tea for you?
Dr Wong mentioned that people can choose different types of tea to achieve the effect of relaxing tea drinking and reducing the burden on their bodies. Tea can be divided into "small leaf species" and "large leaf species", the small leaf species itself has a high theanine content, such as Bao Chong tea, green tea, Tieguanyin, oolong tea all belong to small leaf species, and the large leaf species itself has a higher caffeine content, such as black tea belongs to the large leaf species, so if you want to drink tea at night and do not want to sleep badly, it is best to choose tea other than black tea.
If you want to drink tea with a small gastrointestinal burden and no sleep, you can choose a tea with a longer "fermentation time", because the caffeine content of tea will be reduced in the fermentation process, and black tea is theoretically fermented, and the caffeine will be low, but the caffeine content of the large leaf species itself is high, and it is still high after fermentation, so the public can choose from the direction of "small leaf black tea", the caffeine content is less, and the theanine content is relatively small, which can achieve the best of both worlds.