Tea is becoming more and more popular with the arrival of summer. But many medical experts said: people having tea should base on the persons’ physique, otherwise it’s easy to damage the health.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people's constitution is different, while the tea after the production process also has cold and warm nature, so having tea should base on the body constitution difference. Hot constitution should drink cool tea and cold constitution should drink warm tea.

What tea should we choose? Let's first get to know the characteristics of the tea.

Common tea mainly divided into green tea(oolong, Tie Guanyin and clovershrub), black tea, dark tea and so on. This is basically divided based on the degree of fermentation of tea.

Generally speaking, Tieguanyin tea belongs to cool tea due to the low degree of fermentation, oolong tea, clovershrub belongs to neutral tea, black tea and Pu'er tea belongs to the warm tea.
                                       

Next, we have to enter the theme: can patients with coronary heart disease drink tea? What benefits can tea bring? Of course, drinking tea have a certain role in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and coronary heart disease.

  Tea polyphenols have important roles in fat metabolism of human body. For example, for the high content of cholesterol, triglyceride glycerol, deposition of blood vessel wall fat, proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cell after formation of atheromatous plaque and other cardiovascular diseases. Tea polyphenols, especially catechin ECG and EGC and its oxidation product of theaflavins in tea polyphenols, are conducive to inhibit the patchy hyperplasia, decreasing the fibrinogen that enhance coagulation of blood viscosity, making coagulation clear, thus inhibiting the development of atherosclerosis. Tea can reduce the concentration of cholesterol, reduce the degree of arteriosclerosis, and enhance the flexibility of the capillary wall, so tea is an excellent drink to prevent coronary heart disease.

   However, patients with coronary heart disease drinking tea should be certainly selective. The consideration includes the concentration of tea, tea varieties, tea time, in addition, patients should also consider the situation of the disease itself.

   First of all, it is recommended that patients with coronary heart disease should have light, appropriate amount of tea. Strong tea can bring the gastric mucosa certain stimulation, it also contains more caffeine, which may cause heart rate to speed up, for people whose heart blood supply condition is not originally good, strong tea can bring worse results.

   Secondly, in the choice of tea, patients should choose Green Tea, broadleaf holly leaf and Pu'er Tea that has the function of clearing heat and cooling blood.

   Green tea: in the time of drinking tea, early morning and forenoon is recommended, try not to drink in the afternoon and evening, in order to avoid the emergence of insomnia because of tea, resulting in increased blood pressure and coronary heart disease exacerbations.

   Broadleaf holly leaf is cool, heat clearing and detoxifying, which can soften the blood vessels, drop blood fat, very suitable for people who have the hot constitution, but sweating constitution absolutely unsuitable to drink the tea.

Pu’er tea: mild and mellow, can warm stomach, lower blood pressure and reduce blood lipid, long-term drinking it can reduce atherosclerosis and the prevent cardiovascular diseases. According to records, chrysanthemum has efficacy of scattering wind, clearing heat and bother, and relieving pain; flos lonicerae has effect of clearing heat and detoxifying and scattering wind; cassia has function of clearing heat, improving eyesight and relaxing bowel. Combination of the three drinking, can clear heat and cool blood, lower blood pressure, and also maintain defecate unobstructed, which is a beverage suitable for patients with coronary heart disease.

  Third, in the time of tea, the proposal to early morning and morning tea based, try not to drink in the afternoon and evening, in order to avoid the emergence of insomnia due to tea, resulting in increased blood pressure and coronary heart disease exacerbations.

   When the following four kinds of circumstances occur, patients should be appropriate to control drinking tea: 1. feeling excited, or having insomnia symptoms after drinking tea; 2. after drinking tea, the heartbeat is accelerated, having palpitation; 3. patients with coronary heart disease in unstable condition (or occurring myocardial infarction possibly at any time); 4.after the tea appear constipation or constipation getting worse.