Rhiannon Lambert

But it temporarily constricts blood vessels and decreases that fluid retention.

You know, people tell you to do a lymphatic kind of massage, you know, the very soft tissue under your eyes.

Apparently, the tea bags act in that way, which helps prevent puffiness, I mean.

To me, it's not the puffiness that's the issue.

It's the dark circles when I'm really tired.

This, I think, came from that time, that actually quite dreadful time, but where Britain, we had a large stake in India and we used to drink a lot of tea.

You know where tea comes from.

I don't know the entire history of this here, but I do believe it's because when people were in India, it's obviously a very hot climate compared to the U.K.,

they would drink a lot of tea because of that reason.

It triggers our body's internal heat receptors, which causes you to sweat more.

And it's that sweat that evaporates off your skin that creates the natural cooling effect.

And there's also some ancient Ayurvedic wisdom

there when it comes to tea as well so they actually believe that if you do the opposite if you have cold drinks when you're hot it can actually shock the digestive system and that dampens your internal fire making it harder to process food in heat so it's really interesting when you look at temperature of foods and where things come from i love that one but i would still do a cold drink

My best advice is to get a piece of fruit in instead of taking a supplement of vitamin C, which you're likely to just excrete.

Because actually, you'll get more benefit from the vitamin C coming from food form than pill form.

So when you're feeling run down, just try and have an extra piece of fruit each day.

And that's really going to help shorten the length of your cold, hopefully.

I love this.

It's just because it's such a classic saying.

Apples, of course, vitamin C rich, they contain pectin, that's amazing soluble fiber.