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Tea Drinking and Tradition Health Claims

Chinese Traditional Claims

Nothing on this page regarding the traditional health claims of tea should be construed as authority to disregard your physician's advice. We do not propose to give medical advice, so please do not read it as such.

Tea drinking is reputed to:

• Increase blood flow to all parts of the body.
• Stimulate clear thinking and mental alertness.
• Speed the elimination of alcohol and other harmful substances (fats and nicotine, for example) from the bodily organs.
• Increase the body's power of resistance to a wide range of diseases.
• Accelerate the metabolism and the intake of oxygen by the bodily organs.
• Prevent tooth decay.
• Have a cleansing and invigorating effect upon the skin, which assists in the preservation of a youthful appearance.
• Prevent or slow down the onset of anemia.
• Clear the urine and facilitate its flow.
• Benefit and brighten the eyes.
• Combat the effects of summer heat.
• Assist the digestion.
• Ease discomfort in the limbs and joints.
• Decrease harmful secretions of mucus.
• Assuage thirst.
• Banish fatigue, raise the spirits and induce a general feeling of well-being.
• Prolong the life span of the individual.
  (NO MEDICAL EVIDENCE PROVES IT DOES.)

It should nevertheless be noted that in all but a few cases these virtues belong specifically to green and semi-black teas. Black tea, in the course of being fully oxidized, has been subjected to a process that reduces some of its health-giving properties. Additionally, as ancient Chinese medical claims or "traditions" evolved, Green Teas were the predominant form of tea consumed and it therefore follows that the claims were specific to that style or manufacturing process.

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