Traditional Chinese medicine says you can't drink coffee? Coffee is suitable for whom to drink? How would you like your coffee?

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Friends who have seen Chinese medicine should have a high chance of hearing the following similar taboos for coffee: "Coffee will cause damp and hot constitution, you should drink less","Your acne is related to your body heat, less touch irritating food, spicy roast fried, coffee are not suitable", as if Chinese medicine is opposed to drinking coffee more, what is the actual situation? Do these evaluations of coffee start from the most basic coffee essence?

First of all, I like to drink coffee, not every day must drink the degree, but on average a week will drink 1~2 cups; coffee does not know what the player level, but also because of half a coffee shop. What about my friends in the industry? One can only say that one is better than the other. The most recent one is that someone got a pound of Alishan coffee for 2000 yuan and pushed people into the pit.

Returning to traditional Chinese medicine's understanding of coffee, the information we get on Google is mainly warm in nature, red in color, bitter in heart. There are also other opinions such as yellow and black after roasting, extremely bitter and sour in taste, sweet and bitter in taste, etc. I personally feel that most of these accounts are incomplete.

Caffeine is one of the most important active ingredients in coffee, and the general observation of coffee's effectiveness comes from this. It is recognized as a central nervous stimulant, so that coffee has a significant refreshing, refreshing effect, excessive will create excessive excitement, insomnia, palpitations. For these reasons, I think it is basically true to say that coffee is warm in nature, but should coffee be banned on this basis? I don't think so. First of all, since coffee is classified as "warm" rather than "hot" or "hot," it basically means that it is not a very extreme thing.

Again, in terms of caffeine alone, it generally takes effect within 1 hour after ingestion, and the stimulation of the central nervous system is about 4 hours, which is about a morning and afternoon period. Although age, congenital constitution, disease factors, and other medication factors may affect the duration of caffeine action, for example, some pharmacokinetic studies have pointed out that the metabolic period of pregnant women and children can exceed half a day to one day, but I personally do not see much evidence for the "long-term damp-heat constitution" that is often said in Chinese medicine.

The so-called damp-heat constitution of traditional Chinese medicine really needs to be said. The common types are divided into large intestine damp-heat, damp-heat trapping spleen, liver channel damp-heat, gallbladder channel damp-heat, bladder damp-heat, etc. according to the positioning of viscera. The performance of each constitution is not the same. The physical abnormalities most easily felt by drinking coffee: heat, excitement, palpitations, polyuria, at most, are only relatively close to the performance of bladder damp-heat and liver damp-heat. Not to mention that the current evidence suggests that these phenomena are mostly short-term, dose-related side effects of coffee. Although it is known that prolonged caffeine intake causes the body to adapt to it and produces symptoms such as headaches and hypotension during withdrawal, these are not related to the so-called "damp heat constitution."