15 Health-preserving functions of Coffee from the Angle of traditional Chinese Medicine

Coffee is an imported product, 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.