Green tea

What is green tea?

Green tea leaves

Green tea, just like the black or colong tea, is make from the extract of the tea plant,Camellia sinensis vegetation utilising different procedures.

How is green tea made?

Fresh leaves from the vegetation or from the tea plant are cooked with steam to produce green tea. Green tea and green tea extracts, such as its component EGCG, have traditionally been utilized to in treating certain types of cancers, such as that of breast, stomach, and skin cancers. Green tea extract may also be used to treat certain other problems such as mental alertness, obesity or overweight status to lose weight, lowering blood cholesterol levels, and defending skin from sun related exposure.

How is green tea used?

Boseong gree tea

Green tea is usually brewed and intoxicated as a beverage. Green tea extracts can be taken in capsules and are sometimes utilized in skin preparations.

Does green tea work?

lab investigations suggest that green tea may help defend against or slow the development of certain cancers, but investigations in persons have shown blended outcomes. Some clues proposes that the use of green tea groundworks advances mental alertness, most expected because of its caffeine content. There are not enough dependable facts and figures to work out if green tea can help in heaviness decrease, lower blood cholesterol grades, or protect the skin from sun impairment. NCCAM supports studies to learn more about the constituents in green tea and their consequences on conditions such as cancerous disease, diabetes, and heart disease.

Green tea mechanism of actions, consequences and Cautions

There have been some case accounts of liver difficulties in people taking concentrated green tea extracts. The difficulties do not seem to be attached with green tea infusions or beverages. Although these situations are very uncommon and the clues is not definitive, professionals propose that concentrated green tea extracts be taken with nourishment, and that persons cease use and confer a health care practitioner if they have a liver disorder or develop symptoms of liver problem, such as abdominal agony, dark urine, or jaundice. Green tea and green tea extracts comprise caffeine. Caffeine can cause insomnia, disquiet, irritability, distressed stomach, nausea, diarrhea, or frequent urination in some people. Green tea comprises small amounts of vitamin K, which can make anticoagulant pharmaceuticals, such as warfarin, less effective. Be certain to tell all your health care providers about any complementary medicines you take for safe wellbeing care.

Green tea leaves

Types of green tea

Depending on which province or country, the green tea originates, it could be named after the country or province such as Chinese green tea, Ceylon green teat etc.

Green tea and cancer risk

A 2012 systematic review resolved the clues that green tea can avert cancerous disease "is insufficient and inconclusive" but with some evidence for a decrease in certain kinds of cancerous diseases especially those of breast, prostate, ovarian and endometrial most likely due to the anti-inflammatory properties of green tea.

Green tea and cholesterol

Green tea may decrease blood concentrations of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) commonly called bad cholesterol, and total cholesterol, though the investigations were of short duration and it is not known if these translate to better outcomes such as less deaths and clues does not support green tea's decreasing coronary artery disease(CAD) risk.

Green tea and fat loss

Several randomized controlled trials propose green tea can reduce body fat by a small amount for a short time, though it is not certain if the reduction would be significant for most people.

Green tea latte

Green tea review

A 2012 Cochrane review study of green tea of 18 studies found that the weight loss adults who had taken a green tea preparation was very small, statistically not significant, and not likely to be clinically important.

DNA altering properties of green tea

One study has discovered that certain catechins discovered in green tea taken at grades numerous hundreds of times larger than what could be got from even very high tea consumption may actually impairment DNA.

Anti-inflammatory properties of green tea

These outcomes are relevant only for those taking such allowances of the catechins in pharmaceutical formulations. Similar outcomes from unnatural concentrations of other antioxidants including vitamin E and vitamin C have furthermore been illustrated in human trials.

Health benefits of green tea

Some studies showed green tea consumption to outcome in declined risk of numerous cancer, cardio-vascular disease, and dementia including Alzheimer's.

Tea plantation

See also

• Green tea polyphenols
• Chinese tea culture
• Japanese tea ceremony
• Potential effects of tea on health
• Reactive oxygen species
• Yellow tea
• Korean tea
• White tea
• yerba mate
• ilex guayusa

Further reading

• Evans, John C. Tea in China: The History of China's National Drink. Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-313-28049-8
• Lam, K.C./Lam, K.S. The Way of Tea: The Sublime Art of Oriental Tea Drinking. Barron's Educational Series, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7641-1968-2

External links

• Green Tea (an overview from the University of Maryland Medical Center)
• Green Tea's cancer fighting potential (audio interview)
• WebMD review about the health benefits of green tea

Herbal and dietary supplements

• Aloe Vera, Ashwagandha, Astragalus, Bilberry, Black Cohosh, Butterbur, Cat's Claw, Cascara, Chaparral, Comfrey, Crofelemer, Echinacea, Ephedra, Fenugreek, Flavocoxid, Garcinia cambogia, Germander, Ginkgo, Ginseng, Greater Celandine, Green Tea, Hoodia, Hops, Horse Chestnut, Hyssop, Kava Kava, Kratom, Lavender, Maca, Margosa Oil, Melatonin, Milk Thistle, Noni, Passionflower, Pennyroyal Oil, Red Yeast Rice, Resveratrol, Saw Palmetto, Senna, Skullcap, Spirulina, St. John's Wort, Turmeric, Usnic Acid, Valerian, Yohimbine

Chinese and Other Asian Herbal Medicines

• Ba Jiao Lian, Bol Gol Zhee, Chi R Yun, Jin Bu Huan, Ma Huang, Sho Saiko To and Dai Saiko To, Shou Wu Pian

Multi-Ingredient Nutritional Supplements

• Herbalife, Hydroxycut, Move Free, OxyELITE Pro, SLIMQUICK

See also Nutritional supplements

Comprehensive list of common dietary supplements with detailed product information including brand name, how it is supplied, net contents, product ID etc, sorted alphabetically.

List of dietary supplements sorted alphabetically

A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z – W – 0-9

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Dietary supplements

A Acai Aloe Vera Anabolic Steroids Astragalus Vitamin A B Bilberry Bitter Orange Black Cohosh Botanical Dietary Supplements Butterbur Vitamin B12 Vitamin B6 C Calcium Carnitine Cartilage Cat's Claw Chamomile Chasteberry Chondroitin Chromium Cinnamon Coenzyme Q10 Colloidal Silver Cranberry Vitamin C

D Dandelion Dietary Supplements Vitamin D E Echinacea Ephedra Essiac/Flor-Essence European Elder Evening Primrose Oil Vitamin E F Fenugreek Feverfew Fish Oil Flaxseed Folate G Garlic Ginger Ginkgo Ginseng Glucosamine Goldenseal Grape Seed Extract Green Tea

H Hawthorn Herbal Dietary Supplements Hoodia Horse Chestnut I Iodine Iron K Kava Vitamin K L Lavender Licorice Root M Magnesium Melatonin Milk Thistle Mistletoe Multivitamin/mineral Supplements N Noni O Omega-3 Fatty Acids

P PC-SPES Peppermint Oil R Red Clover S Sage SAMe (S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine) Saw Palmetto Selenium Soy St. John's Wort T Tea Thunder God Vine Turmeric V Valerian Vitamin A Vitamin B12 Vitamin B6 Vitamin C Vitamin D Vitamin E Vitamin K Y Yohimbe Z Zinc

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• Dailymed label info on Green tea
• FDA Green tea

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