So researchers turned their attention to medicinal food and experimented with hundreds of types of medicinal foods. They found that tea is the most effective in stimulating meridian sensation. After drinking different types of tea, different parts of the body quickly become warm, even sweating.
Researchers gathered 24 volunteers who were sensitive to body sensations for the experiment. The participants were given 68 different types of tea to drink. The results showed that different teas corresponded to different meridians. For example, green tea corresponds to the sun meridian, green tea corresponds to the ming meridian, red tea corresponds to the shaoyang meridian, and white tea corresponds to the taiyin meridian, with only unclear correspondences for yellow tea.
