Can Xinjiang Luobuma tea be drunk long-term to lower blood pressure? Price per jin, benefits and contraindications
The main production areas of Luobuma tea are along the Tarim River and the Peacock River, about 8 million mu. Luobuma tea is commonly known as “wild tea” and also called “oleander hemp”, “tea flower hemp” and “tea naked seed”. So can Xinjiang Luobuma tea be drunk long-term? Can it lower blood pressure? How much does it cost per jin? What are the benefits and contraindications? From the Xinjiang tea market, wild new-bud Luobuma tea costs 59.33 yuan/500g; new-bud wild Luobuma tea 51.2 yuan/500g; Xinjiang premium Luobuma tea 340.00 yuan/500g.
Can Xinjiang Luobuma tea be drunk long-term?
In our daily life, Luobuma is divided into two types: one is used as tea, and the other is used as medicinal material.
1. Genuine Luobuma tea is made from Luobuma leaves through traditional tea-making techniques and scientific methods with strict processing. During processing, various harmful components have long been removed, allowing the various active components in Luobuma leaves to be more fully utilized, and the taste reaches the level of traditional tea, making it a tea drink whose blood-pressure-lowering and blood-lipid-lowering effects are stronger than other teas and which has no toxic side effects. The state approves it as a food tea category, as a food registration, not a medicine or health product registration. Regular drinking is very beneficial to the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system and the entire body.
2. Luobuma leaves (including inferior Luobuma tea from small workshops, which appears as green leaf fragments when brewed) do have certain toxic side effects, and as a Chinese herbal medicine it is specifically sold at the traditional Chinese medicine counter. It is mainly used according to the compatibility principles of traditional Chinese medicine, and the water brewed (decocted) from it tastes extremely astringent. Regular drinking harms the nervous system and kidneys. The Luobuma recorded in medicinal books refers to Luobuma leaves.
Can Xinjiang Luobuma tea lower blood pressure?
The active components in Luobuma tea have a relatively small molecular weight and strong fat solubility, making them easier to be absorbed by the stomach and intestines. Luobuma tea has a clear lowering effect on serum total cholesterol and serum triglyceride levels in hyperlipidemia. At the same time, the blood-lipid-lowering effect of Luobuma tea does not affect the body's normal absorption of lipids.
What are the benefits and contraindications of Xinjiang Luobuma tea?
Benefits of Luobuma tea:
1. Protecting and safeguarding the liver
Luobuma contains multiple bioactive components that have varying degrees of regulatory ability on multiple links of the immune system, play a detoxifying role in protecting the liver, have a clear regulatory effect on humoral immunity, and also have certain anti-allergic and antiviral effects, thereby achieving the effect of clearing fire and calming the liver.
2. Lowering blood lipids and blood pressure
Luobuma tea contains tannins, similar to vitamin P activity, which can maintain or restore the normal resistance of capillaries, enhance the flexibility and elasticity of blood vessels, lower serum cholesterol, and prevent fat from depositing in blood vessel walls. The tannic acid in the tea can inhibit the rise in blood pressure and lower blood pressure in patients with hypertension. In particular, Luobuma tea has a good decomposing effect on protein and fat. Tea polyphenols and vitamin C can lower cholesterol and blood lipids. It can lower blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
3. Strengthening the heart, promoting diuresis and assisting in lowering blood pressure
The quercetin contained in Luobuma also has a clear diuretic effect. In addition, Luobuma tea contains very high magnesium, up to 930 mg per 100 grams, and the magnesium element has a direct relationship with insulin secretion by the pancreas. The insulin secreted by the pancreatic islets is released after stimulation by cholecystokinin, and cholecystokinin requires magnesium to be activated, so drinking Luobuma tea has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on hypertension.
4. Moistening the intestines and relieving constipation, promoting digestion and resisting constipation
Luobuma tea contains large amounts of amino acids, organic acids and various other nutrients, which can promote the biological synthesis of gastric acid and stimulate gastric juice secretion, thus having the effects of helping digestion, resolving stagnation, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and regulating qi. It has certain effects on indigestion, gastritis, enteritis, chronic constipation and so on. The amino acids in the tea can stimulate gastric juice secretion, enhance appetite, and promote the stomach's digestive function; the tea contains B vitamins and aromatic oils, which also have the function of improving appetite and promoting digestion.
5. Calming the nerves and promoting sleep
The natural active components of Luobuma tea have nerve-calming, sedative and analgesic effects, and long-term consumption can significantly improve sleep. This is especially suitable for patients who should not drink tea due to insomnia.
6. Regulating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular function
The flavonoids contained in Luobuma tea can, by clearing reactive oxygen free radicals, play a role in resisting arrhythmia, resisting myocardial ischemia, relieving angina and improving heart function, and also help improve cerebral ischemia and increase the brain's oxygen supply capacity, thereby having a certain rehabilitative effect on heart and vascular diseases, hemiplegia, dementia and other conditions.
There are many benefits and effects of Luobuma tea. Besides regulating the body, it has good effects on regulating constipation, protecting the stomach and intestines, and promoting sleep. Nowadays many people have high work pressure every day and their bodies are always weak and tired. Drinking some Luobuma tea has good effects on relieving heart and blood vessel problems, insomnia, supplementing the body's vitamins, and improving the body's resistance.
Contraindications of Luobuma tea:
1. Patients with heart disease or those with poor constitution and elderly people of advanced age: half a packet per day in the first week; 1 packet per day in the second week; starting from the third week, two packets per day.
2. Patients with stomach disease: drink a small amount multiple times half an hour after meals each day.