What tea helps you sleep

Drinking tea is a way to help sleep, but not all teas work. You need to choose the right tea and drink it correctly to help sleep; otherwise it will only aggravate insomnia. So, what tea helps you sleep at night?

Whether it is black tea or green tea, both of them have both the functions of "refreshing" and "soothing". The key depends on how to drink: different times and methods of drinking have different effects.

You can drink the following teas to help sleep：

Black tea

Black tea is a kind of fully fermented tea. After the process of "curing", the content of tea polyphenols is reduced, and the irritation to the stomach is also reduced, so it is suitable for drinking at night. Especially for people with weakened spleen and stomach, adding some milk when drinking black tea can warm the stomach to a certain extent.

Ripe Pu-erh tea

After eating three meals, the body will accumulate some fatty food in the digestive system. Drinking some ripe Pu-erh tea after dinner will help decompose the fat. It not only warms the stomach but also helps digestion and fat loss. Ripe Pu-erh is a kind of post-fermented tea. The tea soup is more warm and mellow. Drinking ripe Pu-erh has many benefits. 

What tea helps you sleep?

Of course, there are many other choices such as some herbal teas that help you sleep:

1. If you have symptoms such as upset, insomnia, emotional agitation, or sudden sweating, sores in your mouth and tongue, etc., you can use substitute teas like gardenia, Lily and wild chrysanthemum achieve the effect of refreshing, reducing fire, calming the mind and calming the mind.

2. If accompanied by symptoms such as palpitation, fatigue, or night hot flashes, night sweats, etc., presumably you're suffering from heart-yin deficiency, inflammation and loss of mind, you can use jujube, medlar, wild jujube and other tea to nourish the yin, clear the internal heart and soothe the nerves.

Tips for drinking tea in the evening: 

When the tea leaves are brewed for about 3 minutes, most of the caffeine in the tea has been dissolved in the tea infusion. Drinking such tea has obvious refreshing effect and makes people excited. If you are worried about insomnia, don't drink the first brew of tea soup, let alone strong tea! Drink lighter tea to avoid caffeine. Instead, drink tea with a sweetish taste, which contains many theanine. It is scientifically proven that theanine is better for sleep than sleeping pills without any side effects. And drink more fermented tea.

What Is Green Tea Good For?

Unlike black tea, green tea is an unfermented tea abd rich in tea polyphenols, caffeine, lipopolysaccharide, theanine, etc. Drinking green tea regularly can lower blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, prevent colds, tooth decay, cataracts, fatty liver, scurvy, cerebral thrombosis, myocardial infarction, arteriosclerosis, food poisoning, and can enhance immunity and prevent cancer. Bathing with green tea can prevent and treat skin diseases and whiten the skin; washing your face with green tea can lighten freckles and age spots; washing your eyes with green tea can treat redness, headache, conjunctivitis, and excessive eye feces. In addition to making pure green tea, you can also use green tea to make a variety of unique beverages, and use green tea to make a variety of exquisite and delicious dishes and snacks. Drinking more green tea and eating green tea foods will make your body and mind healthier.

What  is green tea good for?

Top 7 Health Benefits of Green Tea

1. Green tea has a strong antioxidant effect. 

Though all types of tea has an antioxidant effect to some extent, but green tea is the best in this respect. This is because more catechin compounds are retained in green tea, and catechins are the main substance that tea has an antioxidant effect. The antioxidant effect of green tea is mainly through scavenging free radicals, anti-lipid peroxidation, anti-oxidation effect on red blood cell membrane, and inhibiting the formation of low-density lipoprotein. Studies have shown that tea polyphenols are more effective in scavenging free radicals than vitamin C and vitamin E.

2. Anti-cancer effects of green tea

The role of tea in the prevention and treatment of cancer has been fully affirmed. No matter what kind of tea, drinking tea, especially green tea, has a certain effect on lowering blood lipids and preventing cardiovascular diseases. Whether or not to drink green tea and the amount of green tea consumed are closely related to the content of total cholesterol in human serum. According to reports, people with hyperlipidemia or hypercoagulable blood after taking green tea or its extract for a certain period of time can effectively reduce the total cholesterol and triacylglycerol (triglyceride) content in the serum, and the blood viscosity also tends to be normal. Discomfort symptoms such as headache, dizziness, and lack of sleep have also changed significantly.

3. Green tea's role in preventing radiation

Modern people are more and more exposed to radiation produced by television, computers, especially mobile phones. Radiation resistance is another unique feature of tea. The lipopolysaccharide extracted from tea can significantly improve the non-specific immune function of humans. At the same time, it can also transform the hematopoietic function, increase the number of white blood cells in the blood, and make the body have a significant anti-radiation effect.

People who often work at the computer or TV should drink green tea regularly. Long-term drinking, 1 to 2 cups a day,  is good for your health.

