As early as 1959, British biologist Robert studied the oxidation products of catechins in tea, and finally completed the theoretical study of the products and determined the molecular structure, named "tea pigment".
In fact, the so-called tea pigment, that is, the water-soluble, small-molecule, phenolic oxidized polymer generated by oxidative polymerization of tea polyphenols extracted from tea leaves, is a kind of medicinal substance with extremely high biological activity, and its main components are theaflavins, thearubigins and theabrownins. Thearubigins is the main component of tea pigment, and its content accounts for more than 85% of the total tea pigment.
So what are the functions of theaflavins, thearubigins and theabrownins? According to medical experts:
The toxin has the functions of anticoagulation, promoting fibrinolysis, reducing blood viscosity, preventing platelet adhesion and aggregation, accelerating blood metabolism and improving oxygen carrying capacity of blood cells.
Thearubigins can increase serum high density lipoprotein, reduce blood lipid and serum low density lipoprotein, inhibit the activities of reverse transcriptase of retrovirus and DNA and RNA polymerase of various cells, and dissolve blood vessel deposits. Tea brown pigment has the functions of increasing the toughness and elasticity of blood vessels, repairing the intima of blood vessels, and preventing and treating hypertension and diabetes.
More importantly, the unique multiple pharmacological effects of tea pigment can completely resist the seven risk factors of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases without any toxic or side effects, and it will become a new generation of green and ideal fundamental therapeutic drugs for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and a major breakthrough in the field of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases drugs.
This discovery shocked the whole international medical, biological and pharmaceutical fields, and its great influence went deeper into many related fields. The discovery of tea pigment has undoubtedly given all patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases a beam of dawn and brought infinite hope. However, the content of natural tea pigment in tea is very small, and the previous extraction technology is very complicated and relatively backward. Only 0.6 ~ 1.6 kg can be extracted per ton of tea, and the yield is extremely small.
Because of the high biological activity and poor structural stability of tea pigment, its biochemical characteristics are easily changed by time and temperature, resulting in weakened function and efficacy, and the requirements for storage conditions are extremely strict, so tea pigment is very rare and extremely expensive. These restrictive factors greatly limit the popularization and application of tea pigment, so tea pigment is praised as "green gold in medicine" by the world medical community.
The research and application of tea pigment in China has always been in the leading position in the world.
With the development of biotechnology in China, the extraction technology of tea pigment has been continuously improved in recent years, and its yield, quality, biological activity and stability have been greatly improved. The continuous and fruitful scientific research results of tea pigment enable this once "noble" to serve the public as a basic medicine for the benefit of ordinary people.
As the latest generation of pure natural medicinal ingredients, tea pigment has a wide range of therapeutic and health care functions. Clinical verification shows that taking 4800 times is not only effective, but also has no toxic and side effects. These unique characteristics have aroused widespread concern in the world medical field and become the most advanced "international competition topic" of medical science and technology in developed countries.
As early as 1993, China built the world's first modern production line to extract "green gold-tea pigment", and became the first country in the world to industrialize "tea pigment" and obtained an invention patent.
This is a milestone achievement in the modernization of tea medicine.