Cooling Down with Hot Tea

As paradoxical as it sounds, drinking hot tea to cool down, is a principle grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

You can read to learn more about the principles and ideas of TCM here and how it relates to tea in this context.

Heidi, the TCM practitioner who helped contribute some explanations which I mention in the video, her acupuncture practice is Lovie Acupuncture.

In the video I'm making a Chinese green tea, a Mao Jian green tea from Zhejiang, China. I'm using water around 170 degrees Farenheit, 1 and 1/2 tsp of tea in 150ml of water.

You can also read this study at University of Ottawa about this phenomenon of hot tea cooling a body down.