Losing Weight with Chinese Bojenmi Tea

Baojianmei Jianfei Cha, otherwise known as bojenmi Chinese tea is an increasingly popular tea for weight loss. It has been in use for this purpose for the last 20 years.

In Chinese, the word “bojenmi” means slim, and beautiful. Bojenmi tea is processed and packaged by the Egret River Brand. The parent company of this brand is the Xiamen Export Corporation (XMEHECO). The company is located in Xiamen. Xiamen is an island of the Fujian province.

About Bojenmi Tea

The bojenmi tea is typically made into loose tea and tea bags. There are many different ingredients in bojenmi tea other than the tea leaf, including crataegus, malt, pharbitis, pogostemon, hoelen, citrus chenpi, alisma, cassia, phaseolus, shen-chu, and raphanus. Each of these ingredients and herbs are added to increase digestion of the tea. They are also added to prevent accumulations of phlegm, to prevent food stagnation, and impart a subtle laxative effect. These ingredients have been in use by Chinese doctors to increase weight loss and reduce the level of one’s blood lipids. Other than these additional ingredients the main component of this tea is the leaf itself, coming from a bush in the Fujian province. The tea leaf is sprayed with the additional ingredients during processing, so that when the tea is steeped in water for three to four minutes, they will be extracted along with the tea itself.

The main health benefit of the tea leaf is the drop in one’s blood lipid levels, however, the other additional herbs and ingredients have significant benefit on one’s digestion. It has also been noted that herbs and plants such as the holen mushroom, phaseolus, alisma, citrus peel, and pogotemon impart the benefits of relieving excess fluid in the body.

Cassia and pharbitis will produce a laxative effect. Cassia, crataegus, and alisma also reduce blood lipid levels. Some of the ingredients in bojenmi tea have been shown to increase bowel function, as well as lessening abdominal distention, acid reflux, gurgling, and cramping.

Finding the right dosage

It is recommended that one takes 3 to 6 grams of the tea three times daily. That equates to between 9 and 18 grams a day. One bag of the Egret River brand bojenmi tea contains three grams. What is quite intriguing in fact is that the package states that even without adding the tea to a low calorie diet, one can still lose extra weight with the tea as compared to not drinking the tea at all. They state, however, that the biggest benefits come from combining the tea with a reduced calorie diet. Bojenmi tea tastes a lot like to black tea. It does, however, have a slight bitter taste. Sweeteners can cover most of that bitter flavor if you do not prefer the taste of the tea by itself.