Tea Drunk?
So I have heard this term used often. What does it mean to you? How often do you feel this way? How does it feel to you? Do some teas make you feel this way more than others? How long does it last?
Discuss….
For me I have felt it maybe three times.
First time was with a pu-erh – my first pu-erh.
Today I think I have it again from the strangest source but from Joy’s Teaspoon Spiced pear!
I get a heady sensation and almost a feeling of slow motion.
A calming relaxing high with a giddy like anxious feeling at the same time!
The pu-erh feeling was different from this one though – with the pu-erh I felt more funny, made witty jokes, maybe that were only funny to myself, more calming than this one. This one is more spaced out and slow – no wit coming to me.
I read about something similar on Eric Gower’s blog recently, about drinking quadruple strength matcha and getting some sort of “high” from it: http://blog.breakawaymatcha.com/really-really-really-thick-matcha/
A friend of mine told me he once took his students to a Japanese tea ceremony for thick matcha, and a student literally passed out on the spot. It seems quite common for people who are not used to it or who have empty stomachs.
It was ok. After all it was tea and by far not as dangerous as alcohol drunk :-D
Maybe they mistakenly sent you the Peyote Sampler. ;0)
I’ve seen people use “tea drunk” with its relatively romantic meaning as happy ecstasy feeling from tea drinking. For example, there is a tea forum named teadrunk.org (by the way a very nice and informative one!)
In southern China tea regions such as Chaozhou, when people say “tea drunk”, usually it means headache, shock or vomiting caused by stimulation of strong tea, and usually it happens when one drinks with an empty stomach.
Yeah, and I guess sooner or later every body would experience both kinds :-p
I would think so! :) I know I have experienced both already thus far. Looking forward to more of both too! :) Wait wait not the getting sick kind. I don’t want that! Just the happy drugged up kind and the pleased as punch with drinking a lot of tea kind. :p
I typically get the headache and nausea from too many types of tea (too much caffeine) and from not eating because I don’t remember to eat when I’m on a tea sipping spree.
Hmm the only time I would ever be able to relate to tea drunk, I felt warm, fuzzy and really light. Much like I feel when I’ve imbibed enough to get a buzz from alcohol. I was drinking an oolong and didn’t eat much that day. At the time I thought it may have some thing to do with my blood sugar level.
I’ve been told my blood sugar tends to be on the low side from earlier blood tests, but Diabetes is all over my family. It seems to be a problem if I forget to eat all day. Very easy to do when drinking tea. For the most part, I’m aware of it and I make sure to eat. Some days I’m a little slow.
I feel turned on sometimes. Have to be careful who I taste tea around! The feeling is all over not just in my brain. Happens with good quality tea! Feels great! Wish I had someone to drink tea with :)
What I’ve read is that this is good for you and usually only happens with better tea.Whites, pu-erh’s, some greens. It’s caffeine ine the tea that helps deliver the element (forget the name) to the brain. I like it!
Bonnie don’t make me dig out my old chastity belt! (never had one) We will have to lock you down woman! LOL
I’m sure glad I don’t get that side effect, LOL! Actually, that’s what alcohol does to me; but I find it very sharp and unpleasant with booze, and it’s one of the top reasons I barely drink. My ADHD meds also do this to me if I take them too many days in a row, which is why weekly med breaks are necessary. Pointless when your anti-distraction meds create distraction!
I think I’ve been “tea drunk” at least once before, when I had several cups of strong black tea on a relatively empty stomach. I felt kinda jittery, but also a bit loopy, and I mostly felt it in my arms. (Weird?) Like my arms were really warm and heavy.
I take topomax for migraines which is anti seisure medication.I’m going to ask the doctor about it but frankly, I usually know more about this kind of thing than the Doctor. My first doctor gave me adderal for migraines which is stupid! She told me I had anxiety and should learn to live with my headaches! …
I do think I get buzzed because of my brain issues rather easily. But …it feels good too! I don’t mind it at all! Do you?
That IS stupid! The only reason I can think of to prescribe a stimulant for anxiety first would be if the anxiety was thought to be secondary to something like ADHD (i.e. treat the ADD, lessen the anxiety). Otherwise, Adderall is a pretty strange choice for anxiety treatment, never mind headaches!
Do I mind the buzz with alcohol and ADD meds? Or do I mind the buzz with tea? I definitely mind it with the first two (physically uncomfortable with alcohol, terribly distracting with the meds – I get nothing done!). I don’t really get much more than a sense of warm happiness with tea, so that’s pretty fun. The “tea drunk” thing was mildly uncomfortable, but certainly nothing that would make me stop drinking it!
I’ve heard it’s the polyphenols and Theanine that cause the high. It’s related to caffeine somehow but I can’t recall how it was explained to me… Either way, I love it! riding the high now :)
And for those days where I don’t have time to make tea… rushing to a meeting etc, I have theanine capsules (hehee!)
I thought I was delusional last weekend when I drank 3 pitchers of iced tea to myself. And felt intoxicated. The company I was with at the time even remarked how I appeared intoxicated. The following day when my company also had a lot of iced tea they remarked how they felt intoxicated.
I didn’t see as anything more than a joke, but if it happens to others too.
Good Indigobloom that’s what I was looking for! Theanine delivered by caffeine and found more in better quality tea’s! Last night I drank a 1998 Shu and by 8oz Wow! Buzzed!
Totally in my right mind (I hope) but feeling really good! It’s supposed to be healthy for you to feel this way I read too. Ah!
For me, I have to say that tea puts me in a good mood whether it’s a compound that I’m ingesting in the tea or just the prospect of drinking it in the first place. I love having it at work, stealing sips between difficult clients and thinking how they must be so crusty simply because they have not yet had the pleasure of experiencing tea. I am also delighted at the fact that I am enjoying drinking an amazing brew with added health benefits! It feels good too to have something to curb my cravings… I win again vending machine, I win again.
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