What Type of Tea Is Selenium Tea? Understanding Selenium Tea's Tea Category in One Article
Selenium tea refers to selenium-enriched tea, a tea whose selenium content is far higher than that of other teas. Well-known selenium-enriched teas in China include Shaanxi Ziyang selenium-enriched tea and Hubei Enshi selenium-enriched tea.
What are the benefits of selenium tea?
1. Preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
The relationship between drinking tea and weight loss is very close. The book Shennong Bencao, more than two thousand years ago, already mentioned the weight-loss effect of tea: “Taken over a long time, it calms the heart and boosts qi……it lightens the body and prevents aging.” Modern scientific research and clinical experiments have confirmed that drinking tea can lower blood lipids and cholesterol in the blood, making the body feel lighter. This is the result of the combined coordination of phenolic derivatives, aromatic substances, amino acid substances and vitamin substances in tea, especially the combined action of tea polyphenols, catechins and vitamin C, which can promote fat oxidation, aid digestion, and reduce lipids and weight. In addition, tea polyphenols can dissolve fat, while vitamin C can promote the excretion of cholesterol from the body. Tea itself contains tea catechin, which improves the toughness of blood vessels and makes them less likely to rupture.
2. Cancer prevention
The combined action of the tea polyphenols and caffeine it contains not only refreshes the mind and nourishes the spirit, but also improves the human body's immune capacity and has anti-cancer benefits. The American Chemical Society has found that tea not only inhibits cancers of the digestive system, but also has an inhibitory effect on cancers of the skin, lungs and liver. Scientific research has confirmed that the main organic anti-cancer substances in tea are tea polyphenols, theophylline, vitamin C and vitamin E; the main inorganic anti-cancer elements in tea are selenium, molybdenum, manganese, germanium and others. Chinese and Japanese scientists believe that the catechins in tea polyphenols have the best anti-cancer effect.
3. Detoxification and sterilization
The use of tea as a good detoxifying medicine can be traced back to the ancient Shennong era (about 2737 BC). The saying that “Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered seventy-two poisons a day, and obtained tea to resolve them” is recorded in books such as Records of the Grand Historian: Basic Annals of the Three Sovereigns, Huainanzi: Xiuwu Xun, and Bencao Yanyi. The Tea Sage Lu Yu, in his Classic of Tea, the world's first authoritative work on tea written more than 1200 years ago (780 AD), pointed out regarding “the effects of tea”: “Because the nature of tea is extremely cold, it is most suitable as a beverage……if one feels hot in the body, thirsty, stifled, has a headache, tired eyes, fatigue in the limbs, or discomfort in the joints, drinking four or five mouthfuls of tea shows an effect.”
4. Longevity
The anti-aging effect of selenium-enriched tea on the human body is mainly reflected in the coordinated action of several effective chemical components and multiple vitamins, especially tea polyphenols, caffeine, vitamin C, aromatic substances, lipopolysaccharides and others, which can enhance human myocardial activity and the elasticity of blood vessels, inhibit arteriosclerosis, reduce the incidence of hypertension and coronary heart disease, and enhance immunity, thereby resisting aging and helping people achieve longevity.
Since selenium is an essential nutrient for the human body, selenium tea has higher value than ordinary tea, and when conditions allow, it can be drunk in an appropriate amount every day.