Tea and tea drinking: China’s outstanding contributions to the mankind

• Published in: Chinese medicine Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 27 - 40
• Main Authors: Pan, Si-Yuan, Nie, Qu, Tai, Hai-Chuan, Song, Xue-Lan, Tong, Yu-Fan, Zhang, Long-Jian-Feng, Wu, Xue-Wei, Lin, Zhao-Heng, Zhang, Yong-Yu, Ye, Du-Yun, Zhang, Yi, Wang, Xiao-Yan, Zhu, Pei-Li, Chu, Zhu-Sheng, Yu, Zhi-Ling, Liang, Chun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 22.02.2022; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Alcoholic beverages; Analysis; Communicable diseases; COVID-19; Developing countries; Green tea; Harmonious society; Homeopathy; Human health; Materia medica and therapeutics; Medicine, Chinese; Polyphenols; Review; Tea; Tea beverage; Tea culture; Therapeutics; United Kingdom; Sri Lanka; Japan; China; India; COVID-19; Tea beverage; Tea; Human health; Harmonious society; Tea culture

Tea trees originated in southwest China 60 million or 70 million years ago. Written records show that Chinese ancestors had begun drinking tea over 3000 years ago. Nowadays, with the aging of populations worldwide and more people suffering from non-communicable diseases or poor health, tea beverages...