Overnight tea is not drinkable. But there is no need to discard it directly, because overnight tea has some wonderful uses. What are the specific ones? Read down with the editor.
Ten wonderful uses of overnight tea
① Overnight tea can resist oxidation
Tea water will turn reddish brown after being left for a long time, which is because tea polyphenols oxidize reddish brown tea pigments. Studies have shown that both tea polyphenols and tea pigments have strong antioxidant effects.
② Overnight tea rinses your mouth and stops bleeding
Overnight tea is rich in acids, which can prevent capillary bleeding. If you suffer from stomatitis, tongue abscess, eczema, bleeding gums, etc., you can use overnight tea rinsing treatment. It can also take a bath for sores and abscesses and skin bleeding.
③ Wash the eyes overnight tea to improve eyesight
The tea polyphenols in overnight tea have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. If red silk appears in the eyes, you can wash it with overnight tea several times a day.
④ Overnight tea wipes the body to relieve itching
Wash your hair or rub your body with warm overnight tea. The fluorine in the tea can quickly relieve itching and prevent and treat eczema.
⑤ Overnight tea and tea wash hair
Wash hair with overnight tea, and it also has the effect of raising hair and eliminating dandruff. If you feel that your eyebrows are sparse, you can use a brush to dip your eyebrows overnight to brush your eyebrows every day. Over time, your eyebrows will naturally become dense and bright.
⑥ After overnight tea rinses the mouth and the enamel of the teeth, the fluorine in the tea water and the teeth will calcify, which will enhance the resistance to acidic substances and reduce the occurrence of tooth decay; fluorine can also eliminate plaque, and it is best to rinse your mouth with tea water two or three minutes after a meal.
⑦ Overnight tea rinses your mouth to remove bad breath
Tea contains essential oil ingredients and has a fragrant smell. Before and after brushing your teeth in the morning, rinsing a few mouthfuls of overnight tea can make your breath fresh. Regularly rinsing your mouth with tea can eliminate bad breath.
⑧ Overnight Tea Laxative
After people who are in high heat wake up in the morning, drink a cup of overnight herbal tea made last night, which can have the effects of laxative, awakening and fat loss.
⑨ Overnight tea Wash hands to remove fishy smell and oily
Overnight tea also has a strong effect of removing fishy smell and greasy cucumbers. It feels refreshing to wash your hands after eating shrimps and crabs.
⑩ Overnight Tea Sunscreen
The skin is burned by the sun, and you can use a towel to dip it in overnight tea and wipe it gently. Because tannins have astringent effects on the skin, the flavonoid compounds in tea also have radiation-resistant effects.
How long does it take to be considered overnight tea?
Some people in life may think that overnight tea is not allowed to drink after night, and it is no problem to continue drinking tea in the morning at night. In fact, this is also a wrong idea. Generally, tea leaves are not fresh after 12 hours of soaking, especially in the hot summer. Even if the tea has not been overnight, the bacteria in the tea have exceeded the standard, which can easily lead to gastrointestinal discomfort. So overnight tea does not mean that tea that has been spent all night. Tea that has been soaked for more than 12 hours can be made overnight tea. Try not to drink it.
Why can't overnight tea be drunk? If it is overnight tea, the nutrients in it have been lost and there will be some oxides, which can easily damage intestinal health and cause diarrhea problems. Moreover, the vitamins in the tea that has been talked about for a long time are also lost. The protein and sugars in the tea soup will breed bacteria, which can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort. When overnight tea enters the human body, the protein, fat and vitamins in the food combine to form precipitation, hindering the absorption and digestion of nutrients. Especially in summer, if you drink overnight tea, it may cause the tea to become odorous and cause diarrhea, so try not to drink overnight tea in your daily life.
Overnight tea had extremely absurd meanings in ancient times. Like many rumors, it has not been proven by modern medical treatment. This is just a means for preachers to consolidate their authority in their speech. From a modern scientific perspective, the focus of overnight tea is actually not just overnight. It should be how long the best effect of tea should be soaked, how long it will lose its nutrition after brewing, and how long it will produce substances that are harmful to the body after brewing.
For some strong teas, there have been medical evidence that if the soaking time exceeds a certain limit, some side effects will occur and some corresponding harmful substances will be produced. For fresh plant teas such as chrysanthemums and wolfberry, it will produce a substance that is beneficial to the body.
The harm of overnight tea is limited to spoiled overnight tea. Overnight tea without spoilage has many health benefits. Overnight tea is rich in alcohols and fluorin, which can prevent capillary bleeding. If you suffer from oral bleeding, skin bleeding, sores and abscesses, you can use it to treat it. If the problem occurs in the mouth and nose, you can wash overnight tea and rinse.
Many people think that overnight tea cannot be drunk, and there are many statements. Among them, the more "alarming" one is that drinking overnight tea will cause cancer. In fact, this statement has no scientific basis.