Drinking tea can help you lose weight. Wu Mingzhu recommends this fat-burning tea...

The weather is chilly, so drinking a cup of tea can warm your body, refresh your mind and help you lose weight. Chinese medicine practitioners point out that drinking tea has many benefits. It can not only quench thirst and promote diuresis, lower cholesterol, and eliminate body fat, but also fight obesity. It is recommended that you can use hawthorn, cassia seed, lotus leaf and other medicinal materials to brew fat-burning tea on a daily basis, and then combine it with exercise to gradually achieve the goal of weight loss.

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu pointed out that the Chinese medicine classic "Compendium of Materia Medica" did mention that "tea, if consumed for a long time, can make people thin and remove human fat." And modern scientific experiments have also found that drinking tea can inhibit the action of digestive enzymes, promote fat oxidation, help energy metabolism, burn fat, and prevent it from accumulating, which helps fight obesity.

Drinking tea to lose weight can easily increase satiety

Studies have also found that tea is closely related to lowering cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar, because the catechins contained in tea have antioxidant functions; catechins are found in green tea, oolong tea, and black tea, among which unfermented green tea has the highest content. The water-soluble fiber in tea can suppress appetite and increase satiety.

Basically, the correct concept of drinking tea is: it should be tasted in the way of tea tasting, with tea brewing utensils, 8 small cups a day is better. For mugs, the upper limit is 350cc. It is recommended not to drink overnight tea or tea that has been brewed for a long time. Because tea is exposed to the air for a long time after being brewed, the longer the oxidation time of tea polyphenols, the longer it will hinder the body's digestion and absorption functions.

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu emphasized that tea is divided into unfermented tea, semi-fermented tea and fermented tea. Unfermented tea, such as green tea, is cold in nature; semi-fermented tea, such as oolong tea. Fermented tea is sweet and warm in nature, such as black tea. In fact. When choosing tea, you don’t actually need to buy high-end tea. You can choose based on your personal financial ability and different tastes.

【Fat-burning tea: Hawthorn slimming tea】

Ingredients: 1 qian of hawthorn, 3 qian of fried cassia seeds, 2 qian of astragalus, 0.5 qian of lotus leaf, 0.5 qian of corn silk

practice:

1. Wash the herbs and put them into a medicine bag. Pour in 800cc of boiling water and steep for 15 minutes before drinking.

2. When you have finished half of the drink, you can add more water to rinse it again. Repeat this process until the taste becomes lighter.

Function: Remove fat and aid digestion, clear away heat and moisten the intestines, replenish qi and refresh the mind, reduce swelling and dampness, and promote metabolism.

Note: Since Cassia seed is cold and helps defecation, the acidity of hawthorn may also cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Therefore, patients with cold constitution, diarrhea or gastric ulcer should consult a Chinese medicine practitioner before consumption.

The 3 taboos of tea are not that the stronger the better

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu also reminded that although drinking tea can help with weight loss, there are some taboos in drinking tea. It is not the case that the more you drink, the better, or the stronger the better.

1. Do not drink on an empty stomach:

Because tea contains a certain amount of caffeine, which can promote gastric acid secretion, thereby leading to an increase in gastric acid concentration, and may even induce ulcers or even perforation, it is not advisable to drink tea on an empty stomach.

2. Don’t drink after meals:

The tannic acid in tea can react with the iron in food to produce insoluble substances, which can cause iron deficiency in the human body and induce anemia. Therefore, it is recommended to drink it one hour after a meal.

3. Don’t drink if you have a fever:

Because tea can excite the central nervous system and accelerate heart rate, drinking tea when you have a fever is like "adding fuel to the fire", making the condition worse.