The dog days of 2023 are already halfway through, and there can't be many people who don't know about the benefits of drinking hot tea during this period. Today, I'll explain it to you in detail.
The specific schedule for the dog days of 2023 is as follows:
Early Dog Days: July 11, 2023 – July 20, 2023, a total of 10 days;
Middle Dog Days: July 21, 2023 – August 9, 2023, a total of 20 days;
Late Dog Days: August 10, 2023 – August 19, 2023, a total of 10 days.
According to traditional wisdom, the “fu” in “dog days” refers to “latent evil,” specifically the heat evil among the so-called “six evils.”
After the onset of the dog days, people often feel irritable, tired, and have poor appetites due to the scorching weather. A cup of hot tea can promote blood circulation, open up the skin's pores, help sweat evaporate, and achieve the effect of dissipating heat and dispelling summer heat. Tea contains large amounts of vitamins and mineral elements, as well as caffeine, tea polyphenols, and aromatic substances that blend into the tea infusion. These components are beneficial for regulating body temperature via the central nervous system and preventing heatstroke.
What teas should one drink during the dog days?
Green Tea: Sun Protection and Radiation Shielding
Green tea contains catechins with strong antioxidant functions that can reduce sunburn and damage caused by ultraviolet rays to the skin. Additionally, green tea has radiation shielding properties, making it ideal for office workers facing computers all day to protect themselves from radiation.
Yellow Tea: Seasonal and Appropriate
The great heat falls within the long summer of the dog days, which is associated with earth in the five elements, yellow in the five colors, and the spleen in the five organs. Drinking yellow tea is most appropriate. From a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, the most suitable tea to drink during the dog days is yellow tea.
This is because the process of making yellow tea involves piling and damp-heap fermentation, which produces a large amount of digestive enzymes. Yellow tea contains fewer chlorophyll components than green tea. After fermentation, its coldness is significantly reduced compared to green tea, making it less stimulating to the stomach lining. People with weak spleens and stomachs who drink yellow tea regularly during the dog days can aid digestion and eliminate dampness in the body.
White Tea: Heat Reduction and Heat Elimination
White tea can prevent heat, dispel heat, detoxify, and treat toothaches, especially aged white tea, which can be used as a fever reducer for children suffering from measles.
Oolong Tea: Weight Loss and Fat Reduction
Oolong tea contains a large amount of tea polyphenols, which can enhance the action of fat-decomposing enzymes, lower cholesterol levels in the blood, and have effects such as lowering blood pressure, antioxidation, and anti-aging.
Black Tea: Refreshing and Stomach-Nourishing
Black tea is rich in caffeine, which stimulates the central nervous system, accelerates our blood circulation, and promotes metabolism, thus helping to refresh the mind, eliminate fatigue, and nourish the stomach.
Dark Tea: Dampness Elimination and Fatty Food Relief
Dark tea has a mellow and smooth taste, with warming the stomach and reducing fat effects. It is suitable for those with cold stomachs and weak constitutions. For seniors and women, drinking dark tea during the summer can also provide excellent Health benefits.
Drink tea in moderation, preferring light tea and warm tea, and avoid drinking on an empty stomach. Feeling comfortable is what matters most.
Beat the heat with heat, enjoy your tea.
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