The Jangsu Koryo Medicine Pharmaceutical Factory developed dark barley tea good for preventing and curing different diseases by lowering the pH value of acidified body fluid into slight alkaline level, and it is winning growing popularity.

“The current trend in the production of tea drinks is to make them antioxidants without using antiseptics. We developed the dark barley tea by activating malt to the maximum in a biological method and applying a proper processing method. It is a natural health-promoting drink that turns body fluid into a slight alkaline one so as to accelerate the discharge of poisoned metabolites and prevent acidification of physical constitution,” said Choe Sol Hyang, researcher of the factory.

Barley contains a large amount of cellulose good for bettering functions of digestive organs and therefore helps discharge accumulated waste matters and toxic materials from the body and prevent fat from accumulating. The drink is absolutely ideal for those who want to reduce weight.

The cultivation of barley dates back five thousand years. It has been widely used as a popular traditional medicinal material to cure digestive disorders since olden times, generally recognized as a raw material for nutritious drink exerting good effect on health and longevity.

It also contains vitamin B group excellent in ensuring normal actions of the central nervous system and improving skin conditions and iodine, chromium, zinc, manganese, copper, iron, calcium and other microelements. It is rich in vitamin A essential for improving immunity and eyesight, vitamin E good for retarding ageing and vitamin D.

Malt has recently been recognized as a highly alkaline food keeping balance between acid and alkali in the human body, thus emerging as a new health food.

The Jangsu Koryo Medicine Pharmaceutical Factory maximized the nutritional effects of malt in a bioengineering method after making a comprehensive analysis of its beneficial components and added to it such natural antioxidation and anti-cancer substances as proanthocyanidin and syringin to produce dark barley tea, a totally natural drink with clearer medicinal effects and completely free from chemical food additives, antiseptics and perfumes which generate acidic substances.

According to information available, the acidification of body fluid taking up 60 to 70％ in the human body is the root cause of all diseases and it is being regarded as a serious problem worldwide.

“Body fluid assumes high acidity in those suffering from serious diseases. As people began to drink dark barley tea, their acidified fluid changed into slight alkaline one,” said Choe Sol Hyang.

According to regular drinkers of the tea, it has remarkable curative effects for indigestion, loss of appetite, flatulence, diabetes, pancreatitis and gastric and duodenal ulcers.