What type of tea is Lanxiang tea? A detailed explanation of Lanxiang tea's classification
Lanxiang tea belongs to green tea. The leaves of Lanxiang tea are shaped like embroidered scissors, with a jade-green color, an aroma like an orchid, and a sweet, refreshing aftertaste. Moreover, Lanxiang tea also has certain medicinal value, with pharmacological functions such as dispersing wind-heat, refreshing the head and eyes, promoting salivation and quenching thirst, aiding digestion and refreshing the mind, reducing inflammation and detoxifying, lowering blood pressure and blood lipids, and more.
Quality characteristics of Lanxiang tea
Lanxiang tea has excellent quality characteristics: a jade-green color, even and lustrous with visible downy tips, a lasting tender aroma, a rich and delicate fragrance, a fresh and mellow taste, a sweet and refreshing flavor that withstands multiple infusions, a tender green liquor color, clear and bright, and a tender yellow leaf base that is even and plump. When brewed in a cup, the mist gathers at the top, the orchid fragrance fills the air, the buds and leaves slowly unfurl, the liquor is clear and bright, and it tastes fresh, mellow and refreshing.
The benefits of Lanxiang tea
Tea has been used as medicine in our country for 2700 years. According to the records of the “Compendium of Materia Medica”, tea leaves have pharmacological functions such as dispersing wind-heat, refreshing the head and eyes, promoting salivation and quenching thirst, aiding digestion and refreshing the mind, reducing inflammation and detoxifying, lowering blood pressure and blood lipids, and more. Tea leaves are rich in vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, various amino acids, B—carotene, polyphenols, triterpenoid glycosides and other substances, as well as essential trace elements for the human body such as calcium (Ca), potassium (K), sodium (Na), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), magnesium (Mg), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), selenium (Se), germanium (Ge), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), and phosphorus (P).
A large amount of modern scientific research has confirmed that tea has so many pharmacological effects and such a broad range of actions that it is irreplaceable by other beverages. It has significant therapeutic effects on hypertension, obesity, stomatitis, pharyngitis and other conditions; it has relatively good effects on acute gastritis, colds, stomachache, heatstroke, malaria, constipation and other conditions; boiled in water and used for external washing, it can treat various skin diseases and burns and scalds; if it is brewed and drunk as tea, its taste is sweet and cool, promoting salivation and quenching thirst, bitter first and then sweet, with a lasting aftertaste, so it is praised by people as ‘green gold’, ‘longevity tea’, and ‘beauty tea’.
Modern scientific clinical applications show that tea has effects such as relieving summer heat and detoxifying, reducing inflammation and sterilizing, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, strengthening the stomach and reducing food stagnation, refreshing the mind, aiding weight loss, and providing resistance to radiation, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, and lowering cholesterol. It is praised by domestic and foreign consumers as health tea, longevity tea, and beauty tea, and is a natural multifunctional plant beverage with extremely wide applications.
Lanxiang tea belongs to green tea. In terms of benefits, it is not very different from green tea, but when drunk it has a faint orchid fragrance. It is a very good health tea and can be drunk in moderation.