I will share with you ancient wisdom of the likes of
Laozi
&
Confucius,
followers of the Dao and Tao Te Ching, regarding when to drink
different variations of teas…
Afternoon
Tea,
1886.
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Five
O'Clock Tea, by
the American painter Mary Cassatt
Green
Tea: Drink
it post-afternoon and before evening.
Earl
Grey tea: Before
noon, after noon, and before evening.
Black
tea: Morning,
Before Sunset, and sometimes in the evening.
Assam
tea: Noon
Masala
Chai: Afternoon
to evening. Also at night.
Oolong:
Evening
and night
Herbal
tea:
Any
time but the morning
Lady
Grey: Late
at night and early morning when worshiping Odin
Sencha:
At
the temple whenever you are worshiping your ancestor spirits.
Iced
tea: Whenever
you feel like it!
Peppermint
Tea: Afternoon,
evening, night, late night, and early morning.
Jasmine
Tea: At
Morning
and Evening
Pu'er
tea: Evening
and at any time at night.
Gunpowder
tea: Wake
me up!
Rooibos
tea: Morning
and afternoon. Don’t drink at night
Bancha
& Konacha: Food
time at noon, evening, late at night.
Hōjicha:
Evening
and late at night when relaxing
Vanilla:
At
the beach and swimming pools whenever you are relaxing.
Starbucks?
Never!
Early
Morning
To
begin the three day weekend, attempt white tea — it has a light
sweet-smelling quality with unobtrusive, nuanced flavors, which might
be more obvious in the morning when the palette is still new. Not at
all like drinking green or dark tea on a vacant stomach, when I drink
white tea before breakfast it doesn't tend to cause distress.
Here's
a mystery about white tea: in the event that you require a noteworthy
increase in caffeine in the morning, pick a higher quality white tea
and utilize truly heated water to mix it (around 200°F). That water
temperature may not draw out every one of the complexities of flavor,
but rather it'll implant a considerable measure of caffeine, which is
another reason white tea can be an ideal brightener for the morning.
Mid-Morning
Later
in the morning, or just before lunch, green tea is great decision.
It's said to support digestion — a liven, regardless of whether for
the additional vitality for an early afternoon exercise or some
additional calorie consuming at lunch.
Green
tea is additionally an ideal tea for drinking without anyone else and
it's anything but difficult to alter the power of the flavor and
intensity, contingent upon how it's soaks. Lower temperature squares
with less sharpness, however make a point to build the lofty time to
guarantee profundity of flavor.
Lunch
With
lunch, I prescribe dark tea for a couple of reasons.
Initially,
it's the most broadly accessible and normally found in eateries,
which makes it a simple go-to at lunch. Second, it's less sensitive,
so it's stronger in a nourishment benefit condition when the water
temperature can be variable.
Third,
I discover dark tea more pleasant matched with nourishment since it
can slice through a portion of the sweetness or oiliness of specific
dishes.
After
Lunch
Pu-erh
tea is the thing that I drink after lunch. Pu-erh is not the same as
most different teas in that it experiences a maturation procedure
before the last drying — this special handling strategy settles on
it a stellar decision to help absorption. It's additionally generally
utilized as a part of China to avoid weight increase following an
overwhelming dinner.
I've
discovered that most pu-erh tea has just a direct measure of
caffeine, which enables avert the evening to droop, yet isn't
excessively invigorating to counteract rest at sleep time.
Night
In
the early night, oolong is my tea of decision. While oolong does in
any case contain caffeine, it doesn't appear to have the same
humming, attentiveness impact all the more regularly connected with
green or white tea. When utilizing free leaf, decide on a littler
part to decrease caffeine and concentrate on the unobtrusive kinds of
a sensitive measure of daintily oxidized oolong.
In
the event that you need to cut the caffeine through and through,
search for a natural implantation, for example, rooibos or all the
more quieting herbs like sacred basil and lemon demulcent to help
recuperate from the worry of the day.
In
case you're new to tea, and particularly in case you're not used to
expending caffeine, I don't prescribe endeavoring to drink
excessively some tea in a day. Begin gradually, picking one tea for
each day, testing and encountering how each glass influences you to
feel and work from that point.
Tea
is an awesome drink that offers a bunch of advantages and unlimited
conceivable outcomes for investigation.
