Chinese Health Tea [By:Dang Yi, Wang Huizhu, Peng Yong]

    Everyone knows about tea but most people know little about health tea. Recent studies on tea have proved that tea can remove greasiness, refresh the mind, lower blood pressure, activate qi and blood, kill bacteria, treat inflammation, protect viscera, alleviate exposure to radioactivity, replenish vitamins, protect teeth, prevent diarrhea and cancer, and eliminate foul breath. Basically there are four types of health tea: tea for health care, tea for prevention, tea for treatment and tea for rehabilitation. This book introduces more than 700 kinds of health tea for treatment or prevention of diseases.

    "Tea makes people energetic and pleased." - Essentially Treasured Prescriptions for Emergencies.

    "Drinking tea helps quench thirst, digest food, dissolve phlegm, refresh the mind, produce diuresis, promote vision, relieve irritability and remove greasiness. One cannot go without tea even for a single day." - Gu Yuanqing of the Ming Dynasty in his book Tea Manual.

    "I would rather drink no wine for my entire life than drink no tea every day." - Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty.