Tea for Better Health

The Way of Tea states: " One cup does all disorders cure With two, your troubles will be fewer Thrice, to the bone more vigour give With four, forever you will live as young as on your day of birth A true immemorial on the earth" --- Old Chinese Poem
The accumulated knowledge suggests that regular tea intake by humans might provide an approach to decrease the incidence of and mortality from major chronic diseases. Both green and black tea have yielded quite similar results, and it would appear that the total polyphenol content, irrespective of the specific chemical structure, accounts for these results.
Making health your cup of tea Components: Catechins Healthy effects • Lower blood triglyceride, blood cholesterol, prevents atherosclerosis • Reduces incidence of cancer • Reduces oxidation by active oxygen • Strengthen blood vessel wall, regulates their permeability • Inhibits increase of blood sugar • Inhibits increase of blood pressure • Reduces tumours • Reduces mutations • Helps in the treatment of radiation sickness • Prevents dental caries by keeping off the causative bacteria (Streptococcus mutans) • Kills influenza virus • Beneficial in the treatment of dysentery • Prevents halitosis Components: Caffeine Healthy effects • Stimulates wakefulness, CNS stimulant • Gives relief from fatigue, neuralgia and headaches • Acts as diuretic Components: Flavonoids Healthy effects • Strengthen blood vessel and blood capillary walls • Reduces oxidation by active oxygen • Acts as anti-inflammatory agent • Increases the level of catecholamines • Stimulates folic acid biosynthesis • Normalises thyroid hyperfunction Components: Fluoride Healthy effects • Prevents dental caries Components: Quercetin Healthy effects • Acts as spasmolytic • Helps in treatment of acute diarrhoea Components: Vitamin B Complex (Riboflavin , Biotin, Niacin, Pantothenate, Inositol) Healthy effects • Aids carbohydrate and fat metabolism • Helps in inter and intracellular Ca” transport • Helps in moisturisation of the skin Components: Vitamin E Healthy effects • Acts as antioxidant and regulates aging Components: Salicylates Healthy effects • Acts as analgesic • Acts as antipyretic Components: Polysaccharides Healthy effects • Lowers blood sugar Components: Methyl xanthine Healthy effects • Acts as diuretic Components: Theaflavin, Thearubigin Healthy effects • Antagonises the activity of bradykinin • Inhibits arginine and ornithine decarboxylases Components: Theophylline Healthy effects • Modulates immune response • Helps in the treatment of asthma • Salutary effects on cardiac function Components: Essential Amino Acids (Leucine, Phenyloalamine, Valine, Threonine) Healthy effects • Helps in metabolism • Maintains nitrogen equilibrium Components: Theanine Healthy effects • Gives tea its delicious taste • Helps in ammonia and urea metabolism • Helps in water clearance by renal tissues Components: Linolenic Acid Healthy effects • Reduces platelet aggregation Components: Tea Pigments Healthy effects • Decreases plasma fibrinogen Components: Linalool, Geraniol, Hexenal Healthy effects • Gives tea its fresh, green aroma Components: Seleno cysteine Healthy effects • Supports normal thyroid function (helps in the conversion of T4 to physiologically effective T3) Components: GABA Healthy effects • Lowers blood pressure