Chinese Tea Health Benefits

Tea Health Benefits

There are many health benefits attributed to drinking Chinese tea, ranging from feelings of well-being to near magical cures. For Western People, much of this interest is focused on ancient claims related to weight loss and more modern claims of cancer-prevention due to tea's anti-oxidant properties. Different tea types have different effect on person's health.

Here is some of the benefits of Chinese Teas as commonly recognized in Traditional Chinese Medicine: reduce fat, protein and low-density “bad” cholesterol; tea catechins have anti-bacterial and anti-virus properties; can reduce inflammation caused by rheumatoid arthritis; can reduce skin irritations.

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Green Tea. One of the powerful compounds in green tea is the antioxidant Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), which has been studied to treat various diseases and may be one of the main reasons green tea has such powerful medicinal properties.

Pu-Erh. Studies show that Pu-erh does contain small amounts of lovastatin, which in synthetic form is commonly used to treat high cholesterol. Additional studies have shown that long term use of appropriate amounts of Pu-Erh teas have the potential to lower LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) and increase HDL levels (the good cholesterol).