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Question: What is "drinking tea" mean?

I have heard people speak about "drinking tea." I know they do not mean "drunk drunk like alcohol, but I'm not sure if I understand what it means to be" drinking tea. "It's like a caffeine buzz, or what?

Answer:

Besides tea alcoholic drinks (including cocktails or tea brewed tea liquor), tea is not alcohol. However, it is sometimes induce a state similar to an alcohol buzz.

Tea drunkenness is a somewhat controversial topic. Some people compare it to a high caffeine buzz, and say, the side effects include tremors, nausea, dizziness and other unpleasant sensations associated with excessive caffeine consumption. However, most serious tea fans are describing their experiences with being "tea drinking" quite differently.

For me drunk tea feels euphoric. There is a strong sense of focus and calm acceptance of the world around me / feeling of satisfaction and a sense of light / direction of the floating head. I heard the other as cheesy, inflatable or unpleasant feeling, a sense of emotional happiness, a contemplative or philosophical mood, a state of sensitive or introspective mood symptoms listed. The overall effect is often described as a "zen" very comfortable.

Tea is believed that the combination of caffeine and other molecules lead in tea, in particular L-theanine is drunk. Caffeine, L-Theanine induces a very quiet (and often much sleep) state, and reduces a test phase for use as a medicament, anxiety. However, when combined with caffeine, it is assumed that L-theanine, the production of alpha waves in the brain increase, leading to fatigue to a state of meditation without.

Note the physical, mental and emotional tea is only one of many aspects of tea tasting and appreciation. To reach a state of drunkenness tea, start by eating foods stomach to absorb the caffeine in tea and slow down the absorption of natural chemical compounds. In tea Then prepare tea (preferably high quality Oolong tea Japanese shadow Pu-erh or more *), taste, and notice how you feel.

* Some say you can drink tea drinking quality tea not get to. (In my experience this is the case.) Some people find they get easier teas grown Japanese green tea drank shadow (as Gyokuro Matcha tea and green tea), have old tea and oolong teas -erh high quality (Oolong Tieguanyin in particular) .