Treating Measles
White tea prevents cancer, combats cancer, cools the body, detoxifies, and treats toothache. In particular, aged white tea can be used as a fever-reducing medicine for children with measles, and its antipyretic effect is better than that of antibiotics.
In Northern China and in the Fujian production areas, it is widely regarded as an excellent medicine for treating and nursing patients with measles. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty celebrity Zhou Lianggong recorded in his “Min Xiao Ji” (Fujian Trivia): “White hair silver needle tea, produced in Hongxue Cave on Mount Daimu, is cold in nature and has effects similar to those of rhinoceros horn, making it a holy medicine for treating measles.”
Promoting Blood Sugar Balance
Market research on health teas shows that in addition to containing the usual nutrients found in other teas, white tea also contains essential active enzymes. Medical studies at home and abroad have proven that long-term consumption of white tea can significantly increase the activity of lipoprotein lipase in the body, promoting the metabolism of fat and effectively controlling the secretion of insulin, delaying the intestinal absorption of glucose, and helping to balance blood sugar levels. White tea is rich in multiple amino acids. It is cool in nature and has the functions of cooling, heat-dispelling, and detoxifying. In the producing regions, few people suffer from heatstroke after drinking a cup of Bai Mudan tea during summer. Therefore, Bai Mudan is one of the essential white teas for local tea farmers in summer.
Improving Vision
The longer white tea is stored, the higher its medicinal value becomes.
White tea also contains abundant vitamin A precursors, which are quickly converted into vitamin A once absorbed by the human body. Vitamin A can synthesize rhodopsin, allowing clearer vision in dim light and preventing night blindness and dry eye disease.
White tea also contains radiation-protective substances that significantly protect the body's hematopoietic function and reduce the harmful effects of television radiation.
Therefore, drinking more white tea while watching television is beneficial and harmless, especially for children and teenagers, who should be encouraged to drink more white tea for the benefit of their eyes and overall health.
Liver Protection
White tea leaves are rich in dihydromyricetin and other flavonoids.
When alcohol intake exceeds the liver's metabolic and detoxification capacity, alcohol can cause direct or indirect damage to liver cells, stimulate fat synthesis, lead to oxygen deficiency, generate acetaldehyde, and induce changes in various enzyme systems, disrupting liver metabolism. This can lead to a series of clinical symptoms and result in alcoholic hepatitis, fatty liver, liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and even liver cancer.
Additionally, acetaldehyde, a metabolite of ethanol, is the primary cause of headache and nausea the day after drinking and is the main substance that damages the liver.
Extensive clinical trials have shown that dihydromyricetin and other flavonoids naturally present in white tea can protect the liver, accelerating the rapid breakdown of acetaldehyde, a product of ethanol metabolism, into non-toxic substances, reducing the harm to liver cells.
On the other hand, dihydromyricetin can improve the increase in serum lactate dehydrogenase activity caused by liver cell injury, inhibiting the formation of collagen fibers by hepatic M cells, thereby playing a role in protecting and nourishing the liver. Furthermore, dihydromyricetin acts quickly and has a prolonged effect, making it an excellent product for liver protection, hangover relief, and sobering up.