The benefit of letting tea leaf for matcha age before drinking

Shincha is believed, in line with most “first produce”, to extend one’s life span with a few additional days at a time, shincha is generally seen as healthy. However, opinions are divided about how healthy shincha really is. Kaibara Ekken, a 17th - 18th century scholar who pioneered in the research of nutrition, wrote in his book “Yōjōkun” (養生訓), the following about the first flush tea:

There are many people now who drink a lot of tea from dawn to dusk…drinking a little tea after a meal helps digestion and quenches thirst. Salt must not be added as it’s bad for the kidney. One must not drink tea with an empty stomach as it damages the spleen and the stomach. One must not drink too much of koicha, as it damages the qi generation of a person… People with weak constitution must not drink that year’s shincha at all. It will cause eye problems, anemia, and diarrhea. You should only drink shincha after the first month. For people with good constitution, drinking it after the ninth or tenth month should not be harmful.

In case the time here is confusing, the months referred to here are the lunar calendar dates. So for normal shincha harvesting would happen in the second month, which is around April. When he says one shouldn’t drink it until the first month, that means the lunar new year of the following year – that’s about a 10-11 months wait before drinking the tea. Ninth or tenth month would translate to about November or December.

In Kaibara’s opinion, it is better to let the freshly harvested tea rest for at least half a year before consuming it. He even relates certain effects on the body to drinking shincha too early.

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