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A colleague returned from Fujian with some nice smelling Tit Koon Yam. We stayed behind after work and had a tea party till midnight. I have a lasting headache since and it won’t go away whole day today. Two other people have the same thing and Panadol does not work. I guess that is tea drunk. Luckily it is public holiday today but I don’t want to waste my long weekend because of this headache! What should I do? 🙁
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It is difficult to analyze such a case with such a brief description, and even difficult to say that tea is the cause even if it seems to be so. Could you please specify if it was a green or browned Tie Guan Yin, how did you brewed it and how much did you drink it? Did you have headache soon after drinking that tea or much later on? And for how long? Have you eaten something after having tea? Finally, do you normally suffer from headache? If so, in which conditions?
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I don’t remember how much I drank, we were just continuously making tea in 2 gaiwans comparing different technques and how many times we can repeat the infusions. It was a 500g pack and when we finished that night, at last 1/3 was used. The tealeaves are green and very flowery, not brown like Tea Hong’s classic style. We had a bit of McDonald after work. The headache came a bit before I said we should be going coz when I felt it I was thinking we may be tea drunk. I normally don’t have headache. The two other girls had it too. So all 3 of us are still taking Panadol, this is the 2nd morning after! But not so strong now. I feel like a puffed up duck now and very tired. My long weekend… 🙁
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Bouquet style TGY (this should be the tea you drunk) has a strong cooling nature in TCM terms and you probably got tea drunk! It is always advisable to eat something rich in sugars after a gong-fu round of such teas or even in between to prevent it. I think McDonald food is generally richer in fats respect to sugars (unless you ate McDonald icecream or drunk a coke) so this could be the reason why it didn’t work.
Anyway, the headache is also a common condition after a sleepless night. If you do not normally use to drink so much tea, your night could be not very restful so that your headache didn’t benefit of a refreshing sleep.
I hope you will resume soon 🙂
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I wish I had checked in earlier. @ sofie1212, I hope your headache is gone now. If this kind of condition gets you next time (hope there is no such thing next time), slice up 30+ grams (one traditional Chinese tael, the same that you have in the wet market in HK) — that’s a lot of ginger — into thin slices, say 1~2 mm thick. Boil them in 300 ml of water (that’s a very big cup, your ordinary rice bowl is about 250 ml ) for about 5 to 10 minutes (10 is better, at least 5 when you are in a hurry, or if you can’t take the hotness of the ginger) — use medium low heat after the water is brought to a boil. If you have real raw sugar (search that in Tea Guardian), use that, if not, use your traditional dark slab sugar (片糖) to sweeten the drink as much as you like it, but the sweeter the better. Drink this ‘ginger tea’ when it is still hot.
What Alexargon said is correct for prevention of tea drunk, but when you have got it. You need to dissipate the ‘toxic wind’ energy that comes with the overdose of TCM coldness of green style tieguanyin. Remember, the greener the TGY, the colder it is in TCM term, the more wind you’ll get, esp when you are quite tired already.I just learned that I have not written about the cure for tea drunk in the TG site. I am sorry I have not been better help soon enough. Hope you have a good Sunday at least. -
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