The Chinese are literally obsessed with drinking hot water: why do they do it?

While the world is looking for a universal cure for everything, the Chinese seem to have found it without even leaving their homes. It's about hot water. In China, it is considered a panacea for all ailments: it improves mood, normalizes the state of the gastrointestinal tract, removes excess mucus, lowers the temperature, and rejuvenates the whole body. That's why the Chinese seem to be literally obsessed with hot water.

Do we believe or not?

It is not difficult to believe in its miraculous properties if you look at the slender, active to the deep inhabitants of the Celestial Empire. By the way, these people have been accustomed to drinking hot water instead of cold even in the heat since childhood. Little Chinese always carry thermoses to school. Adults do not part with them either – although it is in the order of things for them to ask for boiling water in a restaurant. Traditional Chinese medicine claims that drinking hot water restores the balance of yin and yang energies in the body.

Why do this?

In China, they believe that you need to drink hot water in small sips throughout the day, in the morning, it is better to sit. Volume – about 2 liters per day, maybe a little more. Scientists – by the way, not only Chinese – consider this habit useful: moderately hot water (+40 … +50 ° C) removes toxins better, gently starts the gastrointestinal tract, dilates blood vessels, improves intestinal motility, skin and hair condition, calms nerves, relieves the condition with colds and headaches, speeds up metabolic processes – in a word, it really draws on a universal cure for everything in the world. {{Subtleness of taste|If you're healthy enough (and an adult), we advise you to take a closer look

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The Chinese are literally obsessed with drinking hot water: why do they do it?

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