More about Green Tea

Sep 28
2010

Herbal extracts are among the world’s best studied nutrients and have been researched for years in leading European universities and hospitals. Some have been in clinical use in Europe for decades, with millions of documented cases.

Almost all of what we know as modern day medicine has been derived either directly or indirectly from folk medicine, which relies on herbal treatments. Even today, as much as 80% of the world (four billion people) use herbal supplements as part of their primary health care. Many of the drugs that are commonly used today are herbal in origin. In fact, the Office of Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health reports that about one-fourth of the prescription drugs dispensed in the United States have at least one active ingredient derived from plant material.

Green tea polyphenols are members of flavonoids. Catechins found in green tea have been shown to provide a number of health-promoting benefits:

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