古代保健饮品相关名目考

The textual research on the related names of ancient health-care drinks

古代保健饮品相关名目较多，大致有“茶”、“茶汤”、“药茶”、“汤”、“熟水”、“渴水”、“饮子”等。考证各名目的内涵，既有相同的方面，又各有不同特殊涵义。其中，“茶汤”一词是指一类以茶与其他植物煎液为主，具有保健治疗作用的饮品，既可以指饮用的茶液，也可以指如茶法服用的汤液。“茶汤”最能体现古代保健饮品的原本意义，也符合现代对于保健饮品的理解，可以较为全面而准确地赅括古代保健饮品的内容。

There are many kinds of related names of ancient health-care drinks such as tea, tea soup, herb soup, soup, boiled water, thirsty water and cold decoction etc. Following textual research on each connotation of all kinds of names, they have the same aspects as well as different special contents. Among them, the tea soup is some kind of health-care and curative drink, mainly containing tea with other plant decoctions ; not only referring to the drinking tea, but also the decoction drunk as tea. The ＇ tea soup＇ can mostly reflect the original meaning of ancient health - care drinks, and also accord with the understanding of current health - care drinks, thus comprehensively and exactly summarize the content of ancient health-care drinks.