Honeysuckle

Drinking green tea has cooling and soothing effects, helps to clear the mind and invigorate thoughts. It can also alleviate visual fatigue and replenish the body's water needs, which is beneficial for eliminating fatigue, relaxing the mood, and improving emotions. It can help with dry skin and mental exhaustion. Regular consumption of green tea can uplift one's mood, improve stress levels, and have diuretic effects. Benefits of Drinking Green Tea First, green tea can lower blood sugar, lipids, and blood pressure, reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Second, green tea contains abundant catechins and vitamin C, promoting cellular antioxidant capacity, scavenging free radicals, reducing wrinkles, whitening the skin, and delaying aging. Third, green tea contains caffeine, which mildly stimulates the central nervous system, helping to refresh the mind. Fourth, regular consumption of green tea promotes metabolism and reduces fat accumulation in the body, aiding in weight loss. Drawbacks of Drinking Green Tea For those with a weak digestive system, green tea, being a raw tea with a strong cold nature, may cause discomfort, abdominal pain, or even diarrhea in some individuals. Additionally, some people may experience sleeplessness after drinking green tea due to its caffeine content, which can stimulate the…

At 9 a.m. on August 4, Tan Xianglan delved into the lush tea bushes, pinching a tender tea bud between her thumb and index finger, smiling as she demonstrated to over thirty other tea pickers: "Everyone should snap it like I do; you must not pinch it. Only by snapping can the harvested tea maintain its quality!" Tea leaves (file photo) Tan Xianglan, 51 years old, is from Longquan Village, Changchi Town, Nanjiang County, Bazhong City. Due to poverty in her childhood, she dropped out of school at an early age. From the moment she carefully kneaded her first handful of tea, she knew that her life would be inseparable from tea. With sheer determination, Tan Xianglan worked tirelessly for decades, transforming from an obscure peasant woman into a prominent tea grower in Nanjiang. Her life has become increasingly prosperous. While doing tea business, she realized that the high-quality and excellent-tasting Nanjiang tea could indeed lead to prosperity for local residents. She also led her neighbors towards a path of wealth and rural revitalization. She still remembers a day in 2018 when a customer contacted her to order eight pounds of tea. For the then-struggling Tan Xianglan, this was a…

Recently, affected by a strong cold air front, temperatures in Guangdong have dropped significantly, with some areas experiencing snow, ice, and freezing conditions, especially in the northern tea regions of Renhua, Lechang, and Lianshan, where "icicles" have appeared. To minimize the impact of low temperatures on tea production, reporters from Nongcun Nanfang Daily and the Southern Tea Channel contacted experts from the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences Tea Research Institute, the National Tea Industry Technology System Qingyuan Comprehensive Test Station, and the Guangdong Tea Industry Technology System to provide advice for tea farmers on how to implement effective frost protection measures for their tea plants, thus strengthening prevention and ensuring the safety of tea production. Impact of Frost Damage on Tea Plants After suffering from frost damage, tea plants may exhibit symptoms such as discolored and dried leaves, dead branches, and trunks. This can also delay the sprouting of spring tea, leading to reduced yield and quality, which affects economic benefits. Symptoms of frost damage in tea plants Care for Frost-Damaged Tea Plants 1. Care for Dormant Tea Plants Affected by Frost: For varieties with good cold resistance, timely drainage is needed to prevent repeated freeze-thaw cycles that can damage…

Basic Introduction to Nanjing HoneysuckleNanjing honeysuckle is a variety of the Chinese medicinal herb honeysuckle, a specialty of Nan County, Sichuan Province. Due to the county's unique geographical and climatic conditions that are particularly suitable for the growth of honeysuckle, the product has high effective components and good quality, making it very popular. The product has been included in the list of China's national geographic indication products for protection. Nutritional ValueCold in nature and sweet in taste; it enters the lung and stomach meridians; it clears heat and detoxifies, dispels wind-heat. It is used as the primary treatment for carbuncles and furuncles at their initial stages, redness, swelling, and pain, external contraction of wind-heat, onset of febrile diseases, heat-toxic bloody dysentery, summer heat and thirst, sore throat. Honeysuckle contains isochlorogenic acid, loganin, luteolin, chlorogenic acid, inositol, and other components, and is rich in volatile oils, with the main components of the oil being bisabolol and linalool. Product CharacteristicsNanjing honeysuckle is rich in chlorogenic acid, luteoloside, linalool, and more than 30 other volatile oils and triterpenoids, and over 10 kinds of inorganic elements. Tests have shown that the chlorogenic acid content in Nanjing honeysuckle is generally around 5.5%, reaching up to…

Guizhou's mountains and waters are endowed with remarkable natural beauty and rich resources. Data shows that Guizhou's tea garden area has expanded from 5.24 million mu in 2014 to over 7 million mu in 2023, ranking it among the top in the country; the province's tea industry's comprehensive output value also jumped from 27 billion yuan to 63 billion yuan during the same period. The Multi-Color Guizhou Network specially launches the column "[Visit Guizhou's Tea]," starting from Guizhou's tea industry chain, interviewing tea farmers, tea makers, scientific researchers, teahouse owners, and foreign tea seekers, reflecting how Guizhou's excellent ecology fosters clean tea and its path of high-quality industrial development. "Qian Tea No.1" took nearly 16 years to develop from a superior strain to a new variety. In April 2019, it was registered by the Ministry of Agriculture as a non-principal crop variety, allowing for its promotion. Its primary developer is Dr. Chen Zhengwu, researcher at the Guizhou Tea Research Institute and leader of the tea plant resource breeding discipline. On August 5th, Dr. Chen Zhengwu told reporters that since its promotion in 2019, "Qian Tea No.1" has been introduced to areas such as Daozhen Autonomous County, Sinan County, Yanhe Autonomous…