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#1 2010-02-25 10:50:53
- benzo
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- Registered: 2010-02-25
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Side effects of drinking puerh
I'm new at tea and when I tried my first puerh, something weird happened. At first I thought it was just a coincidence but after four different tastes of a two-year-old puerh, it became obvious it was the tea that was doing it: my liver -or my gallbladder- protests like I had eaten too much fat or drank too much.
I tried at four different moments in the day; after or before a meal or right in the middle of the day. I'm generally in good shape.
Have you heard anything about that?
Would it be the same with an old ripe puerh?
I'm disappointed because I enjoy the taste.
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#2 2010-02-25 23:32:46
- william
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Re: Side effects of drinking puerh
Do you mean like a stomach ache? Definitely a lot of people find that their system doesn't take kindly to a lot of young sheng. The particular tea seems to matter somewhat too. I wouldn't say that it's a hard and fast rule never to drink it, but I think it's a good rule to listen to your body - if a particular tea or type of tea doesn't agree with you, you should probably avoid it. Personally, I don't drink that stuff (dry-stored young sheng) very often or in large quantities. Other people do and seem to have no problems with it. Definitely avoid drinking young sheng on an empty stomach if possible. If this is all with one tea (sounds like it is), you might also want to just try a different tea.
There are some TCM considerations - I believe the best explanation I've heard is that it's very, very cold qi (more so than normal green tea). There was a good discussion about it on the Livejournal community, which featured some comments by someone who knows a lot more about this than I do, but last time I looked for it, I couldn't find it.
I would try some other types of puer (some well-stored aged (>15 years) sheng if you can afford some small samples, some decent shu with a couple of years on it, and maybe some 5-10 year old sheng with a little more wet / humid storage) -- all of these will likely be mellower and earthier than what you tried, and also easier on your system.
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#3 2010-02-26 07:04:32
- benzo
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Re: Side effects of drinking puerh
Thank you, I'll try to find the post you mentioned on Livejournal, I haven't suscribe to that community yet because of that liver thing. Yes, I meant that part, not the stomach which I had heard about before, but the effect is not the same as some stomachache. Anyway it is where the liver is, right side, not central.
I'll definitely try an old sheng sample.
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