What Season Is Barley Tea Suitable For, Can It Help With Weight Loss, and How Does It Differ from Tartary Buckwheat Tea?
According to the records in "Compendium of Materia Medica," barley is sweet and gentle in nature, and can treat indigestion in children, clear the spleen and strengthen the stomach, remove gamey and greasy tastes, and aid digestion. So what season is barley tea suitable for drinking? Can drinking barley tea help with weight loss? What are the differences from tartary buckwheat tea? In fact, barley tea is suitable all year round. Drinking barley tea in summer helps clear heat and relieve summer heat; drinking barley tea in winter can scrape away oils.
The differences between barley tea and tartary buckwheat tea
1. Tartary buckwheat tea · a daily drink for diabetics
Tartary buckwheat prefers cool conditions and tolerates barren soil, mostly growing in high, cold mountain areas, with its grains used for food. It is mainly distributed in the mountainous areas of southwest China, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places. Tartary buckwheat combines seven major nutrients in one and is known as the king of the five grains. For ingredient-focused people, its health data is quite impressive. Tartary buckwheat contains flavonoids (the main component is rutin —— rutinoside accounts for 70%-90% of total flavonoids). Rutin is a good thing; it can:
1. Purify the blood, improve blood circulation, and lower blood pressure
Rutin can inhibit the activity of phosphodiesterase in the body, prevent platelet aggregation, and protect platelets from lipid peroxidation. So it can help people with high blood pressure maintain healthy blood pressure.
2. Beautify the skin and reduce fine lines
Rutinoside can help the body absorb and fully utilize vitamin C, prevent cells from being damaged by free radicals, and maintain collagen levels in the body to reduce the formation of wrinkles and fine lines.
3. Prevent diabetic complications
Tartary buckwheat contains a special compound, "inositol hexaphosphate," which can exert an effect similar to insulin, effectively lower blood sugar, prevent or inhibit the activity of aldose reductase, and help delay or prevent the occurrence of diabetic complications.
Precautions:
Tartary buckwheat tea should be drunk after meals. People with low blood sugar need to take special care.
People with a cold stomach or stomach illness should not drink too much, as it can easily cause acid reflux and diarrhea.
2. Barley tea · a must-have for aiding digestion after meals and lowering blood pressure
Barley tea is a beverage widely circulated among the people of China. After barley is roasted, pouring hot water over it produces a rich, fragrant tea.
In the restaurants of the kimchi country, the unchanging free tea drink provided together with barbecue is barley tea. This shows barley tea's ability to cut greasiness and dissolve oil. Because barley tea does not contain caffeine, theophylline and other components, drinking barley tea after evening social engagements or overeating can avoid insomnia and also aid digestion and dissolve food stagnation. Rather than taking digestion tablets, it is better to have a cup of barley tea.
Besides aiding digestion and dissolving food stagnation, barley tea also has two special effects:
1. A blood pressure-lowering marvel
Barley tea contains specific anti-cancer substances —— P-coumaric acid and quercetin. Quercetin is mainly used to lower blood pressure.
2. Whitening
Whole-body whitening. Put used tea bags or simply pour the tea into the bathtub for bathing; use warm, fresh barley tea to wash the face. Over the long term, it has a whitening effect. In addition, using overnight barley tea to brush the eyebrows will make them become thicker.
Can drinking barley tea help with weight loss?
Barley tea can play a role in weight loss. Barley tea belongs to coarse grains, and the dietary fiber in coarse grains can regulate digestive and absorptive function, thereby delaying the absorption of nutrients. Dietary fiber can also produce a feeling of fullness, avoid excessive intake of calories, fat and carbohydrates, and has a role in preventing and treating obesity.
Which groups of people are suitable for drinking barley tea?
(1) Overeating with chest tightness and abdominal bloating. Barley tea can be fried until black and ground into powder, then taken with boiling water; it can strengthen the stomach and aid digestion, resolve inflammation and reduce bloating, and relieve diarrhea symptoms.
(2) For children with indigestion and sallow complexion; for thin, small, elderly or weak people who eat little and have no strength, sugar can be added to barley tea and taken with water; it has the effect of boosting qi and strengthening the stomach.
(3) People suffering from digestive tract ulcers can use barley as a staple food; it can calm stomach qi and stop dull pain.
(4) For summer heat, restlessness and thirst, barley can be boiled in water. Drinking the hot tea directly helps digestion, relieves greasiness, warms the stomach, nourishes the stomach, and strengthens the stomach; after being left to cool, it has the effect of clearing summer heat, promoting body fluids, and relieving restlessness and thirst.
Because barley tea is a tea of a coarse grain nature, it does not contain theophylline, caffeine, tannins or other substances that stimulate nerves and affect sleep, nor will it stain tea utensils or teeth, and long-term drinking also has a whitening and skin-nourishing effect.
Although barley tea has a very good stomach-nourishing effect, pregnant women and people with high blood pressure are still forbidden from drinking it. After all, it is tea, so some groups of people who are not suitable for drinking tea had better not drink it.