Jasmine : Earth Element
Taste : Sweet Flavor
Corresponds to late summer and relates to spleen, stomach and mouth organs
Green Tea : Wood Element
Taste: Greens and sour food
Corresponds to spring season and relates to liver, gall bladder and eyes
Why is Jasmine and Green Tea combined together?
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, jasmine belongs to the “yin” food group, which helps balance out the “yang” of green tea in a splendid manner. Jasmine green tea is overall a ‘cooling’ tea (even when consumed hot), which makes it more suitable during the summers. For people who’re sensitive to ‘dampness’ and ‘cold hands’, it’s better to switch to warmer teas such as black tea and rooibos tea.
Jasmine (Mo Li Hua) and green tea are combined together because of the relationship between the earth element and the wood element.
In late summer, the weather is very hot and the spleen and stomach are weak in this period. You might have had the experience in summer time of not wanting to eat that is because in summer time the spleen and stomach are weaker and we need to find the correct way to restore energy to them.
Apparently, if your spleen and stomach doesn't work well, your whole body wont work smoothly in the following seasons as you wont be absorbing nutrients from food in your body properly.
Therefore, you might not feel like eating anything but drinking a cup of jasmine green tea might satisfy you and that is specifically because your body is naturally telling you what it needs.
How does this combination work?
Remember, everything needs to be kept in balance. Even if you find the right season and right food good for specific organs, it’s possible to overdo it.
For example, if you eat too much Mango (earth element), Earth will grow too strong, which will make it have too much Yang, and too much Yang in your stomach will become evil Fire. This evil Fire could burn out your stomach and make it weak again, leading to illness.
So, to keep everything in balance, a cooling food component and a heating food component is combined that wont overly cool your body neither will it heat it too much. It will maintain the balance needed for our organs to function properly.
What are the benefits of jasmine green tea?
1. Cancer Fighting Capabilities
High quality green tea is well known for it's benefits. It can help prevent cancer. It needs to be clearly emphasized that green tea as well as green tea catechols cannot replace the standard chemotherapy. Nonetheless, their beneficial effects may support the standard anticancer approach. (1)
2. Promotes Good Oral Health
It's a cooling tea. It is specifically great if you have been eating fried foods that heat the body. It's also a good summertime tea to cool off the heat. These benefits are based on western research. If you pay a little attention you might have noticed it can clear bad breath not because the tea has strong aroma but green tea can control the stomach evil fire energy.
3. Gratifying Aroma
The fragrance of jasmine tea improves mood. The aroma also has a calming effect on the autonomous nervous system, which controls breathing, heart rate, and digestion.
4. Bursting With Antioxidants
Jasmine tea is loaded with powerful plant-based compounds known as polyphenols.
These act as antioxidants in your body and protect your cells against free radical damage. Studies have linked free radical damage to heart disease and several types of cancer.
Jasmine tea made from green tea is high in polyphenols called catechins.
5. Green Tea Suppresses Brain Ageing
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that the intake of green tea is effective in reducing the risk of dementia. On the other hand, the free amino acids theanine and arginine contained in green tea have stress-reducing effects. While long-term stress accelerates the aging of the brain, theanine and arginine suppress the aging of the brain due to their anti-stress effect. (2)
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