4. Drinking green tea can balance the intake of vitamin C

Vitamin C is very important to the human body and is also called ascorbic acid. It has an irreplaceable role in ensuring human health. Green tea contains a lot of vitamin C. Unlike fruits which also contain high fructose, there's no need to worry about it by drinking tea to supplement vitamin C.

5. Green tea promotes oral health

Green tea extract can inhibit Streptococcus and its mutant strains that can cause dental caries. Ordinary people usually rinse their mouth with green tea after a meal, which can not only remove part of the dirt between the teeth, but also the active ingredients in the tea have a strong bactericidal power to inhibit the decay of rice residue, thereby protecting the teeth and removing bad breath. Especially when you can't brush your teeth for some reason, gargle with green tea to prevent tooth decay.

6. Green tea has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification

From the perspective of Chinese medicine, green tea is a cooling beverage for clearing away heat. For people with yin deficiency, especially the elderly, it is especially suitable to drink green tea regularly to clear away heat.

In the heat of midsummer, sip a cup of green tea, and feel full of fluids. In addition to the tea soup replenishing water for the human body, it is also because the active ingredients such as tea polyphenols, vitamin C, amino acids, and saponins in green tea react with the saliva in the oral cavity to moisturize the oral cavity, produce a cooling sensation, and also have an obvious thirst quenching effect.

7. Drinking green tea can eliminate some of the hazards caused by smoking

The carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and free radicals centered on oxygen and carbon that are produced when smoking is incompletely burned are harmful to human health.

What  is green tea good for?

Besides benefits of drinking green tea, there are also some external applications. For example, bathing with green tea can prevent and treat skin diseases and whiten the skin. Washing your face with green tea can lighten freckles and age spots. Washing your eyes with green tea can treat redness, headache, conjunctivitis, and excessive eye feces. In addition to making pure green tea, you can also use green tea to make a variety of unique beverages, and use green tea to make a variety of exquisite and delicious dishes and snacks. Drinking more green tea and eating green tea foods will make your body and mind healthier.

Types of Tea Trees

According to the size of their stems,  tea trees are classified into three types: arbors, semi-arbors and bushes. By the size of the leaf, there are three types of tea trees: large-leaf species, middle-leaf species and small-leaf species. According to the degree of evolution, there are three types: primitive type, semi-primitive type and evolution type.

Arbor-type Tea Trees

Arbor-type tea trees are tall and big with distinct trunks. The wild large tea trees that grow in the virgin forests of Yunnan and other places are all arbor-type tea trees.

These tea trees have thick trunks and high branches. If they are allowed to grow naturally, the tree height can reach several meters or even more than 10 meters.

During the tea picking season, local girls in Yunan province often use ladders to climb to the trees to pick tea leaves. In ancient times, it is said that monkeys picking tea may be an ecological phenomenon that appeared in the arbor-shaped wild tea forest.

Bush Tea Trees

In the process of northward propagation and evolution of arbor-type tea trees, due to the influence of low temperature and relatively dryness in Northern China, the tree type gradually became shorter and gradually evolved into shrub-type tea trees.

Most of the tea trees widely distributed in the tea areas of the Yangtze River valley in China are shrub-type tea trees. These tea trees are short in shape, have no obvious main trunk, and have lower branches and many branches. Especially in the case of pruning and picking, it is easy to form a steamed bun-shaped crown. Many branches, dense buds, and resistance to picking are the characteristics of shrub-type tea trees.

The tea trees cultivated in the hilly areas of the Jiangnan tea area, due to different cultivation methods, pruning and picking methods, have formed clusters, strips or carpets of tea gardens without branches.

Short Arbor Tea Trees

Half-arbor type tea tree, also known as small-tree type tea tree, is an intermediate type tea tree between the tree type and the shrub type.

The tree type is generally not as tall as the arbor type, but it has an obvious main trunk and lower branches.

This kind of tea trees are often seen in the tea areas of Guangdong and Fujian. Arbor-type and half-arbor-type tea trees, under the condition of man-made pruning to control the growth of the trunk, can also dwarf the tree shape, increase branches, and form a tree shape suitable for people's picking height.

Tea Trees Classified by Leaf Shapes

They are divided into large-leaf species, middle-leaf species and small-leaf species

The shape and size of tea leaves are closely related to the size of the tree. Arbor-type tea trees tend to have larger leaves, and shrub-type tea trees tend to have smaller leaves.

The large-leaf tea trees distributed in Yunnan and Hainan are suitable for making black tea because of their high content of tea polyphenols; the small-leaf tea trees distributed in the tea areas of the Yangtze River Basin have relatively high amino acid content and are suitable for making green tea.

The middle-leaf tea trees distributed in Taiwan, Guangdong, and Fujian are generally suitable for making oolong tea.

Tea leaf shape size

The genetic characteristics of large-leaf tea trees are generally primitive, and the small-leaf tea trees are generally evolutionary.