15 benefits of coffee from a Chinese medicine perspective, a must-read!

Coffee is an imported product. When Western culture collides with traditional Chinese medicine, let’s see how Chinese medicine diagnoses coffee!

Coffee beans are taken from the fruit of the coffee tree. They are red in color and belong to the fire element. They enter the heart, have a bitter and scorching taste, and enter the large intestine. They are pungent, sweet, bitter, and astringent in nature. They are scorched and dry when fried. The sweet taste has a nourishing and soothing effect, which can relieve pain. The pungent taste has a dispersing and qi-moving effect, which can pass through the brain-blood barrier and treat superficial wind-heat and headaches. The bitter taste has a drying and purgative effect, which can treat heat or dampness.

15 health benefits of coffee from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine:

1. Refresh your mind

Caffeine is spicy and aromatic in nature. It can easily pass through the blood-brain barrier, stimulate the central nervous system, promote brain activity, make the mind more clear, the reaction more lively and sensitive, the thinking ability is sufficient, the attention is focused, and the work efficiency is improved; it can stimulate the cerebral cortex, promote sensation, judgment and enhance memory.

2. Strengthen bones and muscles, and benefit waist and knees

Caffeine can make muscles contract freely, increase tendon strength, lower motor threshold, increase body sensitivity and improve motor function.

3. Appetizers and staple foods

Caffeine can stimulate the sympathetic nerves, stimulate the gastrointestinal tract to secrete gastric acid, promote digestion, prevent bloating and gastroptosis, and promote gastrointestinal hormones and peristaltic hormones, resulting in rapid bowel movements.

4. Eliminate fat and eliminate accumulation

Caffeine can accelerate fat decomposition, increase the body's metabolic rate, increase heat energy consumption, help reduce fat and tighten the skin. In addition, bathing with coffee powder is an excellent warm therapy that helps lose weight.

5. Clear the orifices and remove dampness

Caffeine can promote kidney function, excrete excess sodium ions from the body, increase urine output, improve abdominal bloating and edema, and help lose weight.

6. Promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis

The linoleic acid contained in coffee can dissolve blood and prevent thrombosis, enhance vasoconstriction, promote blood circulation, and relieve headaches caused by vasodilation, especially migraines. It also promotes venous return, moisturizes the skin, restores skin elasticity, and prevents cardiovascular diseases.

7. Extinguish wind and stop convulsions

Coffee can accelerate the metabolism of cholesterol, reduce coronary atherosclerosis and reduce the risk of stroke.

8. Joyful Color

Drinking coffee in moderation regularly can make people excited, happy, put aside worries and depression, relieve stress and relax the body and mind.

9. Soothe the lungs and relieve asthma

Caffeine promotes the sympathetic nerves and inhibits the parasympathetic nerves, thus preventing asthma attacks caused by parasympathetic nerve excitement.

10. Drying dampness and deodorizing

Caffeine contains tannins, which can deodorize and eliminate the smell of garlic and meat.

11. Coffee can help you sober up

Drinking coffee after drinking alcohol will cause the acetaldehyde converted from alcohol to quickly oxidize, decompose into water and carbon dioxide and be excreted from the body.

12. Three cups of coffee a day can prevent gallstones

Caffeinated coffee can stimulate gallbladder contraction and reduce the formation of gallstones in bile. Men who drink two to three cups of coffee a day have a 40% lower chance of getting gallstones.

13. Prevent dry eyes among computer users

The report points out that coffee drinkers are significantly less likely to suffer from dry eyes than non-coffee drinkers. This is mainly due to the purine component in coffee (the purine component in eye drops can stimulate glands to secrete fluid, thus protecting the eyes). This is certainly good news for computer users who love coffee.

14. Pain relief

For example, headaches caused by a bad night's sleep, or pain in the temples due to vasoconstriction, these pains caused by non-organic factors can be relieved by coffee. It is recommended to drink it in the morning or at noon.

15. Anti-aging

The reason why coffee is dark in color and bitter in taste is that it is rich in antioxidants. In recent years, foods with antioxidant functions have been very popular in the market. Commonly known fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins A, C, and B, as well as tea, which is quite popular in Japan. They are considered healthy foods because they are rich in antioxidants. A research report points out that coffee contains 4 times more antioxidants than tea and can resist free radicals.