Traditional Chinese Medicine talks about Coffee: tradition feels the pulse of Fashion

Coffee beans come from the fruit of the coffee tree, red red is fire, into the heart, gas is bitter, into the large intestine path. 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.

Then look at the 17 health-preserving functions of coffee from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine:

1. Refreshing and refreshing. Caffeine flavor aromatic alcohol, very easy to pass through the brain blood barrier, stimulate the central nervous system, 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 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. Relaxing the lungs 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 cholesterol, which is prone to gallstones. The latest Harvard University researchers found that men who drank two to three cups of coffee a day were less than 40% likely to get gallstones.

13. Drinking coffee regularly can prevent radiation injury. Radiation damage, especially the radiation of electrical appliances, has become a prominent pollution at present. Indian Barba atomic researchers have come to this conclusion in mouse experiments and have confirmed that it can be applied to humans.

14. Prevention of xerophthalmia in computer people. Foreign reports point out that coffee drinkers are significantly less likely to suffer from dry eyes than those who do not drink coffee. 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.

15. Relieve the 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.

16. Anti-aging. The color (dark) and bitter taste is due to the fact that coffee is rich in antioxidants. In recent years, as long as foods with antioxidant functions are popular in the market, it is generally known that 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. A Japanese research report points out that coffee contains four times more antioxidants than tea. It can resist the damage of free radicals (note: metabolic waste of human cells) to the human body, and can better fight against cardiovascular disease.

17. Prevention and treatment of cancer and other diseases. A report from the Coffee Institute of Vanderbilt University in the United States pointed out: "Coffee contains a variety of ingredients that are beneficial to human health. According to preliminary studies, moderate consumption of coffee can prevent and treat diseases such as liver cirrhosis, certain types of cancer, bronchitis, asthma, heart disease and Parkinson's disease; moderate consumption is 2 to 4 cups of coffee a day.