If you visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, Shanghainese will make Yuanbao tea. What is the function of this tea?

There is a custom in Shanghai. During the Spring Festival, when guests come home, they are always treated with tea and put two green olives or kumquat in the tea, which means good luck and good luck in the new year. This kind of tea is also called "Yuanbao tea".

Olive tea, also known as "Yuanbao tea", is a treasure of traditional folk tea in southern China. Tea brewed with olive leaves has the functions of sterilization and antivirus, which helps to relieve various symptoms of colds. When you think you are going to catch a cold, you'd better drink some olive tea to fight the virus. Olive tea can also effectively relieve the symptoms of herpes, hepatitis and ear infections. Olives also lower blood pressure and uric acid. Functions: sterilization, antivirus, blood pressure lowering, antioxidation, deceleration and diuresis.

Olive tea is mainly made of olives. Put olives in water, add rock sugar and brew with boiling water. Olive tea has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. At the same time, it can also eliminate abdominal distension, relieve alcohol and boredom, and refresh the heart and lungs. Everyone usually likes to drink olive tea. Olive tea can regulate operation, eliminate fatigue, relieve stress and regulate obesity.

Yuanbao tea has the functions of moistening throat, promoting fluid production, refreshing, clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving food stagnation, relieving swelling, sobering up, refreshing, nourishing spleen and stomach, and stimulating appetite. It can really be said that "green fruits touch the lips, moisten the throat and strengthen the spleen and stomach." It is a good product for smokers who often use their voice and are not suitable for smoking. Regular drinking can also prevent overweight and enhance the protection against electronic radiation.

When modern people drink tea, they prefer the molecules on the tip of the tongue-tea polyphenols. As we all know, it can effectively inhibit spots and pigments and whiten skin. It can also lower blood lipids and help remove blood vessel deposits. The bitter taste of tea is due to theophylline besides tea polyphenols. This alkaloid makes tea bitter, but it has the functions of refreshing, strengthening the heart, diuresis and sobering up. Judging from the antioxidant and cell membrane protective effects of tea polyphenols, the possibility of preventing cancer also exists. In addition, after adding kumquat to tea, it has increased the efficacy of lowering blood pressure and preventing arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease, and "Yuanbao Tea" is more popular.