When traditional Chinese medicine talks about drinking coffee, I have to watch it! What's the effect of drinking coffee?

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Unlike tea, coffee is imported. When Western culture collides with traditional Chinese medicine culture, let's see how traditional Chinese medicine feels the pulse of coffee!

The coffee bean is taken from the fruit of the coffee tree. It is red and red in color, enters the heart, is bitter, and merges into the path of the large intestine. The taste is bitter and bitter, fried and scorched. Glycol has nourishing and relieving effects, relieving pain, diverging pungent taste, passing through the brain-blood barrier, treating surface wind-heat, headache, bitterness, dryness and diarrhea, and treating fever or dampness.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are 15 health-preserving functions of coffee:

1. Refreshing and refreshing

Caffeine flavor aromatic alcohol, very easy to pass through the brain-blood barrier, stimulate the central sutra, promote brain activity, so that the mind more clear, lively and sensitive response, thinking ability, concentration, improve work efficiency; can stimulate the cerebral cortex, promote sensation, judgment and enhance memory.

2. Strengthen muscles and bones, benefit waist and knees

Caffeine can make muscles contract freely, increase tendon strength, lower exercise valve, increase body sensitivity and improve exercise function.

3. Appetizer staple food

Caffeine stimulates sympathetic nerves, stimulates gastrointestinal acid secretion, promotes digestion, prevents gastric distension and gastroptosis, and promotes gastrointestinal hormones and peristaltic hormones to facilitate rapid defecation.

4. Eliminating fat and eliminating accumulation

Caffeine can accelerate the decomposition of fat, increase the body's metabolic rate, increase heat consumption, and help reduce fat and tighten the skin. in addition, taking a bath with coffee powder is an excellent thermotherapy to help you lose weight.

5. Liqiao dehumidification

Caffeine can promote kidney function, expel excess sodium ions from the body, increase urination, improve abdominal distension and edema, and help to lose weight.

6. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis

Coffee contains linoleic acid, which has hemolysis and prevents thrombosis, enhances vasoconstriction, promotes blood circulation, and relieves vasodilation headaches, especially migraines. In addition, it can promote venous reflux, moisturize the skin, restore the elasticity of the muscle surface and prevent cardiovascular disease.

7. Extinguish the wind and stop spasm

Coffee can accelerate cholesterol metabolism, reduce atherosis of coronary arteries and reduce the risk of stroke.

8. Joy color

Drinking coffee in the right amount will make people mentally excited, happy, put aside troubles, melancholy, relieve stress, relax body and mind.

9. Soothing the lung and relieving asthma

Caffeine promotes the sympathetic nerve, suppresses the parasympathetic nerve, and avoids asthma caused by parasympathetic nerve excitement.

10. Dryness, dampness and deodorization

Caffeine contains tannins, which can deodorize and eliminate garlic and meat smell.

11. Coffee has the function of relieving alcohol.

Drinking coffee after drinking alcohol will lead to the rapid oxidation of acetaldehyde converted from alcohol, which will be decomposed into water and carbon dioxide and discharged from the body.

12. Three cups of coffee a day can prevent gallstones

For caffeinated coffee, it stimulates gallbladder contraction and reduces bile content and tends to form gallstones. Men who drink two to three cups of coffee a day are less than 40% likely to get gallstones.

13. Prevention of xerophthalmia in computer people

The report points out that coffee drinkers are significantly less likely to develop dry eyes than non-coffee drinkers. This is mainly related to the purine ingredient in coffee (the purine ingredient in eye drops can stimulate glands to secrete fluid and thus protect the eyes). For computer users who love coffee, this is certainly good news.

14. Relieve pain

For example, the headache caused by a good night's sleep, or the pain caused by vasoconstriction on the temple side, the pain caused by these non-organic factors can be relieved with coffee, which is recommended to drink in the morning or noon.

15. Anti-aging

It is dark and bitter because coffee is rich in antioxidants. In recent years, as long as they are foods with antioxidant functions, they are popular in the market. Generally known vegetables and fruits are rich in A, C, B vitamins, as well as tea, which is quite popular in Japan. The reason why they are regarded as healthy food is that they are rich in antioxidants. It has been reported that coffee contains four times more antioxidants than tea and can resist free radicals.

There are many benefits of coffee, of which nine important points you must know:

[drinking coffee is good for the skin]

Coffee can accelerate the metabolism of the skin, accelerate the discharge of waste cutin and dilute the dark circles under the eyes caused by poor circulation. In addition, it has the effect of anti-oxidation, regular drinking coffee can keep skin cells full of vitality, prevent cell oxidation, thus anti-aging.

Drinking coffee can prevent cancer and fight cancer.

The polyphenols in coffee are strong antioxidants. Drinking some coffee every day has a certain effect on cancer prevention and anti-cancer.

Women who drank more than three cups of caffeinated coffee a day had a 21% lower risk of basal cell cancer than those who drank less than one cup a month. Caffeine can also inhibit tumor growth.

If women drank four cups of coffee a day, the incidence of breast cancer would be reduced by 25% and 70%, even for women with a family history of breast cancer. This is because coffee can reduce the production of carcinogenic estrogens.

[drinking coffee after meals to nourish the stomach and aid digestion]

Drinking coffee after a meal is good for stomach health. On the other hand, if you drink coffee in an empty stomach, the secretion of gastric juice will damage the gastric mucosa, thus damaging the health of the stomach.

People who love meat had better have a cup of coffee after dinner, which has a good effect on relieving grease and aiding digestion. In addition, the content of soluble dietary fiber in coffee is higher than that in orange juice, and caffeine can stimulate intestinal peristalsis. Therefore, drinking coffee has the effect of relieving constipation.

[drinking coffee protects the liver]

In recent years, there is growing evidence that coffee can reduce the risk of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. Coffee is rich in polyphenols that also protect the liver. Patients with hepatitis are advised to drink some coffee every day, which is good for the repair of liver cells.

Drinking coffee can also help people with heavy drinking, overweight, diabetes or iron overload reduce the risk of liver disease, but there is no evidence that coffee and tea can reduce the risk of chronic liver disease from fatty liver or viral hepatitis.

[drinking coffee can prevent radiation injury]

Radiation injury has become a prominent pollution and harm at present. Especially the radiation of household appliances. Such as long-term operation of the computer, home microwave ovens, televisions and so on. Studies have clearly shown that coffee helps prevent radiation damage.

[drinking coffee can relieve exercise soreness]

Drinking two cups of coffee after exercise can help relieve muscle soreness. Drinking coffee can help people relieve muscle pain caused by excessive exercise, according to a study.

It is worth noting that although caffeine has the effect of relieving exercise pain, it is often only effective for people who do not drink coffee very often.

[drinking coffee can relieve alcohol]

Chlorogenic acid in coffee can prevent alcoholism. Drinking the right amount of coffee after drinking can quickly oxidize acetaldehyde converted from alcohol, decompose it into water and carbon dioxide and discharge it out of the body.

[drinking coffee can prevent gallstones]

Some studies have suggested that caffeinated coffee can stimulate gallbladder contraction and reduce cholesterol in bile, which is prone to gallstone formation, thereby reducing people's risk of developing the most common gallstone disease.

[drinking coffee to prevent depression]

People who drink coffee regularly will feel less happy and irritable, and their mood will be improved. Studies have shown that having a cup of coffee can really calm your mood when you are irritable or depressed.