The History of Tea: Health and Healing Properties

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The History of Tea: Health and Healing Properties

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For more than 4000 years now, tea has been a faithful staple in

many cultures and countries around the world. Used as a

sustaining liquid for those suffering from infectious disease,

there are many believers who have always asserted that tea holds

powerful healing properties. In some cases, they believe that

tea can actually cure ailments and sickness. New emerging

studies are elevating these assumptions from myth to scientific

reality, providing significant evidence that tea is indeed a

source of health and contains legitimate healing properties.

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The History of Tea: Health and Healing Properties

Copyright © 2006 Jon M. Stout

Golden Moon Tea

http://www.GoldenMoonTea.com

For more than 4000 years now, tea has been a faithful staple in

many cultures and countries around the world. Used as a

sustaining liquid for those suffering from infectious disease,

there are many believers who have always asserted that tea holds

powerful healing properties. In some cases, they believe that tea

can actually cure ailments and sickness. New emerging studies are

elevating these assumptions from myth to scientific reality,

providing significant evidence that tea is indeed a source of

health and contains legitimate healing properties.

Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world,

second only to water, and in many parts of the world, green and

black teas are mass produced from the plant Camilla Sinensis.

Because of the way the beverage is brewed, it is also one of the

safest beverages made on the planet. This is because it is made

with boiling water until it is sterile. It is this process that

eradicates just about every type of bacteria or virus commonly

found in water.

For centuries, tea has not only helped promote health, it also

has served as a as a social outlet (tea time), battlefield

sedative (the British for years served their wounded tea on the

battle field as a way to calm them), and has played a major role

in at least one revolution (the Boston Tea Party).

Pirates used to raid tea ships and bounties were put on these

pirates' heads, sometimes even surpassing the bounties placed on

pirates that raided gold and silver ships. Rumor has it that this

beverage was so popular in England and the colonies that during

the American War for Independence, tea was still served in many

of the thirteen colonies under a collection of aliases.

Throughout this time, however, tea was also believed to possess

qualities that promoted good health and it was believed that tea

could help a sick or injured person heal. For centuries, this was

merely attributable to antidotal experience, with no scientific

foundation on which to base those beliefs. Recently, however,

detailed research done by an array of colleges, universities, and

research centers have focused on teas positive properties.

Japan and China initially carried out the lion-share of this

research, which primarily focused on their tea-of-choice: green

tea. Europe and the United States, though, have begun to get in

on the act, focusing on green and black tea and the results have

been nothing short of astounding.

Not only have many of the alleged healthful properties been

certified, researchers have also identified other, previously

unknown qualities of tea that have proven that the beverage

possesses qualities that can fight cancer, ward off tumors, and

prevent the introduction of free radicals into the body.

This results of these tests indicated that because teas possess a

high level of the antioxidant tea polyphenols, it is a great

disease fighter. Research has shown that not only can tea fight

cancer and ward off tumors and other defects; it also is can

reduce the risk of heart disease.

As researchers have discovered these properties, they also have

been able to map out the chemical composition of tea and pinpoint

what they believe are the critical properties of this near

wonder-drug.

These findings have allowed researchers to begin to understand

what makes tea so effective in healing and promoting health. The

most productive tests have come in the form of multi-disciplinary

approaches, which consider data from epidemiology and field

studies, laboratory tests in animals and historical accounts that

are compared to current testing results. Researchers have tested

tea against many different ailments and the results have shown

that it is one of the most effective methods that a person can

employ to ensure that they are able to adequately fight against

any of these sicknesses. The jury, however, is still out, as

tea's potential is only just now beginning to be understood.

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Jon M. Stout is the Chairman of the Golden Moon Tea Company.

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