What can be a best cup of beverage to kick start a cold winter morning? While lots of you might start with a cup of coffee or green tea to boost up, the heat or hot temperature does flow through from our mouth and each finger to the body to warm up, however, does it really create the internal warmth for the warmness to last long in fact?
The Nature of Food
In the Traditional Chinese Medicine, each type of food has its own nature and can be divided into 5 natures, including cold, cool, neutral, warm and hot. The nature doesn’t mean the temperature of the food but how they affect blood and energy circulation in the body. The process of how food is made can also change its nature and affect our health in many ways. An internal warmth of the body creates a good internal blood circulation and energy circulation to enhance health and well-being. The internal warmth, in another way, creates warmness to the body and we will be less likely afraid of the coldness, which was the main cause of many diseases. Oppositely, too warm or hot in the internal body would also result in internal inflammation, which also are the caused of other diseases. A healthy body should be neutral and having a balance of coolness and warmth internally with a good circulation in all ways.
The Nature of Teas
The tea itself, have a cold nature, meaning it will bring down the internal warmness of your body, and drain your energy instead of boosting up. However, its nature got changed during the tea making process and therefore, different type of teas have a slight different food of natural.
Green tea, is having a cooler nature than another other type of teas and coffee. It is not helping in increasing the internal warmth. Having a cup of hot green tea in a winter morning can only warm you up a little while because of the hot temperature going to the body, its nature, in another words, cool down the internal warm and brings more coldness afterward. It is great to have green tea if you know the internal body is too warm/hot and inflamed.
Black tea has a more neutral and warm nature because of its tea making process. The roasting and fermentation/ oxidized process adds some warm natural chemist and turn it to neutral or warm. It is ideal to have a cup of hot black tea in chilling winter mornings to balance the internal warmth. The only 2 things need to be ensured is to avoid having it in cold temperature and a warm breakfast before having the black tea. Both, the nature of black tea, and the hot temperature adds the warmness to the body from inside out for a long-lasting cozy winter. It also helps in our cognition system for a better focus and daily performance.
Whereas Oolong tea, it has a similar nature as black tea that its tea making process change the cold nature to neutral and warm.
Other than that, there is a fact that most of tea drinkers wouldn’t realise - that the older age the tea is, the cooler the nature is regardless the type of tea, except Oolong tea. Its nature gets cooler from the time being but still being the most warmth tea.
For someone, ladies, particularly, who normally have colder nature of body rather men, and would like to start up a cozy winter morning with a cup of tea, Green Tea isn’t ideal for winter mornings, instead, blacktea is always the best choice, or Oolong tea that having a longer oxidisation process like Wuyi Mountain Rock Oolong tea.
Why Blacktea Lapsang Souchong
Blacektea Lapsang Souchong is the first black tea in the world, originated from Guanmu Village in Wuyi Moutain, East-Southern China, before it was spread out to grow in the other countries of the world. The climate, the dirt, the water, in different region of the world, makes the blacktea a totally different taste and aroma. Whereas, Lapsang Souchong, means Camellia Sinensis is planted in the orginiated mountain of Camellia Sinensis, is now still being planted in its original area, using the same unique processing technique of smoking over a pinewood for its drying process from hundreds of years ago which creates a significant difference to the other blackteas, having a nutty, fruity and floral natural fragrance.
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