Newbie drinking puerh: Qi questions XD
So I am starting to like it more than the regular teas though I still enjoy the flavored tea every now and then. I like how it has a stronger effect on me (is that the Qi?)
I assume it is the qi. And I notice that it is harder for me to sleep later on..how do you drink pu and still manage to fall asleep?
This is giving me an extra motivation for sleeping early and waking up early to enjoy more tea lol.
So hard to describe the effects Qi on the body, same as any other drug. I can give examples of how It’s effected me….
Warm stomach and throat, heavy limbs, sleepy, alert, relaxed, pain relieving, heavy eyelids, waves of energy followed by sweats, sweating period, head high, feeling like the tea is coursing through my body, feelings of tea soaking into my throat and travelling down my back/spine and down my arms.
See why this is so hard? Now I won’t get this every time and I’ll never get all of them in the same session, usually some combination of them.
To me very few teas will give me these feelings and they will vary not only in strength but in how they affect me. A tea that had powerful chaqi one night may barely give me a buzz in another session. Now you can feel the effects of caffeine as well both on it’s own and in conjuncture with chaqi
Are you drinking raw or ripe? Raw tends to have a stronger blast of caffeine and other compounds, but ripe has its funky creeps-up-on-you kind of thing from the fermentation… I’d recommend watching the interview with Scott Wilson on Tea DB. He talks touches on qi a bit in there.
As for drinking pu and falling asleep… just gotta build that tolerance.
I sleep on puerh tea because I don’t drink it after 4 pm. Other than that the caffeine in tea will keep me awake. I don’t think it’s the qi that keeps you awake. Most qi effects are somewhat fleeting. They don’t last long. Caffeine stays in your system for something like seven hours.
Wait… so raw pu-erh has more caffeine than ripe? That seems odd to me.. like saying green tea has more caffeine than black tea?
Some green tea does have more caffeine than black. And some whites have more still. Caffeine is a tricky beast.
The caffeine in tea is less a factor or green vs black and more on buds vs leaves vs stems. Buds have the most caffeine. Large leaves less than small leaves. And stems have the least caffeine along with tea flowers. It turns out to be a myth that green tea has less caffeine than black tea.
Oddly enough, I can drink like 15-20 steeps of aged sheng until after 8pm, and sleep like a baby b/c I find it calming/sedative. Ripe makes me wired, as does most young sheng. Sometimes a powerful young sheng and can make me a bit loopy. I had a session with Tuhao as F from w2t, and couldn’t stop laughing. I’d be interested in trying it again to see what happens, but alas I have no more. As Grill said, it’s not always the same every time you drink even with the same exact tea. I suspect a person’s own particular body chemistry has a lot to do with it. And for us girls, hormone fluctuations throughout the month. I have no scientific evidence of this, it’s just a suspicion.
whoa, laughing tea? anybody else has this reaction to the same or other teas? very interested to try it!
Since I got pregnant, I have had nearly a dozen instances of out of control laughter. Not just laughing until I cry, but until I can barely breathe and it starts to become painful. I’ve kind of become a little afraid of finding anything really funny! All that was just to say that I think hormones can play a big part in how we react to things, even tea.
so Qi is energy but it does not keep you up. hmmm..and it’s caffeine’s fault but it’s so tricky that it’s hard to tell which tea has a lot of it. and Qi is even more complicated coz even a single tea can have varied Qi effect on the same person in different sessions?
This is a really great blog post by Cwyn about qi:
http://deathbytea.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-bit-about-qi.html?m=1
Qi is abstract. Everyone experiences it differently from different teas. GFZ orb and NA2 knock me out like I’m drunk. Others provide a soothing mellow feeling. It’s all “qi” – it just depends on your body.
Do tea drinkers only experience Qi from drinking pu’erh or something?
I have experienced the effect of Qi, but that’s from the physical practice of Qi Gong. For me, it warms you up, makes you feel tingly, and it does give you energy but not like caffeine…it made me train harder.
if you know Goji,i think Goji is also good for hearth,especially black gojiberry them is make you surprise
http://www.sinaeangift.com/blogdetail/Black-Wolfberry-King-of-OPC
OPC is amazing!!!!
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