Drinking alcohol can make you drunk, and drinking tea can also make you drunk, and it is not easier than being drunk. It is still quite uncomfortable when it occurs. More importantly, both newbies and confident old tea drinkers will encounter it.
Tea intoxication refers to an adverse reaction caused by drinking too strong or excessive tea. Because tea contains ingredients such as theophylline and fluoride, theophylline is a central nervous stimulant. When it is consumed in excess or the body is highly sensitive to tea, tea intoxication may occur: accelerated blood circulation, rapid breathing, and a series of adverse reactions. It causes electrolyte imbalance in the human body, which in turn causes abnormal enzyme activity in the human body, leading to metabolic disorders.
Physiological symptoms: including palpitations, trembling all over the body, dizziness, weakness in the limbs, stomach discomfort, vomiting and hunger. Severe tea intoxication may also cause muscle tremors, heart rate disorders, and even convulsions and convulsions.
Psychological feelings: When you are drunk from tea, you may feel dizzy, tinnitus, and weakness. Although you feel tired in your stomach, it feels like something is in it, churning from the stomach to the throat, and you want to vomit but can't.
The effect of caffeine: The caffeine contained in tea strongly stimulates the central nervous system, making it excited, causing tachycardia and irregular pulse, and then tea drunkenness. Usually a cup of tea soup (150 ml) contains about 80 mg of caffeine. Drinking 5-6 cups of tea a day is equivalent to taking about 0.4 grams of caffeine. The maximum limit of caffeine for a person is 0.65 grams. Exceeding this limit may harm the body.
The effect of fluoride: Tea contains more fluoride. Excessive accumulation of fluoride in the human body can cause chronic poisoning. The main symptoms are discoloration and defects of teeth, pain in the spine bones of the limbs and joints of the whole body, general weakness, and in severe cases, limb dysfunction, bone and joint deformation, and even paralysis.
Specific situations: If you usually drink highly fermented cooked tea, such as black tea, Taiwanese oolong tea, aged tea, etc., and suddenly switch to low-fermented or unfermented green tea or raw tea, because these teas contain high levels of caffeine, and drink too much, you will get drunk from tea. Drinking strong tea on an empty stomach, or people who usually drink little tea suddenly drink strong tea, or people with weak bodies drink strong tea, it is easy to get drunk from tea.
Eat sweets: You can eat some sweets immediately, such as candy, fruit, etc., to replenish blood sugar and energy, which helps to relieve the symptoms of tea drunk.
Drink sugar water or cooked oil: Drinking a bowl of sugar water or one or two spoons of cooked oil can also relieve the symptoms of tea drunkenness.
Take a proper rest: After being drunk from tea, patients should take a proper rest and avoid strenuous exercise or excessive fatigue.
Avoid drinking tea again: Before the symptoms of tea drunkenness are relieved, you should avoid drinking tea again to avoid aggravating the symptoms.
People who are prone to tea drunkenness:
People who drink strong tea on an empty stomach: When the stomach is empty, some substances in tea, such as caffeine and fluoride, are easily absorbed excessively.
People who usually drink little tea: If you suddenly drink strong tea or drink too much tea, your body may not be able to adapt.
People with weak bodies: People with weaker bodies are more susceptible to the effects of substances in tea.
In short, tea drunkenness is an adverse reaction caused by drinking too strong or too much tea. By understanding the principles of tea drunkenness, the susceptible population and the relief methods, we can better prevent the occurrence of tea drunkenness and enjoy a healthy tea drinking life.
Don't drink tea too strong. Because tea contains caffeine, after drinking several cups of strong tea, a large amount of caffeine is absorbed into the blood, which will make people dizzy, headache, nervous excitement, and even muscle tremors, heart rhythm disorders, convulsions and convulsions, that is, "tea drunkenness".
Don't drink too much tea. Tea contains a variety of vitamins and amino acids, which have certain effects on clearing oil and relieving greasiness, enhancing nervous excitement, and digestion and diuresis, but it is not the case that the more you drink, the better. If you drink too much tea, the tea will accumulate in the intestines, which will hinder the activity of the diaphragm and affect normal absorption. In addition, a large amount of water enters the human body, and the capacity increases rapidly, which will increase the burden on the heart and cause abnormal cardiopulmonary function, especially for the elderly and weak with poor heart function. Generally speaking, 1-2 times a day is more appropriate.
Do not drink tea on an empty stomach. Because the stomach contains a lot of gastric acid when the stomach is empty, tea can dilute gastric juice and reduce digestive function.
The water temperature for brewing tea should be appropriate: When brewing tea, the water temperature should be appropriate. Too high water temperature will cause the substances in the tea leaves to be released quickly, and excessive intake of caffeine and theophylline. Generally speaking, the water temperature for brewing green tea should be controlled at 80-85℃, while the water temperature for brewing black tea should be controlled at 90-95℃.
Taste slowly: When drinking tea, you should taste it slowly, and don't drink too much at a time. At the same time, you can take a proper rest during the process of drinking tea to avoid excessive fatigue of the body.
Tea drunkenness does have something to do with the type of tea you drink. Before, when I was drinking raw Pu'er, I always felt that the tea soup was stronger and it was easy to get tea drunkenness. But after contacting old white tea, there was no tea drunkenness. What is the reason?
In fact, caffeine in tea is one of the main factors that cause tea drunkenness. This is related to the type of tea. The tree species used to make raw Pu'er is the large-leaf species in Yunnan. Due to the tree species, raw Pu'er itself contains more caffeine. As for white tea, it is mainly made from large white tea or the tender shoots of Narcissus tea trees.
For good quality white tea, the original caffeine content is not too much of the tea itself. During withering, if it can be spread and dried in time, it can also take away some bitter substances through water loss. The taste of white tea tends to be more delicious rather than bitter. It is precisely because of the different caffeine content that tea lovers feel that raw Pu'er seems to be more likely to get drunk.
As for the old white tea mentioned by tea lovers, because it has been aged for at least three years, the caffeine in it has undergone complex transformations and turned into other substances. At this time, the old white tea has a more mellow taste and a weaker bitterness.
Some tea lovers who are more sensitive to caffeine can start with good quality old white tea, which is not easy to get drunk. Unfermented teas like green tea and raw Pu'er tea contain more caffeine, which can easily cause tea drunkenness.
There is a certain relationship between tea drunkenness and the frequency of tea drinking. Tea contains a variety of vitamins and minerals. Tea also contains theophylline, which has a central nervous system excitatory effect. Drinking tea moderately and consuming less theophylline generally does not cause tea drunkenness. Drinking hot tea helps replenish water, promote sweat gland relaxation and blood circulation, and promote the digestion and decomposition of theophylline, and also has a certain warming effect on the body;
Don't drink too much tea frequently, which refers to both the amount and the type of tea. A large amount of water enters the human body, and the capacity increases rapidly, which will increase the burden on the heart and cause abnormal cardiopulmonary function, especially for the elderly and weak with poor heart function. Generally speaking, 1-2 times a day is more appropriate.